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Carl Slater

CARL SLATER – 6th-13th MAY at BACK LANE WEST 

Carl’s Residency forms part of back Lane West’s EXCHANGE RESIDENCY PROGRAMME with PAC HOME (Plymouth Art Centre artist membership) and KARST. He is an artist, curator, and Director of KARST, Plymouth.

Specimens in Quasi-Form

“An object lacking data has little or no scientific significance, but an object associated with data is a potential source of knowledge about the world and is, thereby, an object of scientific significance”
Words of an unknown geologist.

A seven-day residency project at BLW resulted in re-appropriated image material, cryptic geological data and suggestion of alternative histories. Scientific records were abstracted and adapted into various groupings and processed within a larger and more complex collection of findings; finally presented as a set of object-based studies.

Pictured: 4 of 9 Studies.