apple.slicers is an ongoing collaboration – an intentional act of thinking together – between artist/filmmaker Cat Auburn and artist/architect Kyle Lewis. They are creators of thought experiments at the intersection of contemporary art, culture and digital collectables. Their artworks take the format of digital imagery, experimental games, text-based works, soundscapes and events.
Cat Auburn and Kyle Lewis. Memory in Space 2 (2021) NFT.
We connect across the Atlantic Ocean, meeting in our digital studio. The physical distance between Scotland and the States collapses when we create collaborative multimedia digital artworks in an entirely virtual space.
The project, apple.slicers is named after a TikTok video-come-Reddit thread in which amateur crypto-microbiologist, BenJHandy guides the audience through a visualisation of the 4th dimension. In this thought experiment, viewers are invited to imagine an apple experiencing itself as slices, as opposed to a whole apple. We are attracted to this thought experiment as a conceptual shorthand for reframing what is possible to personally perceive in relation to the overarching systems and structures of power that we are all subject[ed] to.
Our collaboration is a suspicion of systems; a desire to bypass cynicism; a kind of staying with the trouble. We intentionally “think together” through artmaking – this is a creative hive mind in which we use each other’s brains as external hard drives, borrowing and melding ideas and experiences from the other as a resistance to all forms of fixed-ness – even when that immutability originates from ourselves.
Our practice is a meeting place of physical/digital space and physical/digital memory. We use memory as an art material; our practice is non-linear, tunneling forward and backward through time and space. We explore our memory stacks, searching for glimpses of the larger wholes that we are compr[om]ised of, and of which we are compos[t]ed.
