Speaking on Tique Art about my practice-led PhD research

A big thank you to the Belgian contemporary art platform Tique for conducting an interview with me about my practice-led research and doctoral study at RMIT University. You can read it here 
 
Many of you who have been following my research-based artistic practice and have read part of my fictocritical writings included in my first monograph published by GOST Books are aware of French literary thinker Maurice Blanchot’s influence in my work.
 
My practice-led Phd study soon comes to an end and has been an extraordinary journey of thinking and making in the crossroads of philosophy, literary theory and art practice. Departing from my own disastrous discovery of an unknown-to-me family I encounter through my late father’s maritime archive, I approach the notion of the disaster as per Blanchot’s thought, allowing for an extensive insight into the ways his work became my critical and navigational framework towards making.
 
Throughtout the way, the workings of the disaster grow in the shadow of one another, and equally, an array of themes and concepts drawing attention to the fragmentary, the thought and the exigency of discontinuity, the radically exterior and the self as Other, are explored.
 
In turn, questions around how to engage, dismantle and transform those spaces come to form a methodological framework that is primarily concerned with ideas on repetition, fallibility and fragmentation of a practice circling around disasters, pearls and archives as the temporary anchors of its conceptual and material selves.
 
I do hope I get to publish some of this work in an accessible form very soon. In the meantime, please have a read through my methods and art processes through the featured interview.

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