Liza Dickson

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2021



<12/11/21 self-initiation/ignition>

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Glitch_KESKORRA @ Botallack Mine 



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CIRCUMAMBULATION-via-KERNOW-AONB//RGB<split>_2021_>>converge<<oscillate>>               (End of Residency Event @ Rame Projects, Cornwall)




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CIRCUMAMBULATION-via-KERNOW-AONB//RGB<split>_2021_>>converge<<oscillate>>  

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As I walk around this site, circumambulating it’s winding paths,   I feel the magnetism;  
               
cycles of growth + decay, nature pushing + pulling against man-made structures.
               
A patchwork of fields surrounds me.         
   
Iteration + repetition so tangible, like the military operations that have taken place here over + over again,  now claimed by community.

The landscape + all its tales seep into your pores in some sort of osmosis.    
Marks of experience, to unpack + unfurl.                Memories held in stone.

The air thick with data, holding many years, many lives. Passing through + around us, swirling, invisible but felt, unlocking echoes held in the body.

We have been here before; I remember this place.

Time is an energy, to expand + contract. Layered at different speeds and directions.
Past + future collapse. For a memory can change, a history is malleable.

As the expanse of futurity slowly converges into the present, possibilities fizzle into the aether, floating above, merging with the sounds of time.

Ghosts + echoes ring in a field of static // We are radiating energy // In continual expansion + contraction.            

Interacting // oscillating.  
Each a centre to meditate upon.     

Sounds radiate from my core, my aura merges with yours.   

As a whole body.  
A spectrum expanded + collapsed.




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A series of quilts with an accompanying multichannel live + pre-recorded sound work taken from + inspired by ‘circumambulations’, wanderings, around + through Maker.                                   

Time, +  its vast array of speeds, directions, liveness, echoes of the past + future, are materials for expression.
Sound, performance + quilt making are different manifestations of time

- meditative labour / sensory immediacy -   

these differences dissolve when merged together, activating each other.
             
                                                                                                                       The repetitive yet meditative labour of quilt making reflects both the regimentation of the military history + current creative abundance of Maker, a patchwork of experiences, phenomena + temporalities culminating into the present moment. 
Quilting is a deeply embodied, meditative, + ritualistic creative process,
synthesizing technological visual language, craft traditions + rhythms of time into techno-spiritual objects.                                                                         
RGB // CMY – the quilts consist of 10 shades of each of the primary colours of light:
(R)ed, (G)reen, (B)lue + their inversions (C)yan, (M)agenta, (Y)ellow. Splitting light into physical matter via the alchemical process of quilting.         

Sound is an energy, activating a space + the bodies within it.

Tuning into environments, I started to listen to every one of my footsteps, how I echoed in a space, how the space resonated back.
A back + forth relationship – an oscillation.
Every moment became a potential field recording, a reflective activity.  
Echoes, radiating patterns to meditate upon, to hypnotise, to dream.                                                                                                               
Comprised of polarities, Maker weaves itself into a place of ambiguity, a place in perpetual motion,
fluctuating between defence / sanctuary, industry / rest, past / present, growth / decay, natural / preternatural,
from which transcendent experience may arise.                                           
Quilts are made for dreaming under;               
join us in this ecstatic glitch.    

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With thanks to Lucy + Beth of Rame Projects for facillitating such a transformative residency.   

@RAMEPROJECTSCORNWALL         WWW.RAMEPROJECTS.COM
















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>>> Pint of Water / 00:56:27 <<<

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Video documentation of a durational performance/self-initiation process.

One pint of water consumed with the middle finger over the course of 56 minutes and 27 seconds.     //Content Warning: retching//