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Dr. Elly Clarke
@digitalb0dy.bsky.social
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pursuing the blur over the binary / ecology over extraction / PhD in the Drag of Physicality in the Digital Age from Goldsmiths / teaching in various places / 🇵🇸 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 / any pronouns

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Thanks to all who came to my artist statement writing workshop yesterday. The next one - happening online 3rd October - just dropped:

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/artist-sta...

#artiststatementworkshop #artistledworkshop #ellyclarke #collaborativewriting #poeticprompts #risepad
September 6, 2025 at 8:41 AM
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THE RIGHT TO PROTEST
Curated by Museum of UnRest & Pro Radix - 18th-28th Sept,
10 Greatorex St E1

Honoured to have #Sergina’s Desperately Delicious Dirty Data included in this important & timely exhibition about the right to protest.

Opening 18.9; performance 23rd

greatorexstreet.com/proradix/
September 4, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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"Elly’s workshop was transformative." - Marta, new media artist

My next online artist statement writing workshop takes place 10-12.30 BST on Friday, 5th September. More info below:

www.eventbrite.com/e/artist-sta...

#artiststatement #artistledworkshop #collaborativeediting #participatorylearning
July 31, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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Fab day marking the interim show for MA art & ecology @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social along with Ros Grey & @beyondthehuman.bsky.social - involving performances, video, installation and ritual. Looking forward to day 2 tomorrow 🌱
March 27, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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Fun in the darkroom @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social - with @serg1na.bsky.social’s drag/ged objects - namely belt, necklace and wig #doubleexposure #darkroomphotography
March 20, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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Reading this is like watching a period drama that uncannily echos the news feeds on y/our phone.History repeats & violence by powerful men is a horribly consistent fact. Tho there were times when women had it better. Highly recommended. Normal Women 900 yrs of History in t Making by Philippa Gregory
March 16, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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Ears / moonlight / clouds
March 16, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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Not been very well this week but Nick has been in nurse mode - and the spring is springing.
March 13, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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Go see Peter Hujar – Eyes Open in the Dark @ravenrow.bsky.social. A beautiful, sobering, poetic portrait of a person, relationships & NYC in a time of AIDS that claimed so many lives that we will be forever impoverished by. A beautiful publication accompanies the show. ravenrow.org/exhibitions/...
March 13, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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Thanks to all students at central saint martins for such spectacular writing and performance of text about objects you dragged from your homes to conjure up four brilliant exhibitions with background stories that sometimes took a dark turn… #draggingthearchive #collaborativewriting #workshop
March 5, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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Lenora Carrington at Firstsite Colchester- a surreal intentional border blurring as a mode of navigation and survival that feels very relatable in today’s utterly unstable context
March 1, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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Owls 🦉 from my mum as a well done for PhD present 💝
February 27, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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Pinksky automatically feeds all images from Bluesky into an Instagram looking grid - like the pic you posted
February 27, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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The show is down & the box of Drag/ged Objects - inc my v old v tiny iPhone loaded w @serg1na.bsky.social’s un/professional portfolio of webinars-seminars-data collection-data selling-songs-live-streamed antics - have been deposited in @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social Library Special Collections.
February 25, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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Hotties
February 25, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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Room 3, 43 Lewisham Way, opposite the main @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social building. My dog Nick will also be there. So come for the dog if not the art 🐕✨
Image of #Sergina’s Desperately Delicious Dirty Data - framed in Real Gold Frames in a grid of 24 a4 images of text. To the right is an a3 sheet of text explaining how and where and by whom and from whom this data was collected. Beside that is #Sergina’s belt. A handsome rescue dog from Berlin called Nick is stretched on the floor in front of all this To the right is #Serginas wheely suitcase with a gold jacket and a robost external hard drive on top. #DesperatelyDeliciousDirtyData #DataDischarge
February 24, 2025 at 9:06 AM
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Last day of my PhD installation today- I’ll be there 11-5. Have a rummage through the box of Drag/ged Objects before it’s deposited in Goldsmiths Special Collections. Or use @serg1na.bsky.social’s ancient iPhone to post to www.instagram.com/thearchiveof... 💅🏿 #dragofthearchive #phdinstallation
Photo of Elly in his / her / their PhD installation at Goldsmiths. Showing a tall white person in front of a wall of drag objects : wigs, a shoe, a necklace and hand printed photographs. Beside Elly is a wheely suitcase with a gold jacket draped over it and a hard drive resting on top, and a pack of metallic temporary tattoos Kate Mahoney is shown navigating @serg1na’s ancient tiny iPhone to post to The archive of #Sergina on Instagram. Behind her is a desk showing various pieces of #Sergina merch: a puzzle, a mug, and the drag/ged objects index Installation pic showing posters from the exhibition Elly curated about Franklin Furnace’s cyber beginnings at Pratt institute Library in 2023, and a photograph from Franklin Furnace’s Deep Storage. Draped over the radiator is a #Sergina t shirt, a jumpsuit and a well worn high heeled shoe. On the table is an old MacBook showing footage from a 7 hour livestreamed performance from 2020, an unbound copy of Elly’s thesis and boxes for the archive. Gold framed darkroom printed photograph of of #serginas drag/ged object (shoe) leaning against the wall. Above it on the wall is a printed out copy of the Goldsmiths Drag/ged Objects Special Collections catalogue - which you can read on @thearchiveofserg1na on Instagram
February 24, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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The drag is staying up until Monday - I’ll be there tomorrow 11-3, Sunday 12-4 and Monday 11-5. Thanks to all who came today! Every visitor gets a free drag/ged object postcard and to infiltrate @serg1na.bsky.social ‘s archive on insta - or here #getitwhenyouwantit
February 21, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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Passed my PhD with minor corrections. ✨ Many many thanks to my examiners Owen Parry and Emily Rosamond for such generous engagement and to my supervisors Vikki Chalklin and Sarah Kember @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social

