a two person exhibition with artist nicole ward in loftet, kunstnernes hus, oslo norway
“i wanted my first novel to be a veritable infarct [an area of dead tissue] of narrative cloggers - the trick being to feel your way through each clog by blowing it up until its destructiveness finally reveals not blank mass but unlooked-for seepage”. nicholson baker
installation view of video on phone placed against glass of the gallery entrance
poor clare, poor phone, 1982/2024
0’25” video looped on phone (inside gallery against glass) with bluetooth speaker (outside gallery in stairwell)
low-fi gif. example of video looped on phone The film loops the establishing shots from a 1982 local television segment on the poor clares, a now vacant (closed-order) convent in west belfast.
Audio sample - the original film footage captures the convent’s bell chiming from inside the convent (unseen), both a call to prayer and their wakeup call. The work was part of an audio intervention inside the stairwell of kunstnernes hus that connected to this phone video via bluetooth.
ceiling view
bad sleepers. and bad sleepers..
both 2024, biro on paper
bad sleepers.2024 biro on paper
goodbye, bye, bye, god bless, ggubye, bye, bye, god, bybye, by bybybbye bbbye, ggobless, 1925/2024 paper, magnet
installation view with artist Nicole Ward's incredible work: television, painted wall mural and bench
