Art

Language, Listening and Belonging

The video Language, Listening and Belonging (00:04:27) was made to accompany my chapter in the book The Creative Critic: Writing As/About Practice, Routledge, 2018; a collection edited by Katja Hilevaara and Emily Orley

The collection of creative-critical writings brings together examples of how to think and write about one’s own work in creative yet academically rigorous ways. How to discuss and analyse our own work, or work that has inspired us, is explored without compromising the creative drive that drove us in the first place. With a foreword, afterword and middlewords by Jane Rendell, Peter Jaeger, Maria Fusco and Timothy Mathews respectively, and over thirty contributions by leading researcher-practitioners and emerging artists alike.

Languages – visual, spoken, written; performed – lead my life and guide my art practice. Performing language is explored in a series of situations, occupying and shaping sites, locations and contexts. Through ‘live’ writing works are produced and subjects investigated in public research studios. As embodied artistic catalyst, I have become the Creative Correspondent and The Pedlar, inhabiting characters to simultaneously enact and explore through staging and processes of creative encounter, employing and sharing a creative toolkit of self, object, voice, sound, drawing, writing, film, travel, learning, story and people.

Language, Listening and Belonging (00:04:27) in Language based Artistic Research Special Interest Group PRACTICE SHARING

2019 Screening: Language, Listening and Belonging (video) in ‘Convocation: on Expanded Language-based Practices, Research Pavilion, 58th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy

2017 Screening: Language, Listening and Belonging (video) in conference Taking the Essay for a Walk, Hospitalfield, Arbroath, Scotland