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Karen Piddington
Mar 11, 20244 min read
Animality: slippery stuff (continued…)
Following on from my last blog, this week I wanted to talk about a possible shift in awareness that can perhaps be the influence of a...
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Karen Piddington
Feb 26, 20243 min read
Animality: slippery stuff
What is animality? I’ve been grappling with this for many years. ‘Animality’ is an elusive term. It evades attempts at being pinned down...
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Karen Piddington
Jan 26, 20243 min read
Naked eye
Someone suggested I might like The Conversation, an online publication discussing diverse stuff affecting our planet. And they were...
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Karen Piddington
Nov 19, 20212 min read
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, 20211 min read
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, 20212 min read
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, 20211 min read
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, 20213 min read
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, 20213 min read
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, 20212 min read
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, 20211 min read
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, 20211 min read
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, 20212 min read
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, 20212 min read
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, 20213 min read
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, 20211 min read
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, 20211 min read
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, 20211 min read
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, 20211 min read
My research
How becoming-animal can be reimagined by contemporary artists to reconfigure interspecies relationships Through a practice-based...
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