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Dr. Elly Clarke
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pursuing the blur over the binary / ecology over extraction / PhD in the Drag of Physicality in the Digital Age from Goldsmiths / teaching in various places / 🇵🇸 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 / any pronouns

ellyclarke.com / @serg1na.bsky.social / https://linktr.ee/digitalb0dy
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My PhD just dropped into the accessible ether of @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social research pages.

Get it when you want it here: research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/39...

Hardcopies will soon be available to peruse @ Goldsmiths Special Collections, Franklin Furnace Archive NYC & @bishopsgateinst.bsky.social
My next Artist Statement Writing Workshop takes place online this Friday, 5th Dec 10-12.30 UK time. £40 first time participants; £30 returning. Bring a 250 word artist statement, an open mind & willingness to participate in the collective editing of other's work

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/artist-sta...
Artist Statement Writing Workshop with Elly Clarke
Through creative writing exercises and conversation, this workshop will introduce you to new ways of writing about - and with - your work.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
December 1, 2025 at 8:49 AM
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During my freshman year of college, when I worked at the college art gallery, we marked World AIDS Day as a "Day Without Art" by covering a painting with a sheet. So many artists were lost to AIDS.
The U.S. government’s failure to acknowledge World AIDS Day takes us back to a troubling time. The federal government had recognized this awareness day every year since its inception in 1988. www.statnews.com/2025/11/29/w...
The U.S. government’s failure to acknowledge World AIDS Day takes us back to a troubling time
Perhaps AIDS activists’ famous slogan, “Silence = Death,” needs an update for this troubling moment.
www.statnews.com
November 30, 2025 at 7:10 PM
1st Dec at Akademie der Kunste Berlin, I'm reflecting with my decade-long collaborator Vladimir Bjelicic on a hybrid online/offline performance we did in 2016. This'lll be only the 2nd time V & I have performed together in the same space.

Free entry. All welcome. studiumplanetare.de/calendar/wit...
December 1, 2025 at 2:39 AM
Our final [Free!] Climate Justice Conversations workshop of 2025 takes place on 5 Dec @ Sussex uni. The game was designed by CHASE Climate Justice Network for artists, researchers & teachers to explore working and creating in the age of climate breakdown.

events.humanitix.com/climate-just...
November 25, 2025 at 2:03 PM
My PhD just dropped into the accessible ether of @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social research pages.

Get it when you want it here: research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/39...

Hardcopies will soon be available to peruse @ Goldsmiths Special Collections, Franklin Furnace Archive NYC & @bishopsgateinst.bsky.social
November 25, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Thanks to all who came to my artist statement writing workshop yesterday. The next one - happening online 3rd October - just dropped:

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/artist-sta...

#artiststatementworkshop #artistledworkshop #ellyclarke #collaborativewriting #poeticprompts #risepad
September 6, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Sending out my first newsletter in 12 months. If you’d like to get it, leave your info in this box: eepurl.com/dviolf?fbcli...
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September 4, 2025 at 1:12 PM
THE RIGHT TO PROTEST
Curated by Museum of UnRest & Pro Radix - 18th-28th Sept,
10 Greatorex St E1

Honoured to have #Sergina’s Desperately Delicious Dirty Data included in this important & timely exhibition about the right to protest.

Opening 18.9; performance 23rd

greatorexstreet.com/proradix/
September 4, 2025 at 12:38 PM
My next artist statement workshop is happening in 2 days. Suitable for artists at all stages of their careers. We work with conversation, collaboration & imagined scenarios to unlock new linguistic channels to & from your work. More info & booking here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/artist-sta...
Artist Statement Writing Workshop with Elly Clarke
Through creative writing exercises and conversation, this workshop will introduce you to new ways of writing about - and with - your work.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
September 3, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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Message from the RSPCA ☀️
August 13, 2025 at 8:57 AM
"Elly’s workshop was transformative." - Marta, new media artist

My next online artist statement writing workshop takes place 10-12.30 BST on Friday, 5th September. More info below:

www.eventbrite.com/e/artist-sta...

#artiststatement #artistledworkshop #collaborativeediting #participatorylearning
July 31, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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Friends, I know you're excited to try protesting, but under no circumstances should you ever sign up to attend one. I'm suspicious of any org asking people to put their name on a list that is easily accessible via warrant or may even be public. You can just show up day of.
April 4, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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“Cities have sexes: London is a man, Paris a woman, and New York a well-adjusted transsexual.”
― Angela Carter
March 31, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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"Hey Alexa, are you recording this?"

