into the creamy center

Here I am in Moscow’s Bar Strelka, being interviewed about my impressions of my first 3 months in Moscow.

I like Moscow, if by like I really mean I’m scared of Moscow. Moscow is really scary to me, but that’s also exciting. It reminds me of New York in a really odd way, like when New York was a little bit scarier. When it was harder to tell what’s around the corner. Everything in Moscow is inaccessible to me, because I don’t speak Russian and I’m foreign. I feel there are these layers of the city that I can’t reach, it’s like a mystery. But around this hard crusty outside of Moscow, I really feel that there’s a soft creamy center. And I’m going to find it.

my notebook

I am old school. I still keep most of my thoughts and ideas in an actual notebook. Yes, a notebook made of dead trees.

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tarot as research method

All images in this post by Tracee Worley

On Monday November 8, 2010, I did a series of tarot readings at Bar Olivino in Brooklyn. Here is how I advertised the event:

Hello Friend,

I’m doing some research for my project (http://archivingthecity.com/abouttonight, Monday Nov. 8 (7ish-11ish PM), at Olivino, a wine bar in Brooklyn. You are invited to participate, or just get a glass of wine, if you’re free.

Here is the description of what I am doing:
Tarot readings by Adeola
Adeola, an artist, writer, and researcher, reads tarot cards for seekers who are after new ‘visionings.’  ’Visionings’ happen when the seeker and the reader focus together for a short time, and often yield stories and images that can work in a creative and healing fashion in moments beyond the reading itself. Adeola started reading cards in New York City in the year 2000.

This is what happened:

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research as exhibition

This event took place last May, but there is a podcast which might be of interest to some of you researchers interested in thinking of alternative ways to present your work, and to think through the research process itself.

There seems to be funding in Britain available from AHRC and the ESRC for research that takes creative forms, and that overlaps with curatorial and artistic practice. Some of the speakers on the panels have quite practical advice about how to go about getting such funding, and thinking through creative research practice.

Beyond the Academy
Research as Exhibition

Friday 14 May 2010, 10.00–18.30 

SOLD OUT

The exhibition is increasingly being reframed as a ‘research output’, but what can new forms of research and collaboration bring to the concept and curatorship of the exhibition? Is the idea of the exhibition being distorted or creatively extended by new disciplinary practices and knowledge? In what ways do new forms of research exhibitions create new types of knowledge and experience for the audience?

Confirmed speakers include Dr Gail LambourneProfessor Bruno LatourDr Angus Carlyle,Irene RevellJohn ByrneAlistair HudsonDr Ken NeilDr Leslie ToppProfessor Felix Driver,Professor David CotterrellProfessor Oriana BaddeleyDr Noortje MarresKate Southworth,Dr Susan Pui San LokDr Brian DillonProfessor David Solkin and Peter Ride.