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- JL Williams Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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Artists Support Tibet
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Whitney Biennial 2008
(200 members)
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transit station
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Profile Information
- Relationship status
- in a relationship
- College / University
- Wellesley College, University of Glasgow
- Program
- Undergraduate BA English Lit/Studio Art, Currently studying on MLitt Creative Writing Programme U of Glasgow
- Member type
- Artist, Curator, Producer
- If you're an artist, what kind of art do you make?
- Conceptual, Event, Film, Performance, Video
- I am...
- really interested in interstitial spaces of meaning made mentally and emotionally tangible by metaphor and opened by (what some consider to be the impossibility of) translation … the space the reader travels to and from in an effort to understand a poem being like the crevasse a translator bridges from one language to another, like the space a viewer of Monet's Les Nymphéas traverses to perceive one moment a miasma of colour, the next a pond of glowing water lilies.
- About my artwork
- I am primarily a poet and have always pursued collaborations both with audiences in a performance sphere and with artists and musicians in the creation of original work. See also HORSEBREAKER: http://www.myspace.com/thebandhorsebreaker
- Artists I like
- KEDA http://www.myspace.com/iamkeda,
Tom Phillips' Humument... www.rosacordis.com/humument/, Cameron Harvey http://cameronharveyart.com/home.html, Susana Reisman http://www.susanareisman.com/, Kirsty Whiten http://www.flickr.com/photos/kirstywhiten/sets/, Anna Chapman http://www.fogbank.co.uk/, Franziska Klotz http://www.franziska-klotz.com/, lichtpiraten http://www.lichtpiraten.net/, Paulina Sandberg http://www.paulinasandberg.com/
- Interests
- Poetry, Communication, Performance, Collaboration, Creation
- The centre of the artworld is
- nowhere and everywhere
JL Williams's Blog
Ambiguity v. Multiplicity
Which do you prefer? Which word I mean... A friend last night said that multiplicity sounded like some sort of safe, market-speak, pc term for ambiguity. Whereas I'm fed up with ambiguity because it is the (often too easy) criticism (or comment) I traditionally get on my poems - maybe I'm being oversensitive but I don't get the impression it is always meant in a good way, especially when it is preceded, followed by or accompanied with a hesitant, "but what does it mean?" I've always un… Continue
Posted on 17th April 2008 at 10:30am — 2 Comments
What is possible?
It is possible that when presenting poetry and art to the world, especially if the work is original, there will be a communication gap between the creator of the work and the reader/viewer/audience/participant of the work. Different cultures may tend to place the emphasis of the burden of understanding the work or coming to terms with a way of perceiving the work other than what is normally referred to as 'understanding' in different places within this system (i.e. the poet/artist must explain t… Continue
Posted on 3rd April 2008 at 12:16pm —
Trust
SATORI II if revelation is born of a constant questioning (a red hot iron ball one cannot expel) if trust is born of security not reassurance, messages sent between stars revolving in space (the slow swinging pull of dancers on opposite sides of a stage) if fear is complustion if compulsion is silence if silence is nothing if nothing is everything if everything is music if music is these motes of maybe life blowing on a breeze and we crack open again into day like a sheaf of corn or wheat t… Continue
Posted on 3rd April 2008 at 12:00pm —
The sound of one hand
Two hands clap and there is a sound. What is the sound of one hand? — Hakuin Ekaku "...in the beginning a monk first thinks a kōan is an inert object upon which to focus attention; after a long period of consecutive repetition, one realizes that the kōan is also a dynamic activity, the very activity of seeking an answer to the kōan. The kōan is both the object being sought and the relentless seeking itself. In a kōan, the self sees the self not directly but under the guise of the kōan...When on… Continue
Posted on 2nd April 2008 at 12:00pm —
KOAN
Finding this a useful contemplation at the moment in the context of functional abstraction in poetry/art: (from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koan) Kōans originate in the sayings and doings of sages and legendary figures, usually those authorized to teach in a lineage that regards Bodhidharma (c. 5th-6th century) as its ancestor. Kōans are said to reflect the enlightened or awakened state of such persons, and sometimes said to confound the habit of discursive thought or shock the mind into awar… Continue
Posted on 2nd April 2008 at 12:00pm —
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Please change the choice of lettering,it is hard to read!
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