MELT
MELT. Photo courtesy of the Artists.
MELT (Loren Britton & Isabel Paehr) are arts-design researchers who work together on games, technology and critical pedagogy.
Investigating the political and material conditions of technological infrastructures, they re-distribute agency through methods of queer play, unlearning and leaking. Their work crumbles structures, unbinds materials, dissolves technology and makes collectivities, often taking the form of video art and workshops. MELT are influenced by (melting) ice, freezers, software, signals, moving too fast/slow, Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, Denise Ferreira Da Silva, digital materialism, post-/de-colonial thinking, GIFs, climate protests, anti-racism and dancing.
Meltionary (derived from dictionary), is a growing collection of arts-design-research engagements that cooks up questions around material transformations alongside impulses from trans* feminism and Disability Justice. Melting as a kaleidoscope-like phenomena touches upon multiple topics at once: climate change, the potential for political reformulations, change over time and material transformation.
