Category: Artwork
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The most liberating idea in creative practice
Your work doesn’t matter. Yes you heard that right. It has recently occurred to me, that my work doesn’t matter. I’m unlikely to change the course of history by making art that counters issues of the Anthropocene. Mostly the people I work with have no interest in my work at all not beyond a citation…
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Artwork and idea in proccess – weaving with carrier bags
Since my primary aim here, is to make a case for practice, and proccess as research method. Laboratory for those hard scientist among you. I though I would share, a recent presentation and workshop I gave in Helsinki, as part of the, °City is sound, city is quicksand° event at Hietsu pavilion! Hosted by the…
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How do you journal? (for real people?)
I have a confession to make… Although I own a copy, I have never read Julia Cameron’s ‘The Artist Way’. I’ve tried to read War and Peace; I’ve read The Brothers Karamazov. I’ve read, Félix Guattari and Gilles Deleuze’s‘ A Thousand Plateaus’,1 But for my life, I cannot get past the introduction. Kate on Good…
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Encounter:
revised, presentation – UCD humanities institute: post-extractivist landscapes and legacies conference, July 2023. Encounter : addressing critical materialises in post-extractive urban terrains through rubbling – Draft paper
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Material Matters
Fasler Galley Wits School of Architecture March-June 2023 This exhibition showcases the work by the staff of the Architecture Program Although the work was not created with a particular theme in mind, the bringing together of artifacts condensates an interest in materiality. A compulsion to explore the limits and potentialities of architectural materials, glass, steel,…
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‘Snow Studies’ mattering with Helsinki’s urban terrains
In December of 2022, Zen Marie, Alex Arteaga and myself, we asked to convene, a creative workshop as part of the Kuva research days 2022, entitled the ‘City as Space of Rules and Dreaming’ a project funded by the Kone foundation. You can read more about it here. We proposed to present a series of…
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The body matters – ARA 2020 – Presentation
Making the body and materials present in post-extractive urban terrains in response to issues of the Anthropocene through speculative and performative practices Brigitta Stone-Johnson The University of the Witwatersrand, school of architecture and planning 2025 – Peer Reviewed Publication on wired space wits As a city founded on Gold mining in the 1890s, as we…
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Resistance to Ruin
Resistance To Ruin – Lithic Encounters Have you ever noticed that the wild or wilderness is always elsewhere? Ellipsis Journal of Creative Research, Special issues 2021 – Joburg Lasts Authors: Brigitta Stone-Johnson Andrea Hayes Access the full Article and website
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Making Odd Kin – 2022
Gathering Oddkin, Nirox Foundation winter sculpture fair – Good Neighbors 7may-31 August 2022 BRIGITTA STONE-JOHNSON SOUTH AFRICA Gathering oddkin, 2022 Over the last two hundred years, humans have moved from beings that affect their immediate dwelling places to epoch-altering geo-writers. Since the industrial age, we have acted as if non-living things had neither life nor…