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
I have gone through the film and captured sound from moments to create a sound landscape (see orange book pg.50-51) with quotes and relevant sounds of importance (in particular wind, doors, windows, house landing) – intention is to create the film through sound in relation to my research of home – to play through the […]
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 […]
saw this play by Cardboard Citizens based on Cathy Come Home by Ken Loach (50 years ago) Updated version written by Ali Taylor and invited to Cornwall by St Petrocs – homeless charity based in Truro Really inspiring and emotionally charged play exploring homelessness 50 years on original play Forum Theatre format – so […]
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 – […]
discovered book: Psycho Buildings – Brian Dillon, Professor Jane Rendell, Ralph Rugoff, 2008 which has some great work by artists in relationship with architecture including Rachel Whiteread, Mike Nelson, Los Carpinteros what interests me is the correlation between emotion and place – inanimate and animate – I reflect back to Hitchcock and the presence and […]
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, […]