Live and Active Gut Cultures or Subaltern Spirit Guides or the Detritus of Devotional Memorabilia (2019)

Live and Active Gut Cultures or Subaltern Spirit Guides or the Detritus of Devotional Memorabilia (2019), Phoebe Collings-James, 50 glazed ceramic panels (dimensions variable).

Phoebe Collings-James’ work explores the poetics and emotional debris of violence, language, and desire, through the mediums of ceramics, video and sound.

For you feel me_, she brings together three works that suggest familiar symbols and rituals. Live and Active Gut Cultures or Subaltern Spirit Guides or the Detritus of Devotional Memorabilia is a series of ceramic scrolls of creatures, limbs, dates and codes, made for us to touch and feel.

Collings-James’ work reweaves time: allowing us to reflect on the subconscious implications behind objects, actions, heirlooms and cultures.

Live and Active Gut Cultures or Subaltern Spirit Guides or the Detritus of Devotional Memorabilia was commissioned by FACT. All works courtesy of the artist and Arcadia Missa.