AliCat Minette

AliCat’s work uses trash and discarded materials as building blocks to create immersive spaces, speaking to mental health, neurodiversity, consumption and retention under capitalism. Their current practice is creating work around the question “Have you ever felt obligated to keep something you don’t want?” They invite collaboration through the contribution of an object that fits the aforementioned description, and record the answers of 3 questions to inform the placement and staging of the object in the greater installation. Working from materials they have collected over years from their career in the entertainment industry and throughout their MFA program, many objects are a throughline of their practice, largely in consideration for the life and longevity of an object and the ecological and environmental implications of “disposal”. Ali is never at a loss for material inspiration or access to resources, because our society is abundant with objects not entirely fulfilled in their possibilities and single-use product waste. Ostensibly this occurs in consideration for the intact life and longevity of an object as well as the ecological/ environmental implications of “disposal”, but on a deeper level the work looks at entanglements between object and human, engaging agential realism and New Materialism. www.theAliCat.com