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Soft launch of Echoes of a Market – lots of interesting conversations about the work and the market. Exhibition is up until 18th December, open Tuesdays and Wednesdays 10am-4pm.

https://vimeo.com/377557078 Alice Bradshaw – Echoes (2019) 04:51, looped Echoes is Alice Bradshaw’s latest film featuring coffee and ink drawings overlaid with abstracts of audio interviews conducted at Queensgate Market by Stephanie Pogson. The drawings are a new series of work […]

Sneak preview of my new film Echoes being tested at Parley at Queensgate Market in Huddersfield yesterday. It’s a short, silent film made in response to audio interviews at the market. The film will be premiered alongside works produced by […]

Etymology chart of the English language designed to accompany Clark’s Practical Grammar (1847) “Speech is the body of thought.” Clark’s sentence diagrams (abstracted) Compared to some site visit photos from outside Magic Rock Brewery where I’ll be working on a […]

Aesthetics of Doing: Learning as Social Empowerment Kemi Ilesanmi, Executive Director of The Laundromat Project Pepón Osorio, artist & Laura Carnell Professor of Community Art, Tyler School of Art at Temple University, Philadephia George Emilio Sánchez, performance artist, writer & educator http://www.abladeofgrass.org/events/the-aesthetics-of-doing-learning-as-social-empowerment/   How can […]

ART AS DIALOGUE: TRICIA VAN ECK http://www.indirajohnson.com/uploads/2/5/3/4/25348956/tricia_van_eck.pdf “ART, DIALOGUE, COMMUNITY, ACTION. These are large, messy words. But despite their ambiguities, when they intersect and interact, flames of power ignite. This power is what public art desires: to connect people—in words […]

Making Dialogue Effective, published by The Dialogue Society, London, 2013 Skills in Dialogue: Cultivating Listening and Empathy Part 2 “Facilitators also need the skills to manage the process through a series of balancing acts. Facilitators need to balance safety and […]

Voices of the Bullring Market, TLANG (2015) https://tlang.org.uk/2018/07/19/voices-of-the-bullring-markets/ “Language barrier can be a struggle” “You can get the personal touch [in a market] that you can’t get in a supermarket.” “The language is not that important for us. Understanding is […]

Translanguaging and the Arts: A Creative Conversation A creative arts lab was hosted by the TLANG team to explore communication and multilingualism in city contexts. Working with TLANG data, academics and creative practitioners explored different representations or audio and video […]

Last week I attended a talk at the University of Leeds by Louise Atkinson on her exhibition there. Louise talked about the development of the projects including the role of dialogue in each work. As a socially engaged practitioner, the […]

Socratic Questioning, Christine A Padesky https://padesky.com/newpad/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/socquest.pdf Socratic questioning is akin to critical thinking and reflective inquiry. It’s a framing of (self) directed questions.   Typical ‘good’ Socratic questions may include: Have you ever been in similar circumstances before? What did […]

Vicki and I discussed the upcoming show Echoes of a Market at Parley yesterday and my part will be responding to the collected sound archive through the coffee doodle drawings series. I’m thinking I would like to montage these together […]

I went to the library yesterday and looked at the linguistics section. For a central library it was surprisingly sparse but I got an Elizabeth Bishop and Sylvia Plath book out. Words by Sylvia Plath Axes After whose stroke the […]