Sarah McCormick - "sweep/soak"

My name is Sarah McCormick. I'm an interdisciplinary artist and educator living in the Colorado Front Range. I work predominantly in social practice, digital media, and sculptural installation. My research considers the role of colonial agendas at play in the narrative of our global, ecological crisis. This work is titled 'sweep/soak.' Its materials are wood, interior paint, and used linens. 'This monument is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done.' This sentence appears on a plaque commemorating Iceland’s Okjokull glacier, declared dead in 2014. Referencing the entanglement of game-playing and domestic labor in a sport that relies on the active softening of ice, sweep/soak considers the ongoing disregard of dire ecological shifts as our species continues to consume, construct, and abandon. A pile of laundry. Of bodies. Of evolving organisms. At what point does the game/extravagance/waste become clean-up? At what point does the mop sit idly waterlogged in the detritus of our empires?

Rules of engagement:

Your time is limited.

Throw your stone forward before the playing field melts.

Your time is limited."