BROOM TIME
“…I would therefore like to propose a methodology of material complicity. What does it mean to give agency to the material, to follow the material and to act with the material? For a start, materials are neither objects nor things; if one considers a broom, for instance, the broom is a thing while the material might be wood or plastic. Materials are far less anthropocentric, and this is one reason why this category has been neglected. If anthropology, for example, addresses material culture, it investigates that which is human-made, and as anthropologist Tim Ingold has pointed out even in a discourse which has produced the most elaborate theories of things an actual focus on materials remains surprisingly rare….”
Materiality: Documents of Contemporary Art Edited by Petra Lange-Berndt - Page 13.
