Uma Tuffnell

Mobile Parameters

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Physics Department Atmospheric Testing Space

This project has been driven by an insatiable curiosity to discover and explore territories of knowledge and understanding as subjects in themselves. The space of not knowing, although daunting at first, has emerged as a place of possibility, with potential and freedom to discover.

Questions about art and its relationship with the world outside it have led me to examine the assumptions of the gallery space and limitations of white walls and ceilings, which together often pre-empt particular formalist modes of working. The barriers that exist between art and life seem more permeable to me, much like those that exist between art and science.

Science has prioritised the rationality of objective measurement. But how do we understand and experience the things we cannot predict with complete certainty? A cloud is not easily separated from the air around it; it is so linked to its surrounding conditions of air pressure, temperature, topography and weather variability. The interconnectedness of climate systems, and flows of influence on any individual thing indicate a connected ‘to-ing and fro-ing’ within and between parts, both contributing to and resulting from the existing environment.

 
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Bag of Water.
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Offsite Group Show 'What do I want, Where do I stand?'.

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