Residency Day 7

Helen Frank, busy working through constraint. 

Pushing language to its limit of comprehensibility. 

Asemic words, redrawing the produced shapes

Discussions around cutting together-apart, Schrodinger's cat, many worlds theory, and the things that exist between the hyphen. (The joining action of artistic collaboration - reaching across the gap to form a practice in the space between)

Residency day 5 work in progress

Work passed back and forth between Rachel Smith and Bryan Eccleshall has initiated some tangential thinking

We live in a world where there is more and more information and less and less meaning

Today I will be continuing my residency in Jessop West foyer.

Bryan Eccleshall will be with me making additions to his Digital Rain collages live in the foyer. 
I will be interrupting him by adding diagrammatic thoughts into the images he makes and passing the images back and forth 

Please come along and interrupt as the conversations will no doubt influence the work that gets made

Bryan Eccleshall is an artist who works across disciplines. The works that make up Digital Rain draw on art history, current affairs, classical myth, and religion but also reflect his interest in 1970s dystopian science fiction and pop culture. Images are taken indiscriminately from the internet and collided with one another and with photographs of Eccleshall’s own work. The project began as an exploration of the issues surrounding Europe's so-called refugee crisis, but it has expanded to encompass many other subjects. The resulting work is complex and baffling, not least to its maker. The works might be thought of as latter-day conversation pieces. The collection currently contains over six hundred images. The work was recently exhibited at the Green Rooms Hotel in London.

An ERRANT, or Improper Form

This morning I am working in the foyer at Jessop West - please interrupt me.

This afternoon from 1.30pm I am looking forward to welcoming Emma Bolland. She and I are collaborating on a piece of work titled An ERRANT, or Improper Form

We will be producing speculative narratives by writing directly into the timelines of projected films. These are films we have not watched before and without sound. Mimicking modes of ‘fansubbing’ (the phenomenon whereby collaborative groups of amateur translators subtitle and stream material as diverse as Anime, or Game of Thrones, within hours of its first broadcast, often using formal experimentation and interventionist translator notes), we will produce new and experimental text narratives which will interrupt the visual nature of the film clips. 

‘Fansubbing is defined as ‘improper’[…] however, the errancy of fansubbing exceeds this definitional parameter, also manifesting in more explicit, intentional forms of disobedience and irregularity.’

Rachel Smith

Emma Bolland