RETRIBUTION: WHAT HAPPENS NEXT?//NORTHERN CENTRE FOR CONTEMPORARY ART//29.09.2022
Am I My Brother’s Keeper? reappropriates the biblical story of Cain and Abel through wax, projection, sound, and installation. The work centres on the question of address: who is speaking, who is being addressed, and what kind of obligation is produced by the voice of another?
The work engages the phrase “the voice of thy brother’s blood crieth unto me from the earth” as an inscriptive and material problem. Blood, ground, voice, guilt, and text become entangled across the surface of the work.
Documentation
Installation images/projection documentation/video documentation/sound/detail images.
Research Relation
This work develops the project’s concern with scripture as a textual paradigm and trauma. It treats the biblical text not as stable source material, but as something that continues to speak through bodies, surfaces, institutions, and histories of interpretation.
Within the broader research, Am I My Brother’s Keeper? sharpens the relationship between surface and address. The work asks how a text speaks, how a body is implicated by that address, and how inscription can become both accusation and residue.
QR Relation
Section: Part II: Praxis
Chapter: AM I MY BROTHER’S KEEPER?
Page: 152
Return to the document: This page provides visual, sonic, and installation documentation of the work discussed in Part II.