Cosmic Mothers

Abstract

Group exhibition featuring Bonnie Camplin, Annie Goh, Jackie Karuti, Janina Kraupe-Świderska, Alexandra Paperno. Curated by Daria Khan. Bonnie Camplin, 15 drawings, felt-tip on paper and 28 print-out materials Bonnie Camplin's work questions ideological forces, established knowledge systems, and mechanisms of manipulation such as propaganda – all of which must be resisted, she contends, to allow for the continued expansion of the mind. In opposition to the accumulation of skills and learned techniques, Camplin turns to deep, inner knowing, where knowing the universe can be achieved through knowing oneself. Attempting to reconcile witchcraft and science, magic and quantum physics, Camplin questions how desire, intention and the unconscious can predict and produce the future. She approaches her work as a survey, where art and subjective experience becomes a strategy for accessing knowledge. The series of drawings and print-out materials on display at Mimosa House synthesise the concept of vortex geometry by Viktor Schauberger (1885-1958), derived from his observations of Nature; Walter Russell’s (1871-1963) description of electricity and time; and the artist’s knowledge, acquired "from Source". An American painter and author, Russell published the thesis A New Concept of the Universe (1952), in which he proposed electricity as the force which God used to create the universe. Specifically, Russell wrote of ‘electric spiral vortices’, wielded in pairs by God. His vision of a cosmos based on opposing electromagnetic vortexes anticipated the ‘space-time vortexes' theorised by Albert Einstein, and which NASA found evidence for in 2011. Camplin’s drawings are accompanied by recent UFO reports and extracts from the US Department of Defence's study, ‘Warp Drive, Dark Energy, and the Manipulation of Extra Dimensions’ (2010). This paper describes advanced aerospace technologies, such as the ‘warp drive’, which would crack the mysteries of ‘dark energy’ and other unseen dimensions. The ‘warp drive' is a speculative spacecraft propulsion-system, which appears in various works of science fiction, notably Star Trek, and the writing of the popular American sci-fi author Isaac Asimov (1920–1992)