Friday 20 November 2009

sideways in reverse....an adjunct

The 'artefact' I chose for this project was an assembled suit of samurai armour from the British Museum.
Late 16th Century (cuirass and sleeves), 17th Century (helmet), 18-19th Century (remainder)

from http://www.britishmuseum.org/explore/highlights/highlight_objects/asia/s/set_of_armour.aspx




A Fork in the River

Diversionary tactics.

An effort to expand our horizons and pallette, and remove ourselves from our supposed 'comfort zones'.

brief: IMAGE, AUTHENTICITY AND PERFORMANCE

AS ABOVE, SO BELOW (PROJECT WITHIN A PROJECT)

a saying attributed to polymath, 20th century socialite, latter day alchemist Aleister Crowley and a mantra favoured by the occultists whereby the micro and macro cosmos are seen as the same during the alchemical transformation: " that which is above is the same as that which is below"

Bearing this in mind, you are asked to go to the national gallery/ british museum et al, choose a painting, sculpture, objet d'arte etc and add it as if defining a performative artefact of your very own.
You are to take the paiting/artwork you find but you are not to reproduce it in presenting your artefact. You can add to, remove and replace- you are to create an intervention that describes interests carried through your work so so far as well as 'performance, identity and image'.

vestigial anatomies.....sketches







Monday 16 November 2009

ghosts mk II........nascent anatomies





excavation

Chthonic (from Greek χθόνιος — chthonios, "in, under, or beneath the earth", from χθών — chthōn "earth"[1]; pertaining to the Earth; earthy; subterranean) designates, or pertains to, deities or spirits of the underworld, especially in relation to Greek religion.


Greek khthon is one of several words for "earth"; it typically refers to the interior of the soil, rather than the living surface of the land (as Gaia or Ge does) or the land as territory (as khora (χώρα) does). It evokes at once abundance and the grave.


ghosts of air street


Sunday 15 November 2009

corporeality dissolved......dissolution and distortions







'No Maps for These Territories' (Gibson)

can⋅ti⋅cle 
[kan-ti-kuhl]
–noun
1.
one of the nonmetrical hymns or chants, chiefly from the Bible, used in church services.
2.
a song, poem, or hymn esp. of praise.


nine canticles will set the tone for my upcoming investigations. Intentionally ambiguous and tenebrous, they serve merely as beacons in as yet uncharted territories.

_Vagrant Anatomies

_Vestigial Bodies

_Vicarious Prosthesis

_The Visceral and The Visible

_The Invisible and the Indeterminable

_Res Extensa

_Liminal Embodiment

_Techno-Excressence

_Networked Technologies of Nascent Theatres

Saturday 7 November 2009

Sunday 1 November 2009

Air Street

Air Street I, photograph & pencil
Air Street II, photograph & pencil
Air Street III, photograph & pencil