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#windowontheworld #soundon🔊

#windowontheworld #soundon🔊

#bodybags #notbodybags #archivalhistories

#bodybags #notbodybags #archivalhistories

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This small suspension bridge has been here for ove

This small suspension bridge has been here for over 150yrs, built in 1836. If you looked at this image in the early 1900’s you would look through the arch to train tracks and to the left you would see a large saw mill.

This mornings conundrum: I’m drawn back to ‘th

This mornings conundrum: I’m drawn back to ‘the Prisoner’. What if I change the word ‘number’ on this badge to statistic? In the TV series a number was assigned to each character to use instead of their name. This represented the dehumanisation of the individual; no names, just numbers. So my question to myself this morning: Is this the same with the use of statistics? Stats are everywhere these days! When stats are applied to humans do we become a number in a sea of numbers? Can all our individual traits, differences etc be accounted for? When a number becomes a statistic, does it also retain the characteristics of a number? Are we all playing a game of chance? If I ( my identifying number) becomes a statistic does it follow that I am in danger of loosing my individual identity? Will i still be able to make my own choices or decisions? Does the pull of the pool become so great that ‘the path of least resistance’ theory kicks in so I ‘go with the flow’ rather than resist the current and evaluate myself, the person.

When we ( I always find myself using ‘we’ instead of ‘I’ because there were 12 children in our family and my parents, at times, had to organise us as a group) children had a problem or issue we needed help, we would often go to Dad. After explaining the problem to him, more often than not, his answer would be “ Reason it out for yourself” - that’s were am this morning - trying to reason it out.

ANSWER: I will make a new badge which says “ Reason it out for yourself” 👍

#pineapple #plantholdetinwindow

#pineapple #plantholdetinwindow

From the series: My Fathers Bookcase: Lesson For T

From the series: My Fathers Bookcase: Lesson For Today

I’m going to intermittently post images of some books from Dad’s bookcases. He mostly read historical biographies but had a lot of pamphlets and political books from small publishing houses/printing presses. I photographed a lot of them the last time I was home; some purely for the covers ( cool graphics) and some for their subject matter. Tonight the cover of Thomas Spence drew me in. I knew nothing about him until I looked his name up. Now I want to find out more.

“Through a poverty-stricken and persecuted life Thomas Spence stuck to his 'Plan' for a free and equal world. He spent his days in London from 1792 carting his pamphlets about for sale and providing a focal point for anyone with a dislike of aristocrats, landlords, the exploitation of children and oppression of all kinds. His is a story of radicalism from below.

#davidshringley #wellcomeinstitute

#davidshringley #wellcomeinstitute

#nightandday #longviews #saturdaynightsundaymornin

#nightandday #longviews #saturdaynightsundaymorning #negativespace

#fridaynight #outside #lookingin #wherehaveallthem

#fridaynight #outside #lookingin #wherehaveallthemasksgone

Grateful that film festivals around the world are

Grateful that film festivals around the world are still finding ways to select and screen artist’s films in these challenging times. T’internet has its advantages 🙏

“Dialogue (2021) emerges from my earlier films, No More (2013) and Broadcast (2016), both made with different sets of archive news footage and personal family, memorabilia. In Dialogue, these two films sit side beside on a single screen and talk too, and about each other. The ‘dialogue’ that emerges fills in the missing pieces of the jigsaw puzzle, 50 years after my mother give her first broadcast interview to an ABC film crew. “

More new work currently under construction for my solo show at Belfast Exposed in January. Watch this space 🤗

#sound #ballhitsracket

#sound #ballhitsracket

#tenticles #octupus

#tenticles #octupus

#earlierthisevening #burningdownthehouse #stopmaki

#earlierthisevening #burningdownthehouse #stopmakingsense #talkinheads #thiscrazyworld #continuetoaskquestions

#filminglocation #diggingdeep

#filminglocation #diggingdeep

1. Coloured etching from 1832 by Johann Benedikt W

1. Coloured etching from 1832 by Johann Benedikt Wunder depicting “Cholera Prevention Man”. The caption reads “A man barricades himself in with a panoply of protections” ( love how he still got his pipe lit underneath the mask lol )
2. A coloured etching by Robert Cruikshank depicting a distressed cholera patient experimenting with various remedies, ca 1832 #archivalimages #historyinpictures

#memorytesting #whatcoulditbe?#beenherebefore #rec

#memorytesting #whatcoulditbe?#beenherebefore #recognisethemovesandlearn

#beafraidbeveryafraid #lightingupthenight #vincent

#beafraidbeveryafraid #lightingupthenight #vincentpricelaugh

I am thrilled that my film “Dialogue( No More, 2

I am thrilled that my film “Dialogue( No More, 2013, Broadcast, 2016) Diptych, 2021 ” will be part of “Carte Blanche”, a programme (23rd November at 7pm) in Vivienne Dick’s “Reél sans être reél” retrospective (18 - 28 November) at Jeu de Paume Paris.

With thanks to @viviennedick and @valerieconnorirl for including this film to screen with 4 other artists films and to @zwedochka for assisting with the French translation for the subtitles. 👏👏👍much appreciated.

la cinéaste Vivienne Dick, figure clé du courant no wave, est à l'honneur au Jeu de Paume : projections, masterclass, performances, rencontres & co. Entrez dans l’univers punk, féministe, humaniste et musical de cette artiste hors norme.
Programmation: Vivienne Dick et Valerie Connor

Vivienne Dick, is a key figure of the no wave movement currently in the spotlight at the Jeu de Paume: projections, masterclass, performances, meetings & co. Enter the punk, feminist, humanist and musical universe of this extraordinary artist.

18 - 28 Nov
https://jeudepaume.org/evenement/cinema-viviennedick/...
23rd Nov
https://jeudepaume.org/eve.../carte-blanche-a-vivienne-dick/

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