Rivers of Blood

Enoch Powell wrote the Rivers of Blood cos his wife shagged a black man. You heard it here first folks. Photo is Reno memoirist Laurence Beddows in nursery with Reno head Rashid Finni. Innocent. Before Maggie's first act of stealing school milk.

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The Lose of Community

We left 2018 talking about mixed race mental illness. We enter 2019 with a plan to unearth its cause. A technique I learned in psychotherapy called mentalisation – listening then processing, instead of assuming and reacting. To help us contextualise our half-caste Reno story in the fabric of society.…

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Let's Recruit New Soldiers

Robert said 'everyone talks about the past, what about now?' That, a Transwoman, a Asian woman covered in spit with a Paki husband ‘The Long Story', & recycling the Whitworth’s William Kentridge installation become the Reno.Live TV show.

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Mental Illness

The ladies' discussion gave us half caste. The men's gives us mental illness.

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Resurrecting The Reno Floor Plan

We've had the marvellous 'half-caste' rant, we've discussed our workspace in situ, the Whitworth/Reno negotiations began, I got angry, and here we're a little bit deflated. But not to worry I've spent all week making sure our design goes to plan.

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Can You Tell I'm Getting Angry

In the big house they make tea in china cups brewed for 3 minutes. In the quarters they drink water from a ladle. Slavery has ended. To make amends the masters have agreed we can tell them what it has been like being us. What they want is a nice little puppet show that they can pack away when they tire…

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Whitworth/Reno Negotiations Begin

Every video is a pebble in a forest. To help all class of person follow our path to self expression. I had the most fantastic meeting with Whitworth technicians Paul, Sarah, and Emma today about realising both our workspace and our concept.. Made possible by our first negotiation, here, with the Whitworth's…

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Workspace

To conjure our Reno exhibition we need to a workspace with 4 clearly defined areas: A 'living room' to hatch ideas & the public watch our memoirs. Tables to formulate our ideas. A station to edit our documentary so far. And a station to construct our photo-book.

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Half Caste

Nikita asks us a simple question: what do you want to get out of the Whitworth residency? Why are you here? Our answers take us to the heart of the project. They build to a crescendo.

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The Afterlife

You will not believe who Ivan stops the flow of discussion to big up as someone we should have a life-size cardboard copy of in the Reno Afterlife. The man is a cunt.

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Everyone Was Sick Of Listening To Me

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