Aidan Moesby' blog
As a socially engaged Text Based Artist and Writer I am interested in the schisms and conflicts that exist between the personal and cultural agendas. I am fascinated by the way in which we both create and try to make sense of the worlds which we live in. I am interested in the experience of attempting to mediate diverse worlds, attempting to maintain an arts practice and navigate through the increasing complexities of the everyday.
2 May 2012
Devising Psychosis
Last Sunday, a wet and miserable April day, about 70 people gathered at St Nicholas' Psychiatric Hospital in Newcastle to bear witness to Devising Psychosis - a newly devised piece of...Comments: 0
22 January 2012
How 'Open' is Open
Before I get to the crux of what I have to say I want to make it perfectly clear that I think Shape Arts do some amazing work in the areas of Disability and Equality. However I was a little dismayed...Comments: 1
8 January 2012
Struggling Through
In the first six months of 2011 i could count the number of 'paid' days work on my toes. This lead to an impact on my pocket and my health. The pressure was immense, the sense of failure even bigger...Comments: 0
10 October 2011
I don't want to be rude I'm just feeling vulnerable
I'm doing an Engage Residency at Dundee Contemporary Arts. This is a post in response to something that happened - a small everyday occurence. But sometimes it's the small everyday occurences that...Comments: 2
27 September 2011
I'm on the Road
After having had a bleak first part of the year - as is well documented here - i now find myself flitting from one thing to another. I am pleased, really pleased. about this - but i know how...Comments: 0
12 July 2011
Getting Through
I’m not whingeing. It’s just a fact. It’s hard and no denying it. This has been the hardest, year I have had since being a freelance artist. I am in the hinterland, on the cusp,...Comments: 2
11 April 2011
Aidan Moesby has just installed ‘Do you think we can talk about this?’ at the Centre for Life
We live in difficult times. The National Portfolio funding came out – a few of the organisations we are all familiar with suffered. Arcadea – my local disability arts organisation...Comments: 0
14 February 2011
Aidan Moesby asks how do they get away with this 'quality journalism'?
Apples and Snakes posted a Facebook link to an article by Alex Hudson on BBC News entitled 'The Creative Process and Mental Illness'. The basic tenet is that mad equals creative. I really don't...Comments: 4
17 January 2011
Aidan Moesby reflects on the 'Dear John' letter. It doesn't get any easier to hear!
I don’t know about you but I quite like having a bit of autonomy when it comes to my own life. Not that I’m a control freak or anything – far from it. I like the fact that the world...Comments: 4
31 December 2010
Re-awakenings
As ever, I have left it to the last minute, I want to first post before the year is out. Whilst I like to think of time more in terms of a continuum I can’t help but be lulled into some...Comments: 1