Description: Portfolio of Quentin Corker-Marin
As part of “Our Time on Earth”, a Barbican exhibition running 5th May to 29th August 2022, MLF created Sanctuary of the Unseen Forest. A 5m projection on a 4 minute loop showing a Ceiba Pentandra tree, visualising the movement of carbon and oxygen through the tree and air.
I was the lead artist on the project, responsible for ingesting the LiDAR scan of the tree, building the root structure, inner systems, and mycelium networks, and lighting and rendering the sequence.
In August 2021, Alexander Whitley Dance Company approached myself and Felix to make the latest iteration of their Digital Bodies Project for the 2021 Oxford Ideas Festival. Alex had been working with the Parasol Project, a non-profit that works with disabled and disadvantaged young people, to choreograph dance movement based on themes of bird flight. Those themes had crystallised out of conversations Alex had had with the Oxford Flight Group at Oxford University: symmetry, power, weight, morphing, couplings