A collaborative photographic project documenting the, over-800, libraries that have closed in the UK since 2010 (under this Tory government). I will publish a list of the libraries and their, defunct, addresses, with an invitation for anyone/everyone to photograph the buildings or sites and share them with me as part of the project, as a fully credited collaborator. These images could be a series of zines, a book, a video, an exhibition, or all of them.
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Four Branches /
A series of medium-format photographs of sites, now, from The Four Branches of the Mabinogion (Welsh Folklore).
Origami Extreme /
Take a sheet of any size screw-up-able material and screw it up into a ball.
Take a photo.
Flatten it out again and trace over every fold and crease line with a fine-liner pen.
The reference photo and the lines on the piece of paper then exist as some sort of extreme (impossible?) origami proposition.
Burning Guitar /
An electric guitar, on a stand, plugged into an amplifier, feeding back, doused in a flammable liquid and set on fire.
This could be a performance that later becomes a video, sound work, and/or photograph.
New Work - 'So Good!' /
Mid-to-large scale sculptural renderings of the shocked-face, hand clap, high-five, and fire emojis.
A second part to this work (maybe the entire work..) is a photograph of these works posted on Instagram.
Cultural Icon Fire /
This could be a performance, an action, a video, a photograph, or all of them.
Using a flammable liquid or gel, a large pentagram (for example) is drawn on the floor, after dark. This is then set alight.
I have also imagined this as a potential series of ‘round iconography’ burns i.e. do the same with an anarchy symbol, C.N.D., a smiley etc.
A Repeatable Action-Work /
Every artist needs a simple action-work that they can do anywhere, anytime (for example, on arrival somewhere), which transforms a fairly modest moment into a moment of creativity, capturing something of that moment and lending it significance (even if it doesn’t really have any).
Something like:
Balling/screwing-up a blank piece of A4 paper, then photographing it in-situ.
Keeping the disposable cup from the first cup of coffee you drink in a new destination.
Sending a postcard to your dead Grandmother’s last address.
In some ways, it doesn’t really matter what the action is, it’s just a physical representation of a moment. The success of a work like this exists in the repetition. One balled-up and photographed piece of A4 is photograph of a piece of trash, whereas 100 photographs of balled-up pieces of A4 in different locations becomes a marker of time.