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Michele Marcoux
Hag-ridden (haɡ-rɪd(ə)n) – exhibition June 6th Summerhall
It was a nightmare I had only once and no longer remember. I was 19, sleeping alone in my parents bed, in a house I thought was haunted…. I awoke filled with terror, desperately wanting confirmation that I was awake. The clock, the lamp, the glass of water. The open bedroom door which was in […]
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A room of one’s own
For years I have had a recurring dream. I am alone in an old house (or is it a flat?). With a dark central hallway and a number of closed doors it feels haunted, intimidating but also exciting and full of potential. I think I have been here before. Should I be here? I start […]
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blood/MarcyAV – pictures from the exhibition!
Finally got pics up on the blog – thanks to everyone who came along to the show this month – it was a great experience! xmichele
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The impossibility of memory – It’s all about telling stories…
blood/MarcyAV 31st Oct Private View 7 – 9.30pm, The Old Ambulance Depot, 77 Brunswick Street, Edinburgh EH7 5HS The exhibition continues until Sunday Nov 3rd 10 – 5pm In the late 1980′s at a time when more than 2000 people a year were murdered in New York City, Southside Williamsburg, Brooklyn was an extremely hot […]
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HALLOWEEEEEN! – Two Weeks to go to MarcyAV
Only two weeks (exactly) to go to the blood/MarcyAV exhibition! Got the press release written (see below for quotes from my lovely collaborators poet Sheila Black and the self-proclaimed Sound Chick Lynne Thermann). Been gearing up and staying late in the editing suite at work (thank you Screen Academy Scotland) to get the various moving […]
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Stop Time – A poem from Sheila Black on National Poetry Day UK
Oct 3rd is National Poetry Day here in the UK and to celebrate I’d like to share one of my favourite poems by my good friend Sheila Black from her Orphic Prize nominated collection Wen Kroy. Wen Kroy was written as part of the collaboration Nostalgia/Analgesic with visual artist Michele Marcoux (that’s me) and sound […]
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Hag-ridden (haɡ-rɪd(ə)n) – exhibition June 6th Summerhall
It was a nightmare I had only once and no longer remember. I was 19, sleeping alone in my parents bed, in a house I thought was haunted…. I awoke filled with terror, desperately wanting confirmation that I was awake. The clock, the lamp, the glass of water. The open bedroom door which was in […]…
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Nostalgia/Analgesic Diary
Since we all met up at Jean’s fabulous upstate NY farm last April, Lynne and Sheila and I have been working diligently away at the Nostalgia/Analgesic project. Sound! Image! Poetry! Lots has happened in the meantime, Sheila’s moved herself and her family to San Antonio, Texas to run Gemini Ink, Lynne now has her…
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A room of one’s own
For years I have had a recurring dream. I am alone in an old house (or is it a flat?). With a dark central hallway and a number of closed doors it feels haunted, intimidating but also exciting and full of potential. I think I have been here before. Should I be here? I start […]…
