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