Rocky Instabilities (2025) synthesises three years of research and practice into one cave installation complete with an integrated screen sculpture, bronze cursors, audio, large stalagmites and stalactites and plastic arrows. The work exists in a web of relations, drawing together Queer theory, Science Fiction, Speculative Feminisms, Critical Geography and Theory-Fictions.
Using Ursula K Le Guin’s The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction (1989) as a jumping off point, the installation considers the links between cursors and arrowheads. Le Guin’s Carrier Bag focuses on the idea of narratives as carrier bags, holding things in relation to one another, as opposed to dominant, linear, hero-centric, penetrative stories. By proposing the cursor as weapon, Rocky Instabilities (2025) interrogates how we interact with technologies and why some facets of user interface design remain unquestioned.
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BA (Hons) Digital Art 
Ben Wallis | Games
