Studio Rat is an emerging creative practice pursuing experimental installation art and design between the cities of Montréal and Toronto. Studio Rat was founded in 2018 as a site for investigations on plastics, inflatables, and community building between artists Dom Di Libero and Emily Allan. The duo creates inflatable dreamscapes from discarded materials that present a commentary on the irreversible binding of plastic in our environments and everyday experience.
The expansive nature of pneumatics as medium prompts Studio Rat to think speculatively as they explore what new relations can emerge between plastic, craft and art. Looking to plastic as past, present, and future artefact, Studio Rat positions the material as a curious and amorphous conduit for queer ecological theory and broader systems thinking. By quilting and subsequently inflating plastic discards, Studio Rat not only directs our gaze towards plastic, but renders it habitable, expanding possibilities of what plastic is and could be.
The expansive nature of pneumatics as medium prompts Studio Rat to think speculatively as they explore what new relations can emerge between plastic, craft and art. Looking to plastic as past, present, and future artefact, Studio Rat positions the material as a curious and amorphous conduit for queer ecological theory and broader systems thinking. By quilting and subsequently inflating plastic discards, Studio Rat not only directs our gaze towards plastic, but renders it habitable, expanding possibilities of what plastic is and could be.
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