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WTF Trial

I got to trial a version of Working Through Feelings over the weekend, on Saturday morning. I have wasted the last hour this morning trying to upload a video I edited last night of the performance. Fucks sake! I just tried deleting loads of stuff off my phone (after finally managing to get Airdrop to work again) to make enough space to save the video [...]

2020-09-21T10:18:04+00:00September 21st, 2020|Categories: Uncategorized|

E&B: strong women- research

Made some drawings thinking about how strength is SEEN and how its expressed in women. Some people who symbolise strength. This is just me visualizing my thoughts right now.. The first image is Joan Of Arc, as illustrated in a propaganda poster from WW1, to inspire US Women to buy food stamps apparently. Interesting that they used a teenage girl who was burned at the [...]

2020-09-18T09:54:33+00:00September 18th, 2020|Categories: Uncategorized|

one obsession for another

Thinking about the use of strength. sat here in the studio with strong, beginning of period period pains, shoulders and body achey from this morning's training. I'm interested in how necessary that feeling, physical tiredness and muscular ache, equals redemptive qualities, a box to tick that allows the mind to calm and clear, and focus on other stuff. My mind gnaws and worries on the [...]

2020-09-18T08:55:08+00:00September 18th, 2020|Categories: Uncategorized|

Getting Strong. Again

I say 'Again' as I operate in this perpetual belief that I used to be stronger than I am now. Given that this is true, as I used to spend significantly more time lifting weights and kettlebell training (as I competed in kettlebell sport) than I do now. I also used to teach up to 7/8 classes a day, each of which operated as a [...]

2020-09-08T09:35:19+00:00September 8th, 2020|Categories: Uncategorized|

ReSet

OK. Kids went to school this morning. First time in 6 months I've been on my own in house. Hard to digest. I want to drink coffee and look at clothes websites. HOWEVER. Thinking about last 5 tasks for INTBR series. First- to review what tasks Ive already done: Tasks 1-5: Strength training tasks used as a tool to maintain strength and to manage anxiety. . Site: [...]

2020-09-01T10:51:18+00:00September 1st, 2020|Categories: Uncategorized|

upcoming perhaps

1: For definite: there is our group show happening in Linz, Austria- with KIRSTY LAMONT + R. MacMANUS, BB KLARE, M. TOLLIN, J. WHITBREAD It is Opening: Mon. October 5, 7 p.m.Exhibition duration: October 6 - 28, 2020 Long Night of Museums: Saturday October 3rd To do for this: finish 5 more tasks and collate into one piece of film for Kirsty. Plan a scheduled [...]

2020-08-24T06:25:49+00:00August 24th, 2020|Categories: Uncategorized|

Digital Drawing Collaborative Project- Finished. Kind of.

How to treat all this work? I asked artists and creative friends to contribute to this project. In total 21 artists collaborated, which is pretty fabulous. Some of them sent multiple responses which were very different, so in total I had about 30 collaborative responses. It was a great way to objectify my physical self, in an abstract way and address all the issues I [...]

2020-08-05T08:15:41+00:00August 5th, 2020|Categories: Uncategorized|

links from online essay History of Internet Art

https://anthology.rhizome.org/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexei_Shulgin http://www.teleportacia.org/war/ https://entry.j-mediaarts.jp/en/submissions/943/complete https://frieze.com/article/meme-accounts-upending-art-worlds-class-system links from a switch lecture on the history of internet art. unfortunately for the guy who was lecturing the best thing about this was the chat box, by far

2020-07-28T09:15:59+00:00July 28th, 2020|Categories: Uncategorized|

Digital Drawing Collaborative Project- So far

This had started the last time I posted. As in; I had received some works back but I am not sure if I had started posting them to insta. here is what I have chosen to post so far: I have been posting the images I have been sent to instagram, not that that is the final destination as such for the work but to [...]

2020-07-22T22:32:01+00:00July 22nd, 2020|Categories: Uncategorized|

Income streams, funding and other stressful matters

I am sat here reviewing the guidelines for applying for a visual arts bursary with the arts council. It is almost humorous how the very act of reading the guidelines gives me acute imposter syndrome. I then read over the feedback I got from the recent Covid 19 award application, which was just scores, and the feedback for the first round of the bursary awards, [...]

2020-07-14T15:03:28+00:00July 14th, 2020|Categories: Uncategorized|
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