Never quite human, only ever Frankenstein: a ghost of the west, a virus, a trickster, or a prehistoric bird, Carrion is an amorphous being. Drawing on queered Filipinx ancestral mythologies, this hybrid human/animal/cyborg exists in a speculative future archaeological site conceived by the artist to question the current role of the human at a time of unprecedented destruction of nature.
Initially designed and performed for the stage, Carrion is an on-going body of work which deftly shifts between gallery, nightclub, theatre and cinema contexts. For this iteration, Shoulder creates an immersive installation akin to a natural history museum to explore the paradox of encasing, conserving and prizing an imagined creature from the devastated future.