Moving Things Around

Returning: Stones to Agistri, Sticks to Mizarai

Authors

  • Sophie L. O. Durand Author

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.37522/7566ne60

Keywords:

returning, visiting, documentation, collecting, extractivism, landscape, contemporary art practice

Abstract

The case study of returning stones and sticks to the location they were collected from enables an experience of consciously being with a system and, through that, both recognising what that experience is as a dynamic entity, as well as opening space to step out of an experience to simultaneously document it. This text traces two journeys highlighting emergent questions I have for the role of documentation within my own practice; there is no conclusive answer to these questions. Instead a palimpsest emerges where one experience echoes into the next and possibilities towards the planning and influence towards subsequent experiences begins to be framed.

Author Biography

  • Sophie L. O. Durand

    Sophie Durand (b. Boorloo/Perth, AU based in Vilnius, LT) is an artist and researcher. Sophie's multi-disciplinary practice extends from the intersection of sculpture and performance art and draws from anecdotal histories and archives of landscape for subject matter. Currently she is looking at strategies to reposition her artworks within environmental settings and to work more empathetically with ecological systems. This inquiry is approached using a practice historically engaged in memory and archive as a form where encounters set narratives in motion and generate into larger investigations, collections and networks of meaning through a diverse range of methods. Sophie is a current doctoral candidate, tutor and researcher at the Vilnius Academy of Arts, she holds a Masters in Contemporary Art from the Estonian Academy of Arts and a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Hons) from Curtin University. www.sophiedurand.net

Unrealised score for returning stones (Dragonera Beach, Agistri, Greece)

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Published

2025-12-11