The Nameless Black of a Name

www.jakestarr.xyz

@j.starr.io

Jake Starr is a research-based artist residing on unceded Gadigal land (Sydney, Australia).

Starr’s practice yearns across new media, sculpture, film and text, toward speculative post-human futures. Much of their process involves the collation and appropriation of often disregarded ideas, data and intelligences in order to formulate new and surprising relational ecologies. Characterised by strange syntheses, Starr’s research is informed by the frameworks of post-structuralism, affect theory and queer ecology as much as the seemingly frameless, fringe stirrings of furry fandom, conspiracy theories and technological accelerationism. Their work often operates within zones of friction or slippage, between embodied and disembodied, natural and synthetic, science and fantasy; creating webs of intimacy between seemingly disparate im/materialities which work to evoke imaginaries that exist beyond the constrictions of historical grand narratives and anthropocentric hegemony.