This video is partly to celebrate my new felt tips (such good felt tips, and so new) and partly to establish possible camera angles for my live art residency at the Chisenhale Gallery this month.
Next week I’m at a primary school working with thirty eleven-year-olds to write, rehearse, film and soundtrack a video responding to the current Chisenhale exhibition, Janice Kerbel’s KILL THE WORKERS!. Her installation is a play for stage lights; ours will be a play for pens.
I’ve enjoyed how clearly the ideas in the exhibition can be related to my ongoing work. Commissions sometimes risk skewing my work away from the concerns that feel most pressing at the time, but in this case there’s a very close match (GOOD WORK Laura Wilson). Looking at this video alongside the typed video in the preceding post, I can see they share a concern with the immediacy of the page, and the attempt to keep the page simultaneous with the acts of writing and reading. In each case the result is a bit frantic. You can’t keep writing, reading and page lined up with one another: grip hold of one and the others slip.
In other news, I’ve been trying to fix a video camera to my pen nib but I haven’t yet found one small enough. I know they must exist.
