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STEP 68 | ears licked clean by a snake

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Pharmakon — ancient Greek for a remedy that is also a poison — will inform Briony’s studio approach during the residency. French theorist Bernard Stiegler positions the transitional object, such as a teddy bear or blanket, as the first pharmakon, mediating the space between the baby’s own interiority and mother or external world, yet belonging wholly to neither. During her residency, Briony will imagine toys as sculptural pharmakon, working with street trees and casts at sites of remediation and healing.

 

Briony is an artist and teacher from Naarm/Melbourne, Australia. She makes environments—through drawing, installation and sculpture—that are slippery, suspended and atmospheric. Briony has exhibited locally and internationally and worked with various artist-run spaces and artist-lead pedagogical projects.