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Continue reading →: Female Calculations – a short film on female safety algorithms
This five-minute video essay was extracted from the longer video installation from the British Council-sponsored Parallel Walking exhibition at Artefact Gallery, Stirchley in February 2022. It is combined here with the ‘Female Calculations’ text from Parallel Walking zine (text below). The film is available for showing at film nights and…
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Continue reading →: Parallel Walking – and trying not to fall over
Hello. I’m baaaaack. Haiiii long-term subscribers (aka people I know)! And anyone else new to these random textual shores. Bless me Father for I have sinned. It’s been seven months since my last blog session. A quick diary post is in order because the last six months have been kind…
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Continue reading →: How women walkBack in April, I emailed the organisers of the 4th World Congress of Pyschogeography (4WCoP) to ask: “Might there be a interesting discussion in the idea of how women walk together…” Mainly I wanted to get some wider framing/context for the Crone and Dazzle walks, to connect with other female…
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Continue reading →: Birmingham Life on Lockdown archived in collage
By summer 2020, various museums and archives were looking for material to illustrate what life was like for people in the early stages of the pandemic. I submitted my ‘First 100 Days of Lockdown’ pandemic diary – kept as a public record of my own experience – to a couple of…
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Continue reading →: New Year’s Resolution – to live like a dog
Although 2020 was a sh*tshow and 2021 isn’t looking much better, I still couldn’t resist making plans in January. It’s something I’ve been doing annually since my life got bent out of shape in 2001 and I ended up becoming a bit of recluse for a year or several (not…
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Continue reading →: Best books I’ve read in the bath in 2020
For years I’ve kept a list in the back of my diary of books I’ve read (recently I’ve started adding my media diet too). That’s how I know that I read 37 books in 2019 and, weirdly, it’ll be exactly 37 by the end of 2020. There’s consistent pacing for…
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Continue reading →: Pandemic diary 101: My first Covid test
Oh hello! I’m back! And here we all are again. In a local lockdown – one of so many, let’s just call it a national lockdown, shall we? Effectively we all relaxed in the summer and now we’re on the upstroke of a steepening second wave, which threatens to be much…
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Continue reading →: A last walk around the Stirchley Co-op – a photo essay
On 25th January 2020, the Stirchley Co-op sadly closed forever. The urge to see it one last time was strong. It was a strange feeling, after all it was just a shop. And yet… this was the supermarket I had grown up with in the 1970s-80s and returned to in the…
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Continue reading →: Pandemic diary 100: Looking back at 100 days of lockdown
I’m not going to lie, personally I already miss the lockdown. Despite the ongoing anxiety-inducing circumstances of a global pandemic, the lockdown itself was often a time of peace and quiet and reflection and safety, free of many of the usual obligations of life. Looking back, I mostly remember it…
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Continue reading →: Pandemic diary 99: Collaging lockdown, dreaming of future escapes and the holiday issue
A friend commented on one of my earlier posts that I was “really LIVING each day”. Which did make me smile since I have found lockdown life pretty limiting. I’m not sure if she was referring to the daily writing here or the sudden interest in my allotment or my…
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Fiona Cullinan 