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Soil Marking (2021) 

How Things Come to Settle on the Earth (Video Still) (2021)

Exhibited at Southwark Park Galleries, London a part of the RCA PGR show Unruly Encounters, March 18-21, 2022.

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Giuseppe Penone “Breath 5″ (1978)

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Care Letter 

https://vimeo.com/651552797/e851afff71

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Neolithic skull carving (WIP)

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22.11.2021 MRes Research

Textual: “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction” - Walter Benjamin

Visual: Bruce Nauman creating work in his studio

Aural: “The Fortunetellers” (2011) Ellie Ga  Performance, running time: 1 hour live narration, video, slide and overhead projections, recorded sound

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22.11.2021 MRes Research

Textual: “On Listening” (2013) Edited by Angus Carlyle and Cathy Lane

Visual: Still from "The Voices of Quarantine (Part 1)" Dir. Georgina Starr

Aural: Tai Chi master Da Liu describes in one of his books Taoist breathing "the sounds of hu, shi,... blowing and breathing with an open mouth... evoking harmony." - Le Guin, Ursula K. (1992) Dancing at the Edge of the World. London: Paladin. p.  186 

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15.11.2021 MRes Research

Textual: “On Lies, Secrets and Silence” Adrienne Rich

Visual: Joana Escoval, Neither bounded nor static, 2016. Wood, acupuncture needle, 30 x 10 x 10 cm.

https://www.art-agenda.com/criticism/240328/ways-of-the-hand

Aural: “Tongues” Tanya Tagaq 

#MRes #Research

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15.11.2021 MRes Research

Textual: “Black Utopias: Speculative Life and the Music of Other Worlds” Jayna Brown

Visual: Pile of soil

Aural: “Freeing the Voice” Marina Abramovic

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08.11.2021 MRes Research

Textual: “Beverly Buchanan: Marsh Ruins” (2021) By Amelia Groom

Visual: Neolithic clay skulls

Aural: 4′33″ by John Cage performed by David Tudor

Link to video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HypmW4Yd7SY 

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01.11.2021 MRes Research

Textual: “Text, Silence, Performance” (1986) Ursula K. Le Guin

Visual: Still from "Sisters with Transisters" 2020 documentary film directed by Lisa Rovner

Aural: “She Who” Judy Grahn 

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25.10.2021 MRes Research

Textual: Audre Lorde reads Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic As Power Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWmq9gw4Rq0

Visual: Petrit Halilaj, ‘Kosterc (CH)’ (2011) Soil, grass, metal container. Presentation at Art Basel 2011.

Aural: Memoria (2021) written and directed by Apichatpong Weerasethakul Link to trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMEb0cgyVww

#MREs #Research

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Care Letter On-going project as part of RCA

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18.10.2021 MRes Research 

Textual: Lysistrata - Aristophanes (411 BC)

Visual: TEAC A-3340S 

Aural: Faust - Anne Imhof and Eliza Douglas (2017)

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11.10.2021 MRes Research

Textual: The Soundscape - R. Murray Shafer

Visual: Earth Room - Walter de Maria (1977)

Aural: I am Sitting in a Room - Alvin Lucier (1981)

#MRes #Research

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04.10.2021 MRes Research 

Textual: Transmaterialities - Karen Barad (2015)

Visual: Sahara Circle - Richard Long (1988)

Aural: Rock Piece - Pauline Oliveros (1979)

#MRes #Research

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Freeing the Voice (1976)

Marina Abramovic

#performance art #performance #endurance

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Earth Room (1977)

Walter de Maria