Good piece on teaching Performance
https://totalartjournal.com/archives/638/some-thoughts-on-teaching-performance-art-in-five-parts/
EAT YOUR WORDS EBCF
It was a nice event- low key but it built up and there were nice interactions. As I said in my insta post; For this piece I invited people to write down words, which I then ate. A cathartic, healing and nicely absurd exchange. Less performative, more conceptual. I was handed all sorts- sad words, secrets, silly messages, quotations, poems, frustrated comments, quizzical thoughts- all [...]
EAT YOUR WORDS- upcoming
So this is really a stake into the ground situation. The ground being where I am at, the topography of the environment of artistic professional possibility- as in the reality of what can be done, created, made happen, by me. The stake is the nowness- a metaphorical pole being thrust downwards claiming my self belief. If I build it, they may not come and thats [...]
Cluttered office whiteboard giving me bad energy
I realised today that my whiteboard needs to be wiped. Not edited, WIPED CLEAN. It's one long messy scrawled list of failures. Open call after funding app after open call application/submission/letter of interest. two more emails of NO THANKS GO AWAY yesterday too. The usual, 'you wouldn't believe how many applications we had- we found your work very interesting BUT' etc etc. I've written about [...]
Alien skin- BBeyond Monthly performance for January
So the BBeyond Monthly performance was on today, online. I joined BBeyond last year in a bid to get more performance experience and to meet more performance artists. I have performed once so far with them live, last October in IMMA for the earth rising festival, and once before that in an online performance, and was featured in an online performance event they ran during [...]
Negative SPACE 2022 works finished.. finally.
It's very important to me to finish what I start, and to deliver what I have promised. Mural Public art wise I want to be known for careful, bold work that is impactful, emotive and skillfull. I do NOT want my name associated with anything less. Making this work has not been easy. My 'collective' is now just me, for the time being anyway. I [...]
Austria- Workshops in St Gilgen International School
While I was in St Gilgen working with Kirsty I made a series of performance art workshops and some power point presentations for the International School she teaches in. I was delighted to do this as I'd originally designed a workshop for kids around my body alphabet, and never got to do these because of.. you've guessed it, Covid... So it was interesting [...]
ReVision PLay Pause Seeing you Seeing Me 2022
First thoughts words to record before I Stop trying, and macbook about to die nerves so bad again I had stomach issues think i went in to mild shock after- felt freezifng cold and shivery was so numbed with terror I willed myself to get the fuck on with it felt old, tired, veiny flabby pushed out the voice of negativity and dud it slipping [...]
How the stoics would have managed rejection. Revision, Interviews and Austria Preps
I've been here before. Its the effort and time you expend making the application/submission/proposal, then the email of No-ness. This one was very good, it said 'I don't have the privilege to work with you this time around' I mean, you've got to put your hands together for that elegant turn of rejective phrase. One must pull up ones socks and remember what the Stoics [...]
BBeyond Earth Rising
Ive been very negligent with my blogging and I miss it. There are a myriad of reasons not worth going into right now as to why this has occurred. Suffice to say I mean to try and get back into it. Last Saturday I went to IMMA to perform with BBeyond, the longstanding Northern Irish Performance art Collective, based out of Belfast. It was their [...]
