Tuesday 9 November 2010
Monday 8 November 2010
Continuum Screenings - Denver, USA & Birmingham, UK
Continuum will be scrrening as part of the short films program at the IMERSA Fulldome Summit, Denver, US. There will also be a screening event at Thinktank Planetarium, Birmingham Science Museum.
Saturday 30 October 2010
The Odd Shoes
I packed in a hurry. I didn't realise that the shoes I packed for my performance didn't match. They were both black shoes, work shoes, formal shoes, shoes I don't wear very often. I wore them anyway, no one would notice? I noticed the heals were slightly different heights, the leather on one of the shoes was softer than the other, one was more pointed - they both got scuffed during the performance.
Thursday 28 October 2010
The Red Carpet - images from Response, Landguard Fort, Felixstowe
The performance took place as part of a 3-day event at Landguard Fort in Felixstowe called Response, curated by Helen Lydia Green and Michael Lumb for GRIP. The Fort was an amazing setting, full of hidden corners and corridors, holes and history - standing strong against industrial backdrop of Felixstowe Port.
The performance involved working with costume designer Jo Brossman to create an exaggerated red cape which measured 2600 cm x 120 cm. With this cape concertinaed on my back I bowed before the audience at the opening to one of the long, narrow lamp corridors in the fort. The end of the cape was moved over my head and placed at the feet of the audience. I moved slowly backward along the narrow space, unfolding, covering and revealing - filling the space with a river of red. I heard voices - is there someone under there?
The performance involved working with costume designer Jo Brossman to create an exaggerated red cape which measured 2600 cm x 120 cm. With this cape concertinaed on my back I bowed before the audience at the opening to one of the long, narrow lamp corridors in the fort. The end of the cape was moved over my head and placed at the feet of the audience. I moved slowly backward along the narrow space, unfolding, covering and revealing - filling the space with a river of red. I heard voices - is there someone under there?
images, Emma Johnson
images, Karen
Wednesday 20 October 2010
Preparation for The Red Carpet
Costume test for The Red Carpet performance at Response using the red cape/red carpet made by Jo Brossman.
Saturday 16 October 2010
Thursday 14 October 2010
Wednesday 29 September 2010
Travelling to America
I received a positive decision on an Arts Council bid to research venues and develop work from the Mutations project for touring. I am really excited about this opportunity, which will involve a visit to the USA to promote Continuum at ArtPrize in Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA.
Leaving today!
Leaving today!
Tuesday 21 September 2010
Wednesday 15 September 2010
Monday 13 September 2010
Saturday 11 September 2010
Factory Night @ Dove Marine Laboratory
I have been selected to take part in Rednile's next Factory Night event, more details below.
For details of previous Factory Nights click here.
Call for All Creative’s and Scientists: Factory Night @ Dove Marine Laboratory
WHEN: Thursday 16th September 2010, 6pm-9pm
Factory Nights at Dove Marine will be an inspiring working sessions that brings together scientists and artists. The artists will be from a variety of disciplines, including visual artists, photographers, writers, poets, musicians, and filmmakers. Scientists from any field are welcome.
NEW commissions/NEW collaborations for Factory Nights 2009-2010:
Artists and Scientists that attend the Dove Marine Lab Factory Night will have the opportunity to submit a brief proposal to rednile for help with the development of a new idea or initiation of a new collaboration which has been inspired by the session or with another guest on the night.
This commission opportunity is part of North Tyneside's Year of the Arts 2010-11 and will be linked to the Winslow Homer centenary events taking place around Cullercoats dramatic coast that was inspiration for his much loved paintings.
rednile are commissioning a series of writers to respond to this new concept of collaboration and initiating projects which will result in a research publication. Anyone attending the Factory Nights could be selected to feature in this publication.
Format of the Night:
12 artists from a variety of disciplines with a specialism or interest in science will be invited through rednile. 12 scientists with an interest in expanding their research or collaborating with an artist will be invited through Dove Marine Lab.
The group will spend only one night together in the Marine lab for approximately 2-3 hours in a relaxed and informal setting. All attendees will bring along a project or piece of research they have been working on. This is not to do a presentation but rather to use as a starting point when meeting other guests and to use as inspiration for possible collaborations.
