10 February 2007

the repetition of knitting nancy and pinning down words

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Kitchen Antics and Appliances (KK&A) met at Tate Britain to continue dialogue and research, including what it felt like to try out knitt...
03 February 2007

Preparing for Spread

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Barbara, Hilary and I (KA&A) have started an ongoing dialogue which will inform our work for Spread , there is always that sense of exci...
31 January 2007

what's next

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Kitchen Antics are continuing their research into the underbelly of the domestic space, with Spread an exhibtion at The Arts Depot in Barnet...
10 January 2007

home sick - endings or perhaps just more?

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The residency at MoDA ended in October with Home sick an evening of work by the Kitchen Antics artists. Readings and Interventions, was sti...
16 September 2006

Cabinets of Curiosities

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We saw a salamander, a chameleon, a pelican, a remora, a lanhado from Africa, a white partridge, a goose on a tree, a flying squirrel, anoth...
06 September 2006

Lets hear about what you collect and why

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why do we collect what do we collect let me know please do you collect in secret are you out about your collecting I want to know what you c...
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21 August 2006

home and Goat Island workshop

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A steady build up of writing again before my return to the residency in September. I have just returned from a 6 day workshop at Lancaster U...
05 August 2006

pigeon post

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Have given myself a bit of a break from blogging, as the residency artists are on holiday until September. Whilst sitting in the garden list...
14 July 2006

moments of community

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Someone was asking a colleague and I whether we saw our work as political. I was aware of how little I had thought about my work within this...
13 July 2006

to stay or to go?

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An extract from an article in The Guardian on May 6th 2007, outlined that half a million Polish people have left Poland to find jobs in the ...

Antics and Appliances: abandoned flags

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Antics and Appliances: abandoned flags Hi Adele good to hear from you, your observation highlights the muliplicities of nationalities in you...
30 June 2006

abandoned flags

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The kitchen Antics team had a discussion about the current use of st georges flags attached to houses and cars during the world cup. The fol...
24 June 2006

ritual

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"Give those with whom you find yourself every consideration." Sen no Rikyu
16 June 2006

the door - the threshold

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A blog is such a good way of developing threads of thought and ideas and layering reponses upon responses. I do not see myself as religious ...
09 June 2006

the possibility of hospitality?

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"come in". welcome to my house, make yourself comfortable, take your shoes off, er no in that seat over there if you wouldn't ...
04 June 2006

the double figure of Freud as the door/and the doorkeeper – invoked by Derrida writing on hospitality

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At the Passover table the door is left open for the possible return of the prophet Elijah. As a child I remember a distinct sense of fear ti...
28 May 2006

the table

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I have been interested for sometime in responding to outside environments and the transitory nature of actions in non art spaces. Now I am i...
25 May 2006

ritual and dialogue

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An act of communication - a social strategy - an act of celebration – a ritual action – an act of prayer in relation to others - drinking as...
22 May 2006

museum of crockery

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I am imagining a large space - perhaps a lecture theatre, an old house or uncluttered space. As you enter you find the floor is covered in c...
19 May 2006

the empty museum!

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We collect in secret, collect in public, in mass, in genres, in species, specimens, terms, types, genres,we collect objects, information, da...
18 May 2006

Dogville thoughts

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I want to talk about Lars Van Triers film Dogville, not about the narrative of the film, although its well worth talking about; but the cons...
16 May 2006

The residency so far- reflections on working in collaboration

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Barbara, Hilary and I have spent five days at the residency. So how has it been so far? Well, its been quite a challenge to gain a rhythm an...
08 May 2006

Questionnaire on the notion of home

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Thoughts on home What does home mean to you? The Kitchen Antics and Appliances artists are exploring layers concerning the idea of home, you...

embodying a spoon

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As gentle as a small finger - I saturate myself in your liquids I excavate for juicy parts in one scoop just forget you were born with me in...
07 May 2006

behind the walls

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On the first day of the residency I met the conservator who showed me some rather bedraggled scrappy looking wallpaper that consisted of man...
04 May 2006

embodying a fork - with a knife on the side

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My collaborator and I admit to a craving - we know how to captivate with my fingers ploughing a furrow delicately twisting you in an embrace...
01 May 2006

embodying knives (3)

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we are looking for a challenge driven by the next possible break through you are invited to participate in a moment of precision surgery ste...
30 April 2006

embodying a bowl (2)

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My edges wrap you engulfing your liquids clinging to my sides my mouth opens to you I drain channel ooze and weep
28 April 2006

embodying a plate (1)

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I lay myself open to you I wait to be handled you injest me you bite and lick me I am your reflection I leave you cold
26 April 2006

day two - thoughts on the temperature of rooms

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the archive, conservation room and museum space are at a relatively continual temperature of 20°C and 50% relative humidity. Its cool and fe...
25 April 2006

day one at MoDA

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I am now at home writing this blog feeling spaced out after a long day of driving, and the first day at the museum. Whats for Dinner is MoDA...
21 April 2006

psychogeography of domestic spaces

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I drove to London yesterday with Hilary to talk with Barbara about preparations for the first day of the residency. It will be an open day, ...
19 April 2006

no place like home!

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Because I have an address Because I have a front door Because I have keys Because I have a shower Because I have a kitchen Because I have a ...
18 April 2006

woman lay dead with tv on for two years

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Had a break from blogging for the Easter holiday period and visited my parents in Worcester where they told me about a news report which I l...
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16 April 2006

a singer sewing machine

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My parents recently downsized from a terraced house; a former pub to a flat. Conscious that they needed to declutter, my mother told me that...
15 April 2006

archive - series 1. coming of age

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cooing doves on a telegraph wire dripping buttered toast a singer sewing machine an old wedding dress black and white wedding photograph sle...
14 April 2006

A memory from a window

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I must tell you about a shocking experience I had this morning. I was performing my usual life won't commence before a cup of coffee dri...
13 April 2006

bequest, donated, collected, confiscated, exchanged, on loan, purchased restitution, unknown

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I can't believe its just under two weeks till the residency at MoDA begins. Strange really, because we have all been thinking, talking a...
12 April 2006

a knickknack, a curio, an ornament, an heirloom, a collectors piece, bric-a-brac

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If I had to leave home suddenly without any time to prepare; not knowing if I would return, what object would I take with me? When a place o...
11 April 2006

warm, reassuring, flux and flow

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White Porcelain Teacup Ballet clutching a white handle Poised Writing warmth on the lips Hands Gullet filled with liquid Spill A waterfall t...
10 April 2006

where were you, what happened at that moment, how old were you, who else was there?

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You can pick up a vitrine or glass display cabinet for under a hundred pounds in Ikea nowadays. This presents the possibility of building a ...
09 April 2006

collections and the charity shop

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Got up late today had two crumpets with Marmite and a boiled egg. Looked out from my kitchen window at a Blackbird patrolling the garden, in...
08 April 2006

red formica tables

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I recently got the news that I would be starting a residency at The Museum of Domestic Architecture & Design, MoDA. I am working with ar...