Trunk Call
07/11/20
Trunk Call is a residency and exhibitions at General Practice artist run studio that has twice been thwarted by the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020. This has prompted the organisers at the studioand and myself to go online and work as intended on the project aims. This space will document thoughts and developing practice and hopefully will result in an opportunity to meet the artist via a webinar in the coming weeks... more to come
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Trunk Call is an online residency, facilitated and hosted by General Practice Studios that brings together new practice developing out of the short residency alongside work made previously with a focus on the use of text and image in John Rimmer’s practice. Artworks that are being shown bridge different media including paint, drawing and video and sound and explore aspects of communication -how it can be corrupted or breakdown organically in communication systems such as computing, texting, translations, misreading, ambiguities and obtuse convolutions inherent in language. The focus in this residency is on playful response to communication breakdown to help inspire new work.
John Rimmer: Trunk Call residency talk
When: 7.30-8.30 27th November2020
John will talk about select works of art from his career to put the new works in context, followed by an informal discussion with General Practice members Andrew Bracey and Nick Simpson about what he has created during the residency. Here is the link to the talk on Microsoft Teams: https://rb.gy/nzatar
8/11/2020
These plates were a tester parody of the beatrix Potter merchandise and were made around the gulf war... past artworks utilised collage and appropriation and are still ongoing strategies in my practice. I am now employing aleatory/cut-up techniques and 'typos' generated by swiping in text messaging...
8/11/2020
This painting has been waiting for some further attention and now is the time. Seems emblematic of the residency with the title 'social Media'. hope to complete!
14/11/20
Developing from the Emily Dickinson Poem https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44087/wild-nights-wild-nights-269
giving an oral rendition on whattsapp and asking listeners to swipe what they hear... process uses human/technology connections to generate new work - echoes of William Burroughs 'cut ups' and Dadaist aleatory techniques. reworking to provide a working title.
Whatsapp messaging
re-working title
An initial fumbling study
17/11/20
A recovered ground that might work with My Time Mourns Ash He Sees Wildebeest Riding in Eden
... Apparently 'Anglo-Saxon word for spear was aesc and the Norse word for ash was ask '
20/11/20
merging back and Wild Nights manuscript - looking at digitally worked grounds to work on and/or develop prints.
21/11/20
My Time Mourns Ash He Sees Wildebeest Riding in Eden - possible grounds
22/11/20
A new poem - Sumer is icumen in. The longing for summer resonates now with a longing for the pandemic to ease and longing for climate stability. Not sure where this is going but feel a celebration of farting might be in order as in the 'original'.
26-27/11/20
Work in progress using digital and wet media - spring and Eden taking a turn for the worst