Sam Nightingale

Australia, United Kingdom (residence), United Kingdom (citizenship) °1972
affiliation: Goldsmiths, University of London
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Sam Nightingale is an artist who investigates ‘spectral ecologies’ - the haunting or 
co-presence of another time that are active in forming the material conditions of the present (these could be legacies from deep geological time to industrialised capitalism). His practice is research-based focusing on specific geophysical locations and their seemingly invisible histories. Working with photographic and time-based media he attempts to make visible the human/non-human temporal entanglements that co-produce the material and environmental conditions of these sites: from ancient salt lakes in the Australian desert to the atomic light of a nuclear power plant in the far north of Scotland, for example. 

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  • Spectral Materialism - A Constellation of practice (test 1) (last edited: 2024) author(s): Sam Nightingale This exposition is in progress and its share status is: visible to all.
    Spectral-Materialism: encounters with ‘land-time-scapes’ examines the interface between spectral time (a haunting or co-presence of another time) and the materiality of site by instigating an alchemic media practice that seeks to enact spectral materialism as a form of process-based encounter with land-time-scapes. Taking a speculative approach, I suggest these encounters enable a novel form of knowledge production (in)formed by the environmental and cultural context of the fieldwork sites where the research is based, where human and more-than-human pasts, present and potential futures are traced within inorganic and organic life of minerals and plants relative to their locations.
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