Writing
A selection of PDFs of published writing.
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This article explores how my performance videos Googling Things in Hell 1 (Tammy) & 2 (Daniel) (2021) capture the contradictory nature of emotional performances in surveillance capitalism and convey them to the viewer. When we perform emotions online through social media posts and comments, or as in these videos, searching for content on Google, personalized content isolates us by using our emotions as data to provide or sell us what the algorithm thinks we want. But the generic nature of our search results shows that our feelings are never truly our own and are always structurally determined by capitalism.
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An essay about Claire Simon’s documentary film Récréations. I look at the way power plays out in the children’s games Simon’s film captures. In particular I focus on the rise and fall of ‘Fat Thomas’, who starts as a bully, telling the other children what to do, but eventually becomes the target of the other players’ frustrations with his game.
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An essay with images of ‘acceptable blockages’ from the first COVID-19 lockdown in the UK submitted by friends and readers. This piece extends a work made in 2015 of the same name, exploring the way areas of public space are blocked off.
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An annotated script from my film The Performativity of Clapping from 2020, published in Off Centre, by PINK Manchester.
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My contribution to The Annotated Reader edited by Ryan Gander & Jonathan P. Watts , ‘a publication-as-exhibition and exhibition-as-publication featuring 281 creative personalities responses and remarks on a chosen piece of writing.’
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An essay with images describing the practice of force feeding, and the techniques of restraint used in that practice; in relation to taste, as a bodily experience and as a sociological concept.
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This publication accompanies The Bad Vibes Club’s research over the past year and a half, from 2017-2018. This work has included performances and workshops at Open School East, ICA London and CCA Derry-Londonderry and a programme of reading groups and events at Flat Time House.
While hosted by Flat Time House, we ran a monthly reading group and organised events with writer Tessa Norton, artist Sophie Mallett, choreographer Hamish MacPherson, film scholar Kathryn Siegel, and artist Jonathan Hoskins and writer Susannah Worth with their Residence Kitchen project.
Most of the texts in this reader come from the artists who took part in the Flat Time House events programme: essays by Tessa and Kathryn, an interview by Hamish with Jodie Granger, some text and images from Sophie’s presentation, and some words and recipes taken from Residence Kitchen’s event. There is also an edited script of the performance Matt gave at the ICA and CCA Derry-Londonderry. We hope that if you came to some of these events then you enjoy experiencing them in their new form, and if you didn’t then these texts give you a flavour of what you missed.
Huge thanks to all the contributors, to our designer Flaminia Rossi, to Gareth Bell-Jones and Flat Time House, and to all of our partner institutions over the past year: OSE, ICA, CCA Derry-Londonderry, Somerset House and the Barbican. Thanks also to Arts Council England.
Beth Bramich & Matthew de Kersaint Giraudeau, June 2018.
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The Aesthetics of Awkward, What does awkwardness look like, or more precisely, how is awk- wardness presented, depicted and shared by people who want to express their, or other people’s, awkward situations?
This essay was originally presented as “The Awkward Turtle” with Andrea Francke, a commission by Sara Greavu as part of a Bad Vibes Club event at CCA - Derry- Londonderry, June 2016.
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An autofiction based on my time as an associate at Open School East. This was part of the Open School East Reader produced by AND publishing. I designed it to look like it was an article in the LRB which I thought was funny at the time,
