Elaine Grainger (2024)
Dates of residency: Term 1：5/13~6/7 2024
Elaine Grainger is a multidisciplinary artist based in Dublin, Ireland. Her practice is a site-specific study of time on objects and spaces, incorporating sculptural interventions, drawing, moving image, and sound. She is drawn to materials that suggested time, vulnerable to the spontaneity of becoming or collapsing.
In essence, her practice is about recording and revealing what was unseen and unheard. Threads sewn together were born from small observations—things left untouched, the residue of an event, and fragments of recollection losing their detail. She sought to capture these fleeting moments and offer them to the audience, who were invited to delve in along this journey of transformation.
Time, process, temporality, traces, circulation, arrangement, body rhythms, and rituals were some of her concerns that she wished to develop further during her residency. She proposed to develop a body of research that responded to ideas around ritual and the landscape, aiming to gain a deeper understanding through the culture and environment of Japan.
The research began with a planned walk over a period of four weeks along the Shikoku Pilgrimage. During this time, she mapped the trails, documenting them through photography, video, field recordings, and writing, as well as sketches and tracings that brought life to the natural and spiritual world. Each day she returned with documentation of her journey and a collection of observations, which then formed a physical memory map.
The daily performance of walking in the landscape and witnessing the traditions and rituals within the temples created a suite of movements to be arranged and rearranged during her residency.
With all the information gathered and experienced on this pilgrimage, Grainger used her residency period at Saikoneon to translate the collected material and develop a body of work over the course of one term.
Elaine Grainger (2024)
Dates of residency: Term 1：5/13~6/7 2024
Elaine Grainger is a multidisciplinary artist based in Dublin, Ireland. Her practice is a site-specific study of time on objects and spaces, incorporating sculptural interventions, drawing, moving image, and sound. She is drawn to materials that suggested time, vulnerable to the spontaneity of becoming or collapsing.
In essence, her practice is about recording and revealing what was unseen and unheard. Threads sewn together were born from small observations—things left untouched, the residue of an event, and fragments of recollection losing their detail. She sought to capture these fleeting moments and offer them to the audience, who were invited to delve in along this journey of transformation.
Time, process, temporality, traces, circulation, arrangement, body rhythms, and rituals were some of her concerns that she wished to develop further during her residency. She proposed to develop a body of research that responded to ideas around ritual and the landscape, aiming to gain a deeper understanding through the culture and environment of Japan.
The research began with a planned walk over a period of four weeks along the Shikoku Pilgrimage. During this time, she mapped the trails, documenting them through photography, video, field recordings, and writing, as well as sketches and tracings that brought life to the natural and spiritual world. Each day she returned with documentation of her journey and a collection of observations, which then formed a physical memory map.
The daily performance of walking in the landscape and witnessing the traditions and rituals within the temples created a suite of movements to be arranged and rearranged during her residency.
With all the information gathered and experienced on this pilgrimage, Grainger used her residency period at Saikoneon to translate the collected material and develop a body of work over the course of one term.