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
Pataphysical Engineering Thesis, 2022.
Remember as a kid when feats of engineering innovation adorned your walls in poster form, like Cinelli Laser’s, HMS Discoveries and Lockheed Nighthawks? I don't. I’ve only ever had James Donohue’s Fibreglass Shark Bicycle, Tarai Bunés and Daniel Dalby’s Pouchel. My Master's thesis is a series of posters that are housed in a silkscreened linen-covered box, emulating those old first-edition mechanical engineering books, inside containing texts on three pataphysial engineering icons.
