Asymmetric Co-production

//Restless encounters with nonhuman others

Beth Savage

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Asymmetric Co-production

Multispecies artworks

Development

Meshes

Summer 2017 Exhibition of mesh objects, York St John University, 2017

Net making

Spring 2017 Exploring net making as an embodied practice of thinking, and the sculptural properties of meshes.

Parallel Production

paper//nest

Summer 2023 Wasp nest, packing paper Made in parallel production with a wasp and a machine

Relay Production

Magpie Weaving

Summer 2018 Jute string, straw, apples. Produced in relay with magpies.

Forbidden Fruit

Autumn 2018 Plaster casts of apples sculpted by magpies, gold paint

Weaving Song//Weaving Dance

Spring 2019//2023 Print of waveform of magpie voice//Print of digital drawing and waveform of magpie voice Shown alongside video documentation of magpie relay co-production of jute and straw weaving

Apple Casts

Autumn 2018 Sculptural exchanges initiated by magpies (and a fox) Selected images of the casting process using plaster, sand, silicon rubber

Multispecies Weaving

Autumn 2018 Jute string, wool, mealworms, fox urine. Produced in relay with magpies, hedgehog, fox, cat, dog

Simultaneous Production

Dog Day Drawings

Summer 2019 Sirius rises late in the dark, liquid skyOn summer nights, star of stars,Orion’s Dog they call it, brightestOf all, but an evil portent, bringing heatAnd fevers to suffering humanity. Homer, The Iliad Drawings produced simultaneously with Loki

Enmeshed/enmulched Production

Loki’s Collection

Summer 2019-ongoing Objects collected by Loki (some archived, left where they were found)//Object Assemblages by Beth Leave It: a growing library of objects curated by Loki…

Loose Threads

fence//mesh//proximity

Loose thread I The zoo as a site of human/animal encounter Selected images from residency at Camperdown Wildlife Centre in Dundee, 2013. This residency inspired the…

Tentacularity at The Deep

Loose thread II Human/marine encounters and briny entanglements Selected images from an exploration of tentacularity at The Deep, Hull. Sketchbook and development work inspired by marine…

felt//nest

Loose thread III Explorations of bird making practices and relay production. Wool, straw, great tit As signs of spring began to show in the garden I…

Exhibition

A Mischief…

Summer 2023 An exhibition of multispecies art works. Newbiggin Arts Centre.

Reflections

Leaving the Garden

After winter 2020 On grief, endings, and conclusions In February 2020 I left the garden and moved in with my parents in Northumberland. My PhD journey…