"Becoming-with" photoshoot

"Becoming-with" is a collaborative photoshoot with Emma Pearson and Emilija Pliaukštaitė with the fly headset-necklace and "Shell of my Lungs" steel sculpture. Through this photoshoot I wanted for the sculpture and headset-necklace to merge with the person, to somehow treat them as natural parts of human body that complement the person or transform the individual into some kind of weird creature. “Becoming-with” - is a term by Donna Haraway encouraging us to be species that are closely interlinked with the other species and that care for the other without seeking domination, but seeing it as a curious possibility of companionship. I wanted to play and see what this interaction between Metallicum and Homo Sapiens "species" would bring and how could even they become-with each other.

"Becoming involves a metaphysics that is grounded in connection, challenging delusions of separation. Donna Haraway tells us that “If we appreciate the foolishness of human exceptionalism then we know that becoming is always becoming with, in a contact zone where the outcome, where who is in the world, is at stake.”

Katherine Wright