Fuse; a context-specific, community-driven project created and curated by Elyse Tonna, produced by the Valletta Cultural Agency as part of the Agency’s Cultural Programme/21.
The intervention reflects on one of the nine curatorial thematics of fuse, RESILIENCE.
Stories of balconies turned into kitchen spaces, laundry washed together outside and television sets shared in the street as an open living room. Actions by residents still echo this relationship of domesticity with the outside space, in particular through plants. From these stories of domestic life happening in the streets, the project imagines possibilities of coexistence with plants as species that live indoors and out.The sculptures are hybrid objects, existing beyond the use of furniture and intersecting with ecology.
Together with Jamie Barbara (sound artist) and Jacob Saliba (visual artist) we opened up an inter-species collaboration to record and transmit their presence in the street. A CRT television was scheduled to broadcast the audio-visual production generated from recorded, physical vibrations of plants in street.