Accost Nascent
/solo show at KARST
Sculptural install incorporating live MMA event
2014

A site specific sculptural installation at KARST in Plymouth that housed a live MMA fight, open to the public. The event was advertised as a live fight to the MMA community and as a live performance to the galleries audience.  An octagonal structure was built central to the space, with two warming up platforms connected by pigment that was laid down on the floor, forming the pathways for two professional MMA fighters. These raw materials were introduced to create a duality within the situation and to visibly record the impact of the fight through unpredictable scuffs, marks and deposits. Stimulus for the work came from an interest in the disruption of form through heightened energy, force and collision. ....more