Thursday, June 11, 2009
Sunday, May 31, 2009
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
Sunday, May 24, 2009
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.
(free download at LastFm)
Thursday, May 21, 2009
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.
Sunday, May 17, 2009
Wednesday, April 01, 2009
Summer Haze
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.
Sunday, March 15, 2009
Monday, March 09, 2009
Personality Disorder Warning

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.
Sunday, March 08, 2009
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
the banana links
Thursday, November 20, 2008
Monday, October 20, 2008
Beautiful Flowers
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
Sunday, June 29, 2008
Friday, June 06, 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 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.
Friday, May 30, 2008
Saturday, May 24, 2008
Renga Bandstand
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.
Saturday, May 03, 2008
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!
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Sunday, April 06, 2008
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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