116 days.
I looked up this figure today and found it at once exciting, vaguely terrifying, and a comfortingly large number. However I’m very much aware time tends to fly where deadlines are involved
The Project.
Developed as a result of research, interests and the aesthetics of my work (rather than being the starting point). Creating a false archive of photographic images, creative writing/concrete poetry, found/faked artefacts.
John Francis Shade: British filmmaker in the 60s whose final work remained unfinished but created around it a healthy amount of hazy mythology. The project curates and re-presents this archive.
The unmade opus.
Archive of an unmade film.
When does the archive become the art? The myth makes the work.
Clues to a demise, an uncertain narrative.
Absenting the artist self.
The work.
Photography (film, b&w), found object (specifically image and text), text (in gallery and other settings), installation and textile.
Influences
W G Sebald, Tacita Dean, Mike Nelson, Vladamir Nabokov, Tris Vonna Mitchell, Roland Barthes, Susan Stewart, Sue Tompkins, Hanne Darboven.
