Geofictions is an itinerant project that shifts between fieldwork, exhibition and public events. The work examines entwined natural-industrial identities of South Gare, a site of special scientific interest that is home to Teesside Steelworks, UK (now closed). Through a series of co-creative fieldwork activities, artworks were generated in relation to the entangled relations of nature, industry and technology, and the material imaginaries of place. Moving between the site and studio, hybrid sculptural objects were assembled alongside films and digital collages. The work addressed political ecologies of site and sought to transform narratives and representations of obsolescence and waste within the post-natural context.

Geofictions was originally commissioned and exhibited by MIMA for Tania Bruguera’s Office of Useful Art from March – June 2017 (Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art). The work has also been presented in modular forms: at Arts Catalyst (workshop for Conflict Minerals Exhibition), Ambika P3 (performative presentation), Art Houses Film Festival (screening), Postcards from the Anthropocene, University of Edinburgh (prints), University of Lodz, Poland (workshop) and Writing with Undisciplined Discipline a collaborative project between Linkoping University in Sweden and KTH Stockholm, funded by Seedbox an Environmental Collaboratory. Geofictions was presented in the group show Liquid Crystal Display at MIMA in 2019 and has since been acquired as part of the gallery’s permanent collections.