The theme of this year’s Liverpool Biennial is The Unexpected Guest. Perhaps it is to be expected then that the best ‘work’ I have witnessed thus far was an unexpected addendum to a trip down to the docks to see some of the official exhibitions. After exiting the Cunard Building I heard loud drumming down [...]

I have been flat out these last few weeks working on a big collaborative performance installation project that took place on Sunday. (More details soon). Coming down on the other side both my house and my office look like they have been hit by a bomb and I feel like I have just participated in [...]

The other day I read a paper by Beatriz Preciado entitled Pharmaco-pornographic Politics: Towards a New Gender Ecology (in Parallax). We are facing a new kind of capitalism that is hot, psychotropic and punk. … The new world economy does not function without the simultaneous and interconnected production and deployment of hundreds of tons of [...]

The main reason for my trip was of course, not food or toilet titilation, but to attend my second Subtle Technologies Festival in Toronto. The theme of this year’s festival was in situ: art|body|medicine. I presented a paper at the symposium called Sticky Sojourns in a Body of Metaphor: Reflections on the contemporary intersection of [...]

I have just returned from a week in Sydney attending the Somatechnics conference put on by Macquarie University, Dept of Critical and Cultural Studies. I managed to out do myself entirely by missing the plane in both directions. I think this might be a sign that I am trying to fit too much into my [...]

One of the residents at SymbioticA, Marie-Pier Boucher is researching the ‘artificial uterus’. Recently she hosted an artificial uterus dinner party to which all the guests were asked to bring an artificial uterus dish. Adele Varco and I made the instant meals in clear vinyl gloves, pictured below. There were two versions, sweet and savory. [...]

Right after I got back to Perth I presented at the Metaphors and Misunderstandings Symposium, organised by SymbioticA. The title of the symposium got me thinking about the role of metaphor in what I am doing. I started to think about the necessary reciprocality involved in the structure of metaphor – the fact that describing [...]

One of the presenters at Subtle Technologies was Nancy Nisbet who is current engaged in an art project to trade away all of her personal belongings – Exchange 2006. What I really like about the project is that it combines a critical play on ‘free trade’ and corporate surveillance through its use of RFID tags [...]

The purpose of my visit to Toronto was to attend the Subtle Technologies Symposium, for which I did a poster presentation. The theme of this years conference was ‘Responsive Architectures’, which manifested in an eclectic combination of biological, material science, architectural and visual/sonic artistic presentations. There was a few too many straight architecture presentations for [...]

I gave a talk about my work at Eyebeam for Upgrade New York on the 25th of May. It was really great for me to present my work from SymbioticA to a non-SymbioticA audience for the first time since I have been there and get a sense of how people outside of that rarefied environment [...]