ABSTRACT
This chapter examines understandings and interpretations of water made possible through arts practice. Examples of the author’s own artworks are introduced, which address types of movement perceived within the sea. Discussions of these works (first drawings and second sculptural objects produced through a process of hacking) explore the connections and changes that these works present and the degree to which these processes are made visible within the works. This develops an account of the artwork as a distributed system of subjective conditions and material infrastructures and processes, which I term the art apparatus. By producing knowledge that isn’t clear-cut, but rather difficult to bound and subject to change, the art apparatus I describe offers a useful way of reconsidering our knowledge of environments such as the sea. Rather than producing clear-cut facts, it is the wave that emerges as a figure within our understanding of material conditions, including within knowledge as a process.
