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.”
Category Archives: thinking about life
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
I Don’t Know.
I don’t know if the water knows how it will make its way to the sea. I don’t know if the road knows that I run over it. I don’t know if the trees know that I breathe their breath. I don’t know if the water knows how it will make its way toContinue reading “I Don’t Know.”
Conversation pit #4: Blanket Hut: sharing in an intimate world
Blanket Hut: sharing in an intimate world acknowledges the impossibility of maintaining an anthropocentric worldview[1] in an era of eco-crisis and invites us to tease out ways to orient ourselves within a biosphere in which we are continuous with the network of entities we previously called nature. If you are interested in joining this conversationContinue reading “Conversation pit #4: Blanket Hut: sharing in an intimate world”
Golden American Saddlebred
I got this horse in a mixed set of plastic animals at a $2 shop. He stands 14cm high and is slightly unbalenced, requiring a firm bend to his rear legs to get him to balence. He has become something of a muse for me, summing up the blend of fantasy, romance, deceit, history andContinue reading “Golden American Saddlebred”
Hope Leaves The Body Slowly: the end.
Time Based project #1 Hope Leaves The Body Slowly At its inception hope fills the body in the way that air fills a balloon. From this point hope leaves the body. Slowly, imperceptibly at first. Hope leaves the body slowly. Long after the mind has made the cognition of failure the body still holds hope.Continue reading “Hope Leaves The Body Slowly: the end.”
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”
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”
JILL SORENSEN 