Aurora Bucca

The Primordial Court

The Primordial Court is a constellation of the fabulated objects and objects of the ornamental-natural. Arranged as to submerge us in a dream of the natural world and for the matter of our beings to dissipate into the great exchanges surrounding us. The Primordial Court refutes anthropocentric ideologies, within the court “Our permutation of the wisdom is of the biosphere” and all knowledge and energy is shared.  The human body and being becomes part of the greater machine of the natural world and its evolutionary destiny.

The Primordial Court is constructed by two main entities and characters, Corpus and Derma. In the plain of The Primordial Court, Copus and Derma take on notions of the matter of life, the stuff of all things. Corpus becomes the hard and heavy matter: flesh, blood, bone and death; morphing into a stocky carcass or beast. Derma becomes the light matter: the divine and the spirit. being frail and transient, Derma hangs stoic within the court. The Primordial Court becomes a landscape of play where entities hold their own autonomous meaning and symbolism, yet feed and are fed by the interconnected threading between them and all things.

Within the court we make ‘oddkin’, forming interspecies relationships and collaborations. As put forward by Donna Haraway “Staying with the trouble requires making oddkin, that is, we require each other in unexpected collaborations and combinations, in hot compost piles. We become – with each other or not at all.” In collaborations we become both separated being, with our own knowledge and energies to give, yet also extensions of each other. Staying with the trouble becomes an ethos of living with a ‘damaged earth’, to accept the imperfection of our world including ourselves, proposing “tentacular thinking” as a process for collective practices and becoming-with all thing, conscious and unconscious.

My Practice speaks of the great web of interconnectivity that surrounds and includes us. Striving to dissolve anthropocentric barriers formed and tethering-to the biosphere. My work pulls the viewer’s consciousness out into the space between, the corporeal loosens and we become-with the great exchange of energy, knowledge and matter. Using sculpture and performance, I create my own fabulate ecosystem of biological textures, motifs of the natural-ornamental and meditative exercises of tethering-to. Within which we can view and collectively “feel the earth’s spine beneath [us]” to abandon ourselves to the matter around us. I construct conglomerated forms and matter, imagining them as fantastical entities, that immerged from remnants of
contemporary life and organic matter.

In performance exercises, I fabulate and embody an intertwining of my matter and matter beyond my being. A process of delving into one self’s materiality and biological processes. I would pose questions which speculate how we do or could occupy our environment. Warping the sensations within to explore a new way of becoming-with the matter outside of our own. Fabulations or speculative fictions of a hybrid of flesh and dry matter. Bodies and objects become matter. Matter that perceives and exchanges, Becoming a symbol in my work as the stuff of life, Stocky and steadfast.

Quotes deriving from: Microcosmos: Four Billion Years of Microbial Evolution
by Lynn Margulis and Dorion Sagan.
Donna Haraway’s Staying with the trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene
Virginia Woolf’s Novel Orlando: A biography.