![]() ![]() They are always pulling me up, and making sure my work has rigour. ‘I feel I’m being hammered from both ends of the spectrum. ![]() ‘From them I get the best of both worlds’ Wayne stated. Wayne BinitieAt the RCA Wayne’s research is supervised by Peter Kennard – an artist and political activist – and Professor Rebecca Fortnum, an artist and academic who was recently a Visiting Research Fellow in the Creative Arts at Merton College, Oxford University. This finally allowed visitors to experience 20,000 year old glacial water in its liquid state.’ Researching as an artist at the RCA Towards the end of the exhibition we switched the coolers off. ![]() ‘One of the most striking and unexpected things about the exhibition was that due to the lack of moisture in the room, the water changed directly from a solid to a gas without going through the liquid phase in a process called sublimation. ![]() There were also unexpected results of creating the work, creating an understanding that was only possible through staging the exhibition. I needed science and engineering to make that happen.’ ‘In the exhibition people could touch and hold history as it is disappearing. Through Arup and the British Antarctic Survey Wayne has gained access to the engineering and expertise to realise his ambitions for the exhibition. Wayne’s work not only aims to bring scientific research and data to life, it also relies on science and engineering to be made. When I was offered a place on a research degree here, that opened up the possibilities for a collaboration.’ I started by having tenuous conversations with them at the same time as applying for the RCA. ‘I felt that I had a shared interest with their areas of expertise. Photographer: Nicola Webb starting at the RCA, Wayne initially contacted the British Antarctic Survey. I’m interested in creating material encounters with artworks that might prompt people to think differently or from a fresh perspective.’ The value of data, he claims, is about what you do with it. Presentations of this kind of information can block entry points into the issues. ‘Science is associated with data, facts and graphs. ‘Through the gases that are trapped within the ice, unspoken histories and stories can be discovered.’įor Wayne it is important for the viewer to be a co-creator of meaning in the work, navigating their own way through complex narratives. ‘The history written within the ice escapes or is revealed when it melts’ Wayne explained. The work also features an audio soundtrack made from recordings of air leaving the ice as it melts. This allows a complexity and volatility of narrative around the climate crisis.’ ‘Within the work there are multiple points of entry. ‘Glacial water has its own meaning, its own agency and voice’ he suggests. Photographer: Wayne BinitieWayne’s work aims to collapse time and space making issues that seem distant become intimate. ‘A significant aspect of the ethics of the installation’ Wayne explained, was that ‘the energy used for the exhibition was sourced from a supplier offering a 100 per cent renewable tariff scheme’. The temperature was then allowed to rise in order to reflect the vulnerability of polar ice to warming cycles and rapid disappearance. Through the course of the exhibition they existed in three states – solid, liquid and gas – taking viewers on a journey from tangible presence to absence.Ī specially built temperature controlled room kept the ice cores in their frozen state. Photographer: Nicola Webb exhibition Ice Floor at Phase 2, Arup, featured ice cores extracted from the Antarctic and transported to London with the help of Arup and The British Antarctic Survey. Photographer: Wayne BinitieRCA research student Wayne Binitie’s artworks appeal to the emotional and the sensual, prompting viewers to think differently about the complex issues surrounding the climate crisis. ![]()
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