Fruit Routes Planting Saturday 18th February 2012

The New Age of Discovery

A steampunk future unfolds on March 10th 2012 at Snibston

Going Up

Going Up - Paul Conneally 2012

Text list 'entries' upcycled from Eastside Projects publication.

Peele Castle In A Storm by Sir George Beaumont

In my show The Blind Fiddler - Home Entertainment 1806-2012 at Snibston Discovery Museum amongst the fridge freezer, slot TV and playstation console you will also also find paintings and drawings from the 18th and 19th century by Sir George Beaumont. The large oil is Peele Castle in a Storm, a picture that inspired William Wordsworth to write Elgiac Stanzas:

Elgiac Stanzas

I was thy Neighbour once, thou rugged Pile!
Four summer weeks I dwelt in sight of thee:
I saw thee every day; and all the while
Thy Form was sleeping on a glassy sea.

So pure the sky, so quiet was the air!
So like, so very like, was day to day!
Whene'er I looked, thy Image still was there;
It trembled, but it never passed away.

How perfect was the calm! It seemed no sleep;
No mood, which season takes away, or brings:
I could have fancied that the mighty Deep
Was even the gentlest of all gentle Things.

Ah! THEN, if mine had been the Painter's hand,
To express what then I saw; and add the gleam,
The light that never was, on sea or land,
The consecration, and the Poet's dream;

I would have planted thee, thou hoary Pile!
Amid a world how different from this!
Beside a sea that could not cease to smile;
On tranquil land, beneath a sky of bliss:

Thou shouldst have seemed a treasure-house, a mine
Of peaceful years; a chronicle of heaven: -
Of all the sunbeams that did ever shine
The very sweetest had to thee been given.

A Picture had it been of lasting ease,
Elysian quiet, without toil or strife;
No motion but the moving tide, a breeze,
Or merely silent Nature's breathing life.

Such, in the fond delusion of my heart,
Such Picture would I at that time have made:
And seen the soul of truth in every part;
A faith, a trust, that could not be betrayed.

So once it would have been, - 'tis so no more;
I have submitted to a new controul:
A power is gone, which nothing can restore;
A deep distress hath humanized my Soul.

Not for a moment could I now behold
A smiling sea and be what I have been:
The feeling of my loss will ne'er be old;
This, which I know, I speak with mind serene.

Then Beaumont, Friend! Who would have been the Friend,
If he had lived, of Him whom I deplore,
This Work of thine I blame not, but commend;
This sea in anger, and the dismal shore.

Oh 'tis a passionate Work! - yet wise and well;
Well chosen is the spirit that is here;
That Hulk which labours in the deadly swell,
This rueful sky, this pageantry of fear!

And this huge Castle, standing here sublime,
I love to see the look with which it braves,
Cased in the unfeeling armour of old time,
The light'ning, the fierce wind, and trampling waves.

Farewell, farewell the Heart that lives alone,
Housed in a dream, at distance from the Kind!
Such happiness, wherever it be known,
Is to be pitied; for 'tis surely blind.

But welcome fortitude, and patient chear,
And frequent sights of what is to be borne!
Such sights, or worse, as are before me here. -
Not without hope we suffer and we mourn.

William Wordsworth

Written May-June 1806
Published 1807

The Blind Fiddler Wordsearch Portrait

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The Blind Fiddler Wordsearch Portrait - Paul Conneally 2012

SINGSTAR - The Blind Fiddler Home Entertainment 1806-2012

A visitor to Paul Conneally's Singstar Sitting Room installation in The Blind Fiddler Home Entertainment 1806-2012 exhibition at Snibston Discovery Museum chooses a song to sing.

Then sings it....

18 Knots verse 36

the failed zen
of next door's wind chimes

Verse 36 from 18 Knots the worlds first 100 Verse Twenga
Paul Conneally & Gavin Wade 2012

Fajitas in a Teepee

Fajitas in a Teepee - Paul Conneally 2010
An Intervention Renga with the people of Thurmaston, Leicestershire
For and with Charnwood Arts

Who Are The Splacists? Architects and Artists

Architects talk about their time at the Splacist Training Camp at MADE in Birmingham Novemeber 2011.

Splacism is a contemporary mode of practice proposed by Paul Conneally.Hannah Nicklin and Nikki Pugh.define a new set of ideologies taking forward Conneally''s vision of what splacism might and could be with the Splacist Manifesto.

