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Tag: Curator/Conductor Challenge

  • Ventrem Omnipotentem

    Ventrem Omnipotentem

    “And I wrote her an answer, just for to let her know That no young man would venture where he once could not go, O he once could not go.” * She provides the allegorical element, Uncle Wally added thereby setting himself off on his latest ‘last adventure’ again. From which arises that essential feeling…

  • You Are Pulling My Leg, Aren’t You?

    You Are Pulling My Leg, Aren’t You?

    PART I There is a lot of green in India. Probably too much. The artist Howard Hodgkin will be exhibiting a group of new paintings later this year. Some of the paintings connect with the part of his life which he spends in India each year. He stays mostly on the west coast for about…

  • Cutting Back Hard

    Cutting Back Hard

    They say it is for your own good. The cut backs (“The Cuts”). Is it possible to cut too far? Cut far beyond last year’s growing point. Back to the main stems. General wisdom says, the most the pruning saw cuts should be to above the first major stem divide. Hoping for new sprouts the…

Categories (2024) are:

  • ATELIER Work – about-creative-work (in all mediums: text-drawing-sounds-image etc)
  • CLIMATE Action – indications-and-contra-indications
  • DAWDLING – walking-pausing-to-wonder-wandering
  • IN Conversation – companionship-and-connections
  • LA Communita –participatory-collaborative-artivism
  • OTHER than Human – animate-and-inanimate-terrestrial-kin
  • PARANOID Readings – violence-and-fundamental-perversions
  • POLITICAL Readings – mobilisations-affect-polarisations
  • REPARATIVE Readings – inspiring-healing-restorative
  • SHADOW Readings – speculative-and-not-yet-visible-thinking
  • STYLE Readings – scales-and-familiarities
  • TONITE at the Coliseum – live-experiences-performance
  • YOGI (‘Not This-Not That’) – meditation-bhakti-consciousness


Different WORDSTALL Categories in the past supported the mainly experimental personal writing in posts. The previous list of Category headings was: Anti-gravity Surgery / Atelier / Catastrophe Games / Echo Effects / Exodus / Fundamental Perversions / Hitting the Potholes / Holy Fool-Hero / In Conversation / Old Men Traveling / On the Street / Out in the Wilderness / Over and Beyond / Tonite at the Coliseum. Some of these still persist or recur as Tag key-words.

The even earlier Category headings for the walkingtalkingwriting blog (2006-2012) have been forgotten, but can be explored if desired via the long tail of monthly posts for those years here.