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The Fourth Wall
I used to blog a lot, blogging was a vital and prolific part of my creative process, as a channel for communicating and reflecting on the ideas and processes that were creating my public work, and began on this site […]
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Following threads and talking through walls
I have been struggling with trying to keep the threads of this project together and moving in one direction – not to mention being able to take the outside eye on everything and blog about it. I was reminded that […]
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Creating intimate narrative space.
“Work. Keep digging your well. Don’t think about getting off from work Water is in there somewhere Submit to a daily practice Your loyalty to that Is a ring on the door Keep knocking and the joy inside Will eventually […]
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Interactivity (2)
As part of my research I have been exploring at a number of interactive projects online that deal with place and identity in some way, create intimacy with the viewer and could be reference points. I found a few through […]
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Interactivity (1)
I was part of the Apps for Artists workshop run by Alex Peckham, the technical lead at Blast Theory, on the second week I was here. It was brilliant, crammed with references, strategies and concrete advice and guidance about taking artistic […]
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Walls as Theatre
‘The walls impose a simplified identity on those who cannot cross them. You are either from here or there. You are either one of us or one of them, the walls allow for no nuance, no mutually agreed apon story. […]
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Where the Wall began
So, to begin. This was a project I didn’t plan on creating. Like my last project Burning the Books (a live touring work exploring debt in it many forms) it takes a central metaphor – the Wall – and attempts […]
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The cost of conflict; trying to understand war and debt
So I realise that I totally left this blog hanging a number of weeks ago. I got totally consumed by two things: a very short turnaround project that arrived suddenly that I could not resist, and the decline and death […]
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Up in the air
It’s over a fortnight since we installed Child’s Play at Imperial War Museum North, and launched The Book of Debts VIII as part of the opening of the Asia Triennial. It was a very intense week but I began […]
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Child’s Play : War Toys
Child’s Play : the material of the work We were installing yesterday at IWMN and the installation is up. The Book of Debts piece is also almost ready, just awaiting lighting. It was a very productive day, thanks to […]
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Untitled blog post from "The Gifts of The Departed"
The smell of saffron, dreams and howls. Diary extracts 27.10.2006: We have been away in Switzerland and France, travelling on trains with Leo and Delia. It was quite a journey, inside and out. On returning home, from sunny southern France […]
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Untitled blog post from "The Gifts of The Departed"
Two years on today..Letter to my Mother (Diary extract Boxing Day, 2006) Boxing Day – the second anniversary of your death. We all met (the Iranian side of the family and Sue, one of your favourite friends of mine) at […]