iteration 2
one of the new pieces im making for Iteration 2 is starting to take shape:
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new work
so absence from the evernet seems to have culminated in another little hiatus.. ah well. ive been working on a variety of projects lately - predominantly the bristol biennial for which ill be working on two shows with several other members of MadeScapes . Ive also confirmed a show at Utrophia , which will be a revisitation of the ideas and general visual themes of Topographic Translation more info will follow soon (projects are in june and may respectively) here is a little look at a very much in progress piece for the latter:
THE ANTI-SOCIAL NETWORK
more words from fellow MadeScapes contributor Trevor Smith: February 15th 2012 It’s hardly news to announce that around 97% of my Facebook friends are not my friends. A quick skim over the list reveals a collection (three hundred and fourteen of them) of former workmates, distant family members – some of whom I have never met – old college friends, a guy that sold me a pushbike three years ago, and one person whose friend request I accidentally accepted. I addressed the accidental ‘friending’ via private message; her response was that her initial friend request was also an accident. In a relationship it would make a great ‘first time we met’ story, but based on her status updates and her comments on other people’s status updates, we appear to be utterly incompatible, and now I am afraid to delete her because, despite my former assertions to the contrary, Facebook is the real world, and our mutual friends may swing to her favour, should I choose to proceed with th...
Circumstances of Avertion
A couple of weeks ago there was a great show at Bristol Diving School by Robert Prideaux and Ruaidhri Ryan . The work mostly consisted of a large video installation, rather than having a stab at some inadequite wordliness.. there was an pretty interesting accompanying text by bristol based sculptor Charles Thorburn : poster design by Lloyd Parker The nature of the gaze is not a simple one. The world of moving image has developed countless methods of enticing us to fix ours for a few moments; to be informed, compelled, or entertained. In Circumstances of Avertion Robert Prideaux & Ruaidhri Ryan address the act of averting ones gaze, and how this is handled as a fundamental component of our experience of film and documentary. We are often presented with documentary, and moments in cinema, that we are conditioned to accept as truth. David Attenborough doesn't just tell us what life is really like in the jungle, he shows us. Rather than setting out to interrogate their ...