Aaron Williamson's Blog
Aaron Williamson is the recipient of the Adam Reynolds Memorial Bursary for 2010. He begins a residency at Spike Island, Bristol on 3 February 2010. His blog will cover his work-in-progress over the next 12 weeks. Aaron has been making performances internationally for more than 15 years.
20 May 2010
Marie-Anne McQuay, Curator has a few words to say about Aaron Williamson's escape from Spike Island
As this is Aaron Williamson’s last missive from his residency on the Island of Spike, I am stepping out of his third person narrative and addressing you, the blog reader, directly. I can now...Comments: 3
19 May 2010
Shape Director Tony Heaton reflects, as the dust settles on this, the third Adam Reynolds Memorial Bursary.
For Shape, setting up and negotiating this annual event is a challenging but hugely rewarding activity. The call for Artist submissions, pulling together the decision-making panel, the increasingly...Comments: 0
19 May 2010
Aaron Williamson signs off with the Feral 4
This is the final posting for this blog. My time at Spike Island on the Adam Reynolds bursary has been immensely rewarding and productive. Far more than I’d anticipated. The sculpture work...Comments: 1
14 April 2010
Aaron Williamson's new retrospective of videos/films and sculpture installation is at Spike Island from 30 April
In addition to the new sculptural installation that I’m currently working on, Spike Island’s curator Marie-Anne McQuay is also staging a retrospective selection of my video/documentation...Comments: 2
12 April 2010
Aaron Williamson explains the 17th Century Glimmerers, Dummerers, Whipjacks
On the Subject of Begging The association of begging with disability is very well-established and so, almost equally, is the counterfeit claim of ‘sturdy beggars’ who impersonate...Comments: 0
9 April 2010
Aaron Williamson explores stories about disability and money...
In the course of this project – which, roughly, is about the interface between begging for money and worshipping meteorites for their being lucky bringer-ons of ‘pennies from...Comments: 0
24 March 2010
The Disabled Avant-Garde record some ‘institutional classics’ - check them out now on their website!
From Iron Aaron to Iron Man I have described some of the Disabled Avant-Garde’s recent japes and dodges in making our new film in previous blog posts. In the meantime, before ‘No Room at...Comments: 0
19 March 2010
Iron Aaron continues with the task of smelting down a 2kg lump of meteorite into a bowl
Last week I was back in London on the Monday when I received a series of dramatic texts from Spike Island’s Marie-Anne McQuay and David Martin. Mike at the Foundry had called to say that the...Comments: 0
6 March 2010
Aaron Wiliamson goes in pursuit of the Affligare
After posting the last blog I went to visit the Bristol Foundry to talk with Mike Brett about smelting and recasting my 2kg meteorite into a bowl purportedly used for begging by a tribe of medieval...Comments: 0
25 February 2010
Aaron Williamson suggests the establishment of an independent art state on Spike Island, Bristol
This is my 4th week as the Adam Reynolds Bursarist at Spike Island and whereas the actual business of making things has still to be attended to, I think the work is coming into focus. More on this...Comments: 1
18 February 2010
Disabled Avant-Garde at Royal Festival Hall
On Monday I was back at the Royal Festival Hall with Katherine Araniello working undercover as the Disabled Avant-Garde to make more footage for our upcoming film ‘No Room at the Igloo’...Comments: 0
10 February 2010
Week 2: Aaron Williamson blogs his residency at Spike Island, Bristol
The mystery material According to the editor of DAO this blog has a decent sized readership stretching into double figures now and my previous promise to reveal the ‘mystery material’...Comments: 1
3 February 2010
Week 1: Aaron Williamson blogs his Residency at Spike Island Bristol
Arriving to a large, completely empty studio lit by an overhead skylight I had to immediately think about how to become its occupier for the next 12 weeks as an artist. Working largely through...Comments: 2