Shan Turner-Carroll speaks with Tesha Malott about his exhibition, Bodies on a Rock, shown at Verge in August 2022, his practice and his creative relationship with spiritual reader Nick Foxx. 

 Bodies On A Rock included moving images, sculptures and assemblages developed and made during an artist in residency program in the regional Icelandic town of Seyðisfjörður.

Amongst the mountains, black waterfalls and green skies, Turner-Carroll lived and worked with the experimental art community, LungA School. This experience informed the basis for Bodies on a Rock, that is the examination of nature, the body, and perception of existing colonial visions of land and the blueprints that lay within assumptions of reality. 

In line with Turner-Caroll’s investigation of unearthing tacit knowledge, Bodies on a Rock questioned an inherited understanding and relationship to the non-human world, particularly through the lens of the body.  As viewers navigated and self-edited their experience of the installation, their body became a site of perception and subjectivity–indeed, a landscape of its own.