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Saw a video on Instagram of Damien Hirst in his studio with huge paintings around all the walls. Of flowering cherries. They are sensational … remind me of a painting by Van Gogh I saw a long time ago in […]

“There is no true word that is not the same time a praxis. Thus to speak is to transform the world.” “Dialogue is the encounter between men, mediate by the world, in order to name the world. Hence dialogue cannot […]

New charity shop find: An Introduction to Language and Society, Martin Montgomery, Routledge 1986/1995 Transcriptions and Conventions. Pauses: The length of pause is inserted within parentheses to the nearest half second. erm (1.0) Unintelligible speech: Where an interpretation is in […]

I conducted two Flask Conversations today with Mark Longbottom and Andrew Wilson. These were conversations about ‘flasks, art and life’ unstructured and open ended platforms to think and talk with flasks as the central focus and catalyst for conversations. I […]

“Diagramming sentences … teaches nothing beyond the ability to diagram.” Source: https://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2014/08/22/341898975/a-picture-of-language-the-fading-art-of-diagramming-sentences

Following the first workshop on the a-n Writer Development Programme 2019-20, hosted by Coventry Artspace back in November, the writers were tasked with filing a 1,000 word feature on Coventry Biennial. The article needed to include quotes from the biennial’s […]