Dirty stuff
Soil, a living breathing matter beneath our feet – like skin, is a precious life giver. It is life. It breathes and has a right to...
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Karen Piddington
- Nov 12, 2021
- 1 min
Reconnecting with animality
There’s a growing number of philosophers and theorists who talk about a need for human beings to reconnect with animality – their...
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Karen Piddington
- Nov 12, 2021
- 2 min
Animal alliances. Becoming-undone in domestic spaces
Nick Cave - The Red Hand Files (issue no. 172. Nov 2021) Nick Cave captures his destabilizing experience of 'becoming undone':.. 'Susie...
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Karen Piddington
- Nov 8, 2021
- 1 min
Discursivity exhibition
PhD students at CCW share their research in an exhibition and discussion led by Dr Mo Throp and Dr Stephen Wilson. Practice as research...
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Karen Piddington
- Nov 8, 2021
- 3 min
The Greenhouse Project - Snails
This week I discovered the remarkable Patricia Highsmith and her great love of snails... Author Patricia Highsmith kept hundreds of...
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Karen Piddington
- Nov 8, 2021
- 3 min
Desire Lines - an exhibition of early stage PhD researchers
18-22 October 2021, The Triangle Gallery, Chelsea College of Art, London. A group of early-stage PhD researchers exhibited together at...
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Karen Piddington
- Nov 7, 2021
- 2 min
Nocturnality - Folkestone Triennial 2021
Solo show: 28 October to 1 November 2021 Spacebox Gallery. A shipping container - 8ft x 8ft x 20ft, wood chip walls, ceiling and floor,...
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Karen Piddington
- Nov 6, 2021
- 1 min
Duration series
This 12 minute film was compiled from a 9 hour collection of short 8 second clips, using a night vision camera placed in my garden....
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Karen Piddington
- Nov 6, 2021
- 1 min
Spider series... Green Spider
I created a body of work using clips from the same performance piece and similar spider clips. These images are of an experiment that's...
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Karen Piddington
- Nov 6, 2021
- 2 min
Audio perception in nonhuman spaces
Whilst volunteering as a "Lookerer" (assistant shepherd) on chalk land sites around the edges of Brighton and Hove, I utilise these, and...
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Karen Piddington
- Nov 6, 2021
- 2 min
Spider series
Untitled (White Spider) was created using two clips from a previous work. I duplicated these clips to form a multiplicity of layers of...
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Karen Piddington
- Nov 3, 2021
- 3 min
Spidery influences
Untitled (Black Spider) is a recent film and sound installation (October 2021). A diptych with no beginning and no end, and located in a...
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Karen Piddington
- Nov 3, 2021
- 1 min
Lookering - Sussex Downs
I volunteer as an assistant shepherd, or Lookerer, working with sheep on downland sites around Brighton and Hove. Here, sheep and ponies...
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Karen Piddington
- Nov 3, 2021
- 1 min
My art practice
My art practice is a speculative enquiry into the notion of 'becoming-animal' and animality using film, sound, sculpture and drawing. I...
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Karen Piddington
- Nov 3, 2021
- 1 min
Background
The nonhuman animal became the focus of my practice in 2008, while undertaking a BA at CSM. I became aware of the 'postmodern animal',...
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Karen Piddington
- Nov 3, 2021
- 1 min
My research
How becoming-animal can be reimagined by contemporary artists to reconfigure interspecies relationships Through a practice-based...
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