Another full on week of teaching with the end of Spill
and the making of work. At NUA one very successful workshop saw each student making an
equation of their practice and a proposed project - this equation was then
passed to another student who created a 3D sculpture that represented the
equation - the sculpture was then returned to the student who then reinterpreted
the work having had a revelatory moment. all good. OCA had a making day where I
focused on creating some internal hidden structures within a bookwork, but also
reflecting and building on the work created for Nano residency. During Spill I always like to document the end
of a performance (see slides) but I also had some highlights over the second
week - Clarion Call grew in
intensity - which was a good thing, it's so ethereal and otherworldly. Went to
see Winter's Tale by Forced entertainment - just so
clever/beautiful. Inter_versal by Carter Tuti and Kernschmelze II were 2 all encompassing sound experiences that I
would recommend if in the vicinity of them. Decasia by Bill Morrison
and The Mirror by Vicki Bennett were two film experiences. Decasia
is made of archive film that has decayed in many ways, often this decay takes
on meaning and form when seen within the context of the film's original
material, boxers battling a swirling mass of scratches or a merry go around
where the rides emerge from an ectoplasmatic surge and Mirror is a mash up of overlaid footage, often creating alternative
narratives and dialogue between the sequences.
