| My work about migrational routes of car
bomb technology was started last and finished this year, and it feels very
timely that the India Pakistan tensions were re-lit by a car bomb in Kashmir
that killed 44 paramilitary police in February this year. The car bomb has
been used as a way to resist the dominant power that uses systemic violence
against the people (this violence can come as false flag car bombs as well),
to control and try to render the people powerless. The first car bomb was in
1920 on Wall Street outside JP Morgan and company’s building, killing 38
people, by an Italian immigrant anarchist. Of course the newspapers said how
terrible this was, not noting the terrorist acts committed by the banks. A
large part of the information/data used comes from Mike Davis’s book “Buda’s
Wagon, A brief history of the car bomb” 2007. From reading this I wished to
see how the dissemination of knowledge about car bombing moved around the
world. The work is in the form of a tapestry to give juxtaposition between
the masculine use of car bombs (very few women), and the power of the
predominantly male elite. Over the past three years my practice has looked a
mapping from different viewpoints. These have included, colonisation of the
fallen Brith Empire, using maps and quilt patterns, using Braille to make
world maps, 3D work and collage. |
| Born by the sea. Primary school, great.
Secondary school painful, severe dyslexia, still de-schooling. Helping with
play schemes, children with learning difficulties, highlight of the year.
Year out, worked in special needs school, enjoyed. Studied nursing,
intellectual disabilities, in Brum, 3 years. Deinstitutionalisation. Staff
nurse, charge nurse, community nurse, Hull. Helped with research, bored. Art
foundation, thrived. Studied fine art, Goldsmiths, great, met Gill. Had
shows, professional artist, signed-on, broke. Playworker, senior playworker,
building adventure playgrounds, fun, lost. Year at RCA Interaction Design,
learnt more. Demand for my playscapes, milk float, 10 years passed, wrong,
children should build their own playscapes. Teaching, workshops, writing,
talking, right direction. Slavoj Zizek and Colin Ward, anarchy, helped. Past
3 years, making art again, not bored, becoming focused. Maps, mapping, power,
equality, violence, ‘Coffee without caffeine’, mapping the hidden and unseen.
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Spectre of the Real 