This blog will document Sean's engagement with students in the elective Visual Arts course "Toward a Kinoderm Aesthetics," other activities and initiatives with the UWO and broader London communities while in residence during the fall semester, and progress on work for his exhibition D S NFORMAT ON, to be held January 12-26, 2012 at the ArtLAB Gallery, John Labatt Visual Arts Centre.

Much of Sean's current work emerges from the Department of Biological Flow, his ongoing experimental dialogue of research-creation with Barbara Fornssler. Spanning performance, installation, text, image, poetry and motion capture, their consideration of biological flow develops processes to a state at which they have just ceased to be fragile enough for one's imagination to take over and build upon the framework.

The title Nonsense Lab is a tongue-in-cheek homage to the Sense Lab, a program space for research-creation founded by Erin Manning and Brian Massumi in Montreal. While the focus of Sean's practice often concerns the aesthetics and politics of surveillant optics in urban spaces, he also intends to bring a more multisensory approach to his visual arts residency at Western -- along with generous helpings of humour.