PLACES ARE LIMITED TO 12, ARTISTS WISHING TO ATTEND ARE INVITED TO EMAIL INFO@REDNILE.ORG WITH:
• 200 Words on their current practice including what they would like to present to the group and what you hope to get out of the night
• List of 3 relevant Commissions/residencies/funding received
• Attach 3 pieces/images of recent relevant artworks at low resolution /or links to video or sound works
DEADLINE FRIDAY 3RD SEPTEMBER 5PM SUCCESSFUL ARTISTS WILL BE NOTIFIED BY TUESDAY 7TH SEPTEMBER
Background Information:
For over one hundred years the Dove Marine Laboratory has played a pivotal role in contributing to our understanding of fisheries science, marine organismal biology, ecology, and of human impacts on our oceans. Marine science is a research area of global importance in the 21st century, with issues such as climate change, biodiversity and habitat loss, ocean acidification and marine species invasions challenging our expertise and capabilities, and the Dove continues to contribute both nationally and internationally to these endeavours. Marine science is also furthering biotechnological and pharmaceutical competence through the development of novel techniques and new drugs. It opens up the possibility of providing protein for global human populations through sustainable aquaculture technologies. Our oceans and seas are clearly a new ‘frontier’ in which sustainable development in this age of critical population growth must be addressed. Since 2002 the Dove Marine Laboratory has been located within Newcastle Universities School of Marine Science and Technology, the broadest-based marine school in Europe. Fields embraced by the School include engineering, biology, naval architecture, coastal management, environmental sustainability and small craft technology. The strength of the School lies in bringing together the expertise from such diverse disciplines in exciting research and educational programmes.
This Factory Night follows on from the successful collaboration with Dove by artist Cath Keay. During her research at Dove, Cath made a series of text-based terracotta sculptures that were submerged to be colonised by marine organisms. Cath will be attending the Factory Night and co-hosting the tour element.
MAP AND DIRECTIONS: University of Newcastle Upon Tyne: Dove Marine Laboratory, Cullercoats, North Shields, Tyne and Wear NE30 4PZ
Refreshments and sketch/note books will be provided.
Funded and supported by:
The Dove Factory Night is funded by North Tyneside Council as part of North Tyneside's Year of the Arts 2010-11. Other Factory Night Funders include: Arts Council England and Northern Rock Foundation
For details of previous Factory Nights click here.
Call for All Creative’s and Scientists: Factory Night @ Dove Marine Laboratory
WHEN: Thursday 16th September 2010, 6pm-9pm
Factory Nights at Dove Marine will be an inspiring working sessions that brings together scientists and artists. The artists will be from a variety of disciplines, including visual artists, photographers, writers, poets, musicians, and filmmakers. Scientists from any field are welcome.
NEW commissions/NEW collaborations for Factory Nights 2009-2010:
Artists and Scientists that attend the Dove Marine Lab Factory Night will have the opportunity to submit a brief proposal to rednile for help with the development of a new idea or initiation of a new collaboration which has been inspired by the session or with another guest on the night.
This commission opportunity is part of North Tyneside's Year of the Arts 2010-11 and will be linked to the Winslow Homer centenary events taking place around Cullercoats dramatic coast that was inspiration for his much loved paintings.
rednile are commissioning a series of writers to respond to this new concept of collaboration and initiating projects which will result in a research publication. Anyone attending the Factory Nights could be selected to feature in this publication.
Format of the Night:
12 artists from a variety of disciplines with a specialism or interest in science will be invited through rednile. 12 scientists with an interest in expanding their research or collaborating with an artist will be invited through Dove Marine Lab.
The group will spend only one night together in the Marine lab for approximately 2-3 hours in a relaxed and informal setting. All attendees will bring along a project or piece of research they have been working on. This is not to do a presentation but rather to use as a starting point when meeting other guests and to use as inspiration for possible collaborations.
PLACES ARE LIMITED TO 12, ARTISTS WISHING TO ATTEND ARE INVITED TO EMAIL INFO@REDNILE.ORG WITH:
• 200 Words on their current practice including what they would like to present to the group and what you hope to get out of the night
• List of 3 relevant Commissions/residencies/funding received
• Attach 3 pieces/images of recent relevant artworks at low resolution /or links to video or sound works
DEADLINE FRIDAY 3RD SEPTEMBER 5PM SUCCESSFUL ARTISTS WILL BE NOTIFIED BY TUESDAY 7TH SEPTEMBER
Background Information:
For over one hundred years the Dove Marine Laboratory has played a pivotal role in contributing to our understanding of fisheries science, marine organismal biology, ecology, and of human impacts on our oceans. Marine science is a research area of global importance in the 21st century, with issues such as climate change, biodiversity and habitat loss, ocean acidification and marine species invasions challenging our expertise and capabilities, and the Dove continues to contribute both nationally and internationally to these endeavours. Marine science is also furthering biotechnological and pharmaceutical competence through the development of novel techniques and new drugs. It opens up the possibility of providing protein for global human populations through sustainable aquaculture technologies. Our oceans and seas are clearly a new ‘frontier’ in which sustainable development in this age of critical population growth must be addressed. Since 2002 the Dove Marine Laboratory has been located within Newcastle Universities School of Marine Science and Technology, the broadest-based marine school in Europe. Fields embraced by the School include engineering, biology, naval architecture, coastal management, environmental sustainability and small craft technology. The strength of the School lies in bringing together the expertise from such diverse disciplines in exciting research and educational programmes.
