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Zine: My Moroccan sister

My Moroccan sister is a poem-letter in the form of a zine. It is about the quiet violence of constant othering that happens in current social systems, where conformity and silence constructs walls of exclusion. It also a letter of … Continue reading

On courageous determination

A chef stands outside the Israeli embassy in Tokyo shouting “Stop Genocide!” He goes back every week on his day off. A mother takes her adult son to a psychiatric clinic for the fifth time. A man on the southern … Continue reading

Notes on the emerging wisdom of zines

What is a zine? It is not a “little magazine”. Zines, in their current form, emerged from science fiction fan magazines (fanzines) in the 1930s, says Google: which is always whitewashing everything. The term “fanzine,” it says, was first used … Continue reading

Transcripts of Plum Village 40 Tenets

See below for transcripts and summary notes of the 40 YouTube video lectures from Plum Village! Please excuse some spelling errors. The transcripts are intended as a support to watching the videos on Deer Park and Plum Village app channels. … Continue reading

The Yung Ga Ma, a Hakka Chinese Myth

Yung Ga Ma is a project together with graphic designer and illustrator Chaimaa Lahnin. The Yung Ga Ma is a Hakka Chinese myth, a folk horror tale that is told to children, much like a Grimm’s brothers tale. There is … Continue reading

Mama’s Story

Mama’s Story is a book on family history for my niece, Pip, a family history and family tree, a collection of stories and memories that drift in and out of the personal and the collective, the factual and the mythical, … Continue reading

2023 March for Ceasefire, London

How to prepare for a protest

Somoene in the UK just asked if there is anything to consider before joining a peaceful protest. Don’t wear perfume came to mind! How to prepare very much depends on where you are, but here are some notes from our … Continue reading

Starling

Starling started as a conversation and became a 5 minute audio-video collage projected on 5 separate screens, simultaneously. The film’s soundtrack is music by Jerry Gordon (aka Moontriangle) with a VoiceOver composed of a cutup poem from a page of … Continue reading

Gilgamesh for Eiji

Made entirely from found photos and videos from the nineties and set to the music of Osaka based composer Masahiro Kanagawa, the short film is a video letter that presents the epic of Gilgamesh story in 17 minutes. It was … Continue reading

Dressing gown

DRESSING GOWN is a 10 minute video consisting entirely of appropriated footage from the black and white film Woman In A Dressing Gown that was made in 1957. The original film is considered an example of British social realism, and … Continue reading

Fax Play

Faxes is an ongoing project playing with communications technology, and started in the early nineties as a sister project to Stickers. Anonymous faxes were sent to large corporations anonymously every Friday afternoon to encourage people to stop working and discover … Continue reading

A screenshot of an imovie project with the title VIDEO LETTERS in capital letters on a red video static background. You can see small stills of the images in the trailer.

Video Letters

VIDEO LETTERS is a long film edited from Video 8 footage shot in nineties Osaka, Tokyo, Kyoto, New York, Toronto, London, Hanoi, Seoul, Lagos and Beijing, and stored in a box for 29 years. The tapes were transferred and edited … Continue reading

The building amplifies

THE BUILDING AMPLIFIES is a project by artist Pavel Matveyev with Tanya Kim’s voice recording, co-writing and editing. It was presented as a multimedia installation in the Glitter Ball showroom, with other pieces of Pavel’s work on Saturday, the 19th … Continue reading

Valls Have soundwalk

VALLS HAVE SOUNDWALK is a proposal for a public art piece by the artist Pavel Matveyev. A preliminary ‘sketch’ was presented at the ‘Hej Gävle’ group exhibition at Gävle konstcentrum in 2012 where an audience listened through headphones to a pre-recorded … Continue reading

An illustration of very colourful imaginary flowers

Imaginary flowers

IMAGINARY FLOWERS was a 3 month project where digital flowers were sent by the artist upon request to a friend or family member with invisible illnesses, disabilities, and chronic conditions who simply aren’t going to “get well soon”. Breathing in, … Continue reading

Nordic by Nature e-books

NORDIC BY NATURE; New voices on deep ecology; Arne Naess in the 21st century is available as an e-book and Chapters 1-3 are available in Spanish translated with the collaboration of Planeta Sostenible in Chile. These are the trasncripts from … Continue reading