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barren 26.11.13 Monkeys Fists Project Linearity underscores the workshop I am to embark on at Aberdeen University with an anthropological research group ‘The Knowing Project’. Exploring projects on our knowing of materiality we are looking at being with material rather […]
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barren 25.11.13 between here and there So, here in Aberdeen, there are long stretches of beach either side, much granite and it is easy to romanticise the wanderer. It is harder to imagine the types of challenges of wandering when […]
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Monkey’s Fist By throwing the monkey’s fist it creates a liminal space through drawing and movement established with spatial ideas concerning sculpture, installation and performance and ultimately deals with low key aspects of contemporary art which end up as curtailed […]
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Monkey’s Fist The throw has a start, it lands, it has an end but the space between, its momentum and arc is a liminal space. My shift is that in the sublime aspect of landscape voyeurism we use borders as […]
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Monkey’s Fist In my fist a palm sized monkey’s fist, paw, claw gifted on a doorstep by Adam Cluely playful artist, manipulator of events and occupier of traversing territories. My task – a report which I am appropriating to the […]
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barren day 19 Scores and Inventories Three scores or more Two lemon sole and One Flapping sole One pallet for mammon Nine dancers drumming presentations into One head One can perhaps see that this beginning of an inventory mimics Perec […]
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barren day 17 Absurdity at 11am with Kippers So the image of Icarus falling preys on images here, subtly, not as a myth making device but similar to other artists giving it meaning via failure, ineptitude, foolishness and folly. I […]
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barren day 16 White plastic eraser Rauschenberg acquired a Willem de Kooning drawing and erased it see whether a drawing could be produced from entirely erasing and removing marks rather than adding them. The act of labour and production was […]
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barren 15 Open drawing As we were making box kites the use of thread to wind and strengthen joins revealed a structure that we are reluctant to now clad. The open structures are reminiscent of Sol Lewitts open structures sculptural […]
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barren day 12 Virtual occupation Coming up to a conference I am dealing with the idea that our consumption to enjoy and developments of lifestyles mean urban sprawling and abandoned spaces are not occupied sufficiently to prevent the encroachment upon […]
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barren day 11 Monkey’s wrench The Gallery is quiet except for steady dripping and some trickles loitering in the drains. Thunder and lightning has broken and it’s pretty loud on this broken roof and dirty skylights. I was thinking of […]
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barren day 10 Indifference to forgery To bring together components is described as assembly; rigid elements that lead to some articulation. (Ingold.T; 2012) They can be criticised for being negative, the enemy of conjuring a ‘sense of’ and arresting feeling. […]