images from a residency

Christine Arnold

day 6

Christine Arnold’s residency in Garden Street

further thoughts on a residency…

If only art could be dangerous – an incitement to thinking.
Exiled from the city for encouraging left-field thinking.

Now I’m travelling on a train, going through a tunnel through the Pennines. My seat faces the wrong way and I am pulled into the darkness behind me.
The window reflects my image back to me – the slight blurring of a double glaze. The sound changes register, a dulling thud in the ears.

I left my city shrouded in thick, damp fog and emerge through the tunnel into weak sunshine.

Maybe this work now is on doubt. Or refusal. Or failure.
If I were to speak about it, I would speak in its absence. On the expectations of some kind of object. On the expectation that it will be there for you, permanently, not answering back.

And yet…there is an absence – it happened while you weren’t looking. See. Here are the photographs. Maybe this is all in my imagination. Maybe I’m not telling you the truth as I cannot say what that might be.

I could of course construct the story after the event.
Well, we all do that. To show/prove that we exist, otherwise it would all be nonsense.

Christine Arnold

thoughts on a residency

Perhaps we could enter into a negotiation here

There is already so much art in the world that I felt the need to….
and there my pen ran out, and a statement is merely indented in the page
maybe you have to guess at its content.

I wrote that I wanted to remove something – but you have to make it first before you can get rid of it.
The nature of a practice, rather than proposing an “outcome” – what happens in the end – should there be one – is only another staging post along the way to an unknown destination – like “If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller”‘ it may throw you back to the beginning. Again again again.

There is no “truth” content here.
Art cannot give you that.

I am out to disturb.
I am willing dissent.
I am telling you the ‘object’ of art is a carrier, a bearer of your misperceptions.

Can one escape the will to categorise?

Christine Arnold

Christine Arnold, Walking Dreaming Thinking. A Book of Reflections (Liverpool, Bluecoat, 2010).

Christine Arnold residency began today

Christine Arnold began her 4-week residency at 7 Garden Street today.

Working between art and writing, her practice explores the shifting and layering of place, memory, history and story. Recently, her practice has linked walking and writing in the cities of Sheffield, Paris, Berlin and Budapest.

As the residency progresses, more information will be posted here about when you can visit Garden Street to see Christine’s work. We also hope to engage some discussions about the ideas raised by Christine’s residency during the regular Reading Loop sessions on Wednesday evenings.

Christine Arnold, Walking Dreaming Thinking. A Book of Reflections (Liverpool, Bluecoat, 2010).

Christine Arnold

Christine Arnold, Walking Dreaming Thinking. A Book of Reflections (Liverpool, Bluecoat, 2010).
Image from http://threshold-zone.tumblr.com

Christine Arnold will begin a 4-week residency at 7 Garden Street on March 15th.

She works between art and writing, exploring the shifting and layering of place, memory, history and story. Recently, her practice has linked walking and writing in the cities of Sheffield, Paris, Berlin and Budapest.