By Chloe Watfern — 27 March, 2021
What should the title be Madame Witch? It’ll come to you. Everything always does. It is an overcast afternoon. Outside, puddles on the ground reflect sky. We are inside a former railway yard turned multi-arts precinct, in one section of a smaller structure made from steel beams and felt panels. The structure is temporarily housing…
By Chloe Watfern — 16 October, 2019
The social organism is a scribbled line. It’s a line passed from hand to hand across a big sheet of paper. It means nothing and everything. Deep in the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA), behind the double glass doors of the National Centre for Creative Learning, a man is drawing a rocket. The rocket is…
By Chloe Watfern — 16 August, 2019
‘Why cover the same ground again?…It goes against my grain to repeat a tale told once, and told so clearly.’ Homer, The Odyssey ‘It is half the art of storytelling to keep a story free from explanation as one reproduces it.’ Walter Benjamin, The Storyteller, (1936) I’m not going to tell you about the…