Dartmoor residency

countdown...

2008-12-11T21:02:00.002+11:00

What a week. Mentally exhausted. Can't concentrate. Struggling to prepare some kind of presentation for the Arts Company Inc. tomorrow.I think it has the potential to be a really interesting event, but just don't feel I've managed to get all the components organised and together. I'm hoping for a lively audience to give me some energy and pull the evening along into curious conversations.Maybe

63 km, 1 tampon and a broken toe

2008-12-08T10:01:00.009+11:00

Well, what a weekend. Durational perforamnce, done. Body and mind, broken. The museum part of the performance went for over 2 hours (I thought it wouldnt possibly go longer than an hour!) during which I broke my little toe. I think it went well. But would love some feedback and critisms from anyone who was there. It was pretty intense and as now seems to be the case my performance's

Performance details and walking route map

2008-12-02T12:12:00.002+11:00

So the time has come, its almost over... exhausted/excited/anxious The performance is a durational piece in 3 flowing stages: Stage 1 - Dartmoor Museum 7pm Friday 5th Dec film/text/spoken word/action/hairdryer Stage 2 - Walking from Museum to Shelly Beach Departing aprox. 9pm Fiday and walking through the night and saturday day, whilst talking to the bush Stage 3 - Shelly Beach aprox. 9pm(

wierd wierd wierd in melbourne

2008-11-17T11:02:00.001+11:00

Monday the 17th November What a weekend. Strange strange strange. So I headed to Melbourne for the Giant Reel 16 mm film festival enduring a 5 and a ½ hour bus/train journey to get there. Arriving in the rather dero looking suburb of Glenroy I wandered around looking for the festival base. Walking down the street I came

working/walking/writing

2008-11-14T11:00:00.000+11:00

Friday 14th November Well the inverter still hasn't been tried out. I discovered that with modern cars full of electronics if the projector doesn’t have a fuse then a power serge could ruin the cars electrics. Having spent much time thinking about what to do about this, I have a few options: buy a separate car battery, use a projector with a fuse (which I don't have), or buy a circuit

typewriter walks and film work

2008-11-05T14:06:00.006+11:00

Here is the second series of typwriter walks and a showreel of film/performance/text experiments... any feedback would be lovely!

workshops, wondering and worry

2008-11-04T13:53:00.002+11:00

'Typewriter walks' lower Glenelg National Park Tuesday 4th November Yesterday I ran a workshop with the school kids, which went quite well. Last night I edited the footage, adding a final layer by reworking some of the text they wrote/dissected/generated and spoke into typed text over the video. It was a really interesting way of learning about

Performance at Balmoral

2008-11-01T14:54:00.001+11:00

Saturday the 1st November Today started with coffee with Nathan (local writer/poet), which was good, but I've had enough of my cold I really cant hear what people are saying or my own voice, which is really frustrating and tiring when your constantly meeting new people – also a slight concern for performance. The performance at balmoral went quite well, I still feel I rushed myself a bit and

a whole week in one

2008-10-31T14:52:00.001+11:00

Friday the 31st Oct Returning from a weekend in Melbourne and moving into the Arts Company inc in Portland late Monday afternoon; this week has been a blip, it escaped me. After a luxurious 3 or 4 days pretty much off, I found it hard to get back into my work, especially with a performance looming and the discovery that I couldn’t get hold of a projector during the week to try work out on.

desert videos and weaving text

2008-10-22T15:48:00.007+11:00

Wednesday the 22nd October Well the weekend was a success. The workshop was fun; I met lots of local artists including Carolyn Rundell. Michael had been in contact with her prior to my arrival as he thought her recent project 'stones streams stories and dreams' would be of interest to me. It's a community cultural development project that " explored the relationship between the people and the

Frustrations and film fun

2008-10-17T12:42:00.000+11:00

Friday the 17th October Yesterday didn’t seem that productive. Although I seemed to have been working all day everyday, this week has gone fast and I don’t feel like I've got much done, time suddenly seems to be slipping away a bit. Yesterday I did pick up a 16 mm projector and a few reels of old films though (and a dead kangaroo's tail on the way), fun fun fun. Didn’t actually get to play with

Weaving

2008-10-15T12:41:00.000+11:00

Wednesday the 15th October Basket weaving workshop in Hamilton today. The indigenous lady teaching us told us stories about her people and how she learnt to weave, as she wove, and this is how we were to learn: by the end of her story we should know how to weave. I really liked this technique of story telling to teach, and the combination of repetitive action entangled with words washing over

Bleach, dancing and full moons

2008-10-14T12:40:00.000+11:00

Tuesday the 14th October I cycled into town avoiding the evil magpies, and carrying far to much tech on my back. First thing I put black out material up on the windows, with slogans similar to my tea posters written in giant writing: enabling to see the films on the viewer better and as an arms waving hello gesture. I had lots of fun spiralling strips of 35 mm film into a bottle of bleach,

Tea and cake anyone?

2008-10-13T12:33:00.000+11:00

Monday the 13th October Last week I put posters up round town saying " Hello Dartmoor, I need your help, Come and talk to me- your artist in residence, There will be tea and cakes @ the museum Mondays from 10 am, *please drop in any other time as well". So this morning I headed into Dartmoor armed with Jannette's recipe date and walnut cake. The plan was to chat to people over tea and cakes,

Walking

2008-10-08T13:25:00.002+11:00

Wednesday the 8th October Today I walked from home into Dartmoor village, which is about 8km. Mainly long straight roads; I detoured into the verge and bushes, then spent along time in the pine forest plantations which run parallel to the road. I recorded sounds, took photos and collected things as I went. In the forest I made some videos and collected lots of pine needles to use on the

Tuesday the 7th October

2008-10-07T13:12:00.000+11:00

Tuesday the 7th October Fun day good day people day. Went for a quick walk along paddocks before breakfast, followed by loyal sheep dog. Beautiful morning light, hits the trees perfectly here. All the wood is so translucent it takes on the colours of the sky: this morning a troublesome blue, turning a heap of deadwood such a cold blue. Drove to museum and did a little bit of rearranging,

Monday the 6th October

2008-10-06T13:10:00.002+11:00

Monday the 6th October First day of proper work. Discovered a box of old film equipment in the garage waiting to go to the museum. An exciting find of a super8 camera and projector, an editor, project a scope, and reels and reels of old footage- along with lots of silver backs, small creatures a little like woodlice that like to eat paper. With the museum keys in hand I set off into town laden

Saturday the 4th October

2008-10-04T12:52:00.000+10:00

Saturday the 4th October Today was my first visit to the museum. I drove into Dartmoor village with Michael (the museum owner and my host) and his son Jordy (who's 11). The museum is a beautiful little wooden slat building with a boat on the veranda. It’s a hectic treasure trove, overflowing with bizarre memorabilia, farming machinery and souvenirs of anything that’s happened in Dartmoor's

reflective rantings

2008-09-23T14:26:00.003+10:00

I have just watched the film 'Picnic at Hanging Rock' (Weir, P. 1975). To me it captured an essence, a pure feeling or longing that I have been trying to articulate in my work and felt in life. The inbetween. Our connection with the land, the essence of the earth. That maybe its not black and white, maybe we don’t understand or admit but we have moments of clarity of knowing understanding and

Proposal

2008-07-29T20:13:00.002+10:00

PROJECT DESCRIPTION: Having worked primarily on Dartmoor UK and the near by coast, my discourse explores the landscape: my interaction, longing for and (dis)placement within in it. Dartmoor has been a key site for developing work since at DCA. Physically mapping by connecting locations of work has enabled progression and understanding. During this process I discovered Dartmoor in Australia. This