Vulgar Errors residency in progress
My residency at the Queen of Hungary Project Space is getting closer. I am really looking forward to this and also starting to worry…what am I going to do? How does my work actually relate to Thomas Browne? Will it make sense to anyone? What about the practicalities of working somewhere different for a week, what tools and materials do I need to take?
Of course they are not really big worries, they are exciting questions. The great thing about doing a residency in a project space is that allows time and space for experiment. I have been collecting fragments of text from Thomas Browne and newspaper headlines; some of them are starting to coalesce into little (possibly meaningful) groupings. They initially started out quite separate but now the two are talking to one another which is exciting but a little bit unknown. I am beginning to form visual and design ideas about how I might display the texts in the project space.
Unusually I will be doing a talk with Hugh Aldersey-Williams at the start of my week, rather than once I have been making work in the project space (this to do with practical reasons of the timing of the Aylesham festival). So I think I am going to turn up with some print outs of some of the texts I have been collecting and a couple of short video sketches. Then I will spend the week exploring how to display the text pieces in the project space and also developing making some more video works. I am going to hold a drop in open studio on my final day in residence Wednesday 29th May from 2-6.30pm.
Amelia Crouch
