Arts Council – Developing your creative practice

In December 2020 I was successful in gaining an Arts Council ‘DYCP’ since then I’ve been exploring immersive technologies within my creative practice. I created the following work in collaboration with Thomas Buckley.

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Wapple Way

One minute 360 film in Virtual Reality exploring Sussex dialect in the landscape. ‘Wapple Way’ means bridlepath in Sussex Dialect.

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Sussex Dialect

45 second film in Virtual Reality exploring Sussex dialect in the landscape.

Benson’s Pig – floor

Chog – apple chore

Dumbledore – bumblebee

Gods Almighty Cow – ladybird

Mare’s tail – streaky clouds

Monkeys birthday – where it’s raining and sunny at the same time

Mousearnickle – dragonfly

Naughty man’s plaything – stinging nettles

Puck stool – toadstool

Runaway Jack – ground ivy

Snag – snail

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January Butter

Motion sensor piece exploring the many words for mud in Sussex dialect.

Loving mud, Clodgy, Gawm, Gubber, Pug, Slab, Sleech, Slob, Slough, Slub, Slurry, Smeery, Stoach, Stodge, Stug, Swank, January butter

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Sussex Won’t be Druv

Motion sensor projection piece exploring Sussex dialect in the landscape.

Poem:

Sussex Won’t be Druv
Some folks as come to Sussex,
They reckons as they know –
A durn sight better what to do
Than simple folks, like me and you,
Could possibly suppose.

But them as comes to Sussex,
They mustn’t push and shove,
For Sussex will be Sussex,
And Sussex won’t be druv!

Mus Wilfred come to Sussex,
Us heaved a stone at he,
Because he reckoned he could teach
Our Sussex fishers how to reach
The fishes in the sea.

But when he dwelt among us,
Us gave un land and luv,
For Sussex will be Sussex,
And Sussex won’t be druv!

All folks as come to Sussex
Must follow Sussex ways –
And when they’ve larned to know us well,
There’s no place else they’ll wish to dwell
In all their blessed days –

There ant no place like Sussex,
Until ye goos above,
For Sussex will be Sussex,
And Sussex won’t be druv.
W Victor Cook 1914