Claire Breach

A digital drawing showing an illustration of every single Anibble, i.e Animals combined with food.

I have you here today to make a proposition, a solution if you like, to this whole degree show malarkey. For I have discovered a way to combine two endless sources of joy, animals and food. I have created the Entertainment known as ANIBBLES.

Behold, for I have amassed an army of Anibbles.

This army can do your bidding. They can do everything for you. Easy peasy Lemole squeezy. The Anibbles can set you free and entertain everyone in the process.

Join me and we will rule the attention economy!

(Thank you in advance for your cooperation).

A pixelated image of the artist wearing a wrestling mask.

A sense of knowing 'you don’t have to take it seriously' is something I reflect upon with earnest intent. What is generated when we take typically inane things seriously and vice versa? This is the question running throughout my work.

I work under the alter-ego Rhubarcode by reason of 'why not', which has further altered into the gimmick (i.e. the alter-ego used in Pro-Wrestling) Rhubario. Rhubario’s purpose is to announce Anibbles using the ultimate strength of voice and body. Rhubario also flexes the mind, using Anibbles to dismantle logic via linguistics.

Rhubario wrestles with concepts informed by: parafiction and postmodern literature, which was delivered to her via visitation by Mr Sparkle from the popular American anime series, The Simpsons.

All ideas become gimmicks, which Rhubario has fully embodied. As the self-proclaimed champion of gimmicks and protector of Anibbles, Rhubario declares, 'Re-cognise yourself in Anibbles!'

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I have discovered a way to combine two endless sources of joy- animals and food. I have created the Entertainment known as ANIBBLES. Behold, for I have amassed an army of Anibbles. This army, can do your bidding. They can do everything for you. Easy peasy Lemole squeezy. The anibbles can set you free and entertain everyone in the process.

ANIBBLES – Link to the animation.

Growing up, when I was asked to 'clear up the table' I would collect the dishes and all in the tablecloth and toss it in the bin. When I was then asked to 'put a sock in it', well, you can imagine how that would be interpreted. My confusion surrounding idioms and homophones etcetera turned into questioning. I searched for the 'cats and dogs' when it rained, concerned that those cats could 'get my tongue'. I turned to the mirror, and wondered how my untucked shirt turned me into a 'sack of potatoes'[...]

It seemed that everyone’s bodies and minds were ruled by invisible animals and inanimate objects. [...] Since maturing, these vivid encounters with figurative speech didn’t exactly fade, and now as a creator I now enjoy 'turning the tables'. I created Anibbles because I want to turn the confusion and anxiety of encountering linguistics into a joyful thing. Make the non-verbal, verbal, and back again, make the figurative, literal and back again. [...]

So why animals and why food? It is because of their universality. I want to emphasize how animals and food transcend language, with language itself. I want to fuse the words we’ve assigned to them to strip them of meaning in order to pave the way for new meaning. This is so that something we experience passively, becomes an active cognitive process, a rethinking of things. A re-cognition if you like. I hope to conjure meaning from meaninglessness.

Whether Anibbles makes you laugh or groan or scratch your head then now turn to a mirror and see that sack of Moushpotato staring back at you. See how it distorts. Cut your hair and you might see a Crowbergine fly out. If you open your mouth and peer down your throat, you might even make out a pair of amphibian eyes in there. Could it be? It’s Froghurt!

PDF: ANIBBLES

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HILLS TO DIE ON – HILLS TO DIE ON COVER

There’s a mole in my garden! I remember the last time I saw a mole was when I was a child Was this in Northern Ireland? No, it could not have been Northern Ireland Why? Because there are no moles in Ireland Where are they?? They’re all gone..

Do you know it’s a complete myth that St Patrick chased out the snakes of Ireland Instead… he chased out all the moles And the snakes naturally followed the moles for their dinner

Now why did St Patrick not like moles? These good moles It was because they got on his nerves They would pop up in his garden and so he would use his long staff To whack em! But then another one would pop up right there! And so he would use his long staff again to whack em! And it would happen again……… he would whack em! And again…..you get the picture now And so that was how the game whack-a-mole was invented.

