? Limbs is a collective sculpture building experiment currently in development. Taking various creation stories as it's starting point, from Frankenstein to Golem to Khnum, it imagines organ building for new atmospheres in the current climate and the forecast future. Understanding culture in the biological sense: giving matter enough nutrients to enable something new to sprout, we first invite a number of writers and researches to speculate around upcoming atmospheric, climate and terrain potentials. Passing this information through various cycles of processing during the next stage, in which illustrators and musicians are invited to expand out each response, with corresponding visual imagery and sonic information, then compiled together with the initial writings, and distributed to small groups of artists to develop each individual component between them.
Working on limbs, organs and body parts in response to these incoming realities, we hope to encourage a working practice which is open-ended, leaving edges untied to allow others to modify, whilst enabling the ability to fuse together with the other elements being simultaneously produced. From veins, muscles, heart, skin, gut, nerves, we hope to visualise together: What would skin look like to process the excess sweat? Or hands look like to handle entirely cacti based agriculture? Nerves look like to transmit heavy emotional loads? We then intend to hold celebrations, in which the elements will be assembled together, to produce the new limbs and organisms. Focusing on the material that links the mechanical and anatomical, we aim this experience to play with the political potential of imagining new ways of perceiving body and body configurations. ?