Emily Carr University of Art and Design

Faculty Member, Faculty of Culture and Community

Associate Professor

About

I work on a seemingly ever multiplying set of urban spatial conjunctions between sound, art, architecture, cinema. Although, at this minute, I am particularly hooked on the ways that affects and ideologies appear to coincide  in different preceptions and memories - especially kinesthetic memories - I think what it is all animated by is a longing to figure in the aesthetics of modern, urban sociability.

I like writing and, with it, I like to attempt to inhabit those coincidences of ideology with affect in recounting moments of embarrassment, distraction, deceit, errors in judgment and other, minor emotional states. I am less gripped by the fiercely cartographic senses, like anger and love, but also more gripped by the often unnameable conditions provoked by art-framed encounters with the world.

At the moment I am working a piece of writing for Maria Fusco's Cosey Complex at the ICA at the end of March. Susceptibility is the theme, and a liking (entertaining, sustaining and self destructive) for the manipulative. Something suburban featuring Celia Johnson,  Martin LaSalle and a little post-hippy psycho-chic. The title at the moment is 'Still Life', from a Noel Coward trilogy. But I may go for the much cornier 'Because, my weakness'.

(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpV4lxZXqYo - It took me a little while to realize that they were serious.)

Also trialling some thoughts for a piece to accompany an exhibition I am working on with Cylena Simmonds at the Drawing Room ('Best Laid Plans'). The title of the piece is 'The Garment of Surprise'. It has more title than content at the moment though. It is to be something about copying and narcissism, and how the relations between these figure some kind of futurology.