Alien Skills (collaborative drawing, Rhubaba Committee) Rhubaba first approached me in June 2017 with the question of whether I would be interested in working with them on some research in relation to funding received from A-N. The project was […]
Emma Hedditch led two sessions at Rhubaba which introduced the values, beliefs and principles that are the basis for co-operative practice and the potential for their application within artistic practice and organisation. www.rhubaba.org/emma-hedditch 7 feet of particpants, mugs, […]
Louise (The International Institute for Important Items) tells a story about a neolithic site in France – perhaps Brittany – where the stones, similar to these, were used to build a road. Natassa and Tim listen. map reading 54.859239°N […]
Forms of Knowledge, Methods, Committee Members, A-N, Organisations, Art Objects, Relationships, Experimental, Pedagogical, Custartd Tarts (Casa Amiga), Sharpies, Promarkers & Offcuts Preparation WORKSHOP/WORKSHOP/WORKSHOP with Jake Watts Natassa’s gloves, black coffee How Rhubaba functions, or doesn’t function, as […]
family Siobhan and Elspeth listen to Ruth from Eastside Projects discuss the structure of the organisation (we don’t have hugely clearly defined roles) With semi-skimmed milk, hit biscuits, small succulent plant,teaspoons, pantone notebook and posters to learn from and think […]
Resources and References (in no particular order) Anna and Lawrence Halprin – RSVP Cycles, Driftwood Village, Sea Ranch Cooperative Principals Updated – Ann Hoyt https://www.grocer.coop/articles/cooperative-principles-updated Collective Courage: A History of African American Cooperative Economic Thought and Practice http://www.psupress.org/books/titles/978-0-271-06216-7.html Free University […]
News briefing with national and international stories, including: Matt Hancock made culture secretary in cabinet reshuffle, replacing Karen Bradley; tours organised by Christoph Büchel of Trump’s border wall prototypes prove popular; and artists sign letter in support of Lorde’s decision to cancel gig in Israel.
Writing for a-n News in August 2016, Hull-based artist Paul Collinson called on the City of Culture legacy team to “set foot outside their fortress and talk to those who will be left behind to carry on the good work”. Now, after the city’s high-profile year of cultural activity, he looks back over the year and asks, “Where next?”
Just got back from a month in Manilla, NSW Australia. Even the locals were complaining of the heatwave we had. Intended to paint but my brain was frying and the most I could manage was a series of small watercolours. […]
Winter solstice. The shortest day of the year. From here on in days begin to stretch again, light returns. Without the dark there is no light, they say. It was an unremarkable day otherwise, not especially cold or calm, not […]
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Coastal walks remembered in this new painting entitled Black Sea.
I find myself in a rather unusual yet advantageous position of having all of my fragrance based endeavours for the next 12 months secured. The only anomaly to this is ‘Scents of our Time’ – which I’d like to trial […]
I am half way through my PhD first year in the music department at the University of Aberdeen. Over this time I have focused on my thesis topic, re-focused on my thesis topic and changed my topic! I have started […]
I grub about in the dirt searching for something. I know that what I’m looking for is a nugget of something to do with how people relate to each other – always. It might be parents and children (often), it […]
This blog will document the development of my practice and my PhD thesis Traces and What’s Left: Constructing a Communicative Form as an Art Practice as research in the Music Department at the University of Aberdeen.
This week’s selection of recommended shows includes digital photography in Sheffield, Degas in London and a group show celebrating Kate MacGarry’s fifteenth anniversary.
Moving away from research and returning myself to everyday life and my own artistic practice as an artist to focus on my own senses. Blog post (5 of 8) March, 2018 | liechen.com/silentopera
I honestly thought I’d written my last post for the 2017 a-n Professional Development Bursary. But, of course, I was yet to share the fruits of the bursary! So this is really just a postscript and a link. Interestingly we […]
