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Valuing Reality
Fun & Games
Today was mostly spent with my friend Stav. I love hanging out with Stav; we always have adventures and often end up crying with laughter at one thing or another. Today’s amusement was mostly caused by finding ourselves in a pub with many board games and deciding that in the end we would play Junior […]
Feedback…
Last week saw the Feedback Shed books going into the post for all the artists involved with Magic Hour. Additionally, a small group of us came together to discuss The Fantastical Reality Radio Show, making the whole week feedbacktastic. Feedback Shed book. Working on the book has been a real process of valuing commentary and […]
Nature Art in Reading
Continuing with our Reading: An Open Gallery blog post series, today I want to talk about art experiences that can be had relating to the concept of ‘nature.’ In Reading Museum, there is an incredible room called The Box Room. With an emphasis on touching and handling objects from the past, this installation causes viewers […]
Animal Art in Reading part 2:
Cat and Mouse, performance piece, My House, Reading. In this terrifying performance, the vulnerability of life and the brutality of nature were stunningly evoked. Appearing as if from nowhere the tableau of The Cat playing with a plainly terrified Mouse materialised in my garden like a vision from hell. The place of man in the […]
Animal Art in Reading
Continuing with the theme of Reading: An Open Gallery, I wanted today to look at representations of animals in Reading. Most intriguing was this sign, hanging beside the Rising Sun Arts Centre on Silverstreet, Reading. Beware of the dog, paint, wood, site-specific installation, Silverstreet, Reading, Artist Unknown. The handmade qualities of the sign coupled with […]
Reading: An Open Gallery
I am fascinated by the idea that the context in which we view things changes our relationship to them. Take, for instance, Duchamp’s Fountain or any of the exercises in Roger Pol Droit’s 101 experiments in the philosophy of everyday life. Whether recontextualising a urinal as Art or Becoming Music as a philosophical exercise, a […]
Last minute preparations
I have but one and a half of our delicious squashkins left, for I just grated the other half into a squash/ginger cake for tonight’s workshop attendees. I have also loaded all the wool assembled so far into a very large suitcase. Nobody is going to be short of any desired colour, that’s for sure… […]
Words and Pictures
When I was an undergraduate I did my first printing project using any real consideration of type. The printing involved making tickets for a performance I created called ‘Concert for a closed cinema.’ The concert comprised flute, accordion and voice lamenting the closure of an independant cinema in Dublin, in 3 movements. I based the […]
Mending
I appear to be having some kind of small arthritis flare up. The joints I know for sure have been actively flaring up in the past are very slightly aching but more than that, I’m absolutely shattered. One of the side effects of long-term illness and conditions is that they place an ongoing and difficult […]
Blue
I am knitting with the yarn I dyed myself, making a simple feather and fan scarf according to this pattern, which I found through Ravelry. I love the feather and fan pattern so much; it looks really complicated but is unbelievably easy with a simple 4-row repeat. The resulting fabric has great structure and shows […]
Letterpress Time…
At 3pm today, GMT, I will be on Radio 4’s Questions, Questions, talking about my washing up recordings. That is the BBC Reading flag, photographed at the studios on Tuesday, when I went over there to link up to Radio 4. At the end of this post I have put links to some of the […]
Domestic unbliss / washing up…
You may remember the code I devised for ‘washing up types’ many months ago whilst working on the Fantastical Reality Radio Show with Mundane Appreciation?According to that scale I position myself resolutely as a type C washer-upper; i.e. I dislike doing it, I leave it until it absolutely must be done (i.e. there is nothing […]
Apples and Pea-tatoes
Our apple tree has produced its annual glut of fruit and we have gone crazy making stuff from the fruit. Today we had apple and cider sauce with parsnip mash and duck for tea, and baked an apple harvest cake. Tomorrow, parsnip and apple soup are planned as well as an invented trout and apple […]
Brassica Brassica Cabbage (BBC)
I am working on a short, 10-minute piece for OCM’s BBC Oxford broadcasts about Magic Hour and my work with sounds. It is proving harder than I thought to link the ideas – for example – the work I made for FRRS, with my role in the feedback shed. Thankfully, it should all make sense […]
Learning the ropes…
I won’t bore you with loads of details re: WordPress. Let’s just say I’m learning. What I really want to do now, though, is get all editions of the Fantastical Reality Radio Show up in the podcast player I just installed. Let’s see how this goes…
The textures of Napoli…
A different language is a different reality; what is the language, the world, of stones? What is the language, the world, of birds? Of atoms? Of microbes? Of air? – Jeanette Winterson, Art Objects The images, interviews and sound clips that I collect will sound foreign; it’s noisy here, it’s big, and I think truly […]
Creative Challenges: Bowerbird C.O.N.T.E.S.T.
After reading Oxford Kitchen Yarn’s moving and well-written post on her creative aspirations for the next year, and following the links to Bowerbird’s C.O.N.T.E.S.T., I decided to put togther something here, detailing the creative challenges I want to set myself for between now and this point next year. I decided that, in the spirit of […]
A giant finishing
In this week of finishing things off, The Fantastical Reality Radio Show in association with Mundane Appreciation has officially been completed. You can download all 5 shows as mp3s from our website at www.fantasticalreality.com It has been an amazing project, a collaboration in which I’ve learned hugely. Kayla and Claudia of Mundane Appreciation are an […]
Washing up: What’s your type?
Since today is Messy Tuesday, I thought I’d share the ‘Washing-Up: which type are you?’ key that I just devised for our FRRS Activity Booklet & Evening tomorrow at SLOUNGE, with a partciular emphasis on Type C. But before I explain about the washing-up types and accompanying button badges, I’d better explain about SLOUNGE. Organised […]
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