Changing Faces

Film by Kevin Ryan with sound track by Paul Conneally for Charnwood Arts 1999

Create a (psychogeographic) map

Bard College is encouraging all students, professors, staff, artists, curators, and visitors of Bard College to create their own psychogeographic map of Bard.

"I assert that all institutions, towns, cities, countries must now re-map as widely as possible using psychogeographic methods. These methods will not be specified".

"Obey the process of fancy"

Paul Conneally
October 2009
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From Bard:
Create a (psychogeographic) map
“The production of psychogeographic maps… can contribute to clarifying wanderings that express not subordination to randomness but complete insubordination to habitual influences.” (Guy Debord, Les Lèvres Nues No. 6, 1955)

Though, in the case of this “map,” habitual influences may be defined or defied from traditional definitions of contemporary art. Artists such as Andy Goldsworthy, Buckminster Fuller, Gordon Matta-Clark, Paul Conneally, Robert Smithson, Stewart Home, etc. redefined contemporary art in the environment surrounding us.

PURPOSE:
To notice the way in which certain areas, streets, or buildings resonate with states of mind, inclinations, and desires, and to seek out reasons for movement other than those for which an environment was designed.
In the case of this particular dérive and to develop a psychogeographic “map of contemporary art at Bard”, these states of mind, inclinations, and desires may originate from the psychological space of artists, curators, students, professors, staff, and visitors, all of who have a stake in contemporary art at Bard.

The definition of “contemporary art at Bard” can be loose and nebulous or strict and specific, relative to the psychogeographer’s perspective. While some may respond to the formal or aesthetic qualities of the geographical terrain, others may be compelled towards the public sculptures or interventions in nature. Concurrently, the act of this derive, its documentation, and its expression in sound recordings, photography, video, and graphic “map” making all constitute contemporary art. After all, what is contemporary art other than a document of immaterial ideas and concepts?

With this undefined definition and somewhat delineated purpose, the psychogeographer may begin his/her dérive.
METHODOLOGY:
There are no set guidelines for one’s dérive or exact methodology in contemporary psychogeography; however, one may draw upon a vast philosophical, political, and literary tradition of psychogeography, in “practitioners” have all documented their forays into psychogeography in a variety of formats. These formats have included books, essays, poems, photo essays, films, and, of course, maps – though these maps may seem nonrepresentational or nonsensical in the traditional geographic sense.
For more background on psychogeography, read here.

SUGGESTIONS:
1) Conduct your own dérive. Read the guidelines outlined in Debord’s “Introduction to a Critique of Urban Geography” below. Find a site of departure and begin. Choose your own form(s) of documentation.
“The sudden change of ambiance in a street within the space of a few meters; the evident division of a city into zones of distinct psychic atmospheres; the path of least resistance that is automatically followed in aimless strolls (and which has no relation to the physical contour of the terrain); the appealing or repelling character of certain places — these phenomena all seem to be neglected. In any case they are never envisaged as depending on causes that can be uncovered by careful analysis and turned to account.”
2) Create paths of desire based on intuitive sites and terrains of attraction and repulsion. A path of desire is created by erosion caused by an animal/human footfall, usually representing the shortest or most easily navigated route between an origin and destination. The width and depth of the path represents the amount of demand and travel. The resulting map may represent subconscious or conscious desire for a personal lived/phenomenological experience versus the anonymous, predetermined mode of travel and lifestyle imposed by the structure (paved sidewalks, walkways, bridges, crossroads) of one’s environment. Record these new paths of desire on an existing map.
3) Use the walking tour created by artists Jason Grote & Karinne Keithley* and record your experience. Download the audio file to your personal listening device (or go to http://fancystitchmacine.org/conflux.htm). Then, choose one of the five paths below and follow the walking tour.
a. Once you have finished loading the audio onto your mp3 player, exit the nearest door. Take a right. Follow the instructions on your audio.
b. Walk towards a place that you find dangerous for whatever reason. Get as close as you can to this place without risking your personal safety. Without crossing whatever your own boundaries are, follow the instructions on the audio.
c. Extinguish all the lights wherever you are and lie down on the floor. In your imagination, follow the instructions on the audio.
d. Walk to a place you have never been but have always been curious about. Once there, follow the instructions on the audio.
e. Look at this graphic image, either on a screen or printed on paper, while you listen to the audio. Enter the world of the image and follow the instructions on the audio.

OPEN CALL:
This is an open call to all students, professors, staff, artists, curators, and visitors of Bard College to create their own psychogeographical map of “contemporary art at Bard” and contribute to WhatIsContemporaryArtAtBard.com through any documentation/format they see fit.
To contribute your “map” to WhatIsContemporaryArtAtBard.com, just click here to add a post of your own.
There will also be a facilitated group dérive scheduled once per semester. Interested participants can e-mail mh3491@bard.edu.
*CREDITS: Conceived, edited, produced, and directed by Karinne Keithley and Jason Grote, and performed by Jenny Seastone Stern. Written by Annie Nocenti, Amber Reed, Carlos Murillo, Drew Haxby, Elana Greenfield, Guy DeBord, Jason Grote, Jen Collins, Jennifer Dumpert, Jennifer Michael Hecht, Karinne Keithley, Leah Souffrant, Lorraine Martindale, Matthew Burgess, Mimi Lipson, Peggy Nelson, Rebecca Solnit, Susan L. Miller, and Walter Benjamin.
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DOG WATCH

DOG WATCH ANSTEY

8th Otober 2009

paul conneally lindsay jelley

Little Miss Birdgirl

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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

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.

Little Onion at LastFM

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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.

Directive One - Dum Dum Dum featuring Lol Coxhill

Dum Dum Dum featuring Lol Coxhill

Dum Dum Dum

William Buchanan

Paul Conneally

Andy Fulks

Summer Haze

Summer Haze Net Kasen Renku

Publish at Scribd or explore others: Creative Writing poetry Renga

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.

Yew Trees

Yew Trees

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Personality Disorder Warning

Oracle Reprocessed Stewart Home (ORACLE RSH ) has revealed to a listener some information about personality disorders in Coventry.
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.

ORACLE RSH

ORACLE RSH

(Reprocessed Stewart Home)

the banana links

excerpts from

the banana links

paul conneally

(i)

in some ways the haiku today resembles the potato

before blight brought famine to ireland

(ii)

edible haiku are sterile mutants

new varieties cannot easily be produced by natural methods

(iii)

a haiku a day prevents a deficiency

which might increase the risk of stroke

(iv)

haiku a substitute for sweets and satisfy sugar cravings

(v)

your hands can benefit from haiku as well

(vi)

each haiku wrapped in foil and sold for a dime

'the banana links' are a dadaesque experiment

to see how truths about haiku might reveal themselves

through the manipulation of texts on or about bananas

Cubist Dad

Cubist Dad



Cubist D(e)ad End

Conneally & Conneally 2008

Beautiful Flowers

"Convert or we will kill you" is the stark message to fleeing Christians in the Indian state of Orissa.

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

Passengers Arrived

Passengers Arrived

paul conneally

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 anti-energy drink we're calling the extreme relaxation beverage.'

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.

Helter Skelter 1999

Helter Skelter

paul conneally

1999

Renga Bandstand

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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.

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!

Interactive Real Sized Hologram

Interactive Real Size Hologram from Nicolas Loeillot on Vimeo.

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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Emotion Grids

Another aspect of Invigilator:Digbeth are the 'emotion grids' that participants were asked to fill in when at the work place. I spent some time last night looking at these and the accompanying emotional words list - a list of emotionally related words that participants could circle if they felt applied to them at the time - as many as they wanted to circle or not.

One group posted a filled in Emotion Grid through the letterbox of the building 'Good For Wood' (which sounds like a good title for a porno movie) and pasted another on the building itself.

Harry Palmer's Emotion Grid fell into the canal and floated off.

Those that I have been able to look at will I'm sure soon tell me something.

Invite Boredom

Listening to the Invigilator:Digbeth discussion I was struck by oblique and direct references to boredom - the gallery invigilator's job being referred to as sometimes boring.

When transposed to an outside space where the invigilator has to stand or sit and simply 'watch over' then the space and the action of simply watching over it sets up an interaction that is boring in such a way that it can transcend boredom if we let it... The space becoming bored of the invigilator throws up new facets new resonances between it and the 'watcher over' the 'invigilator'.

A couple of Invigilator:Digbeth participants said that they found the invigilating very zen like - another not at all - the invigilating passed-by with a contrived doing - a counting of and classification of vehicles passing through the invigilated space. Such actions are invoked by the space itself as it is watched over - after all it was only chance that the space invigilated happened to have cars passing through it - this counting this classifying borne out of the possibility of boredom.

"INVITE BOREDOM" - paul conneally 2008

invigilators - digbeth

invigilators
Originally uploaded by Nikki Pugh

Here's a picture that Nikki took of the Invigilators before they set off on their walk to work as part of Invigilator : Digbeth.

Most successful on-line art shopping service in the world

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What is remarkable about our