Keywords: agriculture, power, land art, trans ecology, midwest
Power Bottom is a public artwork and sculptural installation at Franconia Sculpture Park, in Shafer, MN. A strap-on harness enlarged at 15 times normal scale, this sculpture is constructed from salvaged rubber, steel, and agricultural fencing equipment.
Brown, Eli. Power Bottom. 2022. Agricultural fencing equipment, rubber, vinyl, steel, Lopresti Park, Boston, MA.
Brown, Eli. Power Bottom. 2022. Agricultural fencing equiptment, rubber, vinyl, steel, Franconia Sculpture Park, Fraser, MN. https://www.franconia.org/eli-brown/
About the Artist
Eli Brown is an interdisciplinary artist and farmer whose work in queer ecologies spans sculpture, drawing, writing, social practice, and public art. His practice revolves around learning trans-ness as a lineage which which is not always human. Their research is often into natural history, science fiction, agriculture, and trans theory. Eli's work employs queer symbolism, utopian architecture, and scientific equipment, often in combination with the cultivation of biological materials, to make sculptural installations at various scales. Their projects are often speculating about the current and future state of interspecies relationships, queer and trans reproduction, and collective survival.
Eli's work has been exhibited at the deCordova Museum Biennial, distillery gallery, Flux Factory, and Creative Time X. In 2022, their sculpture installation commissions were on view in Lopresti Park, in Boston, MA and at Franconia Sculpture Park, in Fraser, MN.
Exhibitions and public projects have received press through Sculpture Magazine, CULTURED, WGBH’s Open Studio, and Chronicle 5 News. Within the past two years, Eli has received funding from Collective Futures Fund/The Andy Warhol Foundation, University of Pennsylvania’s Ecotopian Toolkit Project, The Luminary, and New England Foundation for the Arts.
Their writing and work have been published in the UK-based publication, Antennae: The Journal of Nature in Visual Culture, and the upcoming Routledge's Artists and The Practice of Agriculture, the long-running, queer, sex-ed comic, Not Your Mother’s Meatloaf, as well as the self-published, internationally-distributed zine, Transplants.
Eli received an MFA from SMFA at Tufts in 2018. Since then, they have taught courses at Montserrat College of Art, Maine College of Art and Design, and UMass Lowell. They are currently in collaboration with artist Rian Ciela Hammond on the web project, Another Mother: A Database of All Trans Organisms on Earth.
Citation
Brown, Eli. 2024. “Power Bottom.” TSQ*Now, Transgender Studies Quarterly 11, no. 4. http://www.tsqnow.online/post/power-bottom
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