I’m so pleased to have been invited to talk about my project BHAM💥 for [cloud] Art School’s regular *[c] Word. I attended some of these talks over the summer months, and it’s a lovely community. I’ll admit, I find some online groups a little austere and intimidating, but the [cloud] people manage to combine maturity and seriousness with fun, warmth and a sense of genuine inclusion. I’m very much a fan of all that.
I am speaking on Tuesday, the 3rd of February at 5.30pm. Tickets are available for £15 via [cloud]’s shop. Do come along!
*The [c] Word is a monthly online programme of artist talks and presentations with audience Q&A. This is an opportunity to learn directly from practicing artists and their experience. These talks are inspirational, encouraging, and invaluable (From http://www.cloud-collective.net)
BHAM💥 The Black Hole Aesthetic Machine is an imaginary product and service designed to help humans come to terms with their impending obsolescence. Assembled from seemingly disparate images, it is a conceptual object that provides guidance and self-help exercises – not for purchase by consumers, but to demonstrate how purchasing, consuming, and identity maintenance operate as informational pattern-creation within the limits of one’s parochial position. It processes whatever temporary configurations (human, machine, theistic entity) engage with it and has no interest in the entity’s interpretation – be that honest recommendation, dark humour, or outright insult. BHAM💥 was made for The Doughnut(W)Hole Pavilion as part of The Wrong Biennale (7th Edition) 2025/26 which runs from the 1st of November 2025 to the 31st of March 2026.
Sarah-Jane Field is a participating artist, co-producer and web designer of The Doughnut(W)Hole.