Shopputting Reported at Culture 24

Artist places free clothes in shops as part of his "shopputting" project

By Graham Pembrey. | 27 November 2009

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Artist Paul Conneally has designed special labels for his shopputting anitcs. © the artist

Shoppers browsing the shelves in chain-stores across the Midlands have been getting more than they bargained for, as they discover items left by an artist who says he is “shopputting” – the opposite of shoplifting.

Loughborough-based Paul Conneally has been placing clothes, shoes and other goods with labels attached to them informing the customer that they aren’t for sale, but can simply be taken.

He has been stopped by security four times and police have been called twice during the latest stage of his project, which has taken him to Topshop stores across the region. But after explaining that it is not against the law to place goods in a shop without permission, the artist has been let off each time.

Writing on his Blog (http://www.a-n.co.uk/artists_talking/projects/single/581091) on the Artists Newsletter website, Conneally explained that shopputting is "another word for giving".

He also gave an example of a happy customer in Derby: "One teenager stopped as she took a pair of Shopputted labelled tracky bottoms out of the shop - she appeared to show the security man the label and he chatted on his radio and sent her on her way - both were laughing - that's good - hope they fit her."

Conneally's Topshop project will continue until the end of November 2009.

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Organo Compost Centre No.1

Organo Compost Centre No.1
paul conneally
2010

Organo Compost Centre
paul conneally 2010

Organo Compost Centre is an ecosplacist image made from a pencil rubbing taken at a SITA recycling plant at Lount, Leicestershire,UK.

Conneally visited the site on a coach trip with Amy Franceschini and Myriel Milicevic as part of their 'Beneath The Pavement A Garden' piece for Loughborough University RADAR.

They were told that as a security measure they could not take photographs at the site.

The site receives all the garden waste collected from the kerbside by Leicestershire County Council including Charnwood where Conneally lives and so he was effectively stopped from photographing his own garden waste as it was stored and transformed into 'Organo Compost' which is then sold on to farms and domestic gardeners.

Conneally decided instead to make a series of pencil rubbings of operational machinary on site not knowing if this broke the rule that 'no images are to be taken of the operational site' or not.

Leicestershir County Council state about operations on the site:

"The composting process is entirely natural. No chemicals are added at any time, and the process is similar, but on a much larger scale, to that of home compost heaps.When green waste is delivered from the Recycling and Household Waste Sites, it is checked, and any contaminants such as paper and plastic bags that have accidentally got into the container are removed. This is a labour intensive job, which is why it is important to ensure that only the correct materials are put into the container in the first place.

Machines are used to shred the green waste and it is then formed into large triangular shaped heaps, approximately 3 metres high, called windrows. The windrows are turned each week to keep them aerobic, this gives air to the microbes (friendly bugs) that break down the green waste.

After about 16 weeks the compost is ready. The compost is screened to remove any bits of material that are too big and the finished product is sold to a variety of customers."

A distubing element at the site is a machine that blows artificial 'cherry flavoured' odours out into the fresh Leicestershire air to mask the smell of the decomposing garden waste as it turns into compost. Organic?

"Pyschogeography is dead. The splacist revolution has begun"

Paul Conneally May 2010

Marx & Engels Meet Mother Goose

Macramé for Beginners - Paul Conneally

HAIRDRESSERS

HAIRDRESSERS
Neon Sign Paul Conneally 2010
appropriated art work and poem

permanent exhibition

Great Malvern

UK

Teeing Off On The Moon

Teeing Off On The Moon
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Moongolfer
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Moon Golfer Commander Tim Wright by his space craft.

Tim Wright's Urban Moon Golf Odyssey

Golf On The Moon / Gonzo Trail Number One Slide Show

As the PGA played out at Wentworth the real golf action took place across the streets of London as Play Golf On The Moon (with David Bowie)Commander Tim Wright led on by navigator Gonzo Geographer Loopzilla (Gordon Joly) played Golf on the Moon from Pudding Mill DLR to arnold Circus.

Gonzo Trail Number One provides the perfect Earth practice Golf On The Moon faiways, rough and green as Commander Tim Wright prepares for the time when he will leave Earth and fulfil his dream of playing golf on the moon with David Bowie.

Gonzo Trail Number One / Golf On The Moon Hole Two is the first truly splacist urban exploration of London.

Psychogeography is dead.

The Gonzo Splacist Revolution has begun.

