“...it loves without condition or discrimination, but only once the material labour of its production has been dismissed.” for Session Vessels, 2018, at AIRspace, curated by Rafaela Pandolfini and Ainslie Templeton, is a performance and video installation collaboratively produced by myself, the visitors at the exhibition opening, digital camera and television technologies, a large satin bow, and various other workers and contributors. The title of the work comes from an essay written by Lee Mackinnon called Love Machines and the Tinderbot Bildungsroman, published in What’s (Love) Got to Do With It? and online at e-flux. The essay considers the effects that technologies, specifically digital online imaging technologies, have on our understanding and production of love relationships. Through directly referencing Mackinnon, and working with the technologies that she writes about, the work attempts to consider our own love relationships experienced through cameras and the images they produce.
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