Morna McDermott McNulty
The Museum of Posthuman Haunting
Artist Statement
This work is housed as a web-based platform. It includes a photographic curation of “hauntology” (Derrida, 1993); a site of memory and possibility. Images/words evoke a “monstrous theory” (McDermott, 2019) in a world haunted by monsters and ghosts of the future; of that which is “absent,” and that which remains. Museum viewers consider what it means to “exist” (or not) in the intersection of: post-humanism, global capitalism (Haiven, 2020) and plague (Covid19). Here are abandoned places (haunting of the past), collaged with word/art (haunting of the future) and woven together into the ghosts, bones, undead memories, and haunting of the once-human of our historical moment.
This work is housed as a web-based platform. It includes a photographic curation of “hauntology” (Derrida, 1993); a site of memory and possibility. Images/words evoke a “monstrous theory” (McDermott, 2019) in a world haunted by monsters and ghosts of the future; of that which is “absent,” and that which remains. Museum viewers consider what it means to “exist” (or not) in the intersection of: post-humanism, global capitalism (Haiven, 2020) and plague (Covid19). Here are abandoned places (haunting of the past), collaged with word/art (haunting of the future) and woven together into the ghosts, bones, undead memories, and haunting of the once-human of our historical moment.
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Morna McDermott McNulty Towson University Morna McDermott McNulty is an artist, writer and educator. She is a professor in the College of Education at Towson University, as well as an author (Blood’s Will -- a vampire novel, 2018), and film producer (Voices of Baltimore: Life Under Segregation, 2017). Morna has been working in, and with, arts-integration for public education for over 20 years. She received her PhD, focused on arts-based research, from the University of Virginia in 2001.Some of her photographs have been published in various academic journals including The Journal of Curriculum Theorizing and The Currere Exchange. |
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