Abstract

This practice-based research explores clay/ceramic as multi-media performance and is particularly significant in terms of the contextualisation of film and clay within the field. The research further explores and implements clay as a critical and political tool engendered through extended approaches to medium and process. The nature of clay as static is expanded through the integration of film, which aims to construct an extended visual language and vocabulary derived from material performativity, inherent qualities within the material processes and the ubiquity of medium. This work forms part of the CICEMA film festival and archive which is the only European film festival of its kind dedicated to film and ceramic. The film contributes to new insights with regards to a reading of clay within a filmic context and framework.