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Moving…
Welcome to my archive site for DisplacementActivities (see below/scroll down). I am in the process of moving away from Amazon and onto GitHub. Some of the links may not work, but I’ll be working through them once the new situation has been stabilised. All change for 2023!
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What, two, three… sounds
My ongoing collaboration with glass sculptor Griet Beyaert, has emerged into a new phase as we launch ESS<=>GEE: here. We often use vestigial count-ins to set out on free improvisations involving our assembled instruments. The above title stems from one such count-in, either misheard or misspoken. What follows from the count-in could be… anything. Perhaps…
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Bottle-19: Message in a Medium
On 7th March, 2019, Bottle-19 came out of nowhere. Well, not strictly true, it came from the edge of a disused quarry in the environs of Setmurthy, Cumbria. Not strictly true, it came from a bottle manufacturing plant somewhere in the UK. Again, not strictly true, it came from a conjunction of circumstance, or happenstance.…
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tinyREVOLUTION
The tinyREVOLUTION (tR) responds to crisis—personal, political, ecological. I, along with many others it would seem, was finding the whole polarising bun fight playing out on the media—social and otherwise—tiresome, counterproductive and ultimately highly destructive. I began to focus even harder on what was being overlooked. On Tuesday March 13th, 2018, a series of encounters…
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The Pocket Museum of Displacements
Stonehenge? Just a load of old stones This performance project is centred on a portable museum/exhibition consisting of small fragments gathered in special circumstances and exhibited in other special circumstances. It could be seen as an exercise in micro-psychogeography. Asking how fine-grained can you get with these things? Usually psychogeography has been concerned with fairly…
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DisplacementActivities: The Traverse. Leeds Light Night, 2017
Duration: 3.5 hours (19;30-23:00) Date: 6th October, 2017 The Traverse marks the resumption of an approach that began with DisplacementActivities: Leeds Light Night in 2011 (archive will emerge). Here is the route for the 2017 iteration: The Traverse began outside The Henry Moore Institute with Border Control administered by K.P. Culver. This intervention deliberately obstructed the flow of…
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On DisplacementActivities
The more commonly known psychological and animal behavioural aspects of ‘displacement activities’ (seemingly inappropriate forms of behaviour arising when two or more conflicting imperatives occur) are of interest, and necessarily implicated in DisplacementActivities methodology, but they impose no strict limitations on my research and practice. The original Freudian conception of Verschiebung (displacement) is pertinent though since it…
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