Damp Bodies: Fluid Ground
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Cooke, Kirsten. 2023. Damp Bodies: Fluid Ground. In: Louis Mason, ed. GOT DAMP: Avril Corroon. Thamesmead, London: TACO!, pp. 102-113. ISBN 9781838279271 [Book Section]
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'Damp Bodies: Fluid Ground' is a commissioned chapter that responds to the artist Avril Corroon's, 'GOT DAMP' project through the lens of Cooke's fluid ground research. It takes the three most common types of damp found in properties as its cardinal directions and organises the text in accordance with them: Rising Damp, Condensation Damp, and Penetrating Damp. We are invited to stay with the trouble of this wet terrain, as opposed to falling back into using coordinates that make humans think that we can control the planet (North, South, East, and West). We are not aiming to be Promethean meaning-makers (readers and writers) that set our desires and planetary score by our closeness to the sun (Heavens), and existing technologies (such as the fire Prometheus steals from the Gods), but instead find ourselves in Avril Corroon’s watery composition, which, similarly to the planet, we cannot transcend.
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Avril Corroon's book GOT DAMP collates documentation of research, process, installation images, interviews, poetry and responses from writers, half of whom were project participants. Contributors include Mat Jenner, curator of artist-led space TACO! introduces Got Damp, its contexts and critical scope. Julian Bernard reflects on the project's process in relation to collective action, community and damp in their home. Chris Fite-Wassilak examines contradictions of modern living under the scope of rot and microbial terroir. Kirsten Cooke charts damps’ fluid coordinates through buildings and bodies. Daisy Lafarge presents a selection of poems ‘understudies for air’ and Eimear Murphy asks what is reciprocity. This book is published by TACO! and was supported by Arts Council Ireland and Lottery funding through Arts Council England. |
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