Mx.D.P

This was very much a working Tutorial, and after our situational awareness catch-up, we got down to the business of the grad show.

We discussed the current state of trans politics and how that affects my art practice, my future PhD, its associated art/network, and myself personally.

First, you are what you are; none of us can be other, even if we don’t fit within the parameters of the society in which we live.

There is a lot of fear right now on both sides. It has almost certainly been deliberately whipped up by political spin doctors as distraction tactics, and it’s clear that it will cause harm and is unworkable.

For my part, even at my advanced age of 60, I am still working through both my gender identity and my sexuality, though it is important to say they are separate within all of us.

My gender identity feels the most valid and honest of my life, and that’s both amazing but frustratingly sad in the current political atmosphere, as any formal recognition of being non-binary is further away than it has ever been. Even folks with gender recognition certificates are now invalidated by this Supreme Court ruling, so we non-binary folks have as much chance as a Pink AI Snowball in Hell.

We had a check-in on how the PhD application is going (me to fill out the UAL form).

How will the future work look? The answer is that the world is a dangerous place, and any global network has to deal with that uncertainty.

So, to the Grad show… obviously, when your subject is the end of the world and how to mitigate that … it brings up interesting issues. We talked about the semiotics of the individual components and how JK saw the staging of those important to their reading, and that made perfect sense.

In the end it was all about the layers…