Barnaby Steel, Marshmallow Laser Feast
Barnaby Steel is an artist and creative director of London-based experiential artist collective Marshmallow Laser Feast. Barnaby’s art practice centres on the senses; enticing audiences into states of expanded perception, a space where the boundaries between bodies blur. His work is deeply rooted in scientific observation as a window that allows us to look through and beyond our own experience, to understand the complexities of things hidden from the naked eye. His work steps outside the human- centred worldview, exploring the threads that weave us into relationship with the more than human world.
Where Do I End And Begin When Sunlight Is Under My Skin
Barnaby Steel is taking a close look into the collective’s thought process of creating orchestrated sensory experiences that illuminate the hidden natural forces that surround us, inviting participants to navigate with a sensory perception beyond their daily experience. Fusing architectural tools, contemporary imaging techniques and performance with tactile forms, Marshmallow Laser Feast sculpt spaces that lay dormant until animated by playful investigation.
What is it like to be a tree?
How can we embody something much larger than ourselves such as a forest?
Can we repair our broken connection with nature by using art & technology?
What is the role of the artist in the age of the Anthropocene?
This talk is a kind of scientific hallucination that explores the threads that weave us into relationships with rocks, rivers, beavers, butterflies, forests, fungi…. and ultimately ourselves. An expansion of perception that blurs the boundary of beings.
