Hours spent painting the Project Space to get it ready for the inaugral event this month. Stephanie seems particularly skilled at decorating and finding uses for pieces of ripped up newspaper. We decided on a stringent yellow for the newly […]
In the time between projects I try to catch up with films I haven’t seen, or books I haven’t read. I’d wanted to catch up with the films of Werner Herzog and saw on dvd his enigmatic Sahara mirage film […]
In 1981 I made a video called ‘when was NOW’. All these years later I am making Version 2 of this video. My concerns were initially with the inherent contradiction of what we regard as the ‘here and now’ – […]
I am not off to a good start – I just realised it 12.45am and I have been reading a-n online for 3 hours and have not planned the school lunches or prepped for my butterfly park meeting in my […]
Headed to the M50 district yesterday – the Art District in Shanghai, near shanghai Railway station. It was onnce an old textile mill but now the complex houses galleries, studios and art spaces. Its a strange mix, some good a […]
ON Saturday night, I showed a new work, called Present Perfect Continuous, in Brighton, UK, as part of the White Night Festival. Present Perfect Continuous is a chat engine – it reworks scype, changing everything you have written into present […]
Note to Matt about how to proceed with Present Perfect Continuous, a chat engine that subverts text into present tense. We showed the work last saturday night at the White Night Festival in Brighton UK. We aim to finish the […]
OK. Plain tickets to Chongqing booked. I will start an Artist in Residency at Organhaus on the 14th of November. We are flying ‘Spring’ Airlines. Lets hope for the best. dear tina i will leave to Germany at 12th,so if […]
Michael Mayhew Response #1 Dear Nicola, I am pleased to inform you that we would like to invite you to engage with us for The Practicalities of Documentation. The aim of this over lapping project is to generate a discourse […]
Don’t you just love it when a plan comes together? And when insomnia is productive? I just couldn’t get to sleep last night, and would have been tossing and turning if it wasn’t for my bad back. So I got […]
Article five part three… Many non dancers are in fact unaware of their bodies, only noticing the living, breathing, constantly cell dividing structure that they inhabit 24 hours a day, when a strong signal of pain, excitement or pleasure is […]
Article five part two…. I know all too well from my own visual arts practice that if left to one’s own devices, it is easy to spend a lot of time saying them same thing and wondering how to get […]
Article five part one… So what does happen when a choreographer is situated in the role of curator? From our discussion I glean that Siobhan put together the collaborators for this series of commissions, in a way was in essence […]
Alexis investigates, article five: A conversation with Siobhan Davies about dance thinking Recently choreographer Siobhan Davies has seemingly turned curator, commissioning four new collaborations between dancers and visual artists, the results of which are being shown in an exhibition titled […]
Thanks Elena I can’t wait to see what I create either! I have some ideas but nothing is certain yet. The call out read ‘This residency is offered to artists who can demonstrate how an intense period of focus may […]
Took part in a 2 day sound workshop – a really good way to learn intensively about making a sound piece – used found sound, some decent digital recorders and edited with GarageBand. I could see immediately how this might […]
Allenheads Contemporary Arts, Allenheads, Northumberland
15 October 2011
Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield
9 April 2011 – 22 January 2012
Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham
22 October 2011 – 8 January 2012
The Ropewalk, Barton upon Humber
29 October – 27 November 2011
