2020 December: Wrapping Up

I am a feeling a little inert, probably because there are a number of things to wrap up this month. I have my first Contextual Studies-type lecture to give to BA students in January, the Writing for Practice Forum to fully take responsibility for, a contribution to propose for the next issue of Phenomenology and …

2020 November: Frame Switching

Intrusions. Video, 22 min. 2020. (Second attempt at distributing myself across different characters within the same work (this time in two languages), but not as interesting as a result). I began the academic year with a fighting spirit; I had a belief in my project and felt committed to it every day — learning, making, …

2020 October: Experimental Philosophy and ‘Me’

Screenshot of my research timeline.   Focus The second year of my PhD has officially begun — this makes me excited but also determined to use my time well. Accordingly, focus was the topic of a latest discussion between myself and M. Rankovic (my unofficial 'third supervisor'), especially the idea that focus need not necessarily mean …

2020 September: Determinism and Agency

Time Off. Video, 4 min. 2020. I’ve typically regarded A Ritual Resuscitation of Eternal Lovers to be an old work, and a good, but discontinued experiment. But recently I’ve filmed about four new performances, and gained a renewed interest in the aims of the text: to find freedom in determinism; that is, if I can …

2020 August: Teaching Practice

Neighbours. Video, 15 min. 2020. Authors and Agents: a Lecture I’ve spent pretty much the entire month just thinking about teaching. Alongside my PhD, I’m also trying to get a qualification to teach in higher education, and it has pushed me to try to put into words some feelings I have about how art should …

2020 July: Searching my Older Souls

Tomorrow I am going to stage the first Rosa and Lawrence reading in a long while, and for the first time in Italian, thanks to the new translation completed by artist Alberto Condotta. I am looking forward to hearing the text in this romantic language, and although I don’t speak Italian, I will roughly be …

2020 May – June: Lockdown Writing

I did not mention that the past few months (since late March), life has changed quite substantially for people in this country and around the world; namely, we are living through the coronavirus pandemic. Not only that, but a number of political upheavals are taking place, from the greater visibility on the Black Lives Matter …

2020 April: Self-Estrangement

I feel glad to have written the first chapter of my thesis - at least, the first draft of a chapter - and so feel I have at least started trying to express the more theoretical parts of the project. This chapter focuses on some of the historical uses of the role of the 'spiritual …

2020 March: Character as Thought-Filter

As of this month I am joining a new research group at think tank and project space Exposed Arts. Our research topic is 'Intelligence Debiased', and I've been asked to think of a research question + key words to start mapping out our overlapping interests. So I've been thinking about how best to use this …

2020 February: The Psychology of Characters

Introduction to Personal Metrics, performance/experiment held at MARs, Goldsmiths College. 21 Jan 2020: Hello, welcome everyone, to this Art Research Installation, Personal Metrics, in which I’m hoping to conduct an experiment with your help. Some of you may know by now that my practice is concerned with using my own personhood as a kind of …