Gareth Kennedy’s work is invested in a socially engaged practice which addresses specific environmental, social, aesthetic and economic concerns within located contexts. Conflating the modern with ideas of the vernacular these works address concerns regarding economies of being and of scale as well as orientation within the liquidity of contemporary experience. Outcomes typically include architectural or designed structures, hand crafted objects, films, as well as live performative events which bring these physical entities to life within specific public contexts.
Below: Research images from April 2012 visit to Saint Petersburg, Russia, as part of CRITICAL MASS 2013
Cosmonauts in Birch forest
Presentation at Etagi Space, StP
Presentation at Etagi Space, StP
Research Image: Swedwood Tiktvin
Kupchino Bloc
Kupchino Bloc with Birch trees