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Pleasure is the Modern Substitute for Happiness

This video shows part of Mark Titchner's site specific performance piece 'Debating Society and Run' at Loughborough University May 28th 2009.

Paul Conneally

She Devil

She Devil is a track by Little Onion . The video is a cut up and stick of various shots from Hitchcock's famous Psycho shower scene. Is it possible to watch that scene and not react differently somehow when taking a shower? Watching that film scene alters the way that we interact with the shower space.

Little Onion at LastFM

(free download at LastFm)

Girl Gives Birth on School Playing Field

As part of work with the teenage pregnancy strategy team for Leicester I'm now looking to build on the discussion coming out of this 'shocking' video. Points already being brought forward are using the video to explore some of the sterotypical tabloid images of young people that are used within the video - would young people actually gather like this or would they call 999, fetch a teacher, be more supportive? The video could be used in many ways outside of its original and very sucessful use in prompting discussion around teenage pregnancy and the 'soap' drama episodes that will follow will continue the work.

Directive One - Dum Dum Dum featuring Lol Coxhill

Dum Dum Dum featuring Lol Coxhill

Dum Dum Dum

William Buchanan

Paul Conneally

Andy Fulks

Summer Haze

Summer Haze Net Kasen Renku

Publish at Scribd or explore others: Creative Writing poetry Renga

Summer Haze was a piece I was lucky to work with Bill Higginson and Peggy Willis Lyles on. It's only now that Bill's death is really sinking in. Over the years he was a great supporter of and teacher to me. This piece is one that I still feel proud to have been part of making - it's still fresh and the form is interesting throwing up the possibility of many different ways of reading.

Yew Trees

Yew Trees

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Personality Disorder Warning

Oracle Reprocessed Stewart Home (ORACLE RSH ) has revealed to a listener some information about personality disorders in Coventry.
The area of Coventry and the West Midlands has been identified as a giant sump for negative psychological energy.

This has led to there being a number of what researchers are calling 'Sad Buildings' and 'Depressive Topological Features' such as hillocks, roads and roundabouts. This effect has been called 'THE GODIVA SYNDROME'.

If you have detected any of these please share their whereabouts as comments here or at ORACLE RSH so that they can be mapped.
Keep safe out there.

ORACLE RSH

ORACLE RSH

(Reprocessed Stewart Home)

the banana links

excerpts from

the banana links

paul conneally

(i)

in some ways the haiku today resembles the potato

before blight brought famine to ireland

(ii)

edible haiku are sterile mutants

new varieties cannot easily be produced by natural methods

(iii)

a haiku a day prevents a deficiency

which might increase the risk of stroke

(iv)

haiku a substitute for sweets and satisfy sugar cravings

(v)

your hands can benefit from haiku as well

(vi)

each haiku wrapped in foil and sold for a dime

'the banana links' are a dadaesque experiment

to see how truths about haiku might reveal themselves

through the manipulation of texts on or about bananas

Cubist Dad

Cubist Dad



Cubist D(e)ad End

Conneally & Conneally 2008

Beautiful Flowers

"Convert or we will kill you" is the stark message to fleeing Christians in the Indian state of Orissa.

Hindu lynch mobs threaten to burn Christians' houses and babies unless they become Hindu.

Violence has been growing since the killing of Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) leader Swami Laxmanananda Saraswati on 23 August.

The VHP appear to be supporting the lynchings.

rainy season
beautiful flowers ride
the town drain

FROM 'HOT OFF THE PRESS'
a growing collection of haibun reflections on the news and current affairs

Passengers Arrived

Passengers Arrived

paul conneally

2008

Anti-Energy Drink

"From design to production, every aspect of this calming drink was inspired by today’s popular hip hop artists who embrace the much sought-after hip hop lifestyle that encourages people to capture a stress-free state of mind."

'The anti-energy drink we're calling the extreme relaxation beverage.'

The drink's tagline is "slow your roll." So if that's something you need to do, keep your eye out. Drank will be hitting stores in New York soon and no doubt a waiting world soon after.

Helter Skelter 1999

Helter Skelter

paul conneally

1999

Renga Bandstand

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Poet / Artist Paul Conneally works with passers by in Loughborough's Queens Park to turn the 1908 bandstand into a Renga Bandstand. The bandstand rather than being a 'renga platform' in the sense that the renga was written on it became the focal space for the 'passer-by renga' - the master-poet engaging with passers by and encouraging them to read the verses gone before (each one as written attached to the bandstand) and write the next link and shift verse. A knitting group with their knitted picnic were invited to sit and knit in the bandstand and a morris dancer band too. The renga bandstand was strung with poems from the ongoing project 'The Sound of Water' and the renga built itself up around the outside rails of the bandstand. Here it is at the end of the day as things were calming down.

Jemma Bagley of Charnwood Arts co-ordinated the work.

Theraputic Gardening with Richard Clare

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Organic gardening guru Richard Clare in conversation with Paul Conneally talks about allotments in the 21st century. How it’s not really about growing cheap food but more about lifestyle and gardening as therapy.
This was recorded during the preparation for Abundance in Richard’s greenhouse on his Sheffield allotment.
This was the greenhouse that played host to the poets who wrote Circle of Fire – the first renga ramble – and Richard was such a good host!

Interactive Real Sized Hologram

Interactive Real Size Hologram from Nicolas Loeillot on Vimeo.

Surveillance

'Surveillance' comes out of INVIGILATOR : DIGBETH the 5th in the INVIGILATOR series conceived by artists Paul Conneally, Nikki Pugh and Kev Ryan.

The poem is a direct transcript taken by Paul Conneally as he heard it of INVIGILATOR : DIGBETH participant artist Harry Palmer in the discussion workshop which formed part of INVIGILATOR : DIGBETH and took place after the Invigilators had returned to VIVID art gallery in the heart of Birmingham's Digbeth area.

The sound track is made from a snippet of Harry saying the word ' surveillance ' combined with the ambient sounds of the VIVID space that the artist led discussion was taking place in.

WARNING! The soundtrack of Surveillance contains backmasked material - hidden messages.

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Emotion Grids

Another aspect of Invigilator:Digbeth are the 'emotion grids' that participants were asked to fill in when at the work place. I spent some time last night looking at these and the accompanying emotional words list - a list of emotionally related words that participants could circle if they felt applied to them at the time - as many as they wanted to circle or not.

One group posted a filled in Emotion Grid through the letterbox of the building 'Good For Wood' (which sounds like a good title for a porno movie) and pasted another on the building itself.

Harry Palmer's Emotion Grid fell into the canal and floated off.

Those that I have been able to look at will I'm sure soon tell me something.