No Purpose No Design

Images from and of Paul Conneally as goes about his everyday splacist / psychogeography expolorations of the world with no purpose no design.

 

 

LIAR - Look I Am Reading - Paul Conneally - Psychogeography Through Silent Reading

LIAR Eccentric City May 2009 LIAR - Look I Am Reading - Paul Conneally - Extract from Eccentric City May 2009

In LIAR Conneally explores cities through reading in public places.

Silent reading as psychogeographic intervention.

Originally performed in Avignon as part of the Avignon Festival 2008 Conneally has gone on to read silently in many other locations exploring the line between where it's acceptable to read silently in public and where its not. What are the messages given out when someone decides to read to themself in a paticular place - home tube cafe shopping mall busy street sat down stood uo top of a hill in a stream?

Haiku Reading from Roundhill School Leicestershire

EDUtalk365 #46

Haiku Reading from Roundhill School, Leicestershire working with Paul Conneally

by EDUtalk

Listen!

iPhone/Download

A Month Of Tears

a month of tears
spirits riding a wave
of blossom

Paul Conneally

11th April 2011

One month on from the Japanese tsunami.

'So Many Stars' - A Starburst Hybrengay - Tanebata 2000

* read the rays from center outward; 'rays' may be also read separately below the starburst graphic STARBURST HYBRENGAY Template and Instructions Rengay is a themed, 6 stanza linked haiku invented by Garry Gay, the stanzas alternating 3-2-3-3-2-3 for 2 players and 3/2/3/2/3/2 for 3 players. The "starburst" hybrengay (hybrid-rengay) invented by Debra Woolard Bender, is a new-form hybrid inspired by rengay. In this form, a central "nodal" hokku provides a general theme and acts as the 1st stanza for 5 or more linked haiku branches. Each team of 2 collaborates privately to follow a theme inspired by the nodal hokku. Starburst Rays = 5 teams of 2 players each. (N = nodal hokku) N/3-B/2-A/3-B/3-A/2-B/3: all teams follow the same pattern, issuing from the nodal hokku which is selected by a chance drawing: Each player submits a 3 line hokku to the "renga master". As hokku arrive, a number from 1-10 is assigned to each one by the renga master. When they have been received, the renga master asks a random participant to choose a number between 1-10. The hokku with the winning number will be the first stanza and inspiration for each hybrengay "ray". Each team works independently without seeing the rays of the other teams until the works are completed and submitted to the renga master for compilation and sharing. The rays may be arranged graphically as a visual starburst (see above). 6 or mor teams is a possibility, although it would be difficult to produce a computer graphic which could be viewed online, due to screen-space limitations.     Poetry © 2000 Hortensia Anderson, John Edmund Carley, Sue Mill, Sue Torres, Paul Terence Conneally, Kevin Ryan, Cindy Tebo, Marjorie Buettner, Izak Bouwer & Debra Woolard Bende Team 1. Hortensia Anderson & John Edmund Carley: dark night so many stars Orion is lost 1/st the hunter found east of Taurus 2/ha a single photon lights the distant synapse 3/jec one moon round and full of craters 4/ha ancient tracks cross the mosaic floor 5/jec pieces of jigsaw finally assembled - the constellations 6/ha ------------------------------------------------- Team 2. Sue Torres & Sue Mill dark night so many stars Orion is lost 1/st tracking Voyager past the outer planets sm/2 late August meteors speed beyond the horizon st/3 supine on the lawn- motionless in the heavens Halley's Comet sm/4 across the sky the lights of the Milky Way st/5 shivering among the water lilies the moon's reflection sm/6 --------------------------------------------------- Team 3. Paul Conneally & Kevin Ryan dark night so many stars Orion is lost st/1 a great bear points the way home pc/2 at the sky's zenith the single northern light signals a return kr/3 in the space-lab communication fails Venus brightens pc/4 a look of love and hope passes between husband and wife kr/5 her midwife puts down the forceps a twinkle in dad's eye pc/6 ----------------------------------------------------- Team 4. Cindy Tebo & Marjorie Buettner dark night so many stars Orion is lost 1/st sailor's guide the southern cross 2/ct sonar scans we listen to whales make love 3/mb scrimshaw artist engraves the ivory with a creased hand 4/ct intricately curved seashells carrying the rise of waves 5/mb underwater maze the small fish dart into the coral reef 6/ct ---------------------------------------------------- Team 5. Izak Bouwer & Debra Woolard Bender dark night so many stars Orion is lost 1/st two lovers doomed to wonder when will they see each other? 2/ib boatman approaches the river of heaven oh weather, be clear 3/db magpies rising make a bridge for her to cross 4/ib clouds weave through silk trees in his sleepless dream 5/db tied to bamboo poems written in dew at Tanabata 6/ib

Rainfall - 7HQ - Groovefinder Full Mix Plus Iguana Brothers Original Version

1_-_7hq_-_The_Rainfall_(Groovefinder_Ful.mp3 Listen on Posterous

Rainfall - 7HQ - Groovefinder Full Mix

When Paul Conneally and Richard Sampson first wrote and recorded 'Rainfall' as 'Talking Bout The Sunshine' with Iguana Brothers in around 1988 it was sax driven piece with echos of the Sweeny theme tune somehow running through it. It resurfaces some years later as 'Rainfall' by 7HQ on the SuSu label. It came only as a 12" disc with three house driven mixes still featuuring the sublime vocals of Richard Sampson. This is the full Groovefinder mix.

