Biography
see saw was formed in 2010 by; Amelia Prazak, Milda Lembertaite, Hannah Dolan and Michelle Houston through various collaborations whilst studying for our BA; Performance Design and Practice at Central St. Martins, London. However, is now represented by Amelia Prazak, Milda Lembertaite and Michelle Houston.
We work in site responsive manor that blurs the distinction between sculpture, performance and installation. Our practice is represented in gallery context and public space, through documentation including propositional objects, sculpture, film and photography.
Central to our practice are; process, concept and material, which have a symbiotic relationship in order to create work. We work towards a non- object based approach, which is manifested in its temporal state of existence. Where form is dependant upon our actions and presence, the engagement between ourselves and the material, and when absent or non- present it succumbs to the eventuality of time. We work to the philosophy that through subtraction, an artistic gesture that produces its own slowing down, works towards the decline of objects and brings about a different economy of production. In using ritual and repetition of an action, the meaning of the work reveals itself through the cyclic process.
Our environment very much dictates the work that we create, in that we live where we work and work where we live. This has a direct correlation to the ephemeral nature of our work and the choice of material. Materials all have their own connotations and histories, and we try to use them as objectively as possible, in a context where their inherent qualities act for themselves.