Yes, the answer is yes. Amazon is killing its “Do Not Send Voice Recordings” privacy feature on March 28 as the company aims to bolster Alexa+, its new subscription assistant."

@couts.bsky.social on why you should care.

Read more: www.wired.com/story/everyt...
March 27, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Fab day marking the interim show for MA art & ecology @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social along with Ros Grey & @beyondthehuman.bsky.social - involving performances, video, installation and ritual. Looking forward to day 2 tomorrow 🌱
March 27, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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The Signal chat carries intense governance by cosplay vibes. Not hugely different to the orders my teens shout at friends while gaming. I’m not trying to be cute, it actually freaks me out. Feels like the gov version of plastic surgery to look like mannequins designed to look like beautiful people.
March 26, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.
Video of the international student at Tufts being arrested by "federal authorities" in Massachusetts has been released and it's terrifying.

They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks.

From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY
March 26, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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Judge rules pro-Palestinian student and permanent US resident cannot be detained
<article data-history-node-id="420368" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/judge-rules-pro-palestinian-student-and-permanent-us-resident-cannot-be" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/judge-rules-pro-palestinian-student-and-permanent-us-resident-cannot-be" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Judge rules pro-Palestinian student and permanent US resident cannot be detained</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>A judge ordered US authorities Tuesday to cease efforts to detain and deport a New York college student, as President Donald Trump presses his campaign against pupils linked to pro-Palestinian protests.&nbsp;</p> <p>Authorities had sought to detain Yunseo Chung, a 21-year-old South Korean citizen and permanent resident of the United States, under the same powers they used to arrest and hold Columbia graduate student Mahmoud Khalil pending deportation.</p> <p>Chung, whom officers reportedly have been unable to find, sued the US government Monday, arguing that "immigration enforcement -- here, immigration detention and threatened deportation -- may not be used as a tool to punish noncitizen speakers who express political views disfavoured by the current administration."&nbsp;</p> <p>According to Chung's lawyers, Columbia's Public Safety department contacted Chung to tell her that Homeland Security agents were seeking her arrest.</p> <p>At an emergency hearing Tuesday, Judge Naomi Buchwald ordered the government to stop its effort to locate and remove Chung, a court order said.</p> <p>"Defendants-Respondents are enjoined from detaining the Plaintiff-Petitioner pending further order of this Court," Buchwald said in a temporary restraining order.</p> </div> </div> </article>
www.middleeasteye.net
March 26, 2025 at 7:08 AM
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It's critical for everyone to remember what an Executive Order is. It is the President communicating orders to members of the executive branch. Policies to pursue, actions to take, etc. They are not laws. They are not close to being laws. They are formalized memos to employees. That's all.
March 25, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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Want to confidently drive climate action within your work & networks?

Today we launch a new Creative Climate E-Learning Course for @artscouncilengland.bsky.social supported NPOs & IPSOs.
Sign up today & learn how culture can play a transformative role toward a better future >> tinyurl.com/hft2sczj
Creative Climate E-Learning - Julie's Bicycle
A training course supporting the cultural sector to understand the causes of the climate crisis and build the confidence to take action.
tinyurl.com
March 18, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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Israeli forces arrested Hamdan Ballal, a Palestinian co-director of the Oscar-winning documentary 'No Other Land,' in the occupied West Bank after settlers beat and injured him, according to his colleague
‘No Other Land’ co-director attacked by Israeli settlers and arrested
The film is an Oscar-winning documentary collaboration by Israeli and Palestinian filmmakers.
aje.io
March 24, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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Meta used at least 16 of my books, and numerous articles, to help train the AI it will use to make billions.

Authors, search your name here:

www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI
Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.
www.theatlantic.com
March 20, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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Canadian MP Charlie Angus joins global call to avoid the United States due to security risks posed to foreign civilians and Trump's ongoing ICE Ethnic Cleansing operation:

"I am here today to urge Canadians to avoid travel to the United States if at all possible." #cdnpoli
March 23, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Fun in the darkroom @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social - with @serg1na.bsky.social’s drag/ged objects - namely belt, necklace and wig #doubleexposure #darkroomphotography
March 20, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Please sign & share to stop the cuts to disability benefits this labour government is proposing. This will literally make some peoples lives untenavle if they go ahead. My friend who would no longer be able to afford the absolute basics is having panic attacks action.sense.org.uk/page/167765/...
Stop disability benefit cuts
action.sense.org.uk
March 20, 2025 at 10:45 AM