Paradise Fallen is an installation that draws on theoretical and literary research and interdisciplinary art-making practices, largely produced during residencies in two settings. The camera and associated technical and ideological apparatus are more than simply the media used to make the work but are also points of departure in exploring forms of knowledge production. In this work, the creative process relies on theoretical and political explorations of the sites where the works were produced. Issues ranging from colonialism and slavery to globalization and climate change come to inform the process and realization of this installation. The paper elaborates on narratives, concepts and politics that emerge through the figure of the island, especially in relation to the creative practice.
Paradise Fallen offers up as xenoepistemics [1] or what might be considered a queering of phenomenology [2]. Xeno-epistemics contains a challenge to embrace knowledge that is nonlinear, estranged,...