from www.tamarinnorwood.co.uk
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. Read the rest of this entry »
This weekend there were two art book fairs in London. At the Whitechapel was the achingly official London Art Book Fair, and at Oxford House was the achingly unofficial Publish and Be Damned. I found one thing at each which I want to put together.
(un)limited store had a stand at Publish and Be Damned. They’re a French publisher that produces artist books, objects and prints. I like the way they don’t differentiate too heavily between these three categories: the objects all have ISBNs like books, for instance, and come boxed and labeled to show they’re part of or published by the (u)ls project.
David Lasnier is one of the artists whose objects they publish. I bought a rubber stamp by him which reads ’stamped’. Read the rest of this entry »
Belles journées, souris du temps, Vous rongez peu à peu ma vie. Dieu! Je vais avoir vingt-huit ans, Et mal vécus, à mon envie.
from Le Bestiaire, Guillaume Apollinaire 1911
Tomorrow afternoon’s Digestives broadcast on Resonance FM is Holidays Vocabulary, a new work of mine based on the sound files I unearthed on an old dictaphone of mine last month. It’s an experiment in translation.
Holidays Vocabulary airs tomorrow at 4:30pm and is repeated this Friday at 7:30pm, and you can listen by clicking the ‘Listen Now’ mp3 stream at www.resonancefm.com, or tune in to 104.4fm inside London. Afterwards it will be available to download as a podcast at www.antepress.co.uk.
This is a departure.
I recorded this short commentary as an addendum to What The Matter Is, a 60 minute audio play I created for Resonance 104.4fm.
You can keep doing things until things happen to them. Here are three people who know how to do this.
This afternoon’s Digestives broadcast on Resonance FM is How Things Began, a conversation between Adrian Rifkin and Tamarin Norwood in response to the 1950s children’s radio programme of the same name.
How Things Began airs today at 4:30pm and is repeated this Friday at 7:30pm, and you can listen by clicking the ‘Listen Now’ mp3 stream at www.resonancefm.com, or tune in to 104.4fm inside London. Afterwards it will be available to download as a podcast at www.antepress.co.uk.
