Hello there reader,

You are invited to the opening of the Goldsmiths MA Art Psychotherapy end of year exhibition 'Playing With Reality' 

Thursday 21st June 2012 6-9pm 

It's on from Friday June 22 to Monday June 25. 

Richard Hoggart Building's Kingsway Corridor and in the foyer of the Whitehead Building - if you go to the main Goldsmith's building in New Cross they will show you where to go! It's quite a small campus so it's all easy.

See details here: http://www.gold.ac.uk/pace/subjectareas/artpsychotherapy/studentartexhibition2011-2012/

I will be exhibiting some mental health assessment forms that I have edited - along with the originals used by NHS Primary Care Trusts. I've been thinking about how tricky it is to assess emotions, trying to widen the field to think about other extreme states and emotions, as well as distress that people would traditionally seek mental health treatment for. I have been wondering about the role of labeling feeling states pejoratively - that in different contexts are not seen so negatively.

Performance: Come Time With Me

Come Time With Me - interactive one to one performance will be available to experience as part of Hatch's next event which is part of Side Show.

It will be at Nottingham Castle

http://www.hatchnottingham.co.uk/

Wednesday 10 November 2010
Nottingham Castle Museum and Art Gallery 6pm – 9pm
Followed by The Castle Pub opposite 9pm until late
Nottingham-based performance and live art platform, Hatch, has invited sixteen artists to respond to notions of time. For one night only, they storm Nottingham Castle and the Castle Pub as part of Sideshow, the official fringe to the British Art Show 2010. Frank Abbott revisits his involvement in creating The Tales of Robin Hood 20 years ago and rewrites its architecture onto the Castle Green.  British Antarctic Survey artist in residence, Chris Dobrowolski presents an artist’s talk at the Castle about the time it took to get to the Antarctic and what he found when he got there. Hetain Patel experiments with ‘stand up’ for the first time at the Castle Pub. His work-in-progress reflects on the time he spent growing his hair to explore his cultural identity. Medium Rare, a collective of Nottingham Trent University students and Southpaw Junction, recent graduates from De Montfort University, present time-themed performance installations en route. Other work inhabits unusual locations around the Castle including one-to-one performances in the gatehouse and the caves.
Artists:

Frank Abbott
Wayne Burrows
Kathryn Cooper
Chris Dobrowolski
Graham Elstone
Rachel Gomme
Kristy Guest
Johanna Hällsten
Lucky Fin Productions
Medium Rare
The Megaphones
Gemma Neep
Oyster Eyes
Hetain Patel
Daniel Somerville
Southpaw Junction

Hatch: It’s About Time is supported by Embrace Arts at the RA Centre, Nottingham Castle and Museum and Sideshow. Hatch is a peripatetic platform for performance work based in Nottingham established in 2008 to transform the regional live art landscape through platform events.

Time problems

RIGHT

the arrow of time moves forward --> egg is smashed
arrow of time moves backwards --> egg reassembles
arrow of time moves sideways? -----> ?

If time was 3D like space is.... is it actually?  anyway imagine it is then what would sideways or diagonal movement through time be like?

would it be moving across parallel universes of different choices ...or is it something else?

also - in a universe where the arrow of time goes backwards but there are creatures in it... do they walk forwards or backwards?
i think they walk forwards through the backward time.

like someone who has walked backward in a music video that is then played backward.

ANSWER CORRECTLY AND YOU GET A MEDAL (a nobel one infact)

what's a foot

I was recently part of the very enjoable 'Drawing Time' at The Corn Exchange in Leeds.

see here


 http://www.artinunusualspaces.co.uk/home/drawing-time/

Work can be seen at The Corn Exchange, Leeds until September 5th... i think.

Now Then exhibition, Leeds

I have some work in an exhibition! It is called 'Now, Then' and it will feature aspects of Leeds over the last 40 years using primarily visual arts from a range of backgrounds, traditions and perspectives. Architecture, people and culture are the themes.

Curated by Tim Curtis and Luke Owens. It is in a space in Leeds Shopping Plaza as part of ‘Art in Unusual Places’.

They are big A0 pictures of Leeds buildings crashing about and all being upside down.
I think I'm doing a big window drawing as well - like how the cool kids do!

The opening is 5-7pm on Thursday 11th March 2010.

The Happiness Plan: Self Help Experiment - Edit

For 21 days I spent 20mins to an hour working through The Happiness Plan, a self help book intended to make the reader happier. Before each session I filled in an NHS form that measures depression and a form adapted from the NHS form which measures happiness.

The video in it's entirety will be shown along with the forms and a graph of results at The Arsenal Gallery, Poznan, Poland in May 2010.

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