When we lose a sense of purpose we lose our sense of the future, and that is where hopelessness slips into the void and feeds our deepest fears. That is the point at which the sun sets never to rise again.
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During the Lockdown I received an update from the studio of Yol, and just before I left another video update arrived in which he appeared to be trapped inside the Coronaverse. I shall leave you with his emergency transmission.
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At the studio in which I have spent the last four days, I pack up my things for the final time and prepare to head for the Torhaus. Today is the opening of the exhibition ‘Meine Welt Auf Corona’ and as soon as it is done I have to head back to the station so that I can catch my train home.
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Moving out of lockdown, the world is opening up, a chasm to be filled by STEM courses at Universities where the arts are systematically destroyed in an attempt to keep the economy going.
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Yesterday in a special edition of the Lockdown Journal, we updated you on the status of the ‘Compressed Time Frames’ exhibition by ArtCouple, and today I bring you some material by Abdullah Adekola, poet and founder of the Black led and Leeds based poetry collective ‘Say It. With Your Chest’. We hope to be working with Adekola in the very near future, watch this space.
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Man is not rational; only what encompasses him is intelligent
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Today, I depart for the Industrial Rhineland of Westphalia, specifically the city of Dortmund for an exhibition entitled ‘Meine Welt Auf Corona’ (My World After Corona).
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Paul Digby’s final entry for the journal on his latest work ‘Shopping’
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Many of our discussions in previous weeks have been about the intervening 10 years as much as they have involved what this project will entail. Our discussions have also revolved around situationist ideas and strategies, phenomenological understandings of environment and our engagement with people as artists and individuals.
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this was the first time I conceptually considered presence and absence of the figure and the space around the figure, and this has kept with me ever since.
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there is something really fascinating about revisiting, reworking and stripping back. Sanding down the floor of the studio, peeling back layers of varnish and paint that had become caked on the floor was both an incredibly satisfying feeling - like cleaning a dirty kitchen and then seeing it sparkle
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In the midst of lockdown I felt like I should have been reading, disappearing in to worlds, escaping, but I needed to be present too. So I found that I could get lost in box sets, subtitled box sets, the best of both worlds present but not, reading and listening consumed as a whole.
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There is something rather disheartening about opening up my computer each day to a raft of reminders and notifications telling me that I should be installing, opening, taking down yet another exhibition that has not happened.
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Notes From a Covid City
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This lockdown casting has another link with my Mum, in that I discussed the design for this triptych while sitting with her overlooking the sea at Runswick Bay in September 2013.
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March 2020, live updates from The sounds of ideas forming, Volume 2 (Instagram - @alandunn67), exploring the fragility and tangibility of vinyl sleeves in domestic settings. Recent instalments:
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