Two videos pivoting representation

Listen to MAKING IT SOUND LIKE I AM MAKING ART FOR FIFTEEN MINUTES

If you missed me making it sound like I was making art for fifteen minutes on Resonance FM the other week, you can hear it again below. It was originally broadcast on November 16th as part of the antepress art writing programme Digestives.

My next Digestives programme isn’t until early February. In the meantime here’s a sneak preview of what I’m looking at in preparation:

uls pocket nº10

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Beaks

This afternoon I drew the tip of my pencil with itself and the nib of my biro with itself. I drew them in my line drawing book, which makes them the first traditionally representational drawings on its pages. They continue my exploration of the line as a representational tool that joins word to thing, and here the pencil and biro use the paper as a pivot for representation.

Line Drawn from Pencil to Paper

A line drawn from pencil to paper makes a dot. It’s a dot upwards through space that begins on the paper and travels to the tip of the pencil, but because paper and pencil meet so closely, the upwards projection of the dot from the paper is very slim.

Smiles on Paper

On Saturday I presented a new work at the Stanley Picker gallery during the Writing Exhibitions symposium. Here’s an outline of my work, which I called Genuine Smiles:

A sheet of paper is attached to one wall of the gallery, and attached just below it is a long piece of string with a sharpened pencil fixed to the other end. Visitors are invited to hold a pencil and do whatever they need to do to muster a genuine smile.

Proposed Information Posters # 8

Tamarin is talking very FAST

Rachel Lois Clapham and Alex Eisenberg documented today’s 10 Performances event with a live feed they updated throughout the day. By the time my performance What To Do begins they’re halfway down their third page. I love their occasional attempts to type out variations on everything I was saying. You can read what they’ve written here.

The text of What To Do is available to download as a pdf from the 10 Performances website, but I’m not sure I recommend you read it: the effect of reading the text on a page or a screen is very different from the effect of the performance itself.

10 Performances

Tomorrow I’m performing a revised version of my illustrated talk What To Do as part of the Beyond Text 10 Performances event. The event lasts all day, and as we contribute our performances details of each one will be posted online here, so you can watch the event unfold even if you can’t be there on the day. An archive of the day will remain on the site afterwards.

Here’s an outline from the site:

10 Performances is a text-based performance project exploring the nature of performative writing and its relation to the staged event of performance. Five established international artists and five UK-based postgraduate artists will contribute one written work each.

Domes Without Looking

I’m practising for the 26th.