Wet Archives
16mm/HD, colour, b&w, sound
33 minutes 7 seconds. 2023 ongoing
33 minutes 7 seconds. 2023 ongoing
Scripted from creative and theoretical writing, a recorded conversation with the artist’s mother, archival material, the recollection of a recurring dream and a series of (mis)recognitions, Wet Archives adopts the logic of dreams, plastic time, bifurcated narrative structure, and shifting modes of address to collapse layers of personal testimony and (bio)politics. Shot on 16mm film over a three years, this research-driven project seeks to reframe historical representations of assisted reproductive technologies, to give voice to a prospective mothers’ AI experience, and to imagine experimental AI(d) subjectivities.
MADA Gallery Installation
Wet Archives at MADA Gallery (examination exhibition of the practical component of Allison Gibbs' PhD research, Mouth-making an Orifice.)
Wet Archives at MADA Gallery (examination exhibition of the practical component of Allison Gibbs' PhD research, Mouth-making an Orifice.)
Camera / script / edit
Allison Gibbs
Voice
Janet Gibbs
Allison Gibbs
Screen test actors
Ellen Marning
Lucian Reeder
Gabriel Partington
Assistant director
Ruth Höflich
2nd camera
Oscar O’Shea
Sound production
Casey Rice
Technical support
Charles Lemire
Lab processing
Neglab
Nanolab
Hand processing
Allison Gibbs
Scan
Memorylab