This Factory Night follows on from the successful collaboration with Dove by artist Cath Keay. During her research at Dove, Cath made a series of text-based terracotta sculptures that were submerged to be colonised by marine organisms. Cath will be attending the Factory Night and co-hosting the tour element.
MAP AND DIRECTIONS: University of Newcastle Upon Tyne: Dove Marine Laboratory, Cullercoats, North Shields, Tyne and Wear NE30 4PZ
Refreshments and sketch/note books will be provided.
Funded and supported by:
The Dove Factory Night is funded by North Tyneside Council as part of North Tyneside's Year of the Arts 2010-11. Other Factory Night Funders include: Arts Council England and Northern Rock Foundation
Friday 10 September 2010
'Response' at Landguard Fort - Palimpsest (Scar)
I am developing a new performance work for 'Response', an event taking place in October at Landguard Fort, an English Heritage site on Felixstowe Harbour in Suffolk. Responding to the site, a stronghold, the work will approach themes of power, dominance and submission - referencing the king - the red cape of Caesar and domestic work, service and repair. Simultaneously healing and inflicting - smoothing over and opening an old wound.
I am interested in using the corridor spaces of the fort - the veins and arteries of the building. I am working with the title Palimpsest (Scar). The work will explore the idea of writing and re-writing, covering and revealing, the fort itself has undergone a number of architectural additions over the years, being re-written in stone. I have been thinking about the history of the place, a military history, battles fought by men, written in words on pages, now re-enacted - what is really told? What is lost?
Unfolding, slowly, moving backwards and forwards in time, a welcoming and a warning, soft underfoot - a red carpet - a red river.
I am interested in using the corridor spaces of the fort - the veins and arteries of the building. I am working with the title Palimpsest (Scar). The work will explore the idea of writing and re-writing, covering and revealing, the fort itself has undergone a number of architectural additions over the years, being re-written in stone. I have been thinking about the history of the place, a military history, battles fought by men, written in words on pages, now re-enacted - what is really told? What is lost?
Unfolding, slowly, moving backwards and forwards in time, a welcoming and a warning, soft underfoot - a red carpet - a red river.
Thursday 2 September 2010
ArtPrize update & official event poster
I am currently preparing the planetarium work Continuum for shipping to the US for ArtPrize. The larger Planetarium screens - Grand Rapids Public Museum, where the work will show measures 50' across - demand that the work be created at 4000 x 4000 pixels. To transfer the flat video onto the Evans & Sutherland projection system used by the museum it must first be broken down, saving each of the works 23,220 individual frames as an individual image file (dome master). The work can then be uploaded onto the system where it is further de-constructed before being re-compiled for display across 6 projectors, which blend the work seamlessly for the hemispherical screen.
Wednesday 1 September 2010
'The Rules of Engagement' images/early ideas for new work
These images were captured during the production of the video piece The Rules of Engagement (2006), working with my grandfather at the Waygood Gallery and Studios in Newcastle upon Tyne. I love the concentration, focus and the feeling of strength that the images convey. The experience of working with my grandfather to make the piece was amazing - his total commitment to the performance and the art was really inspiring.
Early ideas/starting points for work
I particularly like the level of detail in the skin, which is missing in the video work. I hope to pick up on this a bit more on the new work I am about to begin using HD to shoot. I also hope to be able to emphasise the precision of the movement and the focus and the concentration using slow motion cameras.
I am interested in exploring the use of a fragmented image, focusing the camera on specific parts of our bodies - two rooms - as they move, reflecting one another - providing the viewer with snippets of visual information - inviting them to fill in the gaps - the closure principle. I am also interested in exploring after image, ghosts (phantoms), distorted reflections, creating Rorschach-esque patterns with our divided bodies.
Monday 30 August 2010
Thursday 26 August 2010
Friday 20 August 2010
Imagining the unknown
Drawing of the homunculus inside human spermatozoa by Nicolaas Hartsoeker
1694
The drawing was conceived by Hartsoeker not from what had seen, but what he presumed would be visible if sperm could be adequately viewed.
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