Jujube/methods

This page currently hosts all the sessions from the Method classes.

Session 1

Describe three of your works/ projects you have made

for each work describe

What (100 words max)

How (100 words max)

Why (100 words max)

300 word description of three works = 900 words (max)

Darkness, a Sight

Darkness, a Sight is a poem in video, made during an art residency in Hämeenkyrö, Finland. The scene starts with a piece of paper on the wall that reads: seeing is permanent. Throughout the next five minutes, a poet (me) tapes words, phrases and stances — similarly printed on pieces of paper — to cover a part or the whole of the previous piece. The viewer sees

I wrote the poem by cutting and collaging words printed on a piece of paper. The words I gathered included: seeing, permanence, blind, darkness, and the phrases: to see, can we see, to be seen. Once I finished composing, I printed the final text, cut the paper and grouped the strips into stances with precise order. The camera was set in front of the area of text. During the filming, I attached each strip to the wall. I later processed the sound of tape ripping and other noises from the environ as the track for the video.

I was inspired by the Finnish November, which led me to think about the relationships between sight and darkness. I chose make a video because it was the most fitting for the continuous reveal of new meanings while keeping the old ones on the same screen, a process that mirrored the gradual questioning of my own assumptions about darkness.

a lichen dreams (again)

Written during my residency on an arctic island, a lichen dreams (again) is a story about the ecology of death told from a lichen’s perspective. The story consists of text and images printed on 4x6cm photo papers and assembled into a store-bought photo album.

The story came to me on a quiet, early morning, when I sat down to write something from my extensive hikes on the island and overheard dinner conversations about the history of local fishing villages.

I had been moved by the landscape and the fragility of life in an extreme climate. The words came through me onto the page. I chose the form of a photo album to evoke a reading experience akin to witnessing an event.

Towards the Unknown

Towards the Unknown is the collection of three essays I wrote during the year I traveled around the world and participated in various artist residencies. The essays document my perceptions of new places and moments of discovery and sureness as well as those of doubt and uncertainty.

I wrote two of them in Mexico, when I was a resident at Pandeo, and one in Norway, when I joined a group of artists in Sørøya, Finnmark. I spent around one week writing and editing each of them before publishing them on Medium.com.

I decided to spend 2017 grounding myself in the identity of an artist. The transition was difficult to grasp, and, as I have done whenever I attempt to find clarity, I turned to writing. to process the world around and inside of me. Each time I go through this process, I produce a collection of text. Towards the Unknown is the most recent addition to that.