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July 31, 2024
Two summers 2023 & 2024
Someone gave me this Jules Laforgue poem from an obscure book long out of print:
J’aurai passé ma vie le long des quais
A faillir m’embarquer
Dans de bien funestes histoires,
Tout cela pour l’amour
De mon coeur fou de la gloire d’amour.
Oh, qu’ils sont pittoresques les trains manqués!
Oh, qu’ils sont « A bientôt! à bientôt! »
Les bateaux
Du bout de la jetée!
De la jetée bien charpentée
Contre la mer,
Comme ma chair
Contre l’amour.
This is how I hear it in English:
I will have spent my life along the docks
Almost embarking
Into ominous stories.
All of it for love.
As my heart is dazzled with love's splendour.
Oh, how picturesque missed trains are!
Oh, how "See you soon! See you soon!"
I hope to see you soon
Like the boats
At the very end of the harbour wall
That harbour wall
sturdily built
against the sea,
as my skin is
against love.
Summer 2023
Summer 2024
October 11, 2021
Ecologies of Transformation
"The role of the artist is to make the revolution irresistible.”
—Toni Cade Bambara
September 2021, I joined the newly launched Ecologies of Transformation 2021–2023 master programme at the Sandberg Institute, curated and led by Camille Barton. Over the course of two years, I will be working with a cohort of artists to explore how art and embodied practices can act as agents of social change.
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