Transliteracy - A New Cognitive Tool?

http://odeo.com/audio/16555293/

Poet Simon Perril proposes that transliteracy might be a new cognitive tool or the recovery of an older one.

Later at the Transliteracy Unconference in discussion with Paul Conneally, Howard Rheinegold and others he likens transliterate pieces to bricollage which gets Conneally thinking about French DIY stores – Conneally later drops off at the Leicester B&Q DIY store and wanders the aisles for half an hour collecting his thoughts and various screws that ‘will come in handy’

During this drift he realises that he and Simon are destined to make something together – maybe a shelf.

Halo

Earlier this year I took part in The Rewnewabilty curated by Tomomi Iguchi which included an exhibition in Mile End Arts Pavillion. Artist John Kennedy of LandLab also took part. At the time was talking enthusiasticly about his proposed new work Halo which was to be installed on the moors in Rossendale. Well it's now installed and i can't wait to see it at night when all the lights are finished hovering above the moor like some flying saucer.

Here's a link to a news story about halo: HALO

Walk The Line - Brendan Jackson

Walking the Line across Hawkesley Square

During Walk the Line - a piece that forms part of artist Maurice Maguire's bigger project 'Changing Landscapes' and involved us walking the line of the Wast Hill Canal Tunnel overland through the 3 Estates -I had the pleasure of meeting Brendan Jackson and today found a piece by him on his site about the event and so much more too - a good example of how engagement with space with people can connect us with past present and place all at the same time.If you've never dropped by Brendan's site here is a link to the piece coming out of Walk the Line and you can travel on with him from here:

http://www.brendanjackson.co.uk/2007/08/21/more-line-walking-%e2%80%93-no-tightropes-involved/

I'll post more on Walk the Line soon.

What is Animate? 100 Verses for Three Estates

Alec Finlay Ravi Deepres Paul Conneally Gavin Wade

100 Verses for 3 Estates is a piece conceived by Alec Finlay in answer to the question "What is Animate?

100 Verses for 3 Estates forms part og Gavin Wade's ongoing work 'Strategic Questions'

The Book '100 Verses for 3 Estates' comes out of a series of 6 renga conducted in and with the community of the Kings Norton 3 Estates over a whole year working to a schema proposed by Alec Finlay.

Master Poet for all 6 renga was Paul Conneally.

The film '100 Verses' by Ravi Deepres was premiered at the New Generation Arts Festival 2007 in Birmingham UK

INVIGILATOR : TOKYO

INVIGILATOR : TOKYO

A small area of Shinjuku, Tokyo was watched over

on the evening of Thursday the 26th of July, 2007.

Invigilators: Nikki Pugh, Orie Inoue, Eri Akagi.

INVIGILATOR : TOKYO

Invigilation 3 of the INVIGILATOR series

Paul Conneally Nikki Pugh Kevin Ryan

2007

WALK TO WORK

Walk to Work - CHONGQING

CHONGQING
Walk to Work
paul conneally & kevin ryan 2007

I asked artist Kevin Ryan to map out his normal route to work in Loughborough UK as a series of LEFTS RIGHTS and STRAIGHTS and to then transpose this journey to Chongqing in China where Kev was visiting on a British Council funded visit exploring the sharing of approaches to art and do some work where ever he ended up.

So one morning Kev set of to 'walk to work' in Chongqing on reaching his 'work destination' Kev went about photographing the area doing about 2 hours work. Click on the image below to take you to Chongqing 'Walk to Work' slide show:

Kev's thoughts / context can be found here: CHONGQING WALK TO WORK

This is the first piece to came out of 'Walk to Work' more pieces have followed / will follow as walks are gathered from around the world and transposed to different parts of the world. A major new 'Walk to Work' piece 'Invigilator' with artist Nikki Pugh is currently in process.

INVIGILATOR : DERBY - Photographs

picture by Kev Ryan

Click the photo or here to take you to Kev Ryan's Photos of INVIGILATOR : DERBY

INVIGILATOR is a Walk to Work piece by Paul Conneally Nikki Pugh and Kevin Ryan

CLICK HERE FOR MORE FROM INVIGILATOR : DERBY

Twenty Jaffa Cakes

a rengay

twenty jaffa cakes
a mistake to try and take
in her hand luggage

a slow and silent pat down
from the woman on gate one

stilettoes x-rayed
but her carbon footprint is
not for scrutiny


a hugely fat man

asks for the front port aisle seat
to rest his bad leg


smile and permanent jetlag
slept in uniform again

deep into morning

i finish my book somewhere

over africa

nikki pugh

paul conneally

July 12th
2007

deflowered

deflowered
a forest of still green
maple leaves

paul conneally

cutting

cutting his throat
with her mobile phone
the morning sun

paul conneally

INVIGILATOR : DERBY 'Rapture'

photo by kevin ryan

RAPTURE

beneath gloomy hills
homeward i walk
in solitude

sometimes we play
on the way home from school
on Wincobank Hill
breaking into gangs
to throw stones at each other

off Newman Road
in the half-built houses
it’s hide and seek
up and down ladders
scaffold pole javelins

a happy time
for me a time of rapture
clear and loud

paul conneally

2007

Walk to Work - INVIGILATOR

paul conneally nikki pugh kevin ryan

INvIGILATOR : DERBY 'Elements'

the elements

feeling and thought

pain and fear

the smell of piss

in the underpass

.

