Before and After Physics was an exhibition of installation and video work hosted by Alsager Arts Centre Gallery in May 2008.

Video documentation and a Talk on this exhibition is available HERE

THIS LINK leads to a video playlist of me talking about the work.

HERE is a slideshow of images from the exhibition.

Some of the ideas behind (and in front of, and to the side of, and pervading the space between and inside) this work concern consciousness, evolution, and the interplay of feeling and knowing and being. These are big ideas, and are worthy of the attention of brains bigger than the ones possessed by we humans; we ‘medium sized mammals moving at medium speed’, to paraphrase Richard Dawkins. Since these stone-age hunter-gatherer brains are all we have, and since we are bound by the Cognitive Imperative hard-coded into our DNA to restlessly pursue the thought fox, however elusive and imaginary it might be, so the lure of the big idea draws us impossibly on beyond the physics of our embodiment. There before us is the light of the moon, and our studies point like a finger in its direction, and if we must mix metaphors to approach that light, then so be it. Here are some shadows; a tree, a rock, words fading on a wall. Some are almost realisable as objects and can be easily seen and touched, some seem objective but are really only collections of words. Other collections of words make no pretense of objectivity but flow between the fingers uncontained, and all around is the white space, glowing and vibrant and eyeless.

Artworks exhibited:

• This is Not an Oak Tree
• Wittgenstein’s Axe
• Now I Am Really Awake
• Ambiguous Object
• Horizon
• Human Minute One
• Here is One Hand
• Rocks
• Texts