Corey McCorkle

Pendulum

2016

Corey McCorkle, Pendulum, 2016

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Corey McCorkle’s installation Pendulum for the exhibition Tuned Mass Damper at Maccarone gallery is developed around the Cavendish family and their role in importing bananas to Europe. Cavendish bananas were named after William Cavendish, the 6th Duke of Devonshire. In 1834, Cavendish received a shipment of bananas from Mauritius, and developed these bananas in the greenhouses of Chatsworth House with his gardener Sir Joseph Paxton, and was later given to missionary John Williams to take to Samoa. In combining the colonial history of the Cavendish banana that has become the most consumed banana in the western world, and the history of the pendulum, a device used to measure human movement through time, length, and gravity, McCorkle’s Pendulum evokes the past and the present in an intervention bound to decay.

Described as a ‘spatial interventionist’, Corey McCorkle is an artist and trained architect, working in photography, architectural interventions, sculpture, installation, and film. McCorkle is interested in the utopian ideas of nature and transcendence, developed often as a response to an invitation to intervene in a specific site. In studying and responding to a space, McCorkle’s practice aims to disrupt, mutate, manipulate, or enhance the environment of his interventions. His practice, deeply informed by the history of architecture and design, social sciences and countercultures, seeks to put in tension the human surge for perfection, its liberal nature, and notions of utopia. Through almost imperceptible or minimalistic spatial interventions, McCorkle highlights some of societies’ contradictions and systemic flaws. By referencing specific communitarian projects or natural phenomena, his work reflects on willpower and ways to organize and develop as societies outside the system’s dominant narrative.

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Corey McCorkle Pendulum

Corey McCorkle

Pendulum