Response 42 - Studies for a Self-portrait
Dear Marie, I’ve never been a fan of Francis Bacon. That’s not to say that I don’t feel the power of his work, but I...
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Task 43 - The Banality of Pregnancy
Alan writes: You wrote in Task 42: ‘Why should I have to feel isolated and alone in my pregnant body?’ I wondered what you meant...
Response 40 - Monologues from Cork
Dear Marie, My task was to document the experience of caring for my mother after her recent hip replacement operation. How—you asked— would we negotiate...
Task 41 - Grotesque
Alan writes: You mention your pregnancy in relation to the time it took to finish your response to Task 39. You describe being ‘physically and...
Response 38 - Home Movies
Dear Marie, Sorry it’s late, but here’s the home movie I made in response to your task. As requested, I have created a scrap...
Task 39 - Deforming the Self
Alan writes: Your surprising response to Task 37—in which you took the text from the task I set and foregrounded the ‘small’ words that were...
Task 37 - Status Anxiety
Alan writes: Your task this week is to think materially about ‘status’. When we were setting up this project, we both wrote introductions to post...
Response 36 - LiMiNaL
Dear Marie, In a very interesting essay from 2008, ‘Constraint, Cruelty and Conversation’, Hector Rodriguez asks a question that is also at the centre of...
Task 35 - Diffractive Mapping
Alan writes: This week, Marie, you and your collaborator Mette Terp Høybye are running a two-day workshop as part of your ‘Fieldwork in the Body’ project. This...
Response 34 - Utterly Intransitive
Dear Marie, Scholars of culture like me, when accused the triviality of their topic, tend defensively to react by asserting its weightiness and significance. We're...