This is a list of posts that have inspired me or my work. Sometimes the inspiration directly feeds into a particular piece I am working on. Sometimes it is just an artist’s work that I really love, and contributes to the feeling of living with inspiration. Sometimes it is the excitement that another artist is expressing similar themes and images in a different time or place.
“Because I found it hard I felt honoured” — playwright/ poet Howard Barker
writing on the body — cultural theorist Nelly Richard
“My Favourite Artistic Advice” – great short video on youtube for creativity
Andre Bretion’s ‘convulsive beauty’
The Rite of Spring by Pina Bausch
Consciousness, Creativity and the Brain – a talk by David Lynch and associates
One of my favourite blogs: www.tenthdimension.com
a selection of works by multi-disciplinary artist Kent Monkman
‘In Praise of the Self-portrait’ -an article by Laura Cumming in the U.K.’s Observer
The Self-portraits of Rembrandt morphed
Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story, by Todd Haynes
Ev’ry time We Say Goodbye by Annie Lennox
Close to the Knives: a Memoir of Disintegration by David Wojnarowiczs
Using your Rape-Fear Fantasmask
excerpts from Martha Graham’s autobiography Blood Memory
excerpts from Fast Feminism by Shannon Bell
Fire in My Belly, a video by David Wojnarowiczs and Diamanda Galas
excerpts from ORLAN’s Carnal Art Manifesto
Michel Foucault on life and art
Spalding Gray’s Swimming to Cambodia (excerpt)
Frida Kahlo’s The Broken Column (and other selected pieces)
the self-portaits of Frida Kahlo morphed
the photography of Claude Cahun
Giorgio de Chirico’s The Disquieting Muses
Cindy Sherman’s “Sex Pictures”
Diana Damrau as The Queen of The Night
The Reincarnation of Saint Orlan
Salvador Dali’s The Metamorphosis of Narcissus
short videos: WARN-U and Corps Core
selection of works by Damien Hirst
Nikos Kantantzakis on the spirit and the flesh
U.K.’s Guardian interview with ORLAN
Aphrodite – I thoguht this was a brilliant commentary on beauty standards
more excerpts from Martha Graham’s Blood Memory
excerpt from “Holy Terror”, Bob Colacello on Andy Warhol’s self-portraitsTaylor Mac’s Walk video
The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley