about
honor ash (b. 1997) is an artist living and working in norwich, england.
their practice centres around communication, power, language, community, and alienation. they work in a range of media, including performance, workshops and events, traditional and digital visual mediums, constructed environments, and publications. they have an ongoing photography practice documenting liminal space and human altered landscapes, which is collected under the title OUT/WITH.
since 2017, ash has produced events across comedy, performance art, live music and networking both in person and online, including the show & tell series of open forum workshops with ninetales collective. other collaborators include the university of east anglia, london queer artist network, 5:18 magazine, enterprise innovation solutions, 3 beetles, the association for performance art in berlin, and grüntaler 9.
currently they are working with geeks for social change to imagine and build kind and liberated futures, and creating sustainable ways for their irl community to engage with experimental music and performance as co-director of ambition's graveyard. alongside this, as part of their MA, they are completing a research inquiry into fear and other emotional responses in collaborative, improvised, experimental music.
for current writing & research, visit their blog or gemini capsule [what's this?].
affiliations
- geeks for social change, writer, 2023 - present [link]
- ambition's graveyard, director, 2022 - present [link]
- microplastic, ensemble lead, 2022 - present (dormant) [link]
- ninetales collective, member & facilitator, 2016 - present (dormant) [link]
- special dispensations, director & curator, 2021 - 2023 [link]
- elmer projects, music & sound art coordinator, 2017
- london queer artist network, founder, 2017 [link]
- association for performance art in berlin, e.V., internship, 2017
- grüntaler 9, berlin, internship, 2017
education
- middlesex university, MA professional practice, artist practitioner, 2022 - 2024
- university of westminster, BA (hons) fine art mixed media, 2015 - 2018, first class honours
talks
- office hours with honor ash, rhizome.org, april 20th 2023 [link]
- situating language and text in public, dance arts journal workshop, march 30th 2023
- should data expire? entropy and permanence in digital landscapes, antiuniversity now, september 10th 2022
- should data expire? entropy and permanence in digital landscapes (alt title: navigating forgiveness and growth in an environment of fixed points), summer school 2022, august 6th 2022 [transcript]
writing & publications
- thoughts.hnr.fyi, blog, 2022 - ongoing [link]
- resist recuperation, minizine, as ambition's graveyard, 2023 [read]
- should data expire?, essay, 2023 [link]
- how to OUT/WITH, publication, 2023 [read] [buy]
- REINVENTION OF THE SELF, prose, 2022 [read]
- song of ungrounding - selhurst railway station, platform 2 (excerpts), ninetales collective blog, 2021 [read]
- float, minizine, 2021
- four drawings for a restless world, minizine, 2021 [read]
- OUT/WITH, 36 page photo zine, 2020 [buy]
- it is working as intended, 2019 [info]
- dissonance, 2018 [read]
- superconnectivity:- considering the impact of the internet on text in art, as honor cooke, 2018 [read]
- power, 2016 [read]
- every thought i ever had, 2016 [listen]
performances
- monuments, with placeholder press; st martin at palace church, norwich, 22nd october 2022
- plank in residence, as microplastic, with eastern ear; anteros arts, norwich, 14th october 2022
- electropixel12, improvised music using tap dance as instrument, with irrational collective and eastern ear; plank, shoe factory social club, norwich, 19th july 2022 [watch]
- all dayer for brain research uk, uridium (guest vocals); b2 at the brickmakers, norwich, 17th july 2022
- barn jam, live coding using sonic pi, with abby page, amrita, andy butler, charlotte arculus, gem; aylsham, 5th june 2022 [listen]
- tap interrogation, improvised music using tap dance as instrument, with eastern ear; plank, shoe factory social club, norwich, 17th may 2022 [listen]
- reading the rights of the river wensum, ensemble singing, with charlotte arculus, gem, hugh lupton and XR red and blue rebels; wensum park, norwich, april 30th 2022 [watch]
- deconstruction of 'dark object hyperfinanced into scum, scum, obviously, in its own way, a centre', collaborative ritualistic deconstruction, with yuki cooke, charlotte arculus, gem; OUTPOST studios, norwich, april 24th 2022 [info]
- improvised stylophone drone; voodoo daddy's showroom, norwich, 15th march 2022 [listen]
- drawing in response to collaborative musical improvisation, with eastern ear; plank, st john maddermarket, norwich, 16th november 2021
- 114v interprets richard nixon's resignation speech through dance and it is working as intended [info], interpretive dance and performance poetry; elegant horse, imagine that, with ninetales collective, the betsey trotwood, london, september 4th 2019
- trust fall, durational performance; queer spectra arts festival, commonwealth studios, salt lake city, UT, 25th may 2019 [info]
- 114v performs burlesque to the sound of london bridge station announcements, with ninetales collective; two halves at four quarters, four quarters peckham, london, september 19th 2018
- dissonance, performance poetry; poetry: hot4you, descArtes, croydon, june 8th 2018 [listen]
- wentworn ov feelist erd reptrount ov wentworn fassiendic synepseu, durational performance; university of westminster fine art mixed media degree show, ambika p3, london, june 1st 2018 (permanently installed) [info]
