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In production A Quiet Sun is a poetic, experimental short film (c. 30 minutes) that explores themes of isolation, accessibility, and life in the margins. The work centres on the subtle interdependence of all living things. Ultimately, it stands as … Continue reading
Recognising cycles of oppression with the help of Paulo Freire (and each other) -⎽__⎽-⎻⎺⎺⎻-⎽__⎽–⎻⎺⎺⎻- I am writing to you because my voice is broken It is hard to speak But I hear you through the airwaves -⎽__⎽-⎻⎺⎺⎻-⎽__⎽–⎻⎺⎺⎻- I write this … Continue reading
I recently met someone else who also has a cPTSD diagnosis and we started to talk about how shockingly textbook our common human struggles are. We spoke about how childhood formulates patterns, and how a person can spend a lifetime … Continue reading
“Ecologies of Care Framework for Applied Ethics” presented in this body of work is an evolving platform and toolbox of Key Concepts and Case studies that are set within a comprehensive frame and narrative for diverse research, design and development … Continue reading
These notes are a response to the beautiful text Eating clay is not an eating disorder, by Zayaan Khan. We are all connected. I can feel your heart through the rice paper of a White Rabbit candy and the silkiness … Continue reading
On Decolonising Communication, Accessibility, and Community Building If You Start a Garden and Don’t Think About Diversity, You End Up with Monoculture ʚ♡ɞ˚ To not actively think about power is to participate in it. To not speak about domination is … Continue reading
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
A chef stands outside the Israeli embassy in Tokyo shouting “Stop Genocide!” He goes back every week on his day off. A man on the southern of coast of Sweden collects plastic from the beach. He goes on holiday once … Continue reading
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 by sci-fi fans to describe and discuss their self-published works. … Continue reading
See below for transcripts and summary notes of the 40 YouTube video lectures from Plum Village! The transcripts are intended as a support to watching the videos on Deer Park and Plum Village app channels. THE_40_TENETS_LIST_2006 The Forty Tenets 1. … Continue reading
How are you? How are you feeling? Everything Looks Normal, Nothing is the Same is a 45 minute long film comprising of 12 short chapters shot on mobile phones in 12 different locations. The artist invited 12 of her ‘Instagram friends’ … Continue reading
Take a break and practice some nature-centred meditation with my friend Ajay!This is a short guided meditation instruction video about 22 minutes long. The Founder of the Foundation for the Contemplation of Nature, Ajay Rastogi, introduces an easy meditation technique … Continue reading
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
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Notes on caring for the overloaded body You’re not imagining it. You eat something, anything, and suddenly your skin flares, you feel nauseous, your throw up, your stomach inflates with gas, your sinuses clog, your heart races, you get a … Continue reading
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
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 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
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
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 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 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
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
“When you know how to suffer you suffer less” is a zine of aphorisms or short statements expressing a general truth or advice on how to conduct yourself. These aphorisms were taken from notes jotted down over a period of … Continue reading
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