A short video, four minutes in length, documenting some of the first games played of Racing Patience ICU. The artist Fiona Davies plays against the performance artist Tom Isaacs and the curator Lizzy Marshall. https://vimeo.com/254144142 In the card game Racing Patience ICU there are two players. One draws a central card that describes the patient's [...]
Category: medicalised death
The Game of Racing Patience in ICU
Just got back the redesigned cards from the printers. They are so easy to handle when playing and look good as well. What more do you want for a good robust game. The cards need to be tough as this card game can be no holds barred with no notion of taking turns.
New video of the viewing experience of three of the hallucinatory scenes in Blood on Silk: Bleeding Out
Blood on Silk: Last Seen, 2017, site specific, silk, video, metal and found objects as installed in the Turbine Hall and Turbine Galleries at Casula Powerhouse, Sydney, Australia from 21st July 2017
Thinking about ‘In Praise of Shadows’ in this new work, Blood on Silk: Last Seen
Blood on Silk: Last Seen by Fiona Davies At the Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, Casula, Sydney, Australia Opening 21st July 2017 6-9p.m. then open until the 17th September daily open hours of 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Curated by Lizzy Marshall The turbine hall at Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre in Sydney, Australia is the first [...]
SMACC podcast – ‘There’s a hole in my bucket ‘ panel discussion
This is a great panel discussion about the treatment off site of a patient bleeding out (amongst other things) and getting them to site, to the hospital. Click on this link - https://www.smacc.net.au/2016/04/theres-a-hole-in-my-bucket-the-exsanguinating-patient/
Article on Artshub looking at artists who make art using body fluids.
My work is included under the blood section after a whole lot of much more shocking materials like urine etc. Click this link to go to the article. http://visual.artshub.com.au/news-article/bits-and-blogs/visual-arts/visual-arts-writer/artists-who-turn-body-fluids-into-art-253684 photo credit Alex Wisser
New Work for the Black Rabbit Exhibition
Friday, the 14th April 2017 was the night of the exhibition Black Rabbit curated by Lizzy Marshall at The Slab in Hazelbrook, NSW. I'd made a new work for this exhibition, Drug test Bunny or Lab Bunny a sculpture constructed from sheer black fabric, wire and buttons squeezed onto a hospital trolley. The bunny is not [...]
Trial of new work – Blood on Silk/Buy Sell
When you realise that the camping lantern with led lights isn't powerful enough and it's pattern of flashing is SOS in Morse code. https://vimeo.com/203381937
New Work. A detail of Blood on Silk: Buy/sell
First detail of this work for the Governance show at Old Government House, Parramatta, Sydney, Australia curated by Lizzy Marshall. Important Dates Exhibition runs from 9th March to 16th April 2017 Opening 9th March 6- 8 p.m. The exhibition of site specific works in the site of European governance in the early days of the [...]
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