some general chat about anything and everything
Here is a story on Medium about my daily swim routine at Ocean Beach, Denmark. I’ve never been much of a swimmer having only recently learned freestyle and brought up in central England with either outdoor pools growing up or heavily chlorinated, infrequently visited pools doing breaststroke as an adult.
The Ocean brings excitement, freedom and variety.
I had the pleasure of working as sound recordist on the project Ocean Glory for Hulda Rós Gudnadóttir, an Icelandic artist living and working in Berlin, part of an exhibition The Long Term You Cannot Afford.
Ocean Glory MULTI-MEDIA PERFORMANCE
'Ocean Glory' (2019) has been developed in collaboration with composer and art-director Guðný Guðmundsdóttir and choreographer Margrét Sara Guðjónsdóttir. Credits go to Laura Siegmund for performance, Nils Banthien for sound design, Dennis Helm for green screen camera and post-production, Siggi 'zoom' for drone camera operation, Sigfús Jónsson and Tim Maisey for sound recording, Erin Honeycut for text proofreading, Benjamin Gow and Tash Rolfe for location management and coordination. Editing and other camera work is credited to the artist. Special thanks go to Leighton Debarros, Sumanth Surendran and Sunna Jóna Guðnadóttir for goodwill and for Icelandic Art Fund for support.
Hulda Rós Gudnadóttir: Ocean Glory | Photo: Hannes Wiedemann
THE LONG TERM YOU CANNOT AFFORD. ON THE DISTRIBUTION OF THE TOXIC Research, performance and exhibition project This project examines the complex notions and injustices surrounding the toxic and its ongoing power-plays, relations, and rhetorics that are deeply rooted in historical structures. Our aim is to open up a space for an artistic and critical registry that encourages us to pause and sense the toxic presences and textures otherwise, to acknowledge and mourn its ongoing victims, and to listen to the movement of its shadows. In so doing, we hope to shift sensibilities away from one of paranoid containment and fear to an outlook fueled by reflexivity and nuance, and to nurture the act of noticing how actions on the most intimate scale are closely tied to the global – as everywhere is ultimately a here.
An article I wrote on Medium which got curated onto the Self publication, Bump ZoNe, is about connecting with your community through those unexpected encounters.
An article on Medium I wrote, Experiences in Awe, about the benefits of experiences versus material goods based on an indoor skydiving experence.
