January 2021 Group Crits & Claybus on the back burner

Pixel painting in progress Aldous George

MY Crit Aldous George

Back in October I had a tutorial with Beth Richards (which I will cover in a separate post) which was a very informative conversation about socially engaged art and how Claybus could go down this route. I have followed everything up that Beth suggested but unfortunately, due to my health and lack of mobility I have had to put Claybus on the back burner for now. I still intend to research material relevant to promoting and progressing Claybus but until I have had hip replacements I do not have the physical or mental ability to promote Claybus, not to mention Lockdown and social distancing which has put an abrupt halt to the possibilities of workshops being run out of the back of a van. I am going to need a bigger Bus. With this in mind, I shall be using my MA to explore myself as an artist, what questions and concepts do I want to explore and why I use figurative and fragmented body images for most of my work. The presentation I gave was geared up to both Claybus research and my own practice. At the moment, I am enjoying the process of presenting my ideas to everyone, as I find this is helping me to understand more about myself and the work I am involved with. I have found the group crits invaluable and I would like to thank everyone for there interest and input. I haven’t quite got round to following up all the suggestions yet but am enjoying working my way through.

From recent work and having to share with you guys I think I can now clarify my main threads:

A love hate relationship with technology and feeling compelled to warn of potential threats to humanity that computer technology/AI/augmentation/cloning etc poses. I also seem to be obsessed with the simulation theory at the moment.

Mental Health issues that society seems to have caused.

My own physical health that has drawn awareness to other people’s disabilities and how physical well-being can be taken for granted.

The therapeutic remedies that art possess both singularly and as a group whether that be a couple of people or larger communities.

I think it would be safe to say as a starting point that I use figurative images in my work because that is where mental and physical issues reside.

Notes from Aldous and Kieran’s Crit 21.1.2021

14:10:32 From Josie Cockram to Everyone : Thinking about how projects with common sensibility articulate their activity/values: Jonty Lees runs Pool School Gallery in Cornwall: poolschoolgallery.org 14:10:49 From Josie Cockram to Everyone : And that grew out of: https://zennorprojectspaceorg.wordpress.com/mildred-rambaud/ 14:11:20 From Josie Cockram to Everyone : I also mentioned https://www.arte-util.org/about/colophon/ and https://www.grizedale.org/ 14:20:17 From Neil to Everyone : Punk Pot Gormley style installation? 14:42:21 From Josie Cockram to Everyone : Re films of making activity and community. Sound tracks. Relationship with ‘reality’ and time: Ben Rivers and Ben Russell: A Spell to Ward Off Darkness : http://www.benrivers.com/spell.html 14:43:42 From Josie Cockram to Everyone : And this - giving sculptures agency on film: Alina Szapocznikow – Trace by Helena Włodarczyk https://artmuseum.pl/en/filmoteka/praca/szapocznikow-alina-slad-rez-helena-wlodarczyk 14:45:49 From Josie Cockram to Everyone : Or - thinking formally - do you know Lynda Benglis’s sculpture? 14:48:34 From Zanna Markillie to Everyone : Thanks Aldous - I’m really sorry but I have to go now - I have a work commitment - means I’m going to miss Kieren’s crit - I’m really sorry about that but I can email some of my responses! 14:56:55 From Mark Flores to Everyone : Franz west sculptures 14:57:07 From Bradley North to Everyone : https://youtu.be/jb73Pr3JQlk 14:58:27 From Bradley North to Everyone : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jb73Pr3JQIk&feature=youtu.be

15:30:45 From Neil to Everyone : Not sure how relevant this might be Kieran but I saw this and it gave me a similar feeling to your work https://www.lensculture.com/projects/6065-inheritance 15:38:59 From Anya Lewin to Everyone : Walter benjamin’s essay on bookcollecting 15:43:46 From Josie Cockram to Everyone : Thinking about partial and fictional approaches - Sean Lynch tells stories that begin in the world but take detours : http://www.seanlynchinfo.com/ 15:44:42 From Josie Cockram to Everyone : And this is the Walid Raad show I mentioned at the Whitechapel: https://www.whitechapelgallery.org/exhibitions/walid-raad-miraculous-beginnings/ 15:51:30 From Sam Machell to Everyone : http://theghostinthemp3.com/ 15:53:10 From Mark Flores to Everyone : https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/lorna-simpson-12577 15:53:32 From Josie Cockram to Everyone : Rorschach Audio: Art & Illusion for Sound by Joe Banks 16:10:07 From Anya Lewin to Everyone : http://www.friedrichshainerschule.de/boltanski3.html 16:11:33 From Josie Cockram to Everyone : David Toop - Sinister Resonance 16:12:28 From Mark Flores to Everyone : https://amakmahmoodian.co.uk/Zanjir 16:16:20 From Anya Lewin to Everyone : www.zoebeloff.com/

