Thanks for your comment Jo, cyanotype is a photographic process using ammonium citrate and potassium ferricyanide, if I recall correctly (check on Silverprint if want to try it, they have information and also have a ready made chemical). The solution […]
THE SONG, THE MANFREDS AND THE SKYPE Missed my self-imposed update deadline yesterday as the weekend seemed to get somewhat eaten up by all things musical. In my search for a musical arranger for the Rink song, I trawled a […]
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Blog effect Writing and thinking about this blog has given me new energy and a liberating sense of potential. My art practice feels a bit ropey at the moment, so I’m hoping to address that too …soon maybe. But I’m […]
It’s been a while since I last attempted to write in my blog,lots of things have been going on and recently lots of things not going on,which is a little disheartening. Being alone with no access to the facilities I […]
Currently reading: Heather Rogers – Gone Tomorrow: The Hdden Life of Garbage (2005) The New Press, New York Gone Tomorrow takes us on an oddly fascinating tour through the underworld of garbage and brings meaning to all that gets discarded. […]
Heather Rogers’ book Gone Tomorrow: The Hidden Life of Garbage follows up and expands on the short film of the same title she made in 2005: Gone Tomorrow: The Hidden Life of Garbage (2005) 19:13 Synposis: This is a short […]
In the acknowledgements for her book Gone Tomorrow: The Hidden Life of Garbage, Heather Rogers acknowledges Professor David Harvey, Marxist social theorist and Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, “who let […]
Heather Rogers talking about Gone Tomorrow: The Hidden Life of Garbage Interview – Heather Rogers – The Hidden Life of Garbage (2005) 51:16 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1LWWSpl82Q Interview with Ariane Conrad LITTERBUG WORLD: Overproduction, Waste & the Limits of Recycling published on Loud […]
Modernity and Waste, September 2007, Philoctetes Center, New York Roundtable discussion featuring Jennifer Gabrys, William Kupinse, Robin Nagle, Elizabeth Royte, and Susan Strasser. Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQG4sWnbdtY Transcript: http://philoctetes.org/documents/Modernity%20and%20Waste.doc Here are my notes from this talk via youtube: Susan Strasser talks about […]
Since last blog: – have taken down work from Norlington Road Studios – the end of the show was marked by a friendly, relaxed BBQ; huge temptation for the dog with all the yummy lamb sausages around – completed reporting […]
time for super speedy post. Got to be up at 4am as we have tickets for the Olympics. Never really been a sports fan (despite running in London Marthon this year but that is completely different) so bit peeved at […]
I have had the most amazing weekend, I really love working on community projects. Usually I am working alone in my studio with my own thought and my own direction this is when I am at my happiest I must […]
Great meeting with Rosamond yesterday afternoon. We decided on a title for the exhibition: ‘Autography’, relating to notions of automatic writing and drawing as a form of signature. We have been deliberating since the residency began on whether the show […]
We have invited sculptor Desmond Brett to do a residency at the Project Space in August. Stephanie had seen his work when curator Michelle Cotton included him in a show at the then Norwich Gallery. ‘My intention is to use […]
12 days to go until the opening of our exhibition at One Thoresby Street in Nottingham. ‘Thoresby Street Thursdays’ are a series of exhibitions showing the work of artists who have a studio here or used to. Each exhibition features […]
Are we ever happy? Starting to wonder if I have some sort of incurable condition. Finished that damn essay at about 1.30 this afternoon. A great cheer went up. There was dancing and ringing of bells. The coffee machine was […]
Ar pamenate į Meisels? (Part 1) (Do you remember the Meisels – Part 1)