Seamus Slattery

Seamus Slattery is a multimedia artist who produces time-based and textual work. He uses his work as a light source while excavating the rich interior worlds that emerge from queer identity. He wants to create force fields that give catharsis a home.

Title of Capstone Project

O EARTH

Description of Capstone Project

O EARTH is a video piece that reflects on how nature is a space through which queerness and identity are both complicated and find refuge. Using the tactic of critical fabulation to reach for an affective approach of world-building, autobiographical footage is disrupted through editing and special effects to become terrains through which queer disidentity can be felt. O EARTH uses queerness as a field to weave together discourses of ecocriticism, poetics, and memory―but above all else, this piece asks its audience to say goodbye to all that and feel it instead.

What Inspired Your Project?

What inspired my project was a magnetic pull to reconcile the poetic connection I felt with nature, and parsing out the ways I felt this complicated my own identity as much as it provided a haven and escape for it. The video is my attempt to lay myself bare, and flail always toward honesty and radical joy through queer visibility.