making new speaker boxes with thicker and stronger bases and considering the speakers and usage more effectively have sourced new vinyl and carpet and pipes and building multiple to have available when I know the space I am given played with ways to make easy access to inside of the boxes but it just looked […]
Chantal Mouffe Art and Democracy: Art as an agnostic intervention in Public Space
The image of ‘home’ may represent a longing for a home that can never be, or one that never existed. Perhaps the reality of knowing home, feeling at home, is only ever ephemeral and fleeting. Perhaps ‘home’ is abstract – an unreal place. And the domestic operates as a signifier for absence. Domestic imagery has […]
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 […]
playing with Audacity I have used the vocal of me saying, ‘There there’ and distorted, repeated and layered it into a loop to play through the pipes ‘There there’ is a term of reassurance, a repeated soft response to one who is vulnerable, hurt, distressed and in need of comfort the repetition and distortion take […]
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 […]
setting up in the studio playing with how the sound travels and drawing with the pipes
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 […]