The Health Benefits of Eating Silica -

Working in sculptural installation and specifically linking together their use of ceramics, Gault and Miller presented this one-off event that connected, debated and expanded both their practices including sculptural installation, performance and film.

The works examined the term 'terroir' (normally used to describe qualities within a wine such as time, place, altitude or environment) and the term 'qualia' (an attempt to define the non-chemical essence or experience of objects/materials). These abstract, less tangible qualities are said to be held or present within matter, and directly informs the artists' interests in the capacity for an object to have its own embodied knowledge. These concepts and terms are examined in relation to the artists' sculptural and performative practices. The event included sculptural installation, performances and film.