Paintings and Sculpture
For the last few years I have been working with an idea that while paintings can relay a subject matter through an image, they are also bodies that have an influence on the bodies around them. In this sense I…
Interruption and invention
We have a limited ability to sense or know the total variation of the complex processes between the bodies and forces that comprise the world. There is a certain opaqueness in the way we sense the variation which occurs in…
Artistic production and place making
Aspects of my methodological position are informed by ideas within the discourse which arises in the conjunction of art and research. There is currently much theorisation relating to art making, thinking processes, affect, and how artists work with concepts and…
Catalogue: Movement and its limitation within an environment
Movement and its limitation within an environment is a visual-spatial presentation which responds to the vibrancy of partaking in an assemblage, and to the ambivalence of living in a borderland. The movement of the city, and broader urban-rural relationships, viewed as an assemblage,…
Reading the Zine Image
The zines from the Sex Worker Zine Project are powerful visual and narrative accounts of personal struggles and successes, everyday realities, beliefs, hopes and dreams. These visual stories are crafted around aspects of participants’ lives that they wanted a public…
The workshop as an ephemeral assemblage
An important undercurrent in the arts-based research projects that I have been involved in has been the relationships that form within a workshop space, and the project’s relationship with other assemblages. In this blog post I will look at ideas…
Understanding stories as relational: the human and the non-human
People's anecdotes, greetings, excuses, lies, jokes, invitations and questions certainly did captivate much of my attention, but so did the stories and narratives visible in gestures, clothing, jewellery and cars, and also buildings, shops, stalls, restaurants and streets. Together, these…