Work from a residency at Whitechapel Gallery, in the Foyle Reading Room in relation to Performance and Politics in 1970’s:

Whilst searching through archival material in the Foyle Reading room, I came across Marketa Luskacova’s one-woman show of photographs in the area around the Whitechapel Gallery from the 1970’s onwards. I mused over the possibility of Marketa coming across and photographing actions I had made in the early 70’s in this area, such as illegal bill postings (one of a ‘cancelled’ exhibition,) displaying items in Brick Lane Market, sometimes for sale, sometimes simply as an exhibition or busking with ‘unlikely’ instruments. This thought high-lighted for me the whole notion of the overlap, interplay and fusion of art capturing life and life capturing art. I contacted Marketa to ask her if she would photograph, in her usual observant but unobtrusive way, actions I made in the area around the Whitechapel. She agreed and we made a series of works together for an exhibition in the Reading Room, alongside each of our early works in the area. The works from my actions, all possibilities of everyday activity, included me begging with first a GODLESS sign and then a GODBLESS sign, overseeing a stall of white objects in Sunday Brick Lane Market, as well as walking through with huge branches of blossom and finally having an infinity sign tattooed into the palm of my hand in a local Tattoo parlour whilst telling them about the life of William Blake. All these actions stimulated great interactions and exchanges with people across the board and on many levels.