Hammock (2018)
woven marine line

In 2011 Greenpeace staged an action using marine rope to suspend a survival pod under the Leiv Eiriksson oil platform and thereby prevent drilling in the Arctic. Activists occupied the pod for several days and stopped the platform from operating. The activists were arrested by the Danish Navy who confiscated their possessions and equipment. When these materials were eventually returned, Greenpeace gave us the rope that had been used in this protest. Hammock is the resultant work we made.

Whilst directly referring to its earlier use to suspend human bodies the work speculates on the role climate change plays within our everyday and imagined lives. The hammock, an archetype of summer leisure, brings us to a consideration of the way those summers are slowly but surely changing from benign to threatening. The woven net form of the work speaks to an idea of falling and catching as much as it does to the marine origins of its material. Furthermore the weave is somewhat rigid and the work is both a hammock but also a kind of wireframe representation of a simple boat.