#phdviva
February 20, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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The drag is up. Come and see it tomorrow if you want and enjoy a clean-hands handling of @serg1na.bsky.social ‘s Drag/ged Objects. #Sergina’s limited edition Desperately Delicious Dirty Data is also on show & for sale.

Friday 21st Feb, 11-18:00, Room 3, 43 Lewisham Way @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social
DATA COLLECTION INSTRUMENTS Well worn (out) drag props from 2009-23, some of which are catalogued for protection and preservation in Goldsmith’s library Special Collections, filed under Dragged Objects – DO / In the picture: wigs, prints, Screengrabs, hand printed photographs on the walls of a gallery and a wheely suitcase with a gold jacket draped on it DRAG/GED OBJECTS Set of 36 postcards Library catalogue entries for the objects Hand printed c-print from 35mm negative in gold frame Close up of the library catalogue for #Sergina’s Drag/ged Objects and set of postcards Hand printed c-print from 35mm negative + photograms INCOMPLETE ARCHIVE OF DRAG OF THE ARCHIVE AT PRATT, 2023 Posters designed by Yunjia Yuan, photocopied paper, Photograph of Deep Storage by Elly Clarke
February 20, 2025 at 7:37 AM
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Washed and ready for the @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social Library Special Collections as part of my PhD submission ‘Is my body out of date? The drag of Physicality in the digital age.’ Installing today; viva on Thursday… 🤞 #DraggedObjects @serg1na.bsky.social
Long blond wig hanging to dry in a shower
February 17, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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emilyn claid at Goldie Saloon last night 🔥
February 15, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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Outputs.. #darkroomphotography #DraggedObjects
February 14, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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So good to be back in the darkroom. Printing mobile phone photos made into 35mm negs to then print in the company - and with physical traces of - the objects the photos are of. #draggedobjects #dragofphysicality #sergina
Photographic contact sheet showing a full film of negatives Contact sheet - all images a bit too magenta
February 14, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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Mary Ocher at the Rose Hill in Brighton. This is the gig I was meant to see - the Newcastle one was an unexpected bonus. (Thanks Mary!) Catch this tour if you can 💎 www.maryocher.com
February 12, 2025 at 11:41 PM