One Minute Video Screenings

Hi All, If you're in the UK neighbourhood this month, three of my short (i.e. 60 second) videos will be included in  various programmes for the One Minute Artists Moving Image Festival in Caernarfon, Wales. It happens  February 23-25 and it's all curated by the fabulous Kerry Baldry. My 3 titles, Terminator (2012), Hello Stranger (2014) and Anthropocene Antiphony (2017) will be in good company with well over a hundred eclectic and exciting works and best of all, they're all guaranteed to be only 1 minute long!

In Terminator, the ‘Activist’, in a symbolic act of resistance against the forces of ‘terminator’ seed technology, deposits a land mine of heirloom seeds, helping to turn an ordinary city lot into a potential urban sanctuary.

Hello Stranger features my performance alter ego Madillah, a transcultural symbol, an obscurely iconic other, whose image reaches out from an un-named time and place inviting the viewer to do the same: to become engaged an on-going, real time performance of examining difference and finding likeness.

Anthropocene Antiphony is a lament, an elegy, or maybe even a dirge. A 'call & response ' catalogue of fake news, alternative truths, disappearing ecosystems, forced migrations, spiking temperatures, rising tides and twitter storms, i.e. all the wonders and terrors of our unintended epoch.

Please visit the website for times and more detailed info http://oneminutenorthwales.com/home/4593903713 
and if you get a chance to catch any of the screenings, drop me a line and let me know what you think. xs      

The Walk, The Talk... Recent Photos from the DTES

The ideas, the issues, the actors, the users, front line workers, advocates, the developers, the abusers, safe spaces, P3's, deep affordability, at risk, area plans, zones of exclusion, the Tennant's Union, capital incubation, un-ceded, un-reported, under-funded, Tent City, high density, low market value, strata corps, City Hall, start-ups, lock-outs, community consultation, reconciliation, reno-viction, Neighbourhood Watch, B.I.A.'s, Rent-a-Cops, Pigeon Park, Pidgin Restaurant, the slum lords, the social mix, cultural capital, demo-victions, changing demographics, kinship, achieved characteristics, emotional labour, impact assessment, social enterprise, social housing, access, entitlement, poverty tourism... 

Soft Causality

Threshold

Precarious

Other Foot

Branded

Turning a Corner 

Unceded

Nobodies (MMIW)

Emotional Labour

Post-

Feedback Loop

Lived Experience

Guilty Bystander

Stakeholder

Inclusiveness

Fluid Identities

Infrastructure

Zone of Exclusion

Tech Hub (Build to Code)

Absentee Owner

On Location

Fenced In

Gauntlet

Waterfront Views

Water Is Life

Objective

Crisis? What Crisis?

Subjective

Hands Free

Intersectionality

Peak Vancouver

Climactic

The Faithful & The Ready

Sea Change: New images from either side of the Adriatic

Hi all, still in the thick of editing the documentation and interview footage from our time working at the Torre de Moro Migrant Centre. We hope to be able to share some of the stories we were fortunate enough to be entrusted with soon. In the mean time, here's another selection of images that explore the emotional landscape and/or political climate of some of the places we moved through on our recent travels. To paraphrase Miran Norderland once again, " ...when interconnected risks become the new normal, what can happen to 'them' can easily happen to 'us'.