Currently reading: Gillian Whiteley – JUNK: Art and the Politics of Trash (Part 3) Chapter 2: The Cultural Life of Detritus: From Objet Trouvé to the Art of Assemblage Arjun Appadurei et al’s The Social Life of Things: Commodities in […]
Currently reading: Gillian Whiteley – JUNK: Art and the Politics of Trash (Part 4) Chapter 4: The Comedy of Waste: A Load of British Rubbish Counterworlds and Mirth – The term counterworlds comes from Roland Barthes’ Redeeming Laughter (p.207); an […]
Currently reading: Gillian Whiteley – JUNK: Art and the Politics of Trash (Part 5) Chapter 5: Accumulations, Panoplies and le Quotidien In the chapter section French Practice and the Transfigurations of Everyday Mess (p.104), Whiteley quotes Michael de Certeau from […]
Currently reading: Gillian Whiteley – JUNK: Art and the Politics of Trash (Part 6) Afterword: Digital Ordure, leftovers and leavings “The politics of junk is complex and contested: it is tied up with social and cultural histories and with economies […]
DIG DEEP FOR VICTORY As I’m considering the pros and cons of what it is to ‘construct’ history, so looking at how it’s been considered by others is both interesting and a little distracting. I’m not sure if I really […]
Well l seem to have a small following on YouTube so have made a snippet on there as baby me, the starty of my journy so to speak. I do hope to make more movies as l progress on with […]
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
15 September 2012 to 6 January 2013
Embrace Arts, RA Centre, Leicester
14 October 2012
Pangolin. Kings Place, London
17 – 27 October 2012
Kings Place Gallery, London
17 – 28 October 2012
I fermented my thoughts overnight- went to bed with thoughts of an investigation into physical/mental collapse in durational activity. Which happens first? The mental collapse from being controlled or the physical collapse from being driven physically? Woke up certain I […]
Found this artist Ergin Cavusoglu with multi-screen video installation with an array of screens designed to allow the viewer to ‘walk into the picture created Point of Departure, 2005. This concept is something l would like to try with my […]
112% funded, as promised my Kickstarter backers rollcall, plus others thanks. The Kickstarter campaign is now finished and has been fantastically successful, coming in at 112%!! It has been a great time: revealing, surprising and seems also to have become […]
You only need one unicorn to prove their existence Autism Research Centre and Train to Portsmouth. October 26th : wake struggling fast in the gloom –fear stimulates deep inside – headphone on snooze till hungry – bath legs bent – […]
The programme for Derry~Londonderry 2013, the UK’s first City of Culture, has been announced.
Video of the artists Ellie Harrison and Jordan McKenzie in conversation, with insights into surviving financially, alternative ways of doing things and using humour to engage people.
