Carbon-Mercury: Thinking Through Holes

A collaborative online Performance by Becky Sik and Sukaina Kubba for Collective Gallery, Edinburgh. The reading was a creative response to Becky Šik’s exhibition Mercury and the research practices of both Artists. This online event drew upon the theoretical-fiction novel Cyclonopedia by Reza Negarestani, and its idea of ‘plot-holes’ and ‘Hidden Writing’ to weave their shared interests through a public reading. 'More than a mere interdisciplinary investigation, Hidden Writing suggests a politics of contribution to, or participation with, perforated structures… Reading through the plot holes of a story is possible only by devising a line capable of twisting in and out of them.' Cyclonopedia, Reza Negarestani The exhibition and online performance was commissioned by Collective Gallery and supported by Creative Scotland, Baillie Gifford, Esmée Fairbairn, Royal Scottish Academy and The Bothy Project