TAKT Residency 2023

An informal blog & record of my summer as an artist in residence at Takt Berlin.

Fortnightly blogs published on Mondays.

Mary Martin Mary Martin

Monday, 28th August.

‘Tradition counts for nothing when it is no longer contested and modified. A culture that is merely preserved is no culture at all.’

-Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? - Mark Fischer

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Mary Martin Mary Martin

Monday, 14th August.

Turning something from an idea into a reality can make it seem smaller. It changes from unearthly to earthly. The imagination has no limits. The physical world does. The work exists in both.

- The Creative Act: A Way of Being, Rick Rubin.

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Mary Martin Mary Martin

Monday, 31st July.

‘There ought, I thought, to be a ritual for being born twice - patched, retreaded and approved for the road.’

- The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath

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Mary Martin Mary Martin

Monday, 17th July.

‘improvisation is essentially an act of acute vulnerability. But it is also a path to creative freedom, to wild adventure, in which the things of true value can often emerge through musical misunderstandings.’

- Faith, Hope and Carnage, Nick Cave.

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Mary Martin Mary Martin

Monday, 19th June.

‘A language without words, where the mind must bow to instinct.’

-Devotion, Patti Smith.

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