Lecture Notes:
What do we hope to become?
Fascinated by words, suffered with a stutter but appreciates how necessary they are in life and communication. Have we become artists because its another way to say something?
started with speech when he first started to make work. “What on earth do I have to say? What on earth do I do? who is my audience? who am I actually supposed to be making work for?”
As an artist its not clarified exactly what you supposed to do.The freedom of being on artist.
Began to learn Estonian - Interesting way of learning speech, considering previous stutter. Opened up to the fact he could speak to another 1.3million people.
Spent 3 years learning Estonia, spent 3 years trying to twin weymouth and happily (Estonian town)
Love in Uganda, 2010 - Perfomance and Installation
illegal to be gay in Uganda - trying to pass a bill to allow hangings.
- Churches in the UK said nothing for 2 months. 40% of Ugandan follow same anglican religious beliefs.
- Wrote a song during this silence called ‘love in Uganda’
- Asked churches around sheffield to perform the song, to which non excepted.
- Produced an announcements poster to display this, displayed in a concert dates format.
- Found hand written poster advertising ‘morning coffee and tea’ absorbed by the use of a hand written sign - it was traceable, someone was responsible for this.
- Traced the sign writer and asked to collaborate. David (dSigns) hadn’t worked as a full time sign writer for over 10 years.
The Rainbow, 2011
- Made piece called ‘Rainbow’ - collaborative poster states “I guess we are not ready for this yet” tried to included things that would relate directly to him but also to everyone
- Began to work more with young people in 2011, just after the students protests.
- Made largest sign to hang in the window of museum.
- Group of 8 young women got together to sing, empowering songs.
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| The Rainbow, 2011, Installation |
2012 - Went back to ‘Love in Uganda’
After work he began to focus on words
- Peace in the 60s, Love, War, Legality and Opportunity, What if these words were to become saturated of meaning for future generations?
- What if there aren't the words for future generations to express what they need to say? Do we have those words?
- Freedom, for example, comes with a lot of baggage but equally amazing.
- Started, not only to think about words but space. They require space in order to grow and gain life.
New work thinning about what space offers now. Words are like repositories which retain meaning and time.
Words Are Not Signs They Are Years - Work at Site Gallery, Sheffield
- open room in which for people to talk about words, time, what you want to become.
- “Family, affection, communication - if people communicated more the world would be a better place, and freedom, people should be able to live where they want and how they want.”
- “Freedom to be a wife, freedom to be a mother”
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