thinking about art – JILL SORENSEN

DIY alternative reality Hut: a participatory art-structure for customising post-normal living.

THE PROJECT: Wednesday 22 – Monday 27 April Follow on Instagram for step-by-step guidelines on how to customise your lockdown zone into a smaller but more friendly Alternative Reality Hut. Share handy hints on ways in which you might reconfigure the things (objects, materials, furniture and other stuff) with whom you share your covid19 bubble.Continue reading “DIY alternative reality Hut: a participatory art-structure for customising post-normal living.”

The Agency of Things

This week: Conversation #2 let’s imaging being human thing interacting with other things rather than a Human Being looking down on things.

Dwelling With

Avoiding Mastery

I have a show at Whitespace Contemporary Art early next year and have been mulling over what to call it. The show will involve some paintings, a few books of drawings and a number of yet to be finalised objects. There is always the straightforward option of Some New Paintings and Objects, and I alsoContinue reading “Avoiding Mastery”

Resisting Societal Norms: Resisting Failure is Futile continued

Book 1 continued: page 12 In art, the problem of both success and failure rests on judgement. A judgement of either success or failure is by definition based on an expected outcome, either achieved or missed. In either case the assumption behind the judgment is not challenged. However, if judgement is postponed, the possibility ofContinue reading “Resisting Societal Norms: Resisting Failure is Futile continued”

An old-

text wall work trial #5

Resisting Societal Norms Part 1: Resisting Failure is Futile

Part 1 Resisting Failure is Futile

Resisting Societal Norms

Resisting Societal Norms As part of Put Up Your Dukes! Gabrielle and I made a series of three books extrapolating upon and extending the thinking behind the project. Resisting Societal Norms provides background to the work in this project but also maps much of the territory that I am deeply interested in researching further. AsContinue reading “Resisting Societal Norms”

New Hairy Object

I made a new hairy object today. I was tidying up the studio and decided to re-crochet a failed carrot trial into an upright object with a base to fit a recommissioned trolley that was also waiting for a home. Guidelines for the undertaking were: taller than it is wide but remaining self supporting, withContinue reading “New Hairy Object”

Paper Bag Research Forum

Ah how quickly it came and went…. Or more how quickly the three weeks following it went, what with mid-year assessment casting its long shadow over art school and my husband breaking his collar bone only one week after officially recovering from breaking his other collar bone. And breaking off a wee bit of hisContinue reading “Paper Bag Research Forum”