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Dancing for Good (Trust Falls Real Life)
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Artwork in The Art of Protest Exhibition, Elysium Gallery, Swansea, 2019
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Electoral Wellbeing and the Health of Democracy
Due to the pandemic, an exhibition of our work at Public Space One in Iowa City had to be postponed. Scheduled to coincide with the run up to the US Election, we had planned to make illusions and installations that […]
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Dreamers
In December I joined Davin on a residency at Wassaic Project in Wassaic, a small Hamlet upstate in New York. Wassaic Project comprises two sites for studios and project spaces in a disused mill and a disused auction mart, and […]
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Fighting Talk Freedomination Protest Performance
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OBJECT / SUBJECT / COMMODITY : Freedomination Soapbox Protest Performance
Tuesday 6th March, Fighting Talk Exhibition, 35 Chapel Walk, Sheffield by Davin Watne and Dawn Woolley (Performed by Dawn Woolley and volunteer performers) Set up like an unruly debate, the performance will ask: has feminism become a pursuit of freedom […]
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CALL FOR POLITICALLY MINDED PERFORMERS/PARTICIPANTS
Freedomination Soapbox Protest Performance Tuesday 6th March, 35 Chapel Walk, Sheffield Part of the Fighting Talk Exhibition to celebrate international Women’s Day and the Centenary of (some) Women’s Right to Vote by Davin Watne and Dawn Woolley (Performed by Dawn […]
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FREEDOMINATION Manifesto
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FREEDOMINATION
Out of the two designs Davin and I produced during my research trip to Kansas City one was successful. We developed ‘freedomination’ in response to a brief to produce a billboard design that responds to ideas of freedom, set by […]
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Freedomination Soapbox Performance
Participants Needed! Performance Saturday 23rd September at 3pm. Corner of Spring Bank and Freehold Street. We are looking for as many participants as possible, speaking on a wide range of subjects from the size of chocolate bars to fracking and […]
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The Whole is Greater than the Sum of its Parts
Since we initiated our collaboration Davin and I have had numerous Skype conversations about the project and the ideas we’d like it to address, but not what we would produce and how we would do it. We have overlapping interests […]
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Hard Stop: The Myth of Progress and the Rhetoric of Mass Media
I have known Davin and admired his work for a number of years (http://www.davinwatne.com). In 2012 he showed some of my work in ‘Look Attractive’ a group exhibition of international artists at UMKC Gallery in Kansas City. In 2015 he […]