At the core of my project is a body of new work that explores the emotional landscape of Posthuman ecologies. Nuclear Energy / radioactive waste, the medical condition Pica and ingestible healthcare products are the three main areas of research. These co-ordinates will be drawn into a narrative fiction which revolves around a nuclear scientist who develops an erotic infatuation with radioactive nuclear waste. The work looks at consumption, abjection and desire through the romance between the scientist, the waste, and her medical condition, PICA, which causes her to ingest the inedible. I will conduct an intensive period of research to inform the fiction, involving site visits, interviews, events, archives and interviews. I aim to embed the project within the generative and discursive process of the workshop, learning from and contributing to related projects. The plot revolves around the imaginative potential of Nuclear waste gaining sentience. The project has been forming against the backdrop of a new nuclear era, resulting from the war in Ukraine and recent classification of Nuclear as ‘green’. Unspoken and ignored are the tons of Nuclear Waste being held in temporary repositories, and the undeniable risk it poses. This abject material is the lifeblood of the narrative. I will look at PICA as a response to living in a permanent state of anxiety and crisis/ as a reaction to violent practices of consumption that have caused the anthropocene. Ingestible electronic sensors, created with the aim of controlling and monitoring psychological and physical issues from inside the body, will open out onto the context of the Libidinal economy; driven by bodily fluids and impulses harvested as data, providing a wider context for this plot device.
I make psychologically charged films which explore human ecstasy, crisis and breakdown. My films centres around relationships; between lovers and the unrequited, humans and substances and most recently, the living and the dead.I have been exhibiting moving image work in the context of contemporary art for 10 years. My recent film, The Near Room, is my most ambitious work to date, it was co- commissioned by Arts Council, FVU, SLG and Bonington Gallery. The work had a large cast and crew, an elaborate set and strong narrative structure. I wish to expand upon this cinematic framework with the project with which I am applying, Half-life, and am dedicating my current practice to writing a feature length fiction screenplay.