Linda Knight and Alys Longley. 2020-2022. Big Data, mixed media: satin, cotton, performance, video, paper and plastic packaging, postal services.

Chaosgraph: Scales of Infection is a durational collaboration between Linda and Alys that took place over the extended lockdown periods in Melbourne, Australia and Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand, from 2020 to 2022. Referencing the antagonising Big Data results in the publicly-available Worldometer website of daily movements of covid cases, infections, recoveries and deaths per country, the work comments on the contrasts between the grand-scale information in Big Data and the small-scale experience of the individual.

The work, created through the repeated posting of a length of satin between Alys and Linda, where it was stitched onto, and used in creative movement responses, activated a porous border between the two artists during periods of separation and isolation and the extreme anxieties we felt as the world changed so fundamentally.

The gentle working of the satin through soft movements and slow stitching was a considered act of caring while the virus raged across the globe.

Exhibitions:

4-5/2023. Chaosgraph: Scales of Infection. Linda Knight & Alys Longley. Let Us Drink the New Wine, Together! / Beberemos El Vino Nuevo, Juntos! Malcolm Smith Gallery, Howick, New Zealand.

8/2022. Chaosgraph: Scales of Infection. Linda Knight & Alys Longley. Mapping Porous Borders / Mapeo des Bordes Porosos. Museum of Contemporary Art, Santiago, Chile.

11/2021. Chaosgraph: Scales of Infection. Linda Knight & Alys Longley. Tectonics. With Erich Berger, Lee Harrop, Rob Kettels, Linda Knight, Chantell Mitchell and Jaxon Waterhouse (Ecological Gyre Theory), Annette Nykiel, Perdita Phillips, and Elizabeth Shores. Ngā tohu o te huarere: Conversations beyond human scales. Online/ Wellington, New Zealand.

12/2021. Mapping Future Imaginaries: A Concentric Curriculum. Linda Knight and Alys Longley. Bus Projects, Melbourne, Australia.

Collaborations:

2021-onwards. Humattering. Performance research event. A collaboration between SloMoCo Fall Residency, Mapping Future Imaginaries, Concentric Curriculum, BusProjects Melbourne, and Dance Studies, University of Auckland, and DotDot Studio https://dotdot.studio/project/humattering/

2021-onwards. Mapeo de Bordes Porosos / Mapping Porous Borders. Alys Longley and Maximo Corvalan Pincheira https://www.mappingporousborders.com/home

Publications:

Longley, A., Knight, L., & Castro, F. G. (2022). Mapping the aesthetic dimensions of power: Ethically wayfinding across borders. Knowledge Cultures, Special Issue: Critical Theory in the Global South, 10(3), 104-125