The term ‘home’ derived from Old Norse ‘heima’ – describes a state of being as well as a physical place – linking to the sublime Home is the junction box between our private life and our public State of being – home is the last bastion of the senses – intimacy, comfort, privacy “All evidence […]
reading transcript of Mark Fishers talk, ‘All of this is temporary’ Zacs’ choice of reading and questioning ‘Astroballoons and Personal Bubbles and Mark Fishers, consciousness raising – its an interesting thought as to how an ‘individual’ might deal with such anxieties felt through an increased individualisation reading an extract from New Prophets of Capital by Nicole Aschoff, […]
Chantal Mouffe Art and Democracy: Art as an agnostic intervention in Public Space
Jane Bennett – A Political Ecology of Things Chapter 2 – The Agency of Assemblages
Following on from watching Cathy Come Home play I started to think about how my installations could merge with reflecting upon current housing and social thinking I have contacted Cardboard Citizens and expressed my interest in working with them with the work I am currently exploring I am thinking of using news reports used around […]
I really enjoyed the Joan Jonas exhibition – I hadn’t been aware of her work before I loved the boxes (pictured) where you could sit and watch some of her films – they reminded me what I have tried to achieve when projecting inside a box to view (2nd year show) and also with the […]
researching around the domestic and found writings around the sublime of the domestic ‘sub’ latin meaning – ‘up to’ ‘limen’ meaning – ‘threshold’ or ‘lintel’ – suggesting that the sublime stops or starts at the entrance and/or exit of the home looking at origins of term, language, theory, abstract expression and contemporary art Sublime – […]
Looking again at RAQS Collective Raqs Media Collective founded 1992, in Delhi Raqs Media Collective (Monica Narula, Jeebesh Bagchi & Shuddhabrata Sengupta) follows its self-declared imperative of ‘kinetic contemplation’ to produce a trajectory that is restless in its forms and methods, yet concise with the infra procedures that it invents. The collective makes contemporary art, […]
talking of laboratory way of working as and with ‘mediators’, cross disciplines meaningful way of working is of mobility and change, to collide, to collaborate, to poke thinking of my own work and how I can adapt to this? – invite people to respond to Home and to change the audio allow audience to […]
Relational Aesthetics – Nicolas Bourriaud (1998) Relational form….http://post.thing.net/files/relationalaesthetics.pdf Notes Critical study of forms of the present product of Modernity – 20th century advancement and belief that all could be better exploitation moved – technology and progress broadening of art forms look at Plastic Fantastique – sensual material pg 7/8 – Form of the work different […]