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Making Time as book
Making Time made a book! It’s a preserving cookbook, collection of notes and correspondences, set of drawings, reflection on the project so far and a few more things in between. We did it all by hand, from producing content to (riso) printing to cutting and stitching, which meant it took…
Micro-economies and self-publishing in Mexico
Some months ago I was invited to join Marjetica Potrč’s ‘Design for the Living World’ social design class in Mexico. I worked with them in Belgrade a few years ago, where I was struck by their total immersion of pedagogy with life and social action (they’ve just been nominated for a…
Sitting around digital fires | (no)action(no)space in Schloss—Post
Last year I took part in the beginnings of (no)action(no)space, a collaborative research platform distributed over time and space, involving a shifting group of about 7 artists and initiated by Laura Bernhardt. We first gathered around a ‘real’ fire at the Bodensee lake in spring; some months later these shared conversations and…
Paris project
In the second half of 2015 I was a resident at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris, beginning research for a new project, learning French and helping out at atelier d’architecture autogerée’s R-Urban community resilience project (currently facing down the bulldozers). Here’s the blog for that slowly percolating work, more coming…
Plan Bienen in un 9.1
Plan Bienen, a project I’ve been developing since last year with Sumugan Sivanesan in Berlin, has led to a text co-written for the forthcoming edition of un Magazine 9.1 – for those of you South of the border it’s being launched in Melbourne on Thurs 11 June, 6pm at Gertrude Contemporary.
Making Time at Artspace
Last month the NSW Visual Arts Fellowship (Emerging) opened at Artspace. As a finalist in the show – which continues until 12 Dec – I’ve been presenting Making Time in various locations in Woolloomooloo, working with the Reg Murphy Activity Club in October, and this Sunday, with the Woolloomooloo Community Garden just around the corner.…
Urban Incubator, Belgrade
As a visiting guest of ‘Belgrade – The Toolkit Project‘, part of the Goethe Institute’s Urban Incubator initiative, last week I gave a talk at Savamala’s KM8 about my recent work at Akrai residency in Sicily. The Toolkit Project is led by Marjetica Potrč and her students from the ‘Design…
mapping Yurt Empire
The past 2 weeks have seen me mapping away for Yurt Empire – a rogue housing project and site-specific encounter planned for November 2013. This slow-growth project (involving 22 other artists) recently came together for its third development Lab, focused on site brokering, infrastructure and yurt design, and formulating a…
Tilting at Windmills
In a new collaboration, Jennifer Hamilton and I recently spent 2 weeks in residence in a historic cottage in The Rocks, thinking about human-weather relations, misrecognition and language, in the spirit of colonial astronomer William Dawes. It was part of The Rocks Windmill program, and you can read more about…
Making Time: A Matter of Life and Death
Making Time is coming to Sydney! As part of Performance Space’s upcoming ‘Matters of Life and Death’ program, Making Time will be in residence at Carriageworks and the Eveleigh Farmer’s Market from Feb 23 – Mar 9, 2013. Each Saturday between 8am – 1pm we’ll be setting up a space…