Oblivion
Oblivion is a practice-based doctoral research project investigating the cultural, material and technical conditions through which things are remembered, preserved, transformed or forgotten.
The project challenges the assumption that persistence is an intrinsic property of objects, images or information. Instead, it approaches persistence as an active and contingent process, dependent on infrastructures of maintenance, repair, repetition, transmission and redundancy.
From this perspective, memory is not treated as the simple conservation of a stable past, but as something continuously produced through relations between bodies, materials, technologies, institutions and media. Conversely, forgetting is considered not merely as disappearance, but as a transformation in the accessibility, legibility or interpretability of traces.
Fashion occupies a particular position within this research as both a material and cultural system: garments, accessories, images and practices of representation become sites through which questions of memory, embodiment, transmission, deterioration and technological mediation can be investigated.
The research combines theoretical inquiry with artistic and design practice, using drawing, object-making, digital fabrication and other experimental processes as methods for producing and testing knowledge.
Research Areas
Artistic Research & Practice-Based Research
Methods through which artistic and design practice can operate as a form of inquiry rather than as illustration of pre-existing theory.
Methods through which artistic and design practice can operate as a form of inquiry rather than as illustration of pre-existing theory.
Fashion, Body & Representation
Fashion as a system through which bodies, identities, cultural values and forms of knowledge are produced, mediated and transmitted.
Fashion as a system through which bodies, identities, cultural values and forms of knowledge are produced, mediated and transmitted.
Memory, Forgetting & Trace
The material and technical conditions that allow traces to persist, disappear, become inaccessible or acquire new interpretations over time.
The material and technical conditions that allow traces to persist, disappear, become inaccessible or acquire new interpretations over time.
Material Culture
Objects and materials as carriers of social, technological and cultural relations.
Objects and materials as carriers of social, technological and cultural relations.
Media & Technology
The role of technical systems, digital infrastructures and processes of mediation in shaping what can be recorded, preserved and retrieved.
The role of technical systems, digital infrastructures and processes of mediation in shaping what can be recorded, preserved and retrieved.
Art Education & Pedagogy
The relationship between artistic practice, learning, perception and processes of individual and cultural formation.
The relationship between artistic practice, learning, perception and processes of individual and cultural formation.