Performance: carton of eggs

Audience shot of figure in installation Installation shot of sculpture Full artwork, shown from front Close up of suspended incubator
Medium
Shipping pallets; white fir, oriented strand board, carton of eleven free-range chicken eggs; one fertile chicken egg
Date
2022

A dozen eggs sit within an incubator, lifted from the shelves of a supermarket. One is fertile. The last chain of the supply line is all that remains visible to the consumer, producing terminal goods that forego traces of their creation. This phenomenon is new: ‘the voice of the current somnambulism’.

In exhibiting the work, consider a month-long performance: the egg sits, embryonic. At the end of this process, a chick may (or may not) hatch. The sculpture becomes thereafter charged with duration, and an inclination towards bioart.

Liam Macann is an emerging arts practitioner with a theoretical focus on the philosophy of technology. Recently graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Art (Honours) from UNSW, his research-intensive practice engages with a profusion of disciplines across an agile and experimental body of work.