Interactive sculpture puzzle // Performance, Corn Exchange, Edinburgh, 2018
Musing on the Eucharist, and stretching the definition of Holy Communion, this interactive and performative sculpture puzzle was created for Playzone – a larger group exhibit of sensory artworks in the Corn Exchange Building as part of the Edinburgh Art Fair. ‘First Supper’ anthropomorphises interpreted personalities from a selection of locally foraged medicinal herbs by planting them in the heads of crumbling clay archetypes inspired by Jungian psychology. ‘Klu’, the blue-nosed, mossy mute charged with tending these amnesic statues, playfully prompts the audience and oversees the show. Read what the archetypes have to say for themselves and follow the clues to learn who and what they are, both as medicinal plants and as symbolic reflections of our human nature. In helping the archetypes on their journey of self-discovery you may find you have started upon or trundled along on your own. Together help Klu brew a potion of individuation to be shared among anyone and everyone willing to seek it.
