How to summarise the flurry of activity between the Block_Chain resident artists this week? BLOCK 3 On a mountainside in Catalania, Sarah Misselbrook chokes back the ashes of her ‘facemask’ of incinerated charcoal drawing,while back in her flat share on the ‘dingy’ side of Cambridge, Denise Kehoe ponders the power of her Poundland cake of, […]
Block 2 and 3 Artists Announced
Two new pairs of artists begin their residency this week. They will be exploring individual and relational Dissent as part of BLOCK_CHAIN > THE POWER OF TWO, an in an experimental and collaborative project which runs 9 January – 8 March 2018. Two weeks ago James McColl and Peter Driver kicked off Block 1 and have been […]
Block 1, Artists Announced
The website for BLOCK_CHAIN > THE POWER OF TWO launches 9 January 2018, and the first two artists participating in this innovative, on-line residency are beginning their two-week collaboration. CAS Associate Artist Peter Driver has been paired with James McColl from South West England. During their residency they will post digital images on instagram and post […]
BLOCK_CHAIN Artist Collaboration Launch Date
This week, CAS (Chapel Arts Studios) launches BLOCK_CHAIN THE POWER OF TWO and its website http://block-chain.chapelartsstudios.co.uk. Starting on Tuesday 9 January 2018, BLOCK_CHAIN THE POWER OF TWO brings together 15 artists to interact and respond to the subject of dissent be that political, personal environmental, societal, or material dissent. BLOCK_CHAIN is a series of innovative […]
The Practice of Research Oct. 2016
This session focused on Fine-art Practice-led PhD research with reference to Donald Schon’s ‘Action research’ and examples from The Laboratory of Dissent, The Winchester Gallery, 2015. ‘Donald Alan Schon (1930-1997) trained as a philosopher, but it was his concern with the development of reflective practice and learning systems within organizations and communities for which he is […]
Visual essay Nov. 2017
Notes for conversation: Visual Essay Nov. 2017
Notes written in preparation for ‘Creative meeting’ session (Nov. 2017). I chose John Bresland’s ‘On the Origin of the Video Essay’ (2010). https://blackbird.vcu.edu/v9n1/gallery/ve-bresland_j/ve-origin_print.shtml Blackbird an online journal of literature and the arts, Spring 2010 Vol. 9 No. 1, pp. 1-3. All other quotes in this text are from this article unless otherwise specified. ‘A visual essay […]
Introducing new, collaborative project to take us into 2018
Project Details Go to Opportunities BLOCK_CHAIN > THE POWER OF 2 is a process rather than an exhibition, a vehicle rather than a fixed destination, a non-hierarchical container for exchange, evolution and innovation. Borrowing it’s terminology from the blockchain, BLOCK_CHAIN > THE POWER OF 2, seeks to transmute the digital framework into a material reality […]
Essay definitions
As CAS Associate Artists look forward to a Workshop session on “the Visual Essay” in November I turn my attention to the origins of the visual essay. Our research group mentor Dr Yonat Nitzan Green has shared with us a text by John Bresland on the subject. Below I have extracted a few definitions from […]
Pushing the Envelope
‘Pushing the Envelope’ saw 6 of the CAS artists come together at Chapel Arts Studios to play/work/think/share. The momentum of the 2AM process (carried out some weeks before) had not only given CAS collaborative machinery a turbo boost but produced a welcome outpouring of thoughts, ideas and approaches which participants felt would continue to ripple out. […]
