Contribution to DORIS, a publication launched by Soft Fiction Projects in 2018. Oblomov’s Dream: an Art Practice-Led Enquiry Into Radical Boredom in the Network WorldPublished in A Peer Reviewed Journal About: Excessive Research, 2016 Possiplex Aideen Doran reflects upon Ted Nelson’s Project Xanadu, a lost information future. Published as part […]
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Digital video, 12 minutes. 2018. Bodies in Motion developed from an invitation to make work in response to the archives of Margaret Morris, a 20th century Scottish dancer, choreographer and founder of a holistic system of dance, movement and exercise training. The work détournés footage from a 1973 educational film […]
Custom Twitter bot. 2017. Commissioned by Transmission, Glasgow. Follow @transmolovesyou on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Transmolovesyou // All Natural Most Awful // Henry VIII's Wives — Transmo Loves You (@Transmolovesyou) November 13, 2018 @Transmolovesyou is a Twitter bot that constructs fictitious artistic projects using real exhibition details skimmed from the Transmission archive—artists’ names, […]
5.1 surround sound installation, 12.30 minutes long. Mixing and additional editing by composer, performer and sound artist Joe Howe. A polyphonic chorus of voices read extracts from the poetry collection Woman Sitting at the Machine, Thinking, by the Marxist-feminist writer Karen Brodine. Brodine completed this work between 1978 and 1987 […]
The Mechanical Child, 6 minutes, 2017 Commissioned by Catalyst Arts for the Flatpack Film Festival Taking a 1950s case study by psychiatrist Bruno Bettelheim as its jumping off point, The Mechanical Child explores the complex and fluid relationships between humans, machines and foreign bodies. Bettelheim’s subject was Joey, a young […]
Slide projection loop, 2014. Commissioned for Eastend Transmissions at The Pipe Factory, Glasgow, November 2014. Adapted by the artist from Particle Poems: 3, by Edwin Morgan.
Video, 11.40 minutes duration, 2012. Script adapted from by the artist from the book Disaster Management for Libraries: Planning and Process by Claire England. Text by Kitty Anderson for Axisweb, 2012: ‘The Acute Disaster’ (2012), is a short film comprising extracts of archive material that range from super 8 footage […]
Solo project at Grand Union, Birmingham 2015 Im Bau was an experimental research project, commissioned by Grand Union, a gallery located in Birmingham, the second biggest city in the UK. I was invited to respond to the shifting fabric of the city of Birmingham, and to offer an artistic critique […]
Digital video, 17.45 minutes duration. 2015. Oblomov’s Dream is a moving image work, loosely adapted from the 1849 novel Oblomov by Ivan Goncharev. In the original novel, Oblomov is a young nobleman who is incapable of making decisions or undertaking any action, an indolence that causes him to lose everything […]