Saturday 30 July 2011
Thursday 28 July 2011
Presentations and apologies...
If you are trying to update my website, please accept my apologies, as I am currently in the process of updating information and work from China. More recent work are also in the Drawing and Prints and Installations pages on this blog.
My latest post on my a-n 'Redirection and Network Timeout' blog covers my presentations I have given this week on my project. It starts like this:
I have blogger's guilt from not posting for quite a few days. I have been down in London now since Friday evening, for various events and freelance work.
Last Saturday, I gave a talk at Camden Arts Centre as part of the Artists Practice Day, about how I attempt to disseminate my practice, and my recent residency in China. The talk went very well, and we ended up focusing...........
To read this post please go to http://www.a-n.co.uk/artists_talking/projects/single/1266895.
My latest post on my a-n 'Redirection and Network Timeout' blog covers my presentations I have given this week on my project. It starts like this:
I have blogger's guilt from not posting for quite a few days. I have been down in London now since Friday evening, for various events and freelance work.
Last Saturday, I gave a talk at Camden Arts Centre as part of the Artists Practice Day, about how I attempt to disseminate my practice, and my recent residency in China. The talk went very well, and we ended up focusing...........
To read this post please go to http://www.a-n.co.uk/artists_talking/projects/single/1266895.
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| Speed Networking event at INTERFACE conference, UCL, |
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| Map of campus at UCL, London |
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| Entrance building at UCL. |
Wednesday 20 July 2011
New life up north...
The past few days have been filled with preparing presentations for the talks I will be giving next week, looking at flats, looking at studios and following up job leads.
The lightning paper at the INTERFACE conference is very short, so I have put together a short narrative, trying to use my drawings as illustrations to the ideas I am very quickly talking about. I have also been following up the reference that Chris Connery, the signologist I met in China, told me about - the theorist Geert Lovink. I have been reading his PhD paper which he has made available online-some very interesting ideas relating to the politics and the hierarchy of the physical city reflecting the supposed utopian libertarian space of the international internet.
I am also preparing my presentation for the Artists Practice Day at the Camden Arts Centre. The presentation is about how you document and disseminate your practice. I am trying not to make the visuals too much like a lecture, with text, bullet points (or as people say power pointless!)but I think it comes down to feeling my words feeling supported by visuals,thinking visually, and also if someone does not wholly get what your saying, they may get what they are seeing. I have also found some excellent chart making tools in power point. I would like to try and use these in my artwork.
It has been interesting thinking about how I do document and disseminate my practice - and how I can develop these approaches. Most of my dissemination is by the internet, social networking, but my physical face to face dissemination feels a lot more limited to an existing group of people, that does grow but not very quickly.
I decided this afternoon to take a studio at Rouge Studios in Manchester. It is cheap and a big space, and we will hopefully get a flat city centre near Piccadilly so the location is good. It seems like a very occupied block, with some interesting artists, and a few people I have met before are there so it is an exciting step. I am pleased also that I got past the selection committee! I need the space for upcoming exhibitions.
Next steps is a home and more paid work!
The lightning paper at the INTERFACE conference is very short, so I have put together a short narrative, trying to use my drawings as illustrations to the ideas I am very quickly talking about. I have also been following up the reference that Chris Connery, the signologist I met in China, told me about - the theorist Geert Lovink. I have been reading his PhD paper which he has made available online-some very interesting ideas relating to the politics and the hierarchy of the physical city reflecting the supposed utopian libertarian space of the international internet.
I am also preparing my presentation for the Artists Practice Day at the Camden Arts Centre. The presentation is about how you document and disseminate your practice. I am trying not to make the visuals too much like a lecture, with text, bullet points (or as people say power pointless!)but I think it comes down to feeling my words feeling supported by visuals,thinking visually, and also if someone does not wholly get what your saying, they may get what they are seeing. I have also found some excellent chart making tools in power point. I would like to try and use these in my artwork.
