SELECTED WRITING
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The First Twenty-Four Hours
Writing my research proposal for my Ph.D. broke open some new paintings.
On love in the face of impending loss.
1July 2023 - Precariousness haunts the job of being an artist. Engaging in the generative process from that place is an heroic act of denialism, compartmentalisation, or surrender. Maybe all three.
Contact
Read in the Templum 6 May, 2023 before a social performance in which about twenty people communicated through the waxed paper surface of the Templum via the heat in their hands, an infinite intimacy.
Rupture & Practice - A Manifesto
As we built RuptureXIBIT, we found that our ethos made the space, and holding the ethos built the community, and then the community was the ethos. We are Rupturists.
The mechanism of unpickability
I presented my research archive of images of Susanna and the Elders produced between 1250 and 1750 as a work in its own right, building a side altar, including a devotional painting, and an offering.
Lawless Imagination
Written after reading Deluze on Kant with the Wild Parlour. Philosophy helps me let go of the idea that anything can be known, and when I let go, my practice, my understanding of practice, evolves.
Eiko's Dress
This is a thought experiment I use to allow conceptual pieces to come to life in my mind. They then don't even need to be made. I watch the film once in my mind & the piece is complete.
Susanna's Howling Liver (delivered unto the organ of healing)
This site-specific installation was the beginning of the Intimacies, of the internal landscapes, shared secrets, whispered truths and warped and woven lies that form the typography of spoken work.
Mudlark
Written after mudlarking in a sandy crook of the Thames - this poem recounts the creation of the installation, that piece creating the performance, and me running around doing the bidding of both.
the Infinite Intimate
Written by Kate Howe, edited by Jonathan Miles.
It does indeed have to do with healing.
A short note I wrote to myself as I was discussing the building and installation of the Infinite Intimate and the Templum with my mother, who lives in California.
The (slow, intimate, eternal) Polemics of Pulling
Lawless Imagination: Society, Aesthetic Surprise, and the Extended Encounter is found in a radical shift in Howe's new work.
The Accidental Archive
A biomythographic examination of name tags, ticket stubs, and patches, pins and post-it notes.
A powerful dormancy
Microfiction from a non-human perspective.