Three broadcasts on Resonance fm

Three of my short audio works will be broadcast on Resonance Radio over the coming three weeks, as part of the antepress Digestives art writing series. The first of them is this afternoon. To listen live, tune in to 104.4fm (in London) or visit www.resonancefm.com and scroll down to “LISTEN NOW” in the right hand column.

Monday 6th July 4:30pm
Tamarin Norwood: The Blackbird’s Whistle and Julia Calver: A sound that travels over the bodies of small mammals

Monday 13th July 4:30pm
Tamarin Norwood: Things Are Exact and Julia Calver: Civil Twilight: acoustically spied on

Monday 20th July 4:30pm
Adrian Rifkin and Tamarin Norwood: How Things Began

These broadcasts are repeated on subsequent Fridays at 7:30pm. They’ll be podcast afterwards here.

The Things Painted Red

The things are back where they came from now, only red. There’s a nasty hierarchy now among my things. The painted things indicate the nakedness of all the other things. Are the red things fake, or are they the only things that are real, because they acknowledge themselves? They look smug about it.

Paintings

I’ve started painting some of the things around the house and when they’re dry I can put them all back where I found them.

Bus

Getting balloons into a suitcase

The thing I did on Thursday:

Balloons

Getting balloons into a suitcase.

Skyline

I made this today. It’s been a day off. There was a street party going on outside, with egg and spoon races and a quiz.

Bootstraps

My mother was reading some of the posts I wrote last month and drew this. I think it’s exactly right. You can’t lift yourself up off the floor by your bootstraps; you can’t be inside and outside your practice at the same time; you can’t be asleep and awake at once. I might like to spend some time in the summer trying to hold myself up by my bootstraps, and see which muscles it makes hurt.

TONIGHT: Voicing the Silence

Denisa Nenova has invited Cliff Wright and me to join her for an artists’ discussion at Borders Bookshop on Charing Cross Road this evening.

Denisa is performing her new work Voicing the Silence, I’m presenting my text work Palomar Translations, and Cliff will demonstrate the way he teaches people to draw by seeing rather than thinking. In showing these three practices together we want to begin a discussion about pulling language away and keeping the stuff that’s left over.

Inside the White Studio

The picture below shows the framework of a discussion we held last night at the Vyner St space. We talked about LIKE WHEN YOU in connection with Claire and Altair’s Empty Studio Interviews project, as a way to think more about correspondences between studio and gallery spaces.

A number of practising artists came along and talked about how they use their studios, and many of them didn’t feel the space of the studio presented any specific problems.