FIELDCLUB

SLUG'O'METRICS - How Many Slugs Maketh the Man?

The gastropod mollusc is a major pest endemic to the warm wet climate of Southwest England. In 2006 FIELDCLUB initiated a practical investigation into the varying effectiveness of different types of slug control in enforcing the boundaries of our re-territorialized niche.

The resulting series of kinetic sculptures employ progressively more complex technologies to perform the same task. The machines exact and simultaneously quantify slug death in the gardens at FIELDCLUB. As each Slug‘o’metric device becomes more accomplished in its use of diverse technologies, the user becomes further removed from the effective action of the device.