Abstract

Kesselring's research creation project "Echoes" is examining the interconnections between textiles, sounds, natural and digital ecosystems. The political underpinnings of her investigation frames the reverberation of colonizing patterns and of the capitalistic urge to control and optimize the land and its living beings. The way in which these altered systems are satisfying only their own behavioural advantages, resonates through many aspects of modern civilization with monotonous patterns. Looking at textiles and soundscapes as interfaces which evoke repeating patterns throughout history, her installation work aims to echo distortions of the relationship between contemporary economic and planetary systems.