It has been interesting thinking about how I do document and disseminate my practice - and how I can develop these approaches. Most of my dissemination is by the internet, social networking, but my physical face to face dissemination feels a lot more limited to an existing group of people, that does grow but not very quickly.
I decided this afternoon to take a studio at Rouge Studios in Manchester. It is cheap and a big space, and we will hopefully get a flat city centre near Piccadilly so the location is good. It seems like a very occupied block, with some interesting artists, and a few people I have met before are there so it is an exciting step. I am pleased also that I got past the selection committee! I need the space for upcoming exhibitions.
Next steps is a home and more paid work!
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| Images from the installation 'Attempts to enter the Forbidden City', 501 Other Space, Chongqing, China |
Friday 15 July 2011
World's been turning..
As ever, while I have been away, the world has been turning. Here are some films of the 1st year Architecture/Art students at the Bartlett, which my friend Lucy Leonard teaches on. Some interesting and ambitious projects and outcomes..
Thursday 14 July 2011
Home again, home again...
I hope that while I have been away in China that you have managed to follow my blog 'Redirection and Network Timeout', which I am very proud to say was 'a-n's most visited blog for June 2011, who would of thought it! To catch up on my past six weeks in the middle kingdom, please click here. As mentioned in the previous post, I couldn't access Blogger in China, as it is one of the sites banned by the PRC.
I have had an excellent time in China by all accounts. YanYan, the director of the 501 Artspace, and all his assistants and friends have been so hospitable and friendly, I feel as if I have made some lovely friends, and hope to return to Chongqing some day. My project went well, and there were several unexpected outcomes on top of those I had planned in my proposal that I managed to achieve.
The residency culminated with an exhibition, 'Redirection and Network Timeout' at the '501 Other Space' (my studio), a very well attended opening, and a talk given by myself. The exhibition ran for 10 days whilst I travelled to Chengdu and Xian, undertaking some sightseeing and some more research into historic architecture and town planning in Xian.
I was very sorry to leave Chongqing, but my experiences and work will inform much of my activities for the next few months in a series of talks and presentations and show at the CHRC, Goldsmiths College. I will also be creating a new map work for a group show at Hatch Space, London in October 2011, with artists Hannah Westwood and Harriet Hill.
Below are some images from the PV in Chongqing, as well as the poster for the exhibition, I will be posting better shots of the works soon so keep your eye out.
With greatest thanks again to Grants for the Arts, Arts Council England and the Chinese Arts Centre, Manchester for making this residency possible.
I have had an excellent time in China by all accounts. YanYan, the director of the 501 Artspace, and all his assistants and friends have been so hospitable and friendly, I feel as if I have made some lovely friends, and hope to return to Chongqing some day. My project went well, and there were several unexpected outcomes on top of those I had planned in my proposal that I managed to achieve.
The residency culminated with an exhibition, 'Redirection and Network Timeout' at the '501 Other Space' (my studio), a very well attended opening, and a talk given by myself. The exhibition ran for 10 days whilst I travelled to Chengdu and Xian, undertaking some sightseeing and some more research into historic architecture and town planning in Xian.
I was very sorry to leave Chongqing, but my experiences and work will inform much of my activities for the next few months in a series of talks and presentations and show at the CHRC, Goldsmiths College. I will also be creating a new map work for a group show at Hatch Space, London in October 2011, with artists Hannah Westwood and Harriet Hill.
Below are some images from the PV in Chongqing, as well as the poster for the exhibition, I will be posting better shots of the works soon so keep your eye out.
With greatest thanks again to Grants for the Arts, Arts Council England and the Chinese Arts Centre, Manchester for making this residency possible.
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| 'Redirection and Network Timeout' exhibition poster |
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| Giving a talk with translation from YanYan and JennBe |
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| Visitors to the PV. |
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| Series of wood block prints on the wall. |
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| One of the 102 Art Loft artists with the installation. |
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| 'Attempts to enter the Forbidden City', Paint, KT board, pen on wall, June 2011 |
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| 'Old habits die hard', Pen and pencil on paper, June 2011 |
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