RAPTURE

INVIGILATOR: DERBY

Walk to Work INVIGILATOR undertook its 2nd invigilation this time in Derby UK.

Here is INVIGILATOR on the platform at Derby railway station starting his walk to work:

photo by kevin ryan

Invigilator follows the transposed directions LEFTS RIGHTS AND STRAIGHTS - distance doesn't matter - of artist Nikki Pugh's walk to work in Birmingham as a gallery invigilator at VIVID - when he reaches his work destination he will set up his chair tidy the area and invigilate it watch over it. He wonders where his walk will take him.

CLICK THE PICTURE

INVIGILATOR is an ongoing Walk to Work peice exploring ideas of work and place

conceived and performed by

Paul Conneally Nikki Pugh Kevin Ryan

Invigilator

Invigilator

an ongoing collaborative piece coming out of the Walk to Work series by artists paul conneally kevin ryan and nikki pugh

the piece involves the transposing of artist nikki pugh's walk to work as an invigilator at the gallery space Vivid in Birmingham UK to other places - the actual work destination being arrived at by following the left rights and straights - distance doesn't matter - of nikki's Birmingham walk from different starting points different towns

the invigilator wears the red Vivid t-shirt that all invigilators at Vivid have to wear when on duty

on arriving at the work destination the area is tidied by the artist who then sits down and invigilates the space watches over the space

the first invigilation took place in the New Forest on the weekend of saturday the 10th of June 2007 with the next taking place somewhere in the UK East Midlands very soon.

UPDATE: The second Invigilation has now taken place INVIGILATOR:DERBY

CHONGQING - Walk to Work

CHONGQING
Walk to Work
paul conneally & kevin ryan 2007

I asked artist Kevin Ryan to map out his normal route to work in Loughborough UK as a series of LEFTS RIGHTS and STRAIGHTS and to then transpose this journey to Chongqing in China where Kev was visiting on a British Council funded visit exploring the sharing of approaches to art and do some work where ever he ended up.

So one morning Kev set of to 'walk to work' in Chongqing on reaching his 'work destination' Kev went about photographing the area doing about 2 hours work. Click on the image below to take you to Chongqing 'Walk to Work' slide show:

This is the first piece coming out of 'Walk to Work' more pieces will follow as walks are gathered from around the world and transposed to different parts of the world. A major new 'Walk to Work' piece 'Invigilator' with artist Nikki Pugh is currently in process.

snake belts

The Portrait Shed

The Portrait Shed - Windmill Community Garden at Windmill Allotments, Notingham, UK - Paul Conneally May 2007

The piece explores the nature of portraiture through 12 wordsearch portraits of people in the allotment space. The portraits return to the place of their creation after being on tour including a three week exhibition 'The Renewabilty' in Mile End Arts Pavillion London.

Now they are home.

coach karl brown

shoot hoops not guns

14 Nights in Carnac - Installation

14 Nights in Carnac - installation Mile End Arts Pavillion - Febuary 2007

14 Nights in Carnac - mixed media - book and oak leaves - ceramic tiles and foldup chair
- This installation comes out of and a piece made by UK artist Paul Conneally in July 2006. The artist spent 14 nights in Carnac famous for its megoliths its standing stones. He lived and slept below two oak trees. Each night he read sections of Haruki Murakami's The Wind-up Bird Chronicle and plucked an oak leaf from the trees which he placed inside the book as a bookmark.
The installation includes four ceramic tiles featuring images of the oak leaves inside the book (the actual book is on the chair) representing 4 specific nights. The 4 tiles are from a series of 14 tiles.

Writing About Artefacts

Just watched the Teachers TV 'Writing About Artefacts' featuring ss Great Britain's new Education pack.

http://www.teachers.tv/video/5449

As Master Poet on this project I really enjoyed my original sessions working with Ashton Gate on the SS Great Britain and back at school to produce the materials for the SS Great Britain Creative Curator Pack.

Seeing Jackie (the teacher featured in the video) using the materials with such confidence and so well and the responses from the children in riddles, acrostics and tanka poems has really made my day.

The programme itself is well put together.

The pack's a real credit to the Education Team at ss Great Britain - this section just being one part of a large and rather wonderful pack covering many aspects of the national curriculum and more.

I'm looking forward to working with other museums and schools in exploring new ways of interpretation and interaction with artefacts through poetry and art including new approaches to labelling.