Notes from Derek and Julie’s Crit 21.1.2021

13:45:05 From Sam Machell to Everyone : In the Air Tonight by Andrew Norman Wilson - https://www.reddit.com/r/philcollins/comments/hp5xlv/new_details_on_the_drowning_that_inspired_in_the/ 13:53:29 From Sinta Tantra to Everyone : https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/nov/08/will-will-self-review 14:50:52 From Neil to Everyone : https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/peter-randall-page-2326 His drawings resonate 14:56:51 From Sam Machell to Everyone : https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/dec/17/chris-ware-here-richard-mcguire-review-graphic-novel 15:06:25 From Sinta Tantra to Everyone : https://www.riflemaker.org/Francesca%20Lowe 15:16:04 From Anya Lewin to Everyone : https://www.artsy.net/artist/rachel-kneebone 15:22:36 From Sam Machell to Everyone : i think we’ve moved on from this point so i’ll say it here instead of aloud: i think the contrasts in scales from the canvases to the clay helps to expand the term home beyond an anthropocentric understanding. i think about tiny shelled crabs and all the bacteria that live inside me, and their homes, and i also think of my body as my home and the little bodily bits that the clay makes me think of, and then the large canvases speak to the cosmos, and our home among that 15:25:43 From Neil to Everyone : https://www.lynnespeake.com/ Links in also to some of the previous sculptures you showed in you presentation with other materials 15:26:59 From Aldous George to Everyone : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_PeaHVcohg girl in the wild creating pottery

Notes from Neil and Zanna’s Crit 21.1.2021

14:46:38 From Josie Cockram to Everyone : Kenneth Goldsmith: http://cup.columbia.edu/book/uncreative-writing/9780231149907 15:18:20 From Brad North to Everyone : Documentation & documentation of the after? Interruptions of place and space both within the film work and written text, much like the work of David Carson, interrupting the process of reading and legibility. Vlogging as art? Protective over the pottery, it didn’t seem like an act of violence or outrage? Protection much in the sense of SAS. Responsibility? Facilitating errors or mistakes? 15:18:49 From Sam Machell to Everyone : http://www.elenabrake.co.uk/cleaning-in-progress.html 15:20:29 From Anya Lewin to Everyone : The Practice of Every Day Life Michel De Certeau 15:24:06 From Josie Cockram to Everyone : https://www.hauserwirth.com/artists/2805-roman-signer - and his bathos 15:28:48 From Josie Cockram to Everyone : Anf tone wise - Fischi and Weiss (maybe bear and rat films particularly?) 16:18:02 From Josie Cockram to Everyone : Thinking about the lecture/public speaker format - I wondered if you knew this project by Marcus Coates? https://www.marcuscoates.co.uk/projects/169-ask-the-wild 16:19:02 From Josie Cockram to Everyone : And I mentioned Camille Henrot’s film Grosse Fatigue 16:25:12 From aldous george to Everyone : Hi Zanna, Ive loved looking at your work and as im sat here watching your collaboration with derek in silent mode...it made me want to put it to music and reminded me of this: https://youtu.be/kmKt76_wtHs 16:25:45 From aldous george to Everyone : maybe stop frame is a way to go... 16:29:07 From Josie Cockram to Everyone : A book that came to mind as well - thinking about the scale of ‘I’: https://fitzcarraldoeditions.com/books/the-second-body 16:35:32 From Anya Lewin to Everyone : Value export 16:35:45 From Anya Lewin to Everyone : valie 16:37:26 From Sam Machell to Everyone : https://poetryschool.com/new-courses/sound-poetry-performance-technique/ 16:37:50 From Anya Lewin to Everyone : https://aaronwilliamson.org/