Alison Hesketh from Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios talks about breaking the ice and her reaction to being asked to behave differently in public spaces:

 

Architects & Artists – Alison Hesketh from MADE on Vimeo.

Maddy Dring from Glancy Nicholls talks about how artists bring a freedom of thinking that can be useful for generating new ideas:

Architects & Artists – Maddy Dring from MADE on Vimeo.
Phil Howl of Howl Associates touches on changing clients perspectives of the value of bringing an artist onto a design team.

Architects & Artists – Phil Howl from MADE on Vimeo.

Dorthe Riis-Jones shares her experience of practising in Denmark where working alongside
artists 

Architects & Artists – Dorthe Riis-Jones from MADE on Vimeo.

Julia Kashdan-Brown talks about the importance of working with artists as a part of everyday working practice:

Architects & Artists – Julia Kashdan-Brown from MADE on Vimeo.

Fruit Routes Plant & Clebrate Weekend 18th & 19th February 2012

Time to get your strong shoes or boots on and join in the Fruit Routes Plant & Celebrate events across the weekend of 18th and 19th of February.

FRUIT ROUTES a project to develop loughborough university as an edible landscape

Fruit Routes is a work conceived, coordinated and actioned by artist Anne-Marie Culhane for Loughborough University working with Jo Hasbury, Sustainability Manager at LU.

FRUIT ROUTES LAUNCH

This is what happened..

WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY, FRIDAY, SATURDAY

Harvest, Juice, Forage.

We spent our first days on site harvesting existing fruit trees and foraging across campus, breaking in the apple press, cleaning out the shed with the help of LOS and getting ready for Fruit Routes launch…

SUNDAY

Bike, Play, Invite.

At Freshers Fair we set up a stall using the beautifully crafted Fruit Routes/Eat Your Campus bike trailer and the Jeux des Pommes. We were wonderful sandwiched between the boy scouts and the boy racers underneath two loaded apple trees!  Freshers were introduced to the project and took part in games and activities relating to …you guessed it..local fruit.

photo Pawas Bisht

FRUIT ROUTES LAUNCH- 10,11,12 OCTOBER 2011

Share, Walk, Talk, Eat,  Take part, Cook, Celebrate!

An interactive installation was created in The Shed. The Shed was inhabited each day by Anne-Marie Culhane and project assistant Miriam Keye. People were invited to take a seat and taste, share, eat and drink fruit and plants harvested on the campus as well as contribute their ideas to the project and share knowledge on a map of the campus fruit trees.  A big hit were the fruit leathers and the elderflower, rosehip, gingko, nettle and limeflower teas.

photo Bob Levene

A daily walk and talk along the first Fruit Route took place on all three days attended by a rich mix of local people of all ages, university staff and students.  We identified and discussed some of the wild and edible plants growing along the first fruit route and visualized where the new planting of a wide variety of fruit, nuts and berries would be.  The talk was punctuated with thoughts and open questions about the artistic, political and ecological context for the route.

Each day, apples and pears harvested on the campus were distributed to unusual locations all over campus and beyond by the Fruit Routes projects bike trailer and project team for people to eat, share, offer to others or text us about… see blog post incoming pommes

photo by Pawas Bisht

On Monday we hosted an event and discussion which focused on the relationship between artist and forager and artist as forager. This was co-hosted by Gillian Whiteley (Loughborough School of the Arts) Anne-Marie Culhane, Bob Levene (artist from Sheffield) and Paul Conneally (artist from Lougborough). We offered an open foraging task, asking participants to ‘walk without purpose’ out across the campus . The objects and thoughts they brought back with them were then used to mediate an artist led discussion. Our discussion roved across many fields including intentionality, attention, solitude, sharing, gifting, cultural foraging and personal histories.”

photo Bob Levene

On Tuesday Paul Paine from Ecoworks in Nottingham gave an inspiring talk about cider and fruit wine making . We then got to taste his delicious quince wine and cider as well as sampling some locally produced homebrewed cider donated by small scale producers in Quorn.  We also gave a small talk to people who were interested in making fruit seasonal syrups and cordials including elderberry, rosehip, sloe and blackberry.

Wednesday evening the launch event was rounded up by Flora + Fauna Feast.  Each person was invited to come along representing another member of the biotic community who would be part of the Fruit Routes. The food and drink was locally sourced and foraged. The event was attended by a woodlouse, a bumble bee, mycorrhizal fungi, two ladybirds, a herring !, a lion ?, a fly, a pipistrelle bat and the promise of spring. The evening was a rich weave of shared stories, songs, dance, sounds and objects representing and celebrating some of the many other living creatures who will inhabit the Fruit Routes with us.

