My alphabet

I used my mouth as a pinhole camera. I would put photographic paper in the back of my throat and say the letters of the alphabet, so that each developed image became the visual form of my spoken voice. In this way I was able to construct my own alphabet, with the sound of letters stuck in my throat. The image above is 'X'.

Publications and Talks

Publications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Forthcoming

'Spinning with spiders' silk', Strange Attractor Journal

2010

'A short history of spiders' silk spinning machines' published in Antenna: Magazine of the Royal Entomological Society and in The British Arachnological Society newsletter
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'Seducing spiders', PhD research projects 2010, Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL
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2009

'Connecting with animals: the aquarium and the dreamer fish' in Ecosee: Image, rhetoric, nature. Eds. Sid Dobrin and Sean Morey, State University of New York Press
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2007

'Eating Rotten Shark' Helen's Cookbook, Helen Pitt Gallery Publication, Vancouver
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2005

'Derrida's garden' Fillip Magazine, Issue 2, Winter
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Presentations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

2010

'Spinning with spiders' silk: methods, histories and seductions'
Angles 2, Postgraduate conference, Birkbeck

'Seducing spiders'
PhD Research projects 2010, Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL

Artist's talk
Animals as material culture, Institute of Archeology, UCL

Natural Allies: Art and other life forms
Strange Attractor Salon, London

2008

Artist's Talk
Camberwell College of Arts, London

2007

Artist's Talk
Artspeak Gallery. Vancouver

2005

Artist's talk
Simon Fraser University, Vancouver

Artist's talk: The Dreamer Fish
Or Gallery, Vancouver

Art in Vancouver, Panel Discussion
University of British Columbia

2004

Artist's talk: Tickle Your Catastrophe
Morris and Helen Belkin Gallery, Vancouver

'Meeting the animals: London zoo in the early nineteenth century'
Paper presented at the UBC Art History Symposium: 'Crash: conflict in urban space'