Making Day

We had another Making Day last week. Six out of seven of us made it and a couple were able to work outdoors, so it was a lot of fun. I did some gel plate work and a couple of erasure/extraction poems. I am still just experimenting with the poetry technique and I still mess… Continue reading Making Day

A possible Paper?

I’d like to get some work from this MA before an audience. We talked about conferences, seminars, residencies and abstracts of papers last week at our drop-in with Michele, who gave us good info on this. Next day Anna sent me details https://spaces.oca.ac.uk/wallet6/wp-content/uploads/sites/3554/2023/07/CFP-Writing-Artifacts-Edited-Collection.pdf of a CFP (call for papers) on something relevant for me. “… Continue reading A possible Paper?

Defamiliarisation through compositing

What a title! I was just reading an article, “‘Force yourself to see more flatly’: A photographic investigation of the infra-ordinary” by Joanne Lee in Forsdick, C., Leak, A.N. and Phillips, R. (2019) Georges Perec’s geographies : material, performative and textual spaces. 1st edn. London: UCL Press. Lee consciously takes Perec’s suggestion ‘to see more… Continue reading Defamiliarisation through compositing

Books about Art

Blair, what have you done? Only joking, but you shouldn’t have introduced me to this site! I’m a sucker for books. I have bookcases in 4 rooms and in the attic, and more will certainly come now. Brion Gysin, Identity and myself, oh, and Perec too Gysin I started reading the foreword (by Vincent J.… Continue reading Books about Art

Artists to check

Hayley mentioned these artists that might be relevant to my work, so I’ll be checking them out. Lawrence Wiener, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/lawrence-weiner-7743 Mel Bochner, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/mel-bochner-772 Sean Landers, http://www.seanlanders.net/ Erica Baum, https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/681578 Christopher Wool, http://web.guggenheim.org/exhibitions/wool/ She also mentioned Italo Calvino https://www.britannica.com/biography/Italo-Calvino and Brioyn Gysin. https://www.briongysin.com/ Lisa mentioned Tom Phillips. https://www.tomphillips.co.uk/ Blair gave me Kerri Langsdale, @theartoftimeproject on Instagram.… Continue reading Artists to check