writer – artist – teacher
this year’s Christmas card has gone out by airmail, inland mail, and by email …
best wishes, Mark xx
sources or suggestions from:
The Annunciation to the Shepherds, Emerson-White Hours, Master of the Houghton Miniatures.
Adoration of the Kings, Jacopo Bassano.
Annunciation to the Shepherds, Hours of René d’Anjou, Egerton Master.
Mystic Nativity, Sandro Botticelli.
The Annunciation to the Shepherds, Book of Hours, Bedford Master.
Mark the Evangelist, Mstislav Gospel.
what remains and is to come
dialogue, performance, installation, research
www.whatremains2.wordpress.
what remains and is to come is an ongoing collaboration between Katrina Brown www.katrinabrown.net/ and Rosanna Irvine www.rosanna-irvine.co.uk in which they work with paper charcoal body and digital technologies; during the week of 12 December they will continue working and have invited me to participate in dialogue with them as writer and another eye or body in the space
through the week we will be focusing around the materiality of breath, the ‘emotional’ body, and how language might interface with or emerge through these explorations
we are inviting a few people to a sharing of work following our week and
to dialogue with us after the event over tea and mince pies!!
at Harberton Parish Hall on Friday 16 December at 3pm;
please let us know if you plan to attend
Directions:
Harberton Parish Hall is situated about three miles to the south-west of Totnes. Take the A381 out of Totnes (towards Kingsbridge). After approx 1.5 miles turn right – signpost to Harberton. When in the village, take a right turn sign-posted ‘Parish Hall.’ The hall is about 300 metres up the hill on the left. There is ample parking on the hall site.
Harberton Parish Hall: Tristford Road Harberton Totnes TQ9 7SE
A piece of mine was included in the Heist Exhibition, curated by Foundspace (Felicity Shillingford and Gabrielle Hoad) in the Guildhall Shopping Centre in Exeter. They appropriated one of the publications, #myLife Event {background from the Fireplace Gallery in Plymouth. There is an archive of all the items they stole, borrowed or faked at Heist – Archive.
I am working on a contribution for this project organised by Gareth Ballyn. A number of artists, community groups, and other individuals are making replicas or copies or versions of specific garments. These will be presented at Oldway Mansion later this month to mark the 200th anniversary of the birth of engineer Isaac Singer of the sewing machine company.
For my version, I am using a pattern my mother used to make a jacket for my father in about 1958. She made it in a red / brown plaid wool fabric and he had it up until his death in 2004.
see even feed site for more details
On Sunday October 16th, I am taking part in Electronic Voice Phenomena at the Bluecoat Liverpool. Organised by Mercy with support from Mark Greenwood, the event begins at 2030hrs and will include performances and presentations by Holly Pester, Nathan Jones, Emma Bennett and Soriah.
My contribution is:
Voice Recognition: a Play (after Gertrude Stein, William Shakespeare and Rolf Harris)
In the winter of 1969-70 Rolf Harris had a number one hit in the UK and Ireland with ‘Two Little Boys’. Some time after this my cousin and I were pressed to sing the song together, to be recorded by a visiting American relation. The scene has remained with me. It was my first encounter with my recorded voice, and is wrapped up with questions of identity, difference, and becoming. It also raises questions of what may be found in the reproduction of spoken or sung text. What is this unique trace? Who do we hear here?