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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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...