Maija Liepins, for CAS Research Group; Drawing languages for Dissent Ready for our first meeting, the CAS Research and Drawing Group have been reading Tim Ingold’s Introduction to ‘Lines; A Brief History’. We have been drawn into a contemplation of lines, dots, traces and surfaces. Ingold says ‘non-linear’ in non-western or other-than-colonial thinking assumes that […]
‘Should I work for free?’ on building relationships that feel good
Maija Liepins on building relationships and responding to opportunities that feel good. I’ve been thinking about the value of the Bureau of Exchange. It was a popup shop Lydia Heath and I created for CAS which offered 4 artists a week each to host a space of non-monetary exchange. It became a place where people […]
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 […]
2.a.m Process & Experience (VIDEO)
CAS Associate Artists (Group 1) talk about their process and experience of participating in 2.a.m a collaborative creative day.
Layers of Time and Peripheral Colours
On Thursday 4th CAS artists revisited images of The Laboratory of Dissent exhibition (2015) which ran for 5 weeks at the Winchester Gallery. Each artist selected an image, and passed it on to another artist for response. Artist Dawn Evans invited us to explore “porous thinking” and move away from the central image, to create […]
A.M: Notes on Collaborative Practice
Have you ever wondered why CAS is the way it is, who we are, or how we work? When David Dixon first invited artists to become CAS Associates in December 2013, he introduced them to the concept of Autopoietic Morphogenesis. Also known as A.M, it is an emerging methodology that has informed CAS artistic activity ever since. […]
Material Order and Meaning: A Visit to the Ashmolean Museum
The archivist and custodian of a collection is the business of finding order, making sense making meaning, and knowing where things are. As part of a CAS R&D project, Associate Artists have been exploring questions about how art can be collected, organised an shared. How might CAS artists make their individual and collective works accessible to […]
Stitching Poetry
Work in progress. ‘Wildness Call Forth The Night’ 18th February Today I stitched page two. It felt different. The needle pierced the paper as if it were my skin. Paper thin skin. For paper, it’s actually quite thick and the eruption of paper on the underside quite violent as the needle breaks the surface. As […]
Knowledge and Material
What is the ‘fabric of knowledge’? I wondered. This thought arrived… Fabric is woven from truth but the fabric is not THE truth. It could have been woven in a different pattern and selection. To know the truth, we must know the choices we are making when responding to raw material. Take for example the material of […]
86 (everyday) Faces
I’ve been told I’m photogenic but I always plaster on a smile just in case. If you look at me, I will smile. If I don’t feel like smiling, often I won’t go out. It’s not so much that the smile is a lie but that it is what I draw up from myself to […]
The language of the body
On Friday 7 July at our monthly CAS gathering, Kimvi relayed her experiences and explorations of ‘Performance As Medium: You Are Enough’. Artists present were invited to respond blind (from their own starting point). With me, I brought clay rich mud and memories of earthy landscapes. I am learning the language of the body. The body of me and […]
The Broken Poetz make me re-think hip hop with every new release
The Broken Poetz are refreshingly unapologetic when it comes to sharing the thoughts in their heads, drawing inspiration from their own lives, and telling it how they see it. Their music is honest, frank, thoughtful and heartfelt, but ballsy too. This is more true than ever with the release of their fourth album ‘Soul Searching’. […]
“Illustrate Your Wierdness”
Expansion (after contraction) Responding to an invitation by artist Dawn Evans Two great danes in a large house miniaturise us. In altogether more familiar proportions we gather in the garden and are invited to select a prompt from a box. ‘Design a throne‘ says mine. A throne is for sitting on. I find an apple tree […]
Resonance and Entanglement
The space defined by the rattle of a spinning rock vibrating. Clattering noise: a pleasing sound, but the resonance belongs to the inside of the bowl, the surface of the olive wood reverberating with impact and concentrating the alchemy between parts. There’s not quite words to describe accurately the sounds: A stone sliding momentously along the floor. […]
Material and Imagined Phenomena
Instead of there being a separation of subject and object, there is an entanglement of subject and object, which is called the “phenomenon.” – Karen Barad This investigation began when Yonat (CAS artist) was inspired by an interview with Karen Barad about ‘The Material Imagination’. It re-orders the traditional view of time, space, and matter. When she shared it with […]
