Blog Post
Good testing
On answers. We like and at the same time don’t like answering and getting feedback depending on whether it’s reassuring or unsettling. To answer a question is a moment of confrontation and negotiation, in short: labour. We try to select […]
Blog Post
Keep nodding
While looking into gestures that form part of how we communicate in wider sense of ‘test’ situations my attention circled around nodding. Most commonly, it indicates agreement or acceptance. Even a non-verbal nodding gesture is a sign for acknowledgement. Furthermore, […]
Blog Post
Keep eye contact
Test taking has become a valuable skill. There is endless expertise insisting to best prepare test taker; the most common 5 (most popular 10, top 20, essential 31 etc) interview questions to best prepare for all kind of scenarios, best […]
Blog Post
Untesting
#questions In process. Exploring ways of untesting is for me about blurring the line between the straightforward and counterproductive. There are always questions we find odd, unrelated or predicative of a standard reply. I started taking questions out of their […]
Blog Post
Test taking
Tests, tests, tests. From formal assessments for health, care, school etc. and top of the list work, to personality tests to daily life quizzes – we are being constantly assessed and increasingly fascinated to question-testing ourselves. Institutional tests considered as […]
Blog Post
Manchester
This blog forms part of “Test taking: every, never, none” –a new project and one-day show where I investigate some aspects of being continuously assessed and the fascination of question-testing ourselves. Mainly, I will be looking at questions, responses and […]
Blog Post
Untitled blog post from "DEBRIEFING // Westminster Ref Library"
Humour is essential. I address a range of issues in my practice. The individual and collective, the impact of institutional systems and structures which digs deeper into our everyday and what makes us manoeuvre. Yet when my work is presented […]
Blog Post
Untitled blog post from "DEBRIEFING // Westminster Ref Library"
We perceive text in our everyday mostly through instructions or alerts that make us function in systems or structures, knowingly or unconsciously. Since I started investigating language I made a range of site-specific text-based works. By applying lettering to office, […]
Blog Post
Untitled blog post from "DEBRIEFING // Westminster Ref Library"
Second chapter. Westminster Reference Library. In reverse it started with an opening and performative collective reading. It made me realise how much I have worked on in the first part of my residency (November 2013) including large scale installation photographs, […]
Blog Post
Untitled blog post from "DEBRIEFING // Westminster Ref Library"
Written or spoken text became part of art practices particularly since the conceptualists. Language is used immediate and direct, as a mechanism, narrative, a mirror, statement and critique. Is text a material? Lawrence Weiner once noted, language is the medium […]
Blog Post
Untitled blog post from "DEBRIEFING // Westminster Ref Library"
I manage to read through one or two Business / Management related books each day. My memory stick is packed with hundreds of pages containing one sentence phrases – in need of editing. Mostly it is intuitive to locate what […]
Blog Post
Untitled blog post from "DEBRIEFING // Westminster Ref Library"
I started working with text last year coming with a background of site-specific interventions, performative sculptures and installations. It is a way of opening my practice beyond the physical object (for example my sculptures) or immediate physical response to a […]