NEXT FRUIT ROUTES HAPPENINGS

Chutney and Jam making event…in collaboration with LOS…look out for more details

Fruit Routes I -Tree Planting and Mid-winter celebration FEBRUARY 2012

Contact me for more info. on how to become part of Fruit Routes and make LU an edible campus.

The Fruit Routes project is devised and co-ordinated by Anne-Marie Culhane working with Jo Hasbury, Sustainability Manager at LU. The Fruit Routes launch project team was AMC, Miriam Keye and Jo Salter.

Many thanks to Landscaping Our Society, Gillian Whiteley, Bob Levene, Paul Conneally, Dale M Shields, Laura Wild, Environmental Champions, Paul Paine, Marian and John Culhane, Ruth McQueen and the support of the  Sustainability Team, Landscape team and Catering Team at LU.

KY Glasses - Sonar Goggles - 3D Glasses

KY Glasses - Sonar Goggles - 3D Glasses, a photo by Paul Conneally on Flickr.

Via Flickr:
Cabinet of spectacles that alter the way we view the world.

KY Glasses by artist Paul Conneally "See the world through KY Gel"

Sonar Goggles by artist Nikki Pugh

3D Glasses - from cinema chain

On the wall we see the Twenga 18 Knots by Paul Conneally and Gavin Wade

All on show at Paul Conneally's show The Blind Fiddler - Home Entertainment 1806-2012 at Snibston Discovery Museum

Music For Tai Chi : Another Fine Day

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  Four 10 minute tracks by Another Fine Day specially commissioned by Tai Chi expert Angus Clark for use during Tai Chi practice, featuring the sounds of the rare array mbira, as well as tabla, piano, and various drones, along with subtle electronic processing. Gently ambient at the start, each builds slowly in rhythm and depth, leading you through your practice and creating a calm but vibrant presence, encouraging flow and mindfulness.
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Mushrooms

mushrooms converting them into haiku

paul conneally

Bradgate Park

Bradgate Park
Leicestershire

Home for Christmas

home for Christmas
a bunch of flowers for mum
and some washing

Paul Conneally

Wow Federation at the Oranges and Lemons 1979

Wow Federation at the Oranges and Lemons, Oxford, 1979

Firelight by Another Fine Day

Video for the track "Firelight", released on the EP of the same name, 21st December 2011, by Another Fine Day (aka Tom Green, collaborator with The Orb and longtime Big Chill contributor)

Music available at anotherfineday.bandcamp.com/  anotherfineday.co.uk

 

IN CALLING FORTH AND STRENGTHENING THE IMAGINATION

from first dawn
by day or star-light
everlasting motion

little jimmy norcliffe
he looked after me
sorted me out
with a good shovel
and a pair of wellingtons

high objects
the mean and vulgar
works of man

showed me how to dig
without hurting my back
to lay concrete slabs
write out betting slips
on a bag of cement

enduring things
life and nature
purifying

paul conneally

2007

INVIGILATOR : DERBY

Mad House

Mad House
Paul Conneally

Snow Bear

Snow Bear
Paul Conneally
2011

King Power Stadium Leicester

Happy Families

Who do / did you play Happy Families with?

Which was / is your favourite character and why?

What new family could be featured in a new Happy Families pack?

Send your answers to littleonion1@gmail.com

Artists and Architects with Splacist Nikki Pugh Birmingham UK

Artists and architects pictured with splacist artist, Nikki Pugh (centre), on a foray into Birmingham city centre during "What are the Splacists?" the first splacist training camp.

"What are the Splacists?" was hosted by MADE Birmingham and conceived by Nikki Pugh

splacist (splā sĭst) Manifesto 2.0

A contemporary mode of practice proposed by Paul Conneally.
A new set of ideologies defined by Hannah Nicklin and Nikki Pugh.
A hop, skip and a jump away from phsychogeography and the works of the situationist international.
Think space, place and splice.

Developed empirically by whoever’s interested.

DOT

DOT, a set on Flickr.

Via Flickr:
DOT - made during the first Splacist Training Camp Birmingham UK - when something - something visual - some sound - some emotion - rises above the attenuated everyday noise of the city - consider it but only briefly - and give it a mark - here a dot - 1 it's good - 2 it's bearable - 3 it's too noisy.

"We will trace and leave traces" Splacist Manifesto 2.0

littleonion.posterous.com/dot