One walks into a museum and is confronted with art. "Why is this art? I could have made it." It is seemingly mundane and seemingly reproducible only until afforded its worth by a cultural elite. Through this process of meaning-making by a privileged and bourgeois few, art tends to sit in the realm of influence and excess.

Thus it is only accessible to those who bestow upon it its value. The position of the artist and and art's consumers, here, is that of the elite, those with surplus amounts of money and resources, which enabling the artification of the mundane. Is it possible for art to exist outside of this framework?

In the capitalistic system of economy and market value, how is the worth of art measured if not by the seemingly arbitrary matrix of calculation spear-headed by the few elite? What then is the responsibility of the artist? Is the independent artist but a myth?

Outside of the elite, exists a visible and growing working class whose lives are completely driven by economy - rate of work, efficiency, utility; the omnipresent spheres of industry and consumerism penetrating into even the domestic landscape. "Who has time and money for art when we barely have time and money to eat, to survive?"

Having established these questions regarding the contemporary system of production and ascribed meaning, Ascribing Meaning to a Domestic Act offers a response to them. By presenting the artist herself in the mundane and domestic act of cooking and consuming food, Ascribing Meaning to a Domestic Act argues that the act of making the piece is the protest in itself, partaking in a process in which only the elite are afforded participation. Here, the artists embrace the meta-aesthetic of the mundane non-art artwork, and deeming this art, art. The system, with its harsh machine-like qualities, remains however, never too far away. It is omnipresent, and invasive - manifested in an industrial soundscape which treads between delusion and the quotidien.

Stills from Ascribing Meaning to a Domestic Act

This piece was a collaboration with Salber Williams who filmed the video footage and sequenced the video. I created the soundscape using mostly industrial field recordings sourced from Freesound.org, and manipulated in Logic.

Ascribing Meaning... was selected to be shown at the Giennale festival for Arts and Culture in Gießen, Germany, 2019.