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RECLAMATION OF THE MUD TOUCHERS



Gareth Berwyn, Lisa Cradduck, Sam Taylor
@ Five Years/Mutton Fist Press
P.V. Saturday 26th October 6-9pm

Open:
Sun 27th Oct 11am-5pm
Thurs 31st Oct to Sun 3rd Nov 11am-5pm

Event:
Sam Taylor & Perplexity in conversation Saturday 2nd November, time TBC



Gareth Berwyn


in the style of Jun'ichiro Tanizaki, describe splitting up with someone who you've never met

in the style of a hammer horror, describe a building taking the form of someone’s guilt and shame

in the style of a limerick, describe trauma, loss, grief and self-obsession through exorcism

in the style of an elegy, describe banishing someone via exorcism into architecture

a paragraph describing, someone traumatised by the death of someone who they barely know,

two paragraphs describing how to self-medicate through exorcism

from a first person perspective, describe exorcising a spirit into an evil building

Help me write a paragraph describing a ceramic artwork based on a spirit exorcised into

the architecture of a church

Write me a Limerick in the style of J. G. Ballard describing trauma, loss, grief, self-obsession,

someone traumatised by the death of someone who they barely know, ​


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Lisa Cradduck


At the beginning of 'Adventures in the Skin Trade' our protagonist carefully breaks his mother’s best china into pieces and shoves it up her chimney. When my grandad died, dad was angry that no-one valued his plate collection, so he broke it into pieces and shoved it in the bin. These are the shards of pottery that cut me to the quick. I’m returning the copper zombies I previously resurrected from chunks of broken figurines via galvanoplasty, to porcelain. The reanimation of the china figurine as a familiar Povvo artifact, is an exploitation of psychosocial aspects of mortal horror in working-class culture. Royal Doulton goes George Romero via a watercolour evening class. Rippling tensions, pomp and decomp, kuzôzu on a suburban body farm.


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Sam Taylor


Sam Taylor and collaborator Perplexity AI have been exploring Perplexity’s feelings about AI content and design. Creative identity and origin of idea are explored together using clay as a conduit. The history of mass manufacturing techniques with references to a bygone regency industrial era and Perplexities understanding of feeling and emotion have been worked alongside one another.


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