MOTHER BENT, a new work commissioned by Whitstable Biennale, brings together sculpture, video and soundscape in an expansive immersive installation. It runs from 11th - 19th June 2022.

The sculptures will be available for individual purchase after the Biennale closes as a limited edition of 70 pieces. Each are made from reclaimed brass, silicone and seaweed alginate casts and range from 30 cm - 2 metres in size. Please enquire via email to: alicia.radage@gmail.com

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MOTHER BENT is an audio and video installation that includes human and nonhuman elements, a collection of beings that are living alongside each other. The work questions the myth of human supremacy through an entanglement of uncanny visual forms and a sonic calling for interspecies communication. Replications and mutations of disembodied human flesh invite a blossoming of biodiversity.

 

Growing out of Radage’s research into the relationships between neurodivergent experience and Shamanic practice, MOTHER BENT uses a neurodivergent lens to create moments of quiet and cacophony, focus and wholeness, offering different ways of seeing and sensing. It also draws on the ancient Shamanic practice of journeying, in which the subject is transported to other worlds in an altered form of consciousness. This visionary state can involve working with nonhuman allies – animals, plants and spirits – to receive their teachings and medicine. Radage uses the practice of journeying to remember ancient knowledges in an attempt to find alternate ways of being in a neurotypical society.

 

MOTHER BENT is installed in the Library Lecture Hall, with additional works in the adjacent main Library building.

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Opening times:

Weekends 10am - 4pm

Weekdays 10am - 5pm

 

Whitstable Library and Lecture Hall: 31-33 Oxford St, Whitstable CT5 1DB

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