Author Archives: John B Ledger

Recent Mapmaking (2014 so far) part 4

This is the 4th post in a series that I still call psychogeographical maps (or cognitive mapping). Quoting certain sections and using a selection of photographs to widen the project, which at its core still has the intention to be a Cognitive Mapping of Now – aiming to be useful for locating the current socio-politicalContinue reading “Recent Mapmaking (2014 so far) part 4”

Entombed in Self-Centredness

Being entombed in your own self-centeredness is not at all pleasurable, believe me. It’s a lonely prison cell, where the pass-code for exit is constantly altered, vapourising escape plans. But the likelihood is, if you’re a decade or so younger than I, you know exactly what I mean already. I can’t be sure I’m rightContinue reading “Entombed in Self-Centredness”

Images of Work from Recent Exhibitions

Over the past 2 week I’ve had my works in two exhibitions: In Unity Hall Launch exhibition in Wakefield I exhibited The Place of Dead Ends, The Index For Child Well-being and Whilst We Were All In The Eternal Now… And in Our Corner: Art as Political Expression, at Bank Street Arts in Sheffield, IContinue reading “Images of Work from Recent Exhibitions”

Recent Mapmaking (2014 so far) part 3

This is the third post in a series that I still call psychogeographical maps (or cognitive mapping). Quoting certain sections and using a selection of photographs to widen the project, which at its core still has the intention to be a Cognitive Mapping of Now – aiming to be useful for locating the current socio-politicalContinue reading “Recent Mapmaking (2014 so far) part 3”

Recent mapmaking. (2014 so far, through maps)

I’ve begun including a few photographs within my (what I still reluctantly call -as I’ve not found a better word for them yet) psychogeographical maps. 13th May 2012 “Street Art-clad entrance into Victorian storm tunnels, before they descend under central Leeds. Perhaps the element of urban decay is what prompts us to talk about theContinue reading “Recent mapmaking. (2014 so far, through maps)”

Non-Stop Inertia: A Stuck Record (performance)

Interruption encouragement! Artists intervention at Leeds Art Gallery this Friday (18th July) from 1-2pm. Artist John Wright and I will be performing a philosophical debate. Visitors are encouraged to interrupt. Here’s a piece of writing I have made regarding my take on the performance Non-Stop Inertia: A Stuck Record: Non-Stop Inertia is a performance pieceContinue reading “Non-Stop Inertia: A Stuck Record (performance)”

Five Years Drowning (exhibition @ Chapel Walk, Sheffield)

…Attempting a cognitive mapping of chaos…speeding of information causing its very disintegration…a proliferation of incomprehension…a deluge of auto-suggestions against the panic attacks of rare clear perception…being brayed between mumbo-jumbo-unreality and the biggest ever threats to humanity…underneath it all an cracking of skin and an aging of bones #CanIHaveSomeTimeAlone? Five Years Drowning. The exhibition runs untilContinue reading “Five Years Drowning (exhibition @ Chapel Walk, Sheffield)”

Pre-2008-Crash Time-Capsules

The Sad but necessary demolition of some older pieces of work. Although I wouldn’t really call these pieces of work sculpture – they were more accompaniments to my drawings, mounds rising up to slightly obscure the pieces I was showcasing/like a weight on a stressed chest that won’t go away (guilt of being part of/weddedContinue reading “Pre-2008-Crash Time-Capsules”