I come across exciting images frequently. I very much liked the first video clip I posted - the Polish singer. A musician friend posted it on their facebook page. See that blog comment for my thoughts on it.
• What excites you about your chosen area of Creative Practice? Why have you chosen to study it further? I chose Fine Art as it won't restrict my creativity. I'm interested in many things, sometimes 3D, occasionally 2D, often live, often concerned with movement, sound and performance. I have approached my art from a performance perspective and also from a theatre design perspective. I'm also from a family of 2D artists. With these multiple influences I feel that I need the freedom to access any dicipline, from the arts and beyond. I chose to do a degree as I want to have people listen to my ideas for 3 days a week and be payed to discuss my ideas enthusiastically and critically. Meeting other creatively diverse people - fellow students - is also important.
• What do you hope to achieve at the end of these 2 years? What would you like to be doing?
I can imagine wanting to pursue this to a BA honours, if I can afford it. What I'm keen to avoid is missing work opportunities through having college commitments - I do already seek and sometimes get work as a creative practitioner. I am part of three (or two and a half) producions for the 'festival of desperation' this weekend, tho not paid I'm keen to get to know the Desperate Men and find out if there's more I can do with them in future. This is a strong area of interest for me. I'd like to continue with performance based and site specific art work. I'm currently thinking mostly about clowning in various guises and want to do a solo street show. I'm interested in where popular performance might meet Fine Art amongst other things.
• What sorts of things have you written about and/or researched specfically before? E.g are you particularly interested in a specific area, issue, theme, genre, subculture, type of design etc? As above! Performance, performance art, live art, site specific art, community art, interactive art/performance, circus - specifically slack rope at present, street theatre, busking, theatre design, mask work, dance, bike tricks/dance, bicycle decorating, mapping, environmental issues, gender issues, social issues... I'm also very interested in food politics, wild food, herbal medicine, seeds, hybrid seeds, heritage plants and related issues. I worked a lot on these subjects, setting up a community group and putting on events - gaining national coverage on prime time telly! It wouldn't be a suprise to me if I try to link art and seeds at some point.
• What excites you now? What sorts of arts, design, performance, media, spectacles etc do you go & see/take part in? What do you read? What feeds your interests?
I am part of a mini-bike dance troupe, I'm learning slack rope, I've been helping out with the scenography at the Invisible Circus, also helping in other ways (I was part of a human arcade machine at their last spectacular). I was one of the lead artists for the cycle carnival. I conceived and built 'The Increadible Tandemonium' and lead the Noisy Bike Parade.The Tandemonium was intended to be automata - using the force generated by the pedals (or wind, pressure on the seat and handlebars or revolutions of the wheels etc) to make music by automated means. A one woman bike band. As a prototype it was absolutely excellent, now I need to make the automata part a lot stronger. I received the dubious honour of winning gold and silver in the 'most impractical bike' category at the carnival for the tandemonium and for the elvises - four acrobats on a bike - the front acrobat had moving legs! I also love seeing visual art and am interested in the posibility's afforded by working with light and colour. I am looking forward to starting my mapping project - attaching paint to a bike and cycling it around town, I would like to see many people with colour bikes showing us where bikes interact with the world, how different people use the built environment and where they come together and part again. This would ideally be a temporary piece, documented by photographs and it should involve as many members of the public as possible. My recent bedside reading has included a text book on the language of humour, an academic study of street performance, a very basic book on conjouring and sleight of hand, Vicram Seth's travellog of china and tibet - I'm a big fan of his work, texts on eco-feminsm (if I really can't sleep then a chapter of this normally does the trick...), Audren Niffenegers latest novel - not as good as 'The time travellers wife', and lots of childrens books. I have also just read an article about Marina Abramovic and she's the person I most want to research right now.
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