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.…

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…