Alison J. Carr
Alison J Carr is an artist and writer. She works in photography, video, collage and performance. In 2013 she gained a PhD from Sheffield Hallam University. She has an MFA from the California Institute of the Arts and BA (Hons) Fine Art from Sheffield Hallam University. She has exhibited and performed in Sheffield, Berlin, Los Angeles, and Indiana.
As part of Sheffield Fringe 2016, Alison J Carr is reading ‘On Being Spiky’, a text by Emma Leach, as part of the programme Willing the Possible.
“The video is a short experimentation in which I think aloud my thoughts on a book I read. Using a handheld camera the imagery is of my feet in a stream and my voice and other ambient noises form the sound for this work.
A type of critical reflexive review: an experiment to find my voice, to speak. I give a meditation on a book I have read and the video is a letter to the book’s author. I wonder how we can find the permission to speak, while I kick water and trace patterns with my foot.” – AC