DATES: SATURDAY sessions, 30th April 2022 – 21st May, 9.30 am – 11.00 am GMT or SUNDAY sessions, 1st May – 22nd May, 5 pm – 6.30 am GMT Where: ZOOM This workshop is aimed at artists, researchers, thinkers, makers, people who are curious to find a new way of relating to their everyday environment,... Continue Reading →
MAKING SENSE LAB
I have decided to launch an experimental space where students from University of Creative Communication, Prague, have a chance to work collaboratively, across disciplines, working towards a shared goal. The aim is to provide an opportunity to push boundaries of creativity through allowing open experimentation and cross-fertilisation. We invite guests: from musicians to practitioners in areas... Continue Reading →
Zoom Beauty: On Appearance & Beyond
"Depth must be hidden. Where? On the surface." (Hugo Von Hofmannsthal) The images I am sharing today are from the latest film shoot, in which I continue to explore themes of embodiment in film, as well as the idea of the screen as a transparent wall beyond which some of our senses aren't allowed to... Continue Reading →
Feeding the Senses in Lockdown London
I am sharing here some stills taken from a video I filmed on Friday. This was part of a field trip I organised for my 'Expanded Animation' students. I wanted us to get away from the computer screens, from the clinical environment of the campus, which is currently a rather ghostly and underwhelming space. It... Continue Reading →
The Transparent Senses
How do we relate with our close ones when they are far, unreachable, and displayed to us through a flat screen designed to keep us safe, at distance? We see them, we talk to them, the information flow passes between us, courtesy of our advanced digital world. But how do we really keep in touch... Continue Reading →
Self-isolation Dinner – script
I wanted to share with you the latest poetic film script, which was inspired by the current lockdown and social distancing rules, while also continuing with my experiments using food and its ingestion as a means of transportation into interior worlds. I am very interested in the creative process and therefore find sharing different steps... Continue Reading →
Moving Water
Here are some stills from a series of three art participation events entitled Moving Water, inspired by our sensory, embodied relationship to water. These took place between 19th - 21st June 2014, at the October Gallery, London. Moving Water offered a moving, embodied sensory experience of our biological, psychological, cultural understanding of water through handling sculptural vessels that contain water. Made... Continue Reading →
TASTE OF ICELAND: Art, Science and Exploration
TASTE OF ICELAND: Art, Science and Exploration by Annabel Huxley Our aim was to use “food to evoke and provoke essential states of the mind which otherwise cannot be evoked and provoked” Marinetti, The Futurist Cookbook. What would Iceland taste, smell and feel like if you could whet your senses on a journey through that... Continue Reading →
Sensory images (Summer, part.1)
My attempt to build up a multi-sensory image, involving the awareness of touch, scent and taste, through visuals alone. These are selected stills from my short film experiments.
On the relationships of science and art
On the relationships of science and art, an excerpt from David Bohm's On Creativity "I have personally discovered that through talking with artists and correspondence with them, as well as through seeing their work, I have been greatly helped in my scientific research. The main effect of these contacts was to lead me to look... Continue Reading →