The Sound Of Moon Music

Commander Tim Wright today played golf on the moon from Pudding Mill DLR to Arnold Circus and here is the wonderful sound of that welcomed him to the moon hole at Arnold Circus.


Congratulations to Commander Tim and to Loopzilla who planned out the course and all who supported the valiant splaceman moon golfer along the way.

Towards A Splacist Manifesto On The Use Of PowerPoint Presentations

Paul Conneally spoke briefly with psychologist and one of the original developers of the psychic profiling of perpetrators of crime, David Canter, after his talk in the quad at RADAR Loughborough last year.

David's talk given in an outdoor space rather than in a lecture theatre or hall was illustrated not with a PowerPoint but by a live string quartet playing sections from a piece composed by David himself that brought a different dimension to his words.

This led Conneally to think a little and make moves towards a splacist manifesto on the use of PowerPoint slide shows:

We encourage all university lecturers, school teachers, business people and others to consign the PowerPoint presentation as most commonly currently used to the trash bin.

The only times these p(e)rveyors of usually seconhand thought should use PowerPoint presentations are when they use a previously unseen randomly downloaded PowerPoint slide show to illustrate whatever it is that they wish to pontificate on to their captive audience.

Students and other audience members should boo any speaker using a PowerPoint made by the speaker themselves or one that though not made by the speaker has been obviously rehearsed to by the speaker before hand.

The use of dance, music, boxing or any other performative act is actively encouraged in place of PowerPoint presentations.

Paul Conneally
May 2010

Don't Leave Space To The Professionals

Commander Tim Wright Golf on the Moon Tee, Arnold Circus, London

Join Gonzogeographer Gordon Joly (Loopzilla) and Commander Tim Wright on Sunday 23rd May to explore London by walking and playing golf on the moon Pudding Mill DLR to Arnold Circus.

Sunday's walk is now offically a Moongolf Practice Session. Tim Wright has been working on the putting green and the fairway, and it looks like being a fine day. Tim will also be documenting the day.

See http://bit.ly/cji8p0

Tee off at 12 noon, Pudding Mill DLR Station, Sunday 23rd May.

P.S. Our mascot for the day will be the man in the orange
suit. Wenlock and Mandeville are busy elsewehere....

Invigilator Malvern - Nikki Pugh GPS Trace

Paul Conneally and Nikki Pugh's INVIGILATOR:MALVERN saw the two artists stand back to back outside Malvern Train Station and set off on the codified left, rights and straight ons common to all the INVIGILATOR series. This time they were accompanied by Nathaniel Pitt (walking with Conneally) and Jean Baynham (walking with Pugh).

Conneally and Pugh each held a GPS device that logged their positions relative to each other as they explored Malvern using the Invigilator walk to work instructions.

Back in her technosplacist lab Pugh used the cross-referenced points in time and space to map out a trace of the artists walks relative to each other across Malvern.

The resulting trace is produced as a limited edition print and here as a pdf.

Conneally & Pugh continue to explore space place and time through splacist interventions.

In May 2010 Conneally and Pugh rejected psychogeography as an irrelevant term in the 21st century to describe artistic spatial, temporal and psychological urban suburban rural and all points between exploration proposing a new splacist revolution.

"spaces transform us and in turn are transformed a process of exchange" Paul Conneally 2007

Gonzo Splacist Walk - London Sunday May 23rd 2010

The Strand Ley - A London Ley Line terminates at Arnold Circus site of Paul Conneally and Tim Wright's For A Better World Play Golf On The Moon golf tee.

This Sunday 23rd April Digital Guru Tim Wright will join Gonzogeographer Gordon Joly on a splacist exploration from Pudding Mill DLR Station (12 noon) to Arnold Circus. You could join them FREE.

Proposed Exploration:

• Meet at Pudding Mill DLR station - 12 noon, Sunday May 23rd, 2010


• The Olympic Park - The View Tube


• Greenway


• Hertford Union Canal
  
  
  
  • passing Victoria Park, where the walking events for the 2012 Games will take place.


• Regent's Canal


• Mile End Park
  
  
  
  • Ecology Pavilion
  
  
  • Art Pavilion (last day the current exhibition)


• Meath Bridge - crossing the Regent's Canal


• The Cranbook Estate


• Bethnal Green - Weaver's Fields


• Arnold Circus

After the walk, the brand new Shoreditch High Street Station is the closest station for departure home by train (Overground). Buses - various including 8 which goes to Liverpool Street.

