February 2011
The Pollinator Frocks Project (PFP) has just returned from New Zealand where it was part of the Eco Sapiens SCANZ event. A link to the SCANZ website with all of the details is on the PFP project page. Video clips from the SCANZ residency and exhibition, which included performative public video ‘walk abouts’ in Pukekura Park and Botanic Gardens, can be viewed on You Tube:
Thanks to Wales Arts International who supported the SCANZ residency, exhibition and symposium.
Other news is that Wonder Chamber is now in development with one of the UKs leading organizations for photography and lens-based arts, Ffotogallery, and I am working with Ffotogallery director and curator David Drake towards a show for 2012. Wonder Chamber includes new and previously un-exhibited art works in addition to the consolidation of projects that have been in development for the past few years.
Variance, made in collaboration with Natasha McEnroe, curator of the UCL Francis Galton Collection, is in post-production and will be ready for exhibition in 2012.
Finally, the artist Susan Aldworth has been made Senior Research Associate in The School of Research and Postgraduate Studies at the Dynevor Centre for Art, Design and Media at Swansea Metropolitan University. This is the same school in which I am a Reader in Art and Science Interactions and the appointment will, among other things, allow Susan and I to develop joint practice-based research into intersections between embodiment, art and philosophy. The research will be driven by our joint interest in neuroscience and mind-body discourses and will be realised through a series of time-based artworks sited in exhibition and symposia contexts in Britain and Europe provisionally titled SenseLess.