Br(o)adcast open call for Dreamcatcher

Open calls, Br(o)adcast is a brand new Bradford based participatory audio platform.   Dreamcatcher is an ongoing podcast/ archive collecting dreams from the people across Bradford and Craven, using this time of uncertainty as a chance to connect and record people’s emotional response. Do you live or work in/around Bradford? Have you been having some...

Do you have questions about community art? — A Restless Art

Many artists who work with people now find themselves with time on their hands as governments escalate measures to slow the spread of COVID-19. Some, like me, are obliged to stay indoors; others have just found their projects suspended or cancelled. The practical and psychological challenges are substantial, as I’ve written elsewhere. But the enforced […]...

Cutting out plastic is not a climate change solution — The Earthbound Report

Almost every week, I’ll hear somebody say how they want to do their bit for the climate, and they are cutting out single use plastic. I’ve heard it on the radio, at the kids’ school, from people on the council and from friends. In a recent survey from Good Energy, people were asked “what one […]...

It has been some time.

I have had an unexpected hiatus from all things writing. I spent the rest of the summer travelling and finishing my MA thesis, this just made my desire to sit back down in front of a screen quite non-existent.   But I can recap. With July came a new place, Berlin. It gave me an...

A poem

I have been thinking backwards a lot this week. This is a poem I wrote in January, 2019, a few days after I was swept by a stormy wave. I was having a hard time, stuck on a sofa whilst on an amazing island. My body still remembers what it felt like, my knee still...

How to Get Back Up and Keep Running: Amanda Palmer on Making Art When Life Unmakes You — WebInvestigator.KK.org – by F. Kaskais

“Life is what happens when you are busy making other plans. And for an artist, art is what happens when you let your bizarre, unbidden, unpredictable life steer you into creating things that you weren’t expecting to make.” BY MARIA POPOVA “What is art, / But life upon the larger scale, the higher / … […]...

Reminder: You’re Worth Being Brave — Thought Catalog

Sometimes just being brave when you don’t want to be is vulnerability. via Reminder: You’re Worth Being Brave — Thought Catalog

Venice Biennale – Giardini

Our second day of the Biennale was spent at the Giardini and the pavilions. BY this point art fatigue had set in strong. Regardless of this, there were still some stand out pieces. Sun Yuan e Peng Yu, Can’thelp myself (2016) was one of these. An impressive installation featuring an anthropomorphic industrial robot programmed to execute...

The ethics of art. Venice Biennale — gibberish

I suspect this piece may cause some controversy. It’s the wreck of the boat that carried between 700 and 1,100 refugees (not migrants) from Libya to the Italian island of Lampedusa. But it collided with a vessel that had responding to its distress call and all but 28 died. The boat as artwork statement was...

An Artists’ Residency Provides the Chance to Rethink Sustainable Practices of Art Making — Hyperallergic

Eight international artists selected for a month-long residency in the South of France find new ways to reconcile their art with environmental aims. via An Artists’ Residency Provides the Chance to Rethink Sustainable Practices of Art Making — Hyperallergic