13. Tom Borgas
Title: Hyperobject (Kadaltilla)
Prize Status: Digital Category Prize Winner
Category: Digital
Dimensions (cm): 87h x 122w
Medium: Digital Collage Print- 3D Model Render + Photograph (Framed)
Statement:
“Positioned amongst a Heysenesque site in the south eastern corner of the Adelaide Park Lands, Hyperobject (Kadaltilla)* is a vividly colourful cluster of sculptural components- a speculative architecture of sorts, captured whilst still in the process of becoming. Forming through its own imaginary logic of material and forces, it softly comes to rest in the landscape– itself a rich ecology of human and non-human, seen and unseen connections.*First coined in 2008 by speculative philosopher Timothy Morton, Hyperobjects are intimately present entities but with vast temporal and spatial dimensions that defeat traditional ideas about what a thing is. Examples include the stock exchange, evolution, the internet and global warming. Morton’s reframing of thingness serves to reformat old notions of how we coexist with one another and with nonhumans, and how we experience our politics, ethics, and art.”
