Everything's Trash. Everything's Treasure.
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Date
2024
Authors
Campbell, Ashley
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Publisher
University of Oregon
Abstract
My artistic practice is rooted in process-based
research, manifesting as a type of pastiche—an
interdisciplinary collage of video, sculpture, and
sound performance. I'm interested in how seemingly
disparate things come together and form meaning.
There are overarching themes, but I am not
attempting to provide a straightforward answer within
the work. Instead, I strive for it to be skewed, off,
strange, otherworldly. I rely on spontaneity and
experimentation, beginning my work in a
predominantly formal manner—responding and
reacting rather than planning and organizing. By
remaining open to circumstance, instinct, and
impulse, I find that ideas coalesce and form around
objects and materials.
I’m always observing. I look for my own “glove, pollen,
rat, cap, stick” moments out in the world and in the
studio. I collect these things through photographing,
3-D scanning, recording video, etc.
Gathering and arranging becomes an almost streamof-
consciousness-like endeavor, bringing a piece into
being. This approach allows me to engage critically
and conceptually along the way. Processes and ideas
form an interwoven structure, each relying on the
other to expand the possibilities and potential
meaning of the work. Everything is trash, and
everything is treasure. There are no horizon lines, and
hierarchies disappear, oozing, bleeding, blending,
shimmering, sparkling. This is the ethos of my terminal
creative project and encompasses my work as a
whole. The forms in this project take shape via video
and sculpture. My work is an ever-evolving continuum.
Each piece opens the door for the next, and they are
an interconnected train of thought.
Description
26 page document, 9 minute 24 second video
Keywords
trash culture, trash as treasure, expanded image, technodiversity, artificial intelligence