Web-based projects, usually consisting of regularly updated durational projects on social media platforms and exploring ways of being in the new public space they create.
A daily diary blog edited to remove all the content apart from verbs, or adjectives, or nouns that I am keeping (so far) for the duration of my residency at Can Serrat. Performing the neurotic, self-evaluative subjectivity of net-worked existence, the diary is a humorous take on the idea of the artist as always ‘on’, always working and always communicating- regardless of content.
Woman Nature Alone is an online video project (and single channel work) made during a residency at Connecticut’s I-Park. Using titles taken from stock video sites corresponding to the key words ‘woman’, ‘nature’ and ‘alone’ as the starting point for my daily work, I filmed myself performing each action described in the title. The result is a collection of ‘shot form’* films, single take, with no editing and camera movement, presented to the viewer as a ‘performance for one’*.
Thanks to James Benning for his observations on the topic.
A blog recording my musings on whatever it is I'm thinking about at the moment, transcribed using MacSpeech Dictate. "Language doesn't need to make sense as long as its communicating". Carl Andre spoke of trying “to boil out the grammar’ as a political position, since stripping syntax away from language sheds it of its associative powers as used and abused in politics, advertising the media. Here the computer-as-really-dumb-recording-device boils in its own cack-handed grammar, making a parody of language, and of the need to communicate- whether or not anyone’s listening- which underlies the blogging phenomenon.
For two months in 2008, I used my friends’ Facebook status updates to write a weekly diary which I spoke to camera and uploaded to Youtube, as a video blog. I was interested in enacting the terminally enmeshed subjectivity that the ‘complex clouds of social relationships’ of both blogging and Facebook give rise to. Appearing in the same public media realm it originated from, this project was also an attempt to work with new forms of socialisation and public space: the new public wall, sprayed with people’s self-reflective graffitti.
A project started in 1999 and kept intermittently until 2007, Inanima is a visual list of the everyday objects that surrounded me, recorded in simple black and white line drawings. Organised into years and months the drawings become an non-hierarchical archive of the stuff that surrounds us, with personal objects displayed alongside mundane, throwaway ones. A possible infinity of stuff is hinted at, with this being simply a sample from an ungraspable whole.
