Blighted by Kenning

Forbidden Fruit painting by James F. Moore after the Charlotte Jervis installation Blighted by Kenning

A couple of years ago I was at the excellent Science Gallery in Dublin and came across a work related to GM foods (an apple apparently floating in space) by the artist Charlotte Jervis. “Blighted by Kenning centres on bioengineered bacteria that has The Universal Declaration of Human Rights encoded into its DNA. The DNA was extracted from the bacteria and used to ‘contaminate’ apples grown at The Hague, the seat of the International Courts of Justice. These ‘forbidden fruits’ were then sent to genomics laboratories around the world. Participating scientists were asked to sequence the DNA, find the message hidden within and send back a translation. They were also invited to eat the fruit.”
https://dublin.sciencegallery.com/growyourown/blightedkenning

As a literal and metaphorical comment on GM technology and the ambivalent idea of ‘forbidden fruits’ it is brilliant.

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Zibaldone

When it comes to artistic notebooks, Da Vinci is the obvious go to guy. He used secret notebooks to record a lifetime of enquiry. From his exquisite studies of the human body to the movement of vortices in water, maps and inventions, as well as imaginative flights of fancy, he drew or wrote it all down in his notebooks.

Like most people who keep a Zibaldone*, or an artist’s notebook, I would imagine that Da Vinci probably valued his at least as much as his finished paintings.
I see this blog as a kind of Zibaldone, a hodge podge of words and images posted online, but as well as drawings and text, there are photographs, video and sound.

*Zibaldone
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

A zibaldone is an Italian vernacular commonplace book. The word means “a heap of things” or “miscellany” in Italian. The earliest such books were kept by Venetian merchants in the fourteenth century, taking the form of a small or medium-format paper codex.

The word may also refer specifically to the best-known such book: the Zibaldone di pensieri by Giacomo Leopardi, often called simply The Zibaldone.

1.a book containing multiple writings collected in a scattered fashion  [quotations ▼]
2.the notebook by Leopardi that became a generic name for a collection of loosely connected thoughts.
3.a confusing mixture of diverse things or people
4.hodgepodge
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/zibaldone

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Drawings from the Moulin Eoux

We (my partner and I) are very lucky to get to stay with some friends who have a farm in France. Here are some drawings from our time there…more coming soon

 

Performance Art in Dublin

Fergus Byrne Performance Art Kilmainham 2010 (Photo by James Moore)

Performance Art Kilmainham Dublin 2010 (Photo by James Moore)

Performance Art Kilmainham Dublin 2010 (Photo by James Moore)

Performance Art Kilmainham Dublin 2010 (Photo by James Moore)

Performance Art Kilmainham Dublin 2010 (Photo by James Moore)

Performance Art Kilmainham Dublin 2010 (Photo by James Moore)

Nigel Rolfe Performance Art Kilmainham Dublin 2010 (Photo by James Moore)

Performance Art Kilmainham Dublin 2010 (Photo by James Moore)

Helena Walsh performance Art 2009/2010 Block T Smithfield Dublin (Photo by James Moore)

A small selection of photographs taken a few years back at Performance Art Live Presents ‘Right Here, Right Now’ at Kilmainham Gaol, Dublin featuring Fergus Byrne and Helena Walsh  (Please note photo here is from Helena Walsh’s Block T performance of Invisible Stains. Anyone interested in more photos from these performances please email me via contact page)