Listen to them—Don’t listen to them (Scrawl) (2018)

Sophie Hoyle

To cite this contribution:

Hoyle, Sophie. ‘Listen to them—Don’t listen to them (Scrawl).’ OAR: The Oxford Artistic and Practice Based Research Platform Issue 3 (2018), http://www.oarplatform.com/listen-dont-listen-scrawl-2018/.

Sophie Hoyle, Listen to them—Don’t listen to them (Scrawl), 2018.

Listen to them—Don’t listen to them (Scrawl) (2018) explores the intersection between embodied experiences of anxiety disorder and the wider material conditions of practising as an artist in late capitalism. It is a self-reflexive commentary on artistic practice and motivations, negotiating between personal ethics, politics, criticality and sincerity, and shyness and self-preservation in a context where a publicised artistic identity has become a form of cultural capital.

About the author:

Sophie Hoyle is an artist and writer, currently living and working in London. They relate personal experiences of being queer, non-binary, having chronic mental and physical health conditions and being part of the MENA (Middle East and North Africa) diaspora, to wider forms of structural violence, and explore the alliances that can form where these intersect. www.sophiehoyle.com.