Art
Jamee is an artist whose interdisciplinary practice emerges from decades of embodied experience in circus and dance. Working across sculpture, performance, and installation, they investigate the thresholds between body, matter, and systems through engagements with industrial substances, the body, biomaterials, and the discarded. Improvisation functions as both method and philosophy, translating movement into material form and embracing play and chance as co-conspirators. Informed by discourses of new materialism, process philosophy, and metamodernist thought, their practice oscillates between optimism and critique, situating experimental encounters with chaotic matter as speculative rehearsals for alternative futures.
After Containment
Exhibited as a part of Mesh at the White Box Gallery, and Block Show at Vacant Assembly.
In After Containment, materials are not shaped into compliance, but encountered as non-human collaborators. Contorted by mesh and framed by glass, expanding foam resists, bulges, and strains against its boundaries. The work captures a moment of chaotic becoming, where matter asserts its agency and spills beyond imposed limits.
Emerging from process-based sculpture and material experimentation, the work offers a tactile provocation: What if collapse were a beginning, not an end? What might spill over if you let your own boundaries loosen? What is the generative potential of transgression?
Drawing on posthumanist and metamodern currents, After Containment invites reflection on systems, social and political, that seek to fix vibrant matter in rigid forms, and question what might be possible when breached.
Soft Intelligences
Soft Intelligences is a collection of sculptures that investigates the emergent and responsive qualities of systems. Rather than a final static form, the focus of the work is coexistence as process: a slow dance, a porous weaving, an ongoing negotiation in which distinctions may dissolve and renew. The materials themselves act as both metaphor and collaborator, embodying intelligence, agency, and the capacity for transformation.
They invite reflection on the human-material entanglement, sustainability, and the adaptive capacities of living and non-human systems across scales of time. By staging materials in continuous, slow transformation, Soft Intelligences models how to live with uncertainty and radical interconnectedness in the Anthropocene.
New materialist ideas of vibrant matter foreground the agency, vitality, and affective potential of materials themselves, challenging hierarchies between human and nonhuman, subject and object. Drawing on sensuous theory and multisensory media, the kinetic works invite viewers to engage sensuously, prioritising haptic, temporal, and multisensory modes of perception.
