The engineered primitive is the product of an extensive process of distillation and refinement. These are foundational goods; sheet metal, mathematical operators, and the kind of geometry you can name. In use, their origin is abstracted away; what lies upstream is made invisible, and a new origin appears to form. It is here applied to describe an exploration of materials complicated by a concealed relation to manufacture.
Liam Macann is an emerging arts practitioner with a theoretical focus on the philosophy of technology. Graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Art (Honours) from UNSW, his research-driven practice examines technic, material and conceptual, through reflexive installation modalities that consider a relationship to spectacle.