Bram Arnold

Notes from talk:

• ‘You are here on earth to do good for others//But what the others are here for I have no fucking idea’
• ‘We tell each other stories in order to live’
• ‘All good stories start with a quote’ – apply this to dissertation?
• The three ecologies by felix guattari – look at
• Ecology is the study of homes/dwellings/environments
• ‘As we are taught how to think we forget how to wander/wonder – at art school we are taught how to wonder and to forget how to think’
• Fondue – a performative piece of a dinner party where stories are told
• Also walking home
• Shed building similar to simon starling’s work?
• Bibliotherapy
• ‘Site specific – an overused, hollowed out term’
• ‘Be site generic instead – much more interesting’
• Bibliotherapy for the Anthropocene
• We named all the geological epochs – ‘one cannot bury down into the pre-cambrian and find the name inscribed on the wall’
• The Anthropocene does not leave space for individuals
• Oxford and cambridge have ‘centres for the study of existential risk’

Bibliotherapy for the Anthropocene

Actions For & Against Nature

‘The trouble with language is that it is the first barrier between oneself and the world. One can also however imagine language as a bridge, the only way off the small island of our consciousness and out there, into that swirling mass of world. The trouble is as soon as you label something, as you do with language, you inherently label it as something other, something over there, something not me, something else.’ (from above page)

On Paper

‘Artist, Pedestrian, Writer,  an attempt to escape the pigeon holing process that our civilization seems so drawn to, underpinned by, I want all the categories, all things are delicately interconnected, I am not one without the other. And I know this makes things hard work. But if you’ve made it this far in then I’m going to guess you’re the kind of person who is up for that. So here is a gathering of texts and works on paper, some things are for sale, some things are for free, some things have been sold and some things can’t be given away, they have to be received.’ (from above page)

PhD

‘The project expands the scale of a transect, from a line drawn across a field, to a journey taken across Europe; one that is drawn, walked and talked into being.’ (from above page) – consider in relation to rock tracking