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Performative lecture at Harris Museum and Gallery to an invited audience (and a rogue group of school children) 16th March 2012
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Moving onwards Passing others in close proximity Bells overload the ears Hammering echoing fluttering feathers as pigeons invade Beggars blatant direct eye contact, standing directly in front of you The silence of the bells and then a man starts the […]
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Field Notes. Florence, June 2012 Cool quiet, dimly lit echoes through the space. Footsteps enter, on the verdegree tiled floor. Slow paces, doors and pews creaking under human weight. Deep green grey marble and cool blue white. Hushed tones, behind […]
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Neue Museum, Berlin. Field Notes Single footsteps, radio echos through the arched brick. Group enter with a low hum breaking the contemplative silence. Where one is looking adds to their interest. Photography a currency creating value. Low voices murmur and […]
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Photographs Florence, February, 2012
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Five Conversations. one half of a performative lecture which took place 16 03 12 at the Harris Museum, Preston. Based on field notes from February visit to Florence. 1. Here we are in front of the cast copy of the […]
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mechanical pitch rise and fall, shaping physical shifts mingled with human conversation over-burdening, interfering, resurfacing my visual stimuli getting there | being there | two
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Five Conversations. one half of a performative lecture which took place 16 03 12 at the Harris Museum, Preston. Based on field notes from February visit to Florence. 1. Cool, damp marble. Tracing rusted veins that run along the surface. […]
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never resting dry stones abut edge to edge shifting feet skim the surface audible scuffs, precise steps overlap and envelop me F sound1
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Continued… This year I am able to see who rings those bells. I will always remember glancing over at the doorway to the south sacristy, where a priest stood in a perfectly placed shaft of sunlight, exuberantly pulling the bell […]
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Last month (February 2012) we undertook a research trip to visit cast copies of the Gates in the Berlin Neues Museum and those hung on the Baptistry in Florence. Spaces were connected and compared through the casts, understanding how identical […]
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In November 2010 a research trip took place to the Cast Galleries at London’s V & A. Collaborative Space founders Hannah and Jeni were joined by artist Orly Orbach. After a discussion around Ghiberti’s Gates housed in the museum all […]