Pip McManus
Based in Alice Springs, Australia, Pip McManus has expressed a need to incorporate her traditional medium, ceramics, with other media in order to communicate to a wider audience. She is primarily concentrating on our relationship as social beings within our environment- both on a personal and universal level. In her piece Ichor shown here, McManus is interested in the way new media and technologies reshape our viewpoints. This work is meant to collect the rhythms of natural systems, pushed to the verge of collapse. The 55 minute video suggests an acceptance of life's natural processes, reminding us of our mortality and fragility. Her work is considered a digital hybrid because McManus uses this projected video of unfired earthenware set in water to disintegrate as a backdrop for a similar earthenware "offering" figure. Combing ceramics with water, the work directly encourages the viewers to slow down and be alone with their thoughts as the work slowly falls apart. The artist not only combines stages of clay sculpture and video, but also the rich and haunting sounds of a cello, creating a setting for contemplation and mellow atmosphere. Another projected video, Watershed, uses glazed earthenware figures, sand, oxide, clay and water to again emphasize the natural flow of an organic setting.
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