Aurelia Bennett

About

I am an artist-curator, and my creative practise currently examines the process of fictioning and constructing realms. Presently, my curatorial interests also include questioning the hierarchy of media and deprioritising visual modes of artmaking and communicating, in addition to creating dialogues with the past, particularly colonial narratives. Embracing ethereal or non-tangible media can be a very appropriate modality for not only re-establishing institutional conventions, but also re-approaching colonial histories. These types of media do not need to be physically constructed in a single place; thus, this approach encourages transnational collaborations, enabled by remote modes of working. Wholistic sensory engagement is a way of communicating without prioritising a certain bank of knowledge or language. 

Within these areas of interest, wider topics continually resurface in my discussions and research, such as embracing digital creative practices and examining society’s relationship with technology. Digital media are vehicles for many ephemeral modes of working, such as sound, light, and virtual realms, and I believe that these can be every effective artistic and communicative tools. I am interested in using exhibition spaces to consider both our pre-conceptions of digitally produced experiences, but also how we expect to interact with technologically produced media. I am very interested in combining these digital modes of expression, with communicating through highly sensorial media, such as scent, to construct multi-dimensional vehicles of expression.