Below is the original Iguana Brothers rough mix recording from 1988 followed by a video of The Sweeney titles and theme tune.

Talkin_Bout_the_Sunshine.mp3 Listen on Posterous

Talking Bout The Sunshine - Iguana Brothers 1988 - Music and Lyrics Paul Conneally & Richard Sampson

Wintergreen and Aftershave

down by the tunnel
a collection of children
are trying to attract
the attention of players
as they emerge for
the pre-match warm up

wintergreen and aftershave
through a small boy's hair

Paul Conneally

Haiku by Paul Conneally With French Translation by Serge Tome

The following haiku were originally published in Temps Libres - the dual language haiku journal edited by Serge Tome: chrysanthamums the homeless girl pulls her baby closer chrysanthèmes la fille sans-abri serre son enfant plus fort

cco 2006-09-1 2056

tube ride someone else's iPod is playing our tune  dans le metro l'iPod de quelqu'un d'autre joue notre chanson

cco 2005-06-1 1607

too hot to sleep i search for my son's footprint in the front drive trop chaud pour dormir je cherche la trace de mon fils sur l'allée devant la maison

cco 2004-08-1 161

working late the sound of a small brown moth in the lampshade  travaillant tard le son d'un petit papillon brun contre l'abat-jour

cco 2004-07-1 152

hedgerow birds three boys share a spliff by the school gate oiseaux de haie trois gamins partagent un pétard près de la porte de l'école

cco 2004-02-2 92

rumors of war ... / bruits de guerre... sunshine and snow the boys in the reserves watch the letterbox soleil et neige les réservistes guettent la boite aux lettres

cco 2003-01-1 506

needle exchange sharing a breakfast drink in Museum Square

cco 2002-05-2 591

mayflowers three small boys track down terrorists fleurs d'aubépine trois gamins traquent des terroristes

cco 2002-05-1 592

boy's bedroom a blackbird's nest found deep in the lilac chambre de garçon un nid de merle trouvé au fond du lilas

cco 2002-05-1 593

teeth in a glass the nurse takes away his pot of blue hyacinths les dents dans un verre l'infirmière retire son vase de jacinthes bleues

cco 2002-03-2 595

chilled by spring winds schoolgirls sniffing body spray behind the gym dans le froid des vents de printemps des gamines sniffent des déodorants derrière le gymnase

cco 2002-03-1 590

a lost child in a ward of iron lungs her daffodils une enfant perdue dans la salle des poumons d'acier ses jonquilles

cco 2002-02-1 594

almost home the full moon between two houses bientôt la maison la pleine lune entre deux maisons

cco 2001-10-1 1007

chilly tea-time -- finding new cyclamen leaves in an old plant-pot froide, l'heure du thé -- je trouve des nouvelles feuilles au cyclamen dans un vieux po

cco 2001-09-1 1006

afternoon tea -- the old climbing rose somehow whiter thé l'après-midi -- le vieux rosier grimpant un peu plus blanc

cco 2001-07-1 1005

Eucharist pious women still weeping for Jesus  Eucharistie des femmes pieuses pleurant encore Jesus

cco 2001-04-1 1003

winter wonderland even the burnt out car looks beautiful féérie de l'hiver même la voiture incendiée semble belle

cco 2001-01-1 1004

almost Christmas ~ thinking how best to reveal that dad beats mum bientôt Noël ~ penser comment révèler au mieux que papa bat maman

cco 2000-11-2 1307

circle time she describes her mother finding a vein le cycle du temps elle écrit sa mère cherchant une veine

cco 2000-10-1 1306 All haiku by Paul Conneally French translations by Serge Tome

Three Jars Of Coal Dust Jelly - Transform Snibston 2011

Three Jars Of Coal Dust Jelly - Paul Conneally 2011
'Three Jars Of Coal Dust Jelly' comes from the Snibston Preserves section of Paul Conneally's cultural forage 'Spoil Heap Harvest' for Transform.Snibston
The work will feature in the Transform Snibston exhibition illumination at Snibston in May 2011 alongside work from Geoff Broadway, Brendan Jackson, and Jo Dacomb. Snibston Transform is curated and nutrured by Maurice Maguire for Leicestershire Museums.
Visit SNIBSTON