And so that was how the game whack-a-mole was invented. But whack-a-mole was not the legacy that St Patrick wanted He wanted to be remembered for St Paddys day The holy day Of the sesh So he banished all the moles then went down the pub to buy everyone a round.

Because of misconceptions of St Patrick chasing out the snakes alongside his invention of whack-a-mole This is how the American tradition of snake-whacking-day originated As seen in the popular American anime series the Simpsons. It all comes full circle you see Like Orris Borris The snake that ate itself Because it mistook its tail for a mole

Returning to this mole I saw as a child It wasn’t in Ireland so it must have been Scotland And this mole was on the ground, Dead as a minature velvet cushion And so I sat upon this minature velvet cushion and wrote a poem

There are moles in the ground And moles on your skin See these moles in the sound They're moles from within

Now for a real history lesson: Do you know that a mole killed William III? One day when William III was out on horseback in Scotland, his horse struck a molehill and he fell off, injuring himself. By this accident the king broke his collar-bone, a severe illness followed, and he died a few days later. For this reason, his enemies, the Jacobites would make a toast to this murderous mole. They would say raise your glass to the wee gentleman in velvet!

“You take the boring pill, the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the mole pill, you stay in the underworld, and I show you how deep the mole hole goes.” Molepheus from the Mortrix.

Consider the mole. Is it friend or foe? If you chose foe, then know your battle with moles is futile; for if you destroy a molehill, another one will inevitably pop up. Must we condemn ourselves to this eternal game of whack-a-mole? In our temporary existence, we trip over molehills because we evade sitting with our own mortality.

If we inspect, we will see that these forts designate passageways to the underworld, inhabited by the blind and burrowing undertakers.

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New Rendezvous St Preview – A silent tour of New Rendezvous St available to see on Newart.city

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Entrance World – This is the entrance world, featuring road signs that double as portals. In the centre, is a map of all the worlds and how they interconnect. (A collaboration with Xanthe Horner and Wenhui Jiang)

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HABDABIAN NIGHTS – Our joyful antagonist Peanut-Head is in a continual cycle of death and rebirth. Peanut-Head’s ultimate goal is to reach salvation and return to bonbon heaven but is seemingly condemned to the purgatory-state of Habdabian Nights.

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Felt-World – Welcome to Felt World, the culmination of reappraising old British children's trash media with collaborator Xanthe Horner. It features the character we created called Mandi, a girl who enjoys fancy dress, making crafts and has dreams of going to Felt-World. If you take a leap of faith from the craft table to the nonsense box, you might end up in Felt-World.

Launch Project

Felt-World – Welcome to Felt World, the culmination of reappraising retro British trash children's media with collaborator Xanthe Horner. It features the character we created called Mandi, a girl who enjoys fancy dress, making crafts and has dreams of going to Felt-World. If you take a leap of faith from the craft table to the nonsense box, you might end up in Felt-World.

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Mandi House – Welcome to The Mandi house. This house has been taken over by the degenerate puppets Schlorp and Sindy, avid consumers of Mandi's Brand, Brandi™. (A collaboration with Xanthe Horner)

Launch Project

Mandi House – Welcome to The Mandi house. This house has been taken over by the degenerate puppets Schlorp and Sindy, avid consumers of Mandi's Brand, Brandi™.

New Rendesvouz St

At SXSW with RCA New Rendezvous Street

https://newart.city/show/welcome-to-new-rendezvous-st

New Rendezvous Street: An Archeology of the Future, UK House

Through the course of UK House’s opening, we invite attendees of SXSW to join us as we build and populate a digital environment that is entirely new, immersive, inventive and inclusive. A digital world will emerge, grow and evolve throughout the course of SXSW, transcending time zones and geographies.

Featuring work from staff & students at RCA including (instagram handles) @benbranagan @rhubarcode @yuancao_dodo_works_ , @yuqiang_ch @xanlefee @junyijacky @shanhuang.hs @eleni.ikon @oo0untitled_egg @whosaidsoda @yupan2030 @pppunko @sundachun @oskieblu

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Xanthe Horner

Co-curator and coursemate

Wenhui Jiang

Co-curator and coursemate

Luke Pendrell

Facilitator and tutor

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