I acknowledge the traditional custodians of the lands by which I create and learn. Sovereignty never ceded.
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. 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.