i like... please don't leave me

by bas jan ader. this image haunts me. what happens when the light goes off?

reading list: the practice of everyday life

or how will i know if i'm doing it right?

touching 1000 people

diane borsato deliberately touched 1000 people over the course of a month. i am more and more interested in this kind of subtle intervention.

lifetime goals

alyse emdur collected the lifetime goals of school students. i love this one.

what happened was...

recent project by anna callahan. i love her work. precious glimpses of the beauty and strangeness of life out there.

I like... fifty states

jared larson's fifty states.
this is one of those videos i end up reblogging because it stays in my mind. there's something about it that i love. it reminds me how immediate and responsive art can be.

i like... two straight twelve mile walks on dartmoor

by richard long
two poems written at intervals along a twelve mile walk

i like... signs that say what you want them to say

by gillian wearing

little bit of liverpool

some great things about liverpool this weekend:

nicholas hlobo's ribbon maze, part of 'touched' at the bluecoat. so dreamy. so touchable.

a little boy dog in blue, a little girl dog in pink

street art reading 'poor are people,' 'pensioners are people' and 'do you like your neighbours?'

the word 'calamari' with a scouse accent

the language of sculpture, curated by carol ann duffy - especially the satchels full of magnetic words for visitors to play around with

bright red leaves carpeting the pavement

knitting salon at nest

i was lucky enough to acquire a last-minute invitation to the knitting salon at nest last night, organised by deidre from craftspace and trevor pitt of pod projects. It was admittedly a little more tame than the bourgeoius eighteenth century french salon of my imagining, but followed both of horace's aims - "either to please or to educate" - quite nicely. Taking placemaking as our theme, we talked about the city and its inhabitants; our experiences of migration and settlement; our relationship with our neighbours; intergenerational communication and misunderstanding; ideas of community, and how we are connected and disconnected from the places we live and work in. I really hope the series of talks continues as the benches tour the country, inspiring similar conversations as they settle in new spaces.

'under gods' by liz hingley

liz hingley's 'under gods' is a series of photographs taken over 2 years on soho road, handsworth. her experience was that religion is the primary source of identity drawn on by the diverse inhabitants of this area in birmingham. the beauty of her photographs taken inside bedrooms, living rooms, gurdwaras, sweet shops, mosques, convents, backyards, schools, temples and doorways reminds me how resourceful people are, and how our little buildings can become so much more than places to work, eat and sleep.

you can see the exhibition now at wolverhampton art gallery

christian marclay's 'the clock'

I wish I could get to white cube to see this. it's a film made of film clips that use the clock-face as a narrative device. and it's synchronised to local time.