Amber Ginsburg

I create site-generated projects and social sculptures that insert historical scenarios into present day situations, as well as engage present day histories to imagine alternative futures. My background in craft orient my projects toward the continuities and ruptures in material and social histories. I often work with long-term and ongoing collaborators and together we engage multiple communities and elicit working relationships with experts in political theory, biology, legal scholarship, and speculative fiction. Always interested in history, more recently, I have been drawn to imagined futures, specifically a future that includes human survival.  I work in large-scale sculptural forms that engage a specific site, such as a rapidly changing forest, or a material, like porcelain which beautifully archives history, to train out of habituated patterns, always working towards new policies.