Call for Performance Proposals – Precarious Assembly We are looking for artists to participate in Accumulations’ second gathering, titled Precarious Assembly, which is due to take place at the Whitworth Gallery on the evening of 4th August 2016 between 6-9pm. We welcome proposals from artists or groups who are interested in creating or adapting a … [Read more…]
My part in the Accumulations project revolves around the subject of women’s work. There are several simultaneous strands to my research: 1 Contemplating the everyday working / playing lives of my own and others’ great-grandmothers, grandmothers and mothers 2 Contextualizing my own creative work / play in light of the work of my artistic / … [Read more…]
I drove along the I10 freeway each day. On the sat nav system the road name came up as ‘I10 – Rosa Parks’ Freeway’. It took a couple of days before I registered the name and began to wonder precisely why a freeway had been named after Rosa Parks and to ponder the idea of … [Read more…]
The following performance score is designed to inscribe bodies in space and to set up a community. The score was inspired by the construction of a skatepark in Palestine, which I was involved in during September and October 2015. When constructing a skatepark transitions (ramps) are measured out in the space through the construction of … [Read more…]
ACCUMULATIONS – FILM – Untitled [Vagina]. Artists Hannah Buckley and Sarah Hill are collaborating to make a new short film and are looking for volunteers. They want to film women and girls of a variety of ages, backgrounds and cultures reading extracts from Vagina, a book written by Naomi Wolf. Volunteers will be sent an … [Read more…]
‘…feminism has a highly contested relationship to history just as “women’s domestic and familial experience” have tended to be “at odds with the demand for progression, growth, development” within Enlightenment models of temporality.‘ Catriona Moore (Dissonance: Feminism and the Arts, 1994, Allen & Unwin) These are some ‘desire lines’ in my current thinking about feminist … [Read more…]
Neo/N (Uber AlleS) by Nye Ffarrabas (formerly Bici Forbes) In his article titled ‘Freedom? Nothingness? Time? Fluxus and the Laboratory of Ideas’ (2012), Ken Friedman reflects on his involvement with Fluxus, a collective and laboratory for art, architecture, design and music. I’ve always been interested in the event scores produced by Fluxus artists and … [Read more…]