Kathleen Sellars
Robiotics Research Project, 2006
Courtesy of the artists
Exhibitions
Kathleen Sellars: New Robiotics Research
The Davies Foundation Gallery
28 June - 19 October
Kathleen Sellars' art practice has entered the zone where engineering blends into life sciences, an anxiety-producing realm in which the seductive economies of false promise and the "myth of plenitude" have steady traction.
Pursuing research initiated in her leadership of the Engineered Art Program based at Queen's University's Integrated Learning Centre - a program that teams up fine art and engineering students - and working in collaboration with Mechanical and Materials Engineering faculty Richard Holt, Sellars developed a series of bio-robotic forms rendered in soft, flesh-toned rubber. In this exhibition, she presents her latest generation of viewer-responsive forms. These lumpy, animated orbs are presented in a faux-didactic context bristling with breathless, almost convincing claims, and implicit allusions to fraudulent research.
The exhibition will be celebrated at a public reception on Saturday 20 September, 4 to 6 pm.
Kathleen Sellars is a Kingston artist and Queen's Fine Art faculty member.
Jan Allen