List Makers

My co-conspirator Mica is working on a project collecting peoples’ lists... any lists, shopping lists, wish lists, to-do lists,
It’s interesting – have a look.

www.listmakers.blogspot.com

This project may lead to something bigger –
In the mean time

Mica says-

“I would love it if you could contribute.

Take a picture, scan and E-mail it to me...

E.mail to: list.makes@gmail.com “

a hole in my pocket

I was cleaning up my website and this image didn’t fit.
It’s my whole hole-y jacket.
My jacket wholly covered in holes.
Hmmm, that sounds a bit odd.
Is it possible to be covered in holes???

Body of Evidence

We had a staff and tutor show called Evidence last Thursday. I put my suitcase, ‘Hombody II’ in the show as evidence of my process. These images were of a performance piece that became part of my piece to make up the ‘Body of Evidence’.


‘Body of Evidence’ was a continuation of my rope investigations. I asked some people at the show if they would cut off a strip of material from my dress. I asked others if they had something I could braid into the rope that I was making out of the material from my dress and the hemp twine I used on my suitcase. As the rope got longer I added it to the trail of interactions (the rope) attached to the suitcase.

public private

One of our great inspirations this year has been going to the Wellington Gathering of the South project. http://www.southproject.org/
We listened to talks by artists from New Zealand, Australia, South Africa, and South America. On the second day we took part in a public intervention workshop by the pvi collective where we participated in their Panopticon project. The pvi collective is an Australian-based group of artists. http://www.pvicollective.com
This is an image of one of our interactions with a Wellington security camera. There are seven of us in both the above photo as well as the one below where we were wearing each other's clothes. (These photos were taken by the pvi collective)

Thank you for the photos pvi!!! Since we were sharing ourselves to the security camera, I decided I had to demonstrate an armbar. (I had let it go at this point). I hope my fellow artist friend here didn’t mind being at the receiving end of the armbar.

Global Threadbare

Taking art to the streets. Work doesn’t have to be legitimized as art by a gallery. I mentioned previously that I think an important role as an artist is to articulate alternative spaces. For me this means finding other ways to experience art and exercise art practices. “Global Threadbare” is a work in progress. Its part of an ongoing excavation of external expressions of self (such as clothes) to examine internal processes of relating to the outside world.

My friend and fellow artist Mica (see the link to her blog) are working together to explore social interactions through art. I brought “Global Threadbare” out with us on the town. Taking art work out of its normal context is quite a good way to see if and how it relates to its surroundings and to see how its surroundings relate to it. It got a few reactions – a few puzzled looks and a few smiles. I actually felt more like a pregnant woman with a belly that bumped into things-the way some people smiled at me. I will keep this blog posted of our endeavours.

places with personality

Site specific. I walk pass this wall on my lunch break. It has personality. There are a few places that I see on a regular basis that have a kind of character that I want to somehow enhance. This site-specific work is part of the rope investigations. The rope ladders leading to the round holes in this wall access the round spaces inviting exploration.

Identity and boundaries

The body is articulated as a provisional boundary through which identity flows, a heterogeneous site of play of differences, inhabited by the forces that make and unmake the self.