Mx.D.P

Using Autoethnographic Abstracted Materialism, 2050:2100 weaponises art and collaboration to resist the void and establish a network of Creative Kindness.

My work is driven by the impending Geopolitical Climate chaos of biome degradation, resource scarcity, mass migration and societal collapse. Using up precious resources, I asked A.I. when the Earth would become uninhabitable:

‘Predicting an exact date is highly complex and uncertain, 2050 to 2100 catastrophic impacts on global ecosystems and human societies.’

Featuring two long painted banners, queering Nazi banners of hate to become The Banners of Kindness, flank a screen. They feature Trans body parts printed on gelli plates.

The film ‘2050:2100’ features loops, AI animation, a process film, and the opening night’s collaborative performance of the Abstracted Materialism Manifesto.

A small black sketchbook at wheelchair height is the Abstracted Materialism visual manifesto, ‘Our Struggle’ an ironic ‘Mein Kampf’, reveals layered process paintings of Kindness.

Hanging alongside is the outrageous costume of Mx D.P. in a tribute to Leigh Bowery’s struggle of trans-human expression.

Will the ‘Dick Tool Belt’ be censored? Will Mx. D.P. ever get their art dick?

Abstracted Materialism of 2050:2100 uses: Bodily waste, urine and spit.

Earth polluting materials of glitter, plastic acrylic paint, discarded fashion, old watercolour paint, A.I. animation and electronic media.

Canvas, support and sketchbook used are within my own supplies, to used up not discarded into landfil when I die.

What should we do with unused existing art materials, we should use them or donate them, many end up in landfill.

My painting process, eliminates water waste. Materials are plasticised on canvas and paper and not washed into the sea.

However, the AI animation’s carbon emissions and water consumption are massive!

This work is witness to the consumption of creation.

By refusing the separation of human and environment, body and biome, a provocative reclamation of iconography; trans-narrative happens. Using bodily waste, urine, and spit (to save precious water), re-cycled fashion, glitter, acrylic paint, and A.I., the work questions what is considered waste or excusable resource.

Focusing on process and interconnectedness, the voyeur becomes a participant, filmed on opening night to witness the transformative. To join the evolving network, the installation is alived.

Blurring boundaries between art, activism, and life, the work invites the voyeur to touch and feel.

To embrace their relationship of consumption, waste, and kinship with the Earth. The work mirrors the adaptive strategies of resilience. Translated, whipped, interconnected, non-binary, accessible, and always in transformation.

Both warning and celebration – 2050:2100 is a gathering space.

A call for Creative Kindness to respond to climate chaos with creativity, solidarity, and the unruly hope of making otherwise.