“Everything is connected. Connectivity is going to be the key to addressing these issues, like contaminants and climate change. They’re not just about contaminants on your plate. They’re not just about the ice depleting. They’re about the issue of humanity. What we do every day – whether you live in Mexico, the United States, Russia, […]
Dwelling in the Passage: Currents that Were + Weave a Way Through is a text written for CCA Annex in tandem with and as a response to Ailbhe Ní Bhriain’s recent exhibition at the CCA, An Experiment with Time, Sat 5 February — Sat 19 March 2022. The text explores many of the themes and […]
REVOLUTIONARY LETTER #53 SAN FRANCISCO NOTE I think I’ll stay on this earthquake fault near this still-active volcano in this armed fortress facing a dying ocean & covered w/dirt while the streets burn up & the rocks fly & pepper gas lays us out cause that’s where my friends are, you bastards, not that […]
my head tips from the highest ridge of the present’s catastrophe into sleep. i am dreaming of different times: al andalus, weimar, pre-1948 jerusalem…of the messy splendour of a shared world that reveals itself like an illustrated manuscript, or a jewel, or the layers of enchanted fashions in the street. in dreaming my eyes are […]
Poems should echo and re-echo against each other. They should create resonances. They cannot live alone, anymore than we can. – Jack Spicer Our culture sees anyone at an economic, social or psychological vortex as a figure of despair. Despair informs all social dealings with them. It is impossible to show this despair is part […]
To Make (Our) Work Song is a film installation that explores the intimate relationship between manual labour and song, and the possibility of creating oral traditions today. Inspired by the Scottish Gaelic ‘Waulking Song’, the project collaboratively creates a new ‘work song’. It examines the traditional role of women in labour and explores ways to […]
