When the Black Death swept through Europe in the 14th century, it claimed the lives of over 75 million people, many of who were clergymen whose job it was to help usher the dying into the next worl… Source: The Medicalization of Death in History
Author: bloodonsilk
10 images of Blood on Silk: Bleeding Out finally all up online.
Click on the link below or otherwise look up Fiona Davies then Selected work then Blood on Silk Bleeding Out. The first two images show you what the work looks like in full light without the projection. I've done this to give you an idea of how it works physically in space. Then the overhead [...]
Blood is fantastic – no doubt about it.
A recent online article in Science News https://www.sciencenews.org/blog/science-ticker/red-blood-cells-sense-low-oxygen-brain, just expands on the fascinating details known about blood and its behaviour. The article entitled ' Red blood cells sense low oxygen in the brain' is by Laura Sanders published on August 4, 2016. the first paragraph states that ' When the brain runs low on oxygen, red blood [...]
‘The Remake’ – Start of a New Project
Fiona Davies The Remake (working title) Video still, 2016 I finally started the making of a new project two days ago. The image above is from the first bit of footage I've shot. The idea for the new project had been as simple as doing a remake of Bergman's film the Seventh Seal set in a [...]
3rd KloHäuschen Biennial – Opening today
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 3rd KloHäuschen Biennial ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ "Biennale der vernachlässigten Lebensformen" "Biennial of neglected Life Forms" Eröffnung Samstag, 02. Juli 2016 . 20 Uhr Final Event Samstag, 09. Juli 2016 . 20 Uhr Öffnungszeiten 03.-08. Juli . 17-19 Uhr ... English Invitation http://www.das-klohaeuschen.de/proj/160702_KHBi3/de/khbi_about_en.html mit 9 Volt | Adam Zaretsky | Anette Friedrich Johannessen | Anna Rose | [...]
Control SLSA Stockholm
Short presentation for session 4 - artist's roundtable Control Stockholm University. I was thinking about the difference between the terms - experiment and test on the way home last night and in particular the role of experimentation in an artistic practice where I associate it with speculation and a different level of expectation about the outcome. My work [...]
Das KloHäuschen second collaboration with the site
Responding to the quiet of the physical space of the wholesale fruit and vegetable market when it is closed and waiting to perform again.
Opening Event at Das KloHäuschen this Friday 10th June at 8 p.m.
The third video night at Das KloHäuschen
The third video night at Das KloHäuschen was the showing of a video shot last week on a public holiday when the market was clean, apparently abandoned and quiet. A solitary delivery truck performed for the camera doing a simple and beautiful U-turn. This curve outward towards the camera was projected into the urinal whose [...]
Making silk paper again. This time at the Villa Waldberta
As part of my collaboration with Das KloHäuschen in the Munich main wholesale fruit and vegetable market, I was awarded a two month residency at the Villa Waldberta run by the City of Munich. The studio space is something else again. I have made silk paper in many locations, my back yard, a studio in Culture at Work, a dance studio [...]
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