- percussion and backing vocals, with gemini eye; various dates and venues circa 2018, but specifically: ninetales collective presents: the upper world and f r i e n d s, winchendon hill farm, aylesbury, 2018
- tryst, durational performance; there is such a thing as going too far, university of westminster, may 18th 2016 [info]
- this is a public work, durational performance; you break it, you buy it, university of westminster/online livestream, december 14th 2015
- preparation piece, durational performance; online livestream, 7th december 2015 [watch]
exhibitions
- should data expire?, sun thinking, solar protocol, online exhibition, 2023
- how to OUT/WITH, FLOCK emerging creatives network, norwich, 2023
- inner-city: out of place, stay connected VE, online exhibition, 2021
- catalyst, with stoa collective, online exhibition, 2021
- exachomol, custom house civic community hub, london, 2020
- queer spectra arts festival, commonwealth studios, salt lake city, UT, 2019
- a toss up on both sides, as part of the ninetales fall party, the five bells, london, 2018
- poetry: hot4you, descartes, croydon, 2018
- university of westminster fine art mixed media degree show, ambika p3, london, 2018
- T⅃Ǝꟻ TI WOH, A3.09, solo exhibition, 2018 [info]
- winter festival exhibition, queen's park nomadic gardens, london, 2017-18
- embodiment now, LOFT @ croydon arts store, london, 2017
- keiken PDF library, FOMO falmouth art publishing fair, falmouth, 2017
- super shop, A3.09, london, 2017
- but i'm not getting bored, london gallery west project space, london, 2017
- creative 508, 508 gallery, london, 2017
- everyday is a day too long, electric house, london, 2017
- there is such a thing as going too far, university of westminster, london, 2016
- you break it, you buy it, university of westminster, 2015
selected works
- 'ah-' '-ha', crochet & ricoh aficio 270 photocopier, 2021
- explorations (set 3), digital paintings, 2020
- safe in my own space, digital triptych, 2020
- 290 sluts, acrylic on found board, 2019
- it is working as intended, poem, 2019
- exachomol, acrylic on board, 2018
- wentworn ov feelist erd reptrount ov wentworn fassiendic synepseu, tattoo, 2018 (permanently installed)
- submerge, web-based interactive work, 2018-2020
- reverence, installation, 2017 (destroyed 2018)
- participate, acrylic paint on leather jacket, february 2017 (permanently installed)
events
with ambition's graveyard
with ambition's graveyard
we regularly put on events at ambition's graveyard, which are open to our members. these include jams, workshops, show & tell (yay! it's back!), indie film screenings, clubs, and more!
selected highlights include:
- the plank led by cath roberts, with eastern ear, may 2023 [info]
- mapping the city, with norwich remapped, as part of norwich transformed, april 2023
- my friend carmen film premiere, with maisie radley, march 2023
with ninetales collective
- show & tell, the rumsey wells, norwich, weekly from july 2021 - may 2022 [info]
- nebula WIP, leslie ewing-burgesse, as part of show & tell, the rumsey wells, norwich, 2021
- elegant horse, imagine that, the betsey trotwood, london, 2019
- kitchen 2, peckham rye kfc, london, 2019 [info]
- ninetales fall party, the five bells, london, 2018
- ninetales collective presents: the upper world and f r i e n d s, winchendon hill farm, aylesbury, 2018
- ninetales collective podcast & anthology launch, elmer projects, london, 2018
- two halves at four quarters, four quarters peckham, london, 2018
- untechcon, with geeks for social change; online, december 2022 [info]
- mixed bill stand-up comedy, with 99 club; london, daily from june 2018 - march 2023
- roots, uea choir and symphony orchestra, with the university of east anglia music centre; st andrew's hall, norwich, 2021
- equanimity island launch party, with 5:18 magazine and enterprise innovation solutions; the five bells, london, 2019
- T⅃Ǝꟻ TI WOH, solo exhibition; A3.09, london, 2018
- super shop, with fc izaac; A3.09, london, 2017
- embodiment now, with london queer artist network; LOFT @ croydon arts store, london, 2017
- everyday is a day too long, with gem, electric house, london, 2017
- street party in celebration of david bowie, as honor louise, brixton, london, 2016
other events
curation
elsewhere
- should data expire?, solar protocol, 2023 [link]
- instagram has ruined the art world. what now?, the white pube podcast, 2022 [link]
- noglum issue 3, noglum magazine, 2021
- tin can radio, hannah whyte, online radio station, 2020
- LOFTy thoughts, book, croydon arts store, 2020
- disgusting existence: a ninetales anthology, zine, ninetales collective, 2018
press & mentions
- servers, sewers, alienation, by maya kate, maya.land, 2022 [read]
- I wish my web server were in the corner of my room, by matt webb, interconnected.org, 2022 [read]
- the white pube crit #5, by zarina muhammad, the white pube, 2022 [read]
- wensum park gathering celebrates rights of the river by maya derrick, norwich evening news, 2022 [read]
- editors note by dom sellars, with ninetales collective, noglum magazine issue 3, 2021
- OUT/WITH by josh philpott, ninetales collective blog, 2020 [read]
- kitchen 2 review, with ninetales collective, 5:18 magazine, 2019 [read]
- david bowie dead: london street party celebrates icon 'as he would have wanted' by christopher hooton, independent, 2016 [read]
- david bowie's life celebrated at london street party in his childhood neighborhood: 'bring instruments' – and 'most importantly, love,' say organizers by nina biddle with monique jessen and nick maslow, people.com, 2016 [read]
