Pivotal moment
The words are so often not available for what I mean so I must be my exploration and do it.
I have encountered barriers to my exploration in embodying text through movement, my own limitations. My adventure has been diverted around a perceived barrier.
I have recently been meeting and talking with many other creatives
a) who are interested in setting up peer mentoring (at the ICA late January),
b) are socially engaged (the Artes Mundi 7 conference in Cardiff)
c) through producing video conversations around their work ART BUBBLE in conversation series.
and d) have an interest in dance practive dancing in the gallery talks at Oriel Davies, Newtown on Friday.
I have had an enormous amount of input and I am again bursting to let it out.
My work is arranged in pockets of interrelated thoughts.
Lost Library – embodying the value of libraries in society through performers moving statistics.
Clydach Gorge project – in progress, early stages. I’m etching in response to the area, but feel my enquiry is leading me elsewhere – responding to a midsummers night dream and Ric Hool’s poem the first cut is the deepest on site through movement. The Shakespeare may need to be set in a cave – challenging, and Ric’s on dug ground on site ideally. The etching, I think this is still a valid media to work with, I just haven’t got natural with it yet.
254 words to 254 mini paintings to taking those paintings on walks and snapping them on a mobile and posting these location shots on Instagram with accompanying narrative texts. #paintingwalk. The ongoing story of each word is unfolding gradually.
Text to physical notion being explored through multiple projects, including developing public talks on the development.
I have been considering many other artists work, in particular Marina Abromavich, due to her attentive ability and how she describes being both in control and going with the flow. The mindset. Fiona Banner’s elements of text set in, for example urban environments and the choreographer Wayne McGregor who works with the royal ballet and has developed a notation system for movements. I’m currently watching his (Virginia) Woolf Studies on YouTube.
