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 ==== Obstinate Lump ====
+"There is something about how it's kind of ugly and sticky and misshapen and almost banal and obtuse. Or obstinate - it doesn't care about what I want, it is just a lump. Obstinate Lump." - email exchange between artists
+PHOTOS: http://www.flickr.com/photos/foam/sets/72157634633722986/
 Dough resists neatness and control, an aesthetic of the unmade, lumpen and formless. It is an unwieldy mass that provides a physical confrontation with intractable matter. This stuff is not fluid, it is a sticking point for the mind to flow around, and as such acts as a provocative anchor to the mess of the world. Dough is an obstinate medium – it can be anti-architectural and anti-design in its production of form.
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 [[microresidencies|Microresidency]] by Bridget Currie and Chloe Langford
+bridgetcurrie.com
+mmrgghh-hi.tumblr.com/
 <html><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/foam/9262475009/" title="coconut fibre and dough experiment by _foam, on Flickr"><img src="https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3737/9262475009_d9b9929ced_n.jpg" width="320" height="213" alt="coconut fibre and dough experiment"></a><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/foam/9262469745/" title="drawings in progress by _foam, on Flickr"><img src="https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5323/9262469745_2314199c56_n.jpg" width="320" height="213" alt="drawings in progress"></a><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/foam/9265247538/" title="first bake experiments by _foam, on Flickr"><img src="https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7288/9265247538_647802b243_n.jpg" width="320" height="213" alt="first bake experiments"></a></html>
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 - Enjoying fragility, breaking apart, balance, seepage. Breathing alive blobs.
+We also talked about matter. The feeling of craving matter, because so many important, heavy things exist digitally and have very little matter. How tactile activities are such a relief. Also the alien-ness of matter - the way the physicality of things somehow doesn't stop surprising you.
+The doughs we've been making are funny - both rising and falling at the same time. We've been watching them slide and creep down surfaces and try to fight gravity with elasticity. As they slip down, you can hear tiny fibres breaking and snapping. When they are sitting in little round forms on the bench, they look like they are sleeping. Humming lumps.
+"Fermented food is alive, it poetically brings to mind an animistic world where the air that we breath and the food that we eat is in constant movement."
+Microcultures Zine, http://bbva.irational.org/microcultures/