morepraxis

God? from cheryl lawrie on Vimeo.
I had a call yesterday from Hannah who wanted to throw around some ideas for a service she’s doing around the Japanese earthquake.
It used to be that my first reaction to a disaster like this would be to create a space to acknowledge it, but I’ve been watching some personal [...]

please be gentle with the edges of the world
please be gentle
or do not touch
[from Ernesto Neto's 2010 exhibition at the Hayward Gallery in London]

i turned left at the highway
and walked into the desert.
an act of choice,
both of courage and of cowardice.
i am kept alive not by searching for the oasis
but by not being able to deny
I am alone
thirsty
broken
i give up believing otherwise
i give up …

I had high hopes for Lent this year – and I had a great plan which never ventured past the first step, solely because my particular areas of work have been a very low priority in my overall work and life recently. It’s a repeated story: a lot of my great plans have fallen apart [...]

Emails for the learning group didn’t go out last week, as promised in the last post. This is one of those times when life and work have both taken unexpected turns. I’ll be back in the office Monday, I’ll be sending them out then. Pro…

Email invitations for the curation learning group are going out today. i was just finding some links to start us off and i came across Manifestos for the Future by Hans Ulrich Obrist. This quote on being contemporary struck me as being important not just to the art community…
The impossibility of capturing form in Boetti’s [...]

battle-scarred and tired
we watch you lift yourself
again
into the hardness of today
the cliches sit on the edge of our
tongue
left unspoken
in respect for their futility
and your new hard won wisdom
hold tight
we whisper
a prayer for ourselves
as much…

I used these clips at the upper room project and thought that really they would work better in bite sized ideas here to bounce around and keep us up at night  Some of you would remember Pete from NCYC in Perth. Age
www.peterrollins.net
The task today does not lie in some naive attempt to return to the [...]