Mer Liquify : Maggie Roberts :: Artist > Rim Dweller

Maggie Roberts
Artist > Rim Dweller
Current
>> UPCOMING 2019Solo show UNCANNY VALLEY at Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth.
0rphan Drift at the Telematic Gallery, San Francisco.
>> MURMUR Syzygy video, 0rphan Drift 1999 in STILL I RISEStill I Rise; Feminisms, Gender and Resistance at Nottingham Contemporary, 2018
http://www.nottinghamcontemporary.org/art/still-i-rise
>> MIASMAIn 'Alembic II' at Res. Experimental audiovisual piece and research project in response to the KRH Experimental Video Collection. ACE funded, 2018. http://beingres.org/2018/03/07/alembic-ii-chrominance/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CKIyZ1v6L8
https://vimeo.com/260984258
http://merliquify.com/blog/#.W8nAGWT25cw
>> GLIMMER BREACHSolo exhibition at IMT Gallery, London. With 'Swamp Living' event, workshop and readings, 2018.
>> SKEEN NITE (COME)The final Green Skeen film collaboration with Plastique Fantastique, screening at CGP, Dilston Grove, London,November 2018. 0rphan Drift performs an AMSR inspired Interspecies Disco with Kirsten Cooke and Etic Lab's @alien_ontology
https://cgplondon.org/plastique-fantastique-skeen-nite-come/
>> THE SHAPING OF A MESSAGESymposium with Goldsmiths Visual Cultures Dept and IMT Gallery, co hosted with Simon O'Sullivan, 2018
>> MANCHESTER ART FAIRwith IMT Gallery, 2018.
>> THE KALAHARI BUSHMEN CREATIVE COLLECTIVEworking with traditional Bushmen healers and community leaders in the Northern Cape desert of South Africa towards a major contemporary exhibition of indigenous world views.
>> RITUALS IN LIQUIDITYGoldsmiths University public talk, Visual Cultures Dept, 2017.
>> THE THINGS THAT KNOWLEDGE CANNOT EATBook chapter with Delphi Carstens for 'Fiction As Method', Sternberg Press, 2017.
>> CAT ICE TRICKSTER0rphan Drift audio visual installation for Ø at Corsica Studios, 2017.
>> THIS IS TOMORROWReview of 'Glimmer Breach' by Lauren Velvick in 'This Is Tomorrow' online art magazine.
>> UNRULY CITY ONGOINGOngoing collaboration with Ranu Mukherjee (0D) which reimagines the urban as porous, interspecies and terraformed - both ancient and impossible.
0D solo show at Dold Projects, Black Forest, Germany, 2016.

https://vimeo.com/189822734 & https://vimeo.com/189850293
 

EVOLUTION AS THE UNCONTAINABILITY OF CHANGE WHICH IS LOCATED IN THE DESTABILIZATION OF RELATIONS BETWEEN THE CONCRETE AND THE IMAGINED.

MATTER AND IMAGINATION IMPINGING ON BODIES, OTHER WORLDS, INDUCING EFFECTS, SPINNING FORCES.

Maggie Roberts aka Mer. Her art is science fictional, immersive and audio visual. It complicates the distinctions between material and immaterial phenomena and dimensions, both in content and media. The work uses digital formats - video, animation, LIDAR and Photoshop - fused with watercolour, photographic collage, oil paint and sheen mediums. It coalesces out of an often intricate remixing process, onto paper, canvas and video screen.

Maggie Roberts co-created the collaborative artist and hive mind 0rphan Drift in London in 1994. She has participated internationally in two decades of exhibitions, screenings and performance as part of 0D, exhibiting extensively in the UK, Europe, Canada and the States, including at the Cabinet Gallery and Tate Modern; writing the Scifi-theory text Cyberpositive; and featuring in DJ Spooky's Sound Unbound in the Renegade Academics chapter. More recent exhibitions include the solo show Glimmer Breach, IMT Gallery,  and  Miasma in Alembic II, Res., both in London 2018. She is a Research Fellow with the Visual Cultures department at Goldsmiths College and her recent Symposium there, The Shaping of a Message, will be available on Youtube. She is currently focused on a major new solo show with Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth and an 0rphan Drift collaboration with Ranu Mukherjee, both for 2019.

She lives and works in London (with a studio in Capetown) and makes videos with immersive soundscapes that combine collage layers from concurrent works on paper, recombinant objects and digitally generated imagery with filmed footage. The work has a complex, liminal and baroque aesthetic that proposes a tactile and fluid materiality. This reflects her continuing interest in manifesting invisible currents and currencies affecting the visible: cosmic and geological time scales; ‘Machine Vision’; shamanic animal becomings; evolving communication currents in vibrant matter, themselves become effective frequencies in our habitats and fantasies; futurity impacting on the present and its Hyperobjects, and Climate Change as the violence of excess and luxury. Maggie/Mer is dedicated to evolutionary fever dreams and radical hybridization and is hoping for distributed consciousness sometime soon.

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