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Themed Issue: ‘On Modes of Participation’
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Abstract

Community acts of material signification are an important form of sculpture that occur through an exchange of human and non-human agents. First these acts of sculpture are discussed in relation to extended mind, the morphogenic model of making, material engagement theory and entanglement to frame how humans shape the world as collaborators with non-humans by extending mind through material. I then discuss various acts of community material accumulation that I consider sculpture, skateboarding and clay forming as evidence of extended mind, comparison of the morphogenic to the hylomorphic model of making, occurrences of materials affecting other materials absent of human intervention and my recent participatory installation . These topics are used to present a lens for understanding the production of sculpture as a collaboration with opposed to dictation on systems of materials, places and people. This lens, in turn, presents community sites of material accumulation to be an important form of sculpture production.

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Material mind: Gum on walls, drifting stones and other acts of community sculpture
Technoetic Arts 19, 283 (2021); https://doi.org/10.1386/tear_00069_1
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Keyword(s): de-anthropocentric; extended mind; material engagement theory; materiality; morphogenic model; sculpture

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