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a series of 10 installations examining the poetics of water and the imagery of cleanliness and erasure
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the works draw on traces of half remembered memories, of unrecorded pasts, of unmarked presences, and un-allocated places
an archeology of erasure - of the effaced
each work becomes a point of assembly - a place where fractured present and fractured image may enter new and open dialogues
a reflection on Europe at the end of a century
each of these works attempts to question our received attitudes towards identity, health, sanity and cleanliness
Roger Bourke Poznan 1996
now it seems appropriate to recuperate a more 'relational' sense of knowledge production - where lived out experience of sensory perception is once more understood as central in the transactions that occur between viewer and viewed
In recent work I have attempted to configure spaces where the viewer may be offered a complex of possible traversals
complexity, in the interplay of sense modalities, is seen as a means - a dislocating mechanism ( uncanny ) which allows access to the immanent within the work
this might might be understood as a 'scenography of the felt' - of the multi-sensory in which the beholder is both subject, and object
Roger Bourke Dartington 2000