SEAN ALEXANDER FISHER
SEAN ALEXANDER FISHER





INFORMATION
    Sean Alexander Fisher is an engineer wearing pataphysical goggles.

With a background in mechanical engineering, having studied at The Glasgow School of Art and the Design Academy Eindhoven. His practice merges engineering and pataphysics to explore how systems break down, mutate and reassemble. He is drawn to transformation in materials, ideas and machines, and to the often absurd ways human culture adapts to its environment. Working across multiple mediums including film, sculpture, installation and performance, he responds to fringe engineering cultures, ecological shifts, economics, communities and time.

Fisher also works as a photographer and writer, his work can be seen here. 


CV available on request


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INDEX OVERVIEW SCULPTURE MOVIES SHOP

All I want is a Tarai-Buné, 2020. 


All I want is a Tarai-Buné is a series of investigations into the environmental concerns regarding the Tarai-Buné.




Firstly the film questions the bath tub thats a boat, asking questions from an engineer's point of view like ‘how does a flat-bottomed boat propel itself?’ What knowledge you should have before you start making your own, and if you can make your own, should you?

Tarai-Barūn, 2021. 



A second film questions knowledge supply chains, how information is passed through different educational systems and if we should in the West should adopt these Eastern apprenticeships.

Modernity Intercepts, 2021. 

the triptych of images trace a local tree’s transformation: first natural, then coated in fiberglass, and finally painted blue — paired with a performed poem reflecting ecological rupture on Sado Island and in my own city.










Moving a barrel is easy
Becoming weightless
Carried or Rolled
Relieving laden mothers
The equilibrium shifts
The Tarai-Buné goes

Modernity Intercepts

Nothing flows
The coating is a barrier
Stifling the interaction
Between people
And water


INFORMATION
    Sean Alexander Fisher is an engineer based in the Netherlands wearing pataphysical goggles.

His practice blends mechanical engineering and pataphysics. His fascination with metamorphosis and transformation is evident as he turns a critical eye towards humanity's use of the planet's finite resources. Through his sculptures, he seeks to reflect the dynamic nature of the world, emphasizing and responding to the absurd relationship society has with fringe engineering cultures. Furthermore, he explores the interrelations between ecology, economics, communities, and time.

Fisher also works as a photographer and writer and his work can be seen here.

TEXTS

DAMN MAGAZINE No.83, No Laughing Matter, 2022.

PRESS

Interview about ‘My Second Plane’ in Leonardo Times Magazine, TU Delft, 2022.

Talks

Arena 2022 - Pataphysical Design? - Holly Kruger, Sean Fisher, Maxime Benvenuto, Elevator Radio, 2022.

Awards

Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 Scholarship

CV available on request


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