Damp Bodies: Fluid Ground

'Damp Bodies: Fluid Ground' is a commissioned chapter that responds to the artist Avril Corroon's, 'GOT DAMP' project through the lens of Cooke's fluid ground research. It takes the three most common types of damp found in properties as its cardinal directions and organises the text in accordance with them: Rising Damp, Condensation Damp, and Penetrating Damp. We are invited to stay with the trouble of this wet terrain, as opposed to falling back into using coordinates that make humans think that we can control the planet (North, South, East, and West). We are not aiming to be Promethean meaning-makers (readers and writers) that set our desires and planetary score by our closeness to the sun (Heavens), and existing technologies (such as the fire Prometheus steals from the Gods), but instead find ourselves in Avril Corroon’s watery composition, which, similarly to the planet, we cannot transcend.