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Mads Warnica-Powers
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Gallery 1
MA thesis exhibition
What kind of life can come from this kind of death?
The question above roots from Mads’ divination practice and has become the focal ‘living inquiry’ for their MAED Thesis research. Driven by a curious-led resiliency, their work considers how healing can be both found and alchemized through the ongoing entanglements of lived experience, “curio casting”, meaning-making, and interdisciplinary craft. Casting curio falls under the ancient practice of Cleromancy, which is defined as “divination by means of casting lots” (Merriam-Webster, n.d.). To do this work, they use A/r/tography, A (artist) / R (researcher) / T (teacher), which is an arts-based educational research methodology that embraces “sensory ways of knowing through the arts” (Irwin & Sinner, 2013, p. 1-2). They plan to contextualize their A/r/tographic living inquiry and expand on its unfolding through a body of work consisting of sensory-infused leather soft sculptures, research, and installation.
