The work contests the division between representation and the live active body. Starkey develops forms that do not follow logical criteria, but are based on subjective associations and formal parallels, which aim to incite the viewer to make new personal […]
Theatre of the Self : Performance, writing and mental health project Books are for sale @£19.95 with a website about the project: www.theatreoftheself.co.uk ‘I would recommend The Theatre of the Self to anyone who has or wants to take […]
I’m now finalising my report on my bursary activity – and it feels quite lop-sided. There are some really positive results and achievements, and some disappointing dead-ends. The positive side is definitely the work of bringing together practitioners involved in […]
The second part of my project is seeking to set my work in new contexts. This involved contacting programmers and curators, especially those engaged with sculpture, to talk about how my one-to-one practice might sit in a museum/gallery context. Producer […]
This is a reflective moment in hindsight over 3 sessions of incremental steps. A kind of swell. In May I had my first mentoring session with Adrian Heathfield. Adrian has a drama background that has informed a move into […]
A peer-led artist development programme working with an art-technologist — consisting of mentoring and training in the use of wearables to create immersive artworks.
Some time after my last post, together with producer Andrew Mitchelson who’s supporting me with this project, I’m slowly working my way through a list of people to approach. We’ve thought quite carefully about which galleries and venues feel right […]
As I haven’t blogged regularly on a-n for ages perhaps an overall introduction to The Lost Library is in order? The Lost Library is a performance in which I change the experience of joining a library into a silent enrolment […]
Later this week I’ll be appearing at SpringBoard – an event run by MainSpring Arts near Brixton in London – an evening of neurodivergent performances. I’m preparing the kit and my costume in readiness. I’m collecting resonant, exciting or important […]
This evening I’m performaing at the Fire & Water Scratch Club with a brand new piece exploring dialogue, discarded materials and words. It’s unscripted and loosely based on the above drawing I made circa 2004 and long been my profile image […]
On May 1st and 2nd 2019 I take part in the next major Fruit Routes event at Loughborough University. I’ve been working on Fruit Routes with artist activist Anne-Marie Culhane who conceived and has led Fruit Routes since it’s inception […]
YEAR 1: Me/Mi MôMo Mu Conceived of the 5 elements, Earth, Air, Fire, Water, Aether; Me = 1st body (neophyte) Mi = phantom body (Boricua counter-colonial living cage of the octochronoplasmantic time-prism) MôMo = Artaudian Hauntologisms (the post-humanoid suicided by […]
I cannot express the benefits of sharing practice and space with artists whose main discipline is different from my own. Taking myself out of the context of the UK to consolidate my own methodologies was needed to further enhance my […]
While excavating for movement, we cannot underestimate the history that lies inside muscles and bones. The heavy breath drawing down our diaphragm, that constant pressure to assimilate leaving thick February fog shape hopelessness in the gravity of ribs. On a […]
What I’ve grown to love about vogue femme is how it is unashamedly bold, fierce, sensual, unapologetic. It allows me to access my femininity in a way that feels less cumbersome. It’s a femininity for me and not for the […]
A week-long residency in New York with choreographer Kristopher Pourzal exploring movement, Queerness, resistance & Race as a context to heal through movement.
I am creating a mobile, moving artwork exploring my childhood journeys from the Midlands to coastal holidays in the South West, the memories, the excitement, the early starts, the car sickness, the model villages and our ever-present and trusty Volvos.
The recent relocation of the Live Art Development Agency to a former Unitarian mission in Bethnal Green heralds a significant new chapter for the organisation, with new commissions, two ‘thinkers in residence’, and a search for local collaborators. Lydia Ashman finds out more from its co-founder and director Lois Keidan.
