FACING THE POSTHUMAN

Yvonne Jones About This Site

Research Through Art Practice

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is an exposition of my work, it includes earlier more traditional painted pieces. There is a continuity path looking for a sense of who, what and where I am situated. Always with concerns of inside / outside they are often 'self portraits', not always readily obvious. From painting practice the work breaks off the canvas into video and installation, while maintaining the formal elements of painting. More recently my own body material, X-rays,  images, videos, recalled memory, data and medical debris, collected with the support of my medics, are used in my work. It includes miscellaneous material across a series of projects. Paintings, video projections and art installations cross reference and intertwine to create a sought tension throughout the portfolio.  'Facing the Posthuman' (an evolved umbrella title), seeks to make visible the condition of (my) human existence using experienced events, to express these in order to give access to and enable further debate centering on notions of the posthuman. The work is driven by curiosity seeking to explore and understand. There are arguments for a literal posthuman future and arguments against. Is the body obsolete as Stelarc has claimed? Is there no future for the senses, as Moravec says? There are arguments for a posthuman subject future and arguments against. Can we use the principles of the posthuman while still accepting our mortality, as Hayles asks of us? Will our instinct for survival over ride such an intellectual decision if we took it? Through exploration and knowledge of our position  in the present and the possibilities ahead, in this twenty first century, there is space to consider a preferred outcome
                                           Phenomenology and Imagination are central to my process

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