Rebecca Korn Kent, United Kingdom
My interdisciplinary practice stems from a fascination with the intersections between art and science; especially in relation to the body. Recent interests have turned to the posthuman body, investigating ideas around symbiosis, sympoiesis and speculative futures, re/imagining how bodies may adapt/evolve through learning from and with our non-human counterparts.
My interdisciplinary practice-as-research stems from fascination with the intersections of art and science; especially in relation to the body and biomedical science. My work uses personal experience to understand the body and stories it can tell. I investigate how the act of making, through and with the body, creates new forms of bodily knowledge, exploring reinterpretations using medical imagery, photography, projection, sculpture and sound. Recent interests have turned to the posthuman body, researching ideas around symbiosis, sympoiesis and speculative futures: re/imaginings of how bodies may adapt and evolve through learning from and with our non-human counterparts. Since 2021 I have had a creative partnership with Riga-based artist Anastasia Shneps-Shneppe. Our current focus is water as a means of connection and transformation, influenced by Astrida Neimanis’s writing on Hydrofeminism. Exploring water as co-collaborator, ecotones as a place of unlimited possibility and transformation, and the diatom as our non-human oddkin, we aim to probe the interrelationships between the local, global, mythological, ecological, political and other-than-human.
