Interruptions from the morning of Residency day 8

An interruption made around language, rhizomatic thinking, music lyrics and birthday possibilities 

Helen Clark joins Andrew Conroy to talk photography, walking and the different positions of the flâneur and fugere, movement or stasis in spaces, class, voyeurism and cultural capital

other researchers join in the discussions

copying was an act of reproduction; now it is nominated as an act of creation

Today in Jessop West foyer, artists Rachel Smith and Madeleine Walton are copying, and responding to Bartleby the Scrivener the novella by Herman Melville. 

They are interested in a variety of conceptual writing strategies as well as following the observations of Roland Barthes: 

Has it never happened, as you were reading a book, that you kept stopping as you read, not because you weren't interested, but because you were: because of a flow of ideas, stimuli, associations? In a word, haven't you ever happened to read while looking up from your book? 

While typing the distractions and sounds from the foyer will possibly seep into the typed work

Come along and interrupt 

Become part of the typed distraction in the work, or join in and take your turn with a vintage typewriter 

Residency day 1

A successful day of work, conversation, and plenty of interesting interruptions:

Rachel Smith present in Jessop West foyer

Exploring rhizomatic connections across my practice 

while discussing the idea of artist zines and teach-out activities with Rachel Stenner

 An interruption with Terence Dunne about film, and ongoing discussions with Barry Greenwood and Emma Frances O'Connor about how to conduct a polite interruption

Reading about Deleuze and ideas about becoming revolutionary through a failure of concentration, absent minded distraction (or might that include an interruption?)

Emma Bolland interrupting and working in preparation for next weeks fan-subbing performance where we will be subtitling film clips and narrating our own misunderstandings