The new Dalston Junction to West Croydon starts on Sunday 23rd May!!

On 23rd May, the Baishakhi Mela will be held in Brick Lane and Weaver's Fields. There will also be an event at the Bandstand in Arnold Circus.

• Baishakhi Mela


• Arnold Day – in honour of Arthur Arnold, social campaigner – with the Pavilion Brass Band

OBEY THE NEW WAVE - Post-Punk Classics

	OBEY THE NEW WAVE - POST-PUNK CLASSICS Links To FREE DOWNLOADS 23 blurts of intense, delicious, mysterious and staggeringly unusual UK DIY and art-post-punk, circa 1980.
	"C'EST FAB" by Nancy Sesay and the Melodaires MP3
	"GET" by Blurt MP3
	"I DON'T LIKE YOUR FACE" by Furious Pig MP3
	"BORED HOUSEWIVES" by Androids of Mu MP3
	"GERRY AND THE HOLOGRAMS" by Gerry and the Holograms MP3
	"NEWTON'S LAWS" by The 49 Americans MP3
	"WE ARE ALL ANIMALS" by Diagram Brothers MP3
	"24 HOUR SHOP" by Fish Turned Human MP3
	"SO MANY WAYS" by Elecrtic Chairs MP3
	"THE LAUGHING POLICEMAN" by The Suspicious MP3
	"MY BODY" by General Strike MP3
	"TORTURE" by Hermine MP3
	"MOZART" by Michael Nyman MP3
	"HANDS 2 TAKE" by The Flying Lizards MP3
	"MONEY" by Galactic Symposium MP3
	"VIOLENCE GROWS" by Fatal microbes MP3
	"CHRISTINE KEELER" by GIaxo Babies MP3
	"WHEN IT'S WAR" by People In Control MP3
	"DUM DUM DUM" by Dum Dum Dum MP3
	"ADMISSION (YOURS)" by The Filmcast MP3
	"A MODERN LESSON" by Aqsak Maboul MP3

David Beckham Out Of World Cup Achiles Tendon Ruptured

England soccer superstar David Beckham has crashed out of the 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa.

Beckham pulled up injured with what appears to be a ruptured Achilles tendon in AC Milan's match against Chievo at the San Siro.

If it is a ruptured Achiles tendon then his chances of playing in the World Cup for England in South Africa are virtually nil according to doctors.

Beckham's dream was to become the only English soocer player to have represented his country at 4 World Cup Championships.

Beckaham returned to the starting eleven for AC Milan against Cheivo after a good performance against old club Manchester United in the Champions League.

Craig David Is Back! One More Lie (Standing In The Shadows) Video

UK Soul phenenomemom Craig David is back and this time he's taken the rewind back to 1966 and The Four Tops Standing In The Shadows Of Love. Craig does not do a cover of the Motown classic but the theme underpins his new song One More Lie.

After an absence from the charts this track looks set to be a hit both sides of the Atlantic with its hooky chorus and irresistable dance beats.

It's sure to be one for the remixers. Out on 15th March 2010.

One More Lie (Standing In The Shadows)- Craig David

Pink Floyd Win Court Battle With EMI

PINK FLOYD win court battle with EMI over online sales.

Pink Floyd band members argued that their contract with EMI stipulated that their albums should not be split up and sold as individual tracks without the band's permission. They claimed that albums such as The Dark Side Of The Moon.

The Judge agreed with the band saying their contract had a clause to "preserve the artistic integrity of the albums".

EMI will have to pay the band an initial sum of £40,000 with more to follow.

This ruling will now set a precedent for other artists such as Garth Brooks and AC/DC who have also argued that their albums should only be sold as full albums and not as online individual tracks from sites such as iTunes.

Here's Money by Pink Floyd

Curtain Show - Birmingham Eastside Projects New Exhibition

The latest exhibition at Birmingham's Eastside Projects gallery space is Curtain Show.

It opens on the 13th March and promises to continue down the innovative path that curator Gavin Wade, here with Céline Condorelli, has led the art world of Birmingham and beyond.

"Curtain Show revolves around Lilly Reich’s Silk and Velvet Café at the Women’s Fashion Exhibition in Berlin, in 1927.

The trade fairs of the 19th century and early 20th century were places of great innovation in the fields of art and design, and a phenomenal example is Reich’s ‘Café’; but they were also inevitably sites of alliance between political power and design.

Reich’s bold exposition of gold and silver silk and black, orange and red velvet draped over chromed-steel tubular frames created a maze of spaces in which visitors and traders were enveloped in a pioneering example of a temporary environment formed by the content of the exhibition.

Starting from the installation’s complex spatial position and ambiguous political one, Curtain Show unfolds this dual role as curtains form background and foreground in a meeting of curtain works."

Curtain Show

13 March – 17 April 2010

Launch: 6-9pm Friday 12th March 2010
Open Thursday 12-6.30pm, Friday-Saturday 12-5pm

Céline Condorelli, Tacita Dean, Douglas Gordon, Barbara Holub, Hannah James, Grace Ndiritu, Lilly Reich, Erik Satie, Ines Schaber, Albrecht Schäfer

art architecture space place time

Lost Boy Corey Haim Dead at 38

Corey Haim the star of The Lost Boys and Lucas has died aged 38.

After a bright career as a child actor look set for big things Corey found it difficult to maintain the momentum of his early promise.

The nineties were a disaster for Haim with almost every film he made going straight to video. This led to a new millennium marked by stints in rehab as he tried to get his life and film future sorted. The sad thing is that this year was stacking up to be his best for years with 10 projects lined up. Some of these are already in the can and are reported to be some of his best work.


A spokeswoman for LAPD said Corey Haim passed away in the early hours of Wednesday morning at Providence St Joseph Medical Centre.

Unconfirmed sources report Haim collapsed in the bedroom of his mother's apartment and four prescription bottles were found nearby.

A post-mortem will determine the cause of death and no other details have been released as yet.

Lindsay Lohan And The White Stuff

No it's not a brand new band and it doesn't refer to white powder. It's milk! LINDSAY LOHAN has taken huge offence to an advert that was shown during the Super Bowl.

The advert showed a 'milkaholic' baby called Lindsay. Ms Lohan believes that everyone that saw it thinks its a reference to her and her reported past problems with drugs and drink. She is so wound up about it that she is suing the company concerned, E-Trade,the online stocks and shares company, for £67 million.

Wow just think of all the white stuff she could buy with that!

Lohan claims that the company have illegaly used her name 'Lindsay' maybe forgetting that there are millions of Lindsays worldwide. She's got hot lawyers:

“Many celebrities are known by one name, and E-Trade is using that knowledge to profit,” Lohan’s lawyer, Stephanie Ovadia, said in a statement to the New York Post . “They’re using her name as a parody of her life. Why didn’t they use the name Susan? This is a subliminal message. Everybody’s talking about it and saying it’s Lindsay Lohan"

Most will probably think 'Grow up Lindsay'. Why on earth would an advert featuring a cry baby addicted to white stuff make anyone think of you? Skin After Skin certainly didn't - well not until you mentioned it...
Heres the E-Trade Video:

Pink Floyd Sue EMI Over Online Sales

Pink Floyd are suing the band's record label EMI over online royalty payments.

In the High Court in London the band stated that their agreement with EMI was that their songs should only be sold as song 'bundles' rather than as individual tracks.

They believe that the agreement which was written before online sales were even dreamed of still stands.

In addition to the comercial concerns the band believe that the ad hoc selling of tracks compromises the artistic integrety of albums such as Dark Side Of The Moon.

The case continues.

Lily Allen Breaks Down In Tears At Violence and Retires From Music

LILY ALLEN broke down in tears during her O2 gig when she saw two middle aged men fighting in the audience.

The star left the stage only returning after the two men had been thrown out saying: "That's the worst sort of violence. It's fucking sick and you lot should be ashamed of yourself."

Laying her political cards on the line Lily dedicated her song 'Fuck You' to Tory leader DAVID CAMERON. Cameron said last week that he has banned his daughter from listening to Lily's music as it contained words unsuitable for young people.

The gig, which also featured DIZEE RASCAL, was meant to be her last ever gig. The Fear star Allen announced that she was giving up pop to become a vintage clothes shop owner. It seems however that she can't bear the thought of giving up music at the moment and immeadiatly after the show announced plans to support US rap star Jay-Z in Hyde Park in July. She later Tweeted that the July show wil definately be her last ever performance as 'Lily Allen'.

Lily is still opening her clothes chop which will be called Lucy In Disguise at the Vintage. She will launch the venture at the Goodwood Festival in August.

Dizzee Rascal who supported Lily at the O2 announced last week that he is to write a book - his autobiography. It will be published in October. Dizzee Rascal Writes Book