Lucy McDunphy

‘noise, guest, leech or all three’ refers to Michel Serres’ ‘parasite’, an invocation of an interfering force, a parasitic interruptor. This work ties together the material and the immaterial, drawing on aural textures and textile sounds to explore the liminality between subject and object, parasite and host.

My practice explores this entangling of self and other, body and world, and the fragmented nature of our experience. Crochet functions for me in this way, as that knotted back-and-forth, fragmenting and building, ordering and disordering, as infinitely divisible fractals and as programmed code. There is a liminality in the act of crocheting, with its specific knotting, tying, looping, pulling, stitching and ripping. It is a constant assemblage.

This work relies on the arrhythmic flow of the crochet, and the sweet saccharine interruption of the sugar, at once preserving and damaging, undulating between parasite and host.