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24 Oct Cape Manifesto

Posted at 14:18h in Home, MA 2 Studio Practice, Oct '19, Research

Manifesto for performance with multiple capes. BlanketCapeCircumference (Elena)CloakClotheCloudConcealCoverCurtainDisguiseEnshroudEnvelopeEvolve (Brigitte)HideMantleMantletMantellumMaskMetamorphosis (Brigitte)ObscureOrbit (Elena)OverlayPelerinePelissePonchoRefuge (Elena)ScreenSirapeShawlShroudSpiral (Elena)Solace (Elena)StoleSwatheSwirl (Elena)Transform (Brigitte)VeilWhirl (Elena)Wrap Inspired in some ways by Richard Serra's verb list, it is a way of mapping the entanglement and collision that could occur during the mingling of capes and bodies. To...

24 Oct Post Collision – Peer Call 23rd Oct

Posted at 10:30h in Home, MA 2 Studio Practice, Research

These were the observations I made in lieu of the call today with Brigitte and Elena. Where people anthropomorphize objects, are these not projections? Are hoarders people who are sensitive to the agency of matter, or are they a substitute for something else. A sacred space...

23 Oct Matter Making Meaning

Posted at 04:52h in Home, MA 2 Studio Practice, Oct '19

Gathering, Cataloging, making, fusing together, being tethered - cutting cloaked, drape My tutorial was spent discussing the potential outcomes (mostly unknowns) for the November performance with multiple capes, but interaction/intra-action is reliant on having an impactful number of capes.Recording some shots from above, how that viewpoint...

06 Oct Virtual Making Day 5th Oct OCA EU

Posted at 11:45h in Home, MA 2 Studio Practice, Oct '19, Research

Browsing the OCA Weekender E-Bulletin one week I spotting an opportunity to join in on a making day with other OCA students in various art courses based in Europe. So I signed up. Hosted/facilitated by Caroline and conceived/organised by Stefan Schaffeld. Although we, as a...

02 Oct September 30th Being is not a static relationship

Posted at 17:54h in Home, MA 2 Studio Practice, Oct '19, Research

Mind map as cape - fabric, pins and painted circles - made in Mondays session with Hayley Lock This was the one line that has haunted me beautifully since the session on Monday. 'Being is not a static relationship' Notes are packed full of new language, new ingredients...

27 Sep A space for Installation

Posted at 11:47h in Home, MA 2 Studio Practice, Research, Sep '19

Our art collective AAEX works with the local branch of the business development section of the county council to find temporary spaces to host proposed projects. Its rather labour intensive as it requires lots of project management. In this particular project there are 20...

18 Sep Leaving the closet, wearing a cape

Posted at 15:15h in Home, MA 2 Studio Practice, Sep '19

The construction of the cape evolved from year 1 exploratory project. It became a kind of 'home' for the myriad of images, ideas and connections I made during time spent in the labyrinth. The physical stitching a meditation, I regard it as a self portrait...

13 Sep Work about the words

Posted at 20:33h in Home, MA 2 Studio Practice, Sep '19

Words emerging from work, where to put them? Other artists that use words, that seem most relevant to me now (as they doing use a graphic/advertising framing device) - Jenny Holzer, uses the words to focus on a view - one that speaks of power...

29 Aug July spent in the Red Coat

Posted at 21:17h in Home, MA 2 Studio Practice, Sep '19

In a blog post from April '19 I wrote ...

29 Aug Searching the remains for connections

Posted at 19:12h in Home, MA 2 Studio Practice, Sep '19

" I would open my heart and carry it in my hand so that others may know also; for there is no deeper desire than the desire of being revealed. We all want that little light in us to be taken from under the bushel....

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