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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 mother takes her adult son to a psychiatric clinic for the fifth time. A man on the southern … Continue reading
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
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
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
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 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
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 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