Cosmic Housekeeper at Milkwood gallery's pitch at Chapter's 40th birthday art car boot

link to set of cosmic housekeeper images

Dw'n crwydro'r byd yn chwilio am nghrud

at Beyond Text: Making and Unmaking Text
Centre for Creative Collaboration
London
January 28th 2011

I sat weaving, a man sat back to back with me reading my words, the words fragmented from their sentences to make new meaning.
We weave our complicated lives? Bad and good, distressing and pleasing. Can we hold it? Are we held by it? Re-making the words I present the difficult side of my life; they can then be held in your hand. Words are spoken. a sense of closeness for the performing strangers, each others movement felt by each other.
weave : leave. weft : left. public : private. truth?




A link to an after writing
follow this link for a bit more information

Arranged 7 curated by Becky Cremin & Ryan Ormonde
Funded & assisted by AHRC: beyond Text; Royal holloway, University of London and The Centre for Creative Collaboration.

a research blog

might be of interest...especially if I regularly post to it:
fold into haptic

Holy Hiatus book & symposium

A link to the book "Holy Hiatus" at Parthian books website

also the 2nd symposium that took place in September 2010 now has viseos and update on the website - click here for link

Art at Rhosygilwen

I will be showing work at Art at Rhosygilwen, arts festival, July 3rd & 4th

in the exhibition:

Tarantela yn erbyn y wâl: dawns i arbed fy mywyd cyn i mi gyrraedd 50
Tarantella against the wall: a dance to save my life before I’m 50

Tarantella: a dance to remove the poison and melancholy of the spider's bite, a dance to save your life.

I examine myself, my body …not a youthful body any longer, physical limitations, psoriasis, notions of depression, melancholy and what are we do about such emotions?
Alongside this are my continuing investigations of movement and stillness, which captures movement best, moving or still images (wrote my first essay on this in 1983)? In what ways do we believe photography? If I tell you this is taken with a compact camera with no cable release; and these are not stills from a video…. How do you read it?
At times it is impossible for me to dance due to psoriatic arthritis…so how do I set out to save my one, precious life? And how do I feel about wearing a petticoat in a smooth skinned slim youth beauty culture?

a slow tarantella by L' Arpeggiata - "remember you must die" can be listened to here

around and about:

Cosmic housekeeper: sweeping the yard
Gwraig cadw tŷ cosmig: ysgubo’r llathen

Turning the ordinary into the extraordinary. A square yard is defined by four tape measures – metric on one side, imperial the other, pinned together. A small quadrant of the universe is designated for cleaning. All manner of brushes and cloths are used.
Conversations sometimes occur… about domestic things, a particular one I remember is about an old tradition, from maybe just my locality, of cleaning slate floor slabs then drawing a pattern with dock leaves.

see previous entry

holy hiatus iii

6 images very very very slowly dissolved from one to next. the first two from preparatory work, the second two from HH i the third pair from HH ii

a plant project for the Arnolfini, Bristol

a new collaboration with flo fflach, available as a publication

link to the start of the trail here