Portfolio of Documentation

This year, I have made three core pieces of work, documented in three filmed versions; I Didn't Want To Join Your Stupid Cult Anyway (January) I Think I'm On Another World With You (May) The Safe Use of Ladders + Stepladders (August) While Stupid Cult's film is 17 minutes of the footage simply recorded for…

Artist’s Statement

HI! hi! this was hard to write so an imaginary interview framing device it is!  WHO ARE YOU? my name's Jordan Linton, but i make work as onlytheantscansaveusnow. WHAT DO YOU DO? i make things and write things - usually performance, but i like to try my hand at all sorts - i make installations,…

Week 6 – Scratch + Reflections

This week we presented some ideas from our practical research so far in front of each other and some of the supervisors. I showed an adjusted version/merge of my experiments from last week: I received some feedback from the group - first, the raw notes from their feedback firstly, what they saw/felt/experienced; Risk - in…

Week 5 – INQUIRY + Milkshakes

In week 5, after a chat with Anna, I managed to frame my enquiry finally. It takes the form of a question: 'is the desire to impart direct personal political ideas irreconcilable with the presentation of politically open material?'  This question is answerable (positively or negatively) after a research process, but challenging and interesting, as…

Chat w/ Pat – ‘Composition’

I met with Patrick to talk through ideas of  'composition' - I knew he'd looked at this for his own work in the past, and it felt relevant to what I was beginning to explore. Here are some rough notes from our conversation: composition = how elements are placed in relation to each other in…

PaR Week 4 – Experiments (ft. Antifascism)

This week in the studio I improvised some short moments exploring the composition* of different elements in the space: large screen widely-circulated media images recorded song a microphone, stand and amp lyrics recited by me my own improvised interactions with these elements These improvised moments were filmed, and I've since edited them into short documentation…

PaR Week 3 – Bass

As per usual (!!) I found it quite hard to move from sitting/writing/thinking to doing a practical experiment. Eventually though, I got round to setting up in a room and playing bass for a few hours. Luke, Tia and Olly were about for some of this and for some of it I was left alone.…

PaR Week 2 – Thinking and More Light Panicking

I planned for the second week to be more thinking and note-making about initial ideas, inquiries, research and lineages, before starting practical experimentation in the second week. I found starting like this mostly productive. I made an (ongoing) list of practical activities to try: play bass - alone and with others play with live feed/camera-TV…

onlytheantscansaveusnow

This is just a quick post to talk about a decision I've made. I've been thinking for a while now about creating a name/identity to make work as/under, since mine is a bit rubbish. I want to document/comment on my work and collate everything I've done in one place as much as possible. I also…

PaR Week 1 – Light Panicking and Heavy Planning

In the first week back for our, third trimester, we had to fill our a form with some ideas/throughts for our project so far, and had an introductory session with Jo where we outlined the module and played a little with refining and exploring these ideas and initial inquiries. The things I took away most…