I wanted to bring together poetry and place by embedding words in landscape. Much of my art making involves walking and exploring boundaries between the digital and the analogue, online and offline, words as performance and as text. I am interested in art as research, art as adventure and the outdoors as art. This brought… Read More Walking Poem
Social distancing was introduced to the UK around March 17, 2020 On the basis that art and performance can be used as research, to explore and express personal experience, I wondered what would happen if I walked through Carlisle town centre maintaining 2m social distancing, but do it as performance, choreographed like a dance or… Read More Performing Distancing
Art as Research. Research as Art.… Read More Art as Research
A post about work by MOMA, the Museum of Modern Art in the USA, about art as a form of discourse, experiential learning, research and political activism.… Read More MOMA – Art as discourse, experiential learning and research.
Joshua Dudley Greer – photogrpher. Very evocative images of America.… Read More American Histories – Joshua Dudley Greer Photographer
I visited the Cumbria University staff show and was drawn to this work by the artistic partnership Snæbjörnsdóttir/Wilson. It captured a combination of the outdoors as art and art as research, showing a long-established mode of working combining the outdoors, art and research.… Read More Feral Attraction – outdoors as / art / as research
Where is this ? N 54.56’06.005″ W 002.47’31.575′ was spot in a field I visted in 2015. This is an image created as part of an art as research project I did to explore how we perceive online and offline spaces. My old Sony phone gave me a fix through GPS to give me my… Read More Sponsored Spot #1
Using art as research to explore and express bird flight through drawing and poetry. Weekend April 26-26, 2020. Chris Reed.… Read More What the Bird Said
A piece exploring ideas about masculinity, empathy and cruelty and art as research.… Read More Research Issues – Correlation and Causation
This is a post about French conceptual artist Salomé-Charlotte Camors. She uses art as research and says ‘Research is fundamental in my work – probably more than technics because the meaning is the only thing that really matters to me and I have to transcribe this meaning in my work in an understandable way for the viewer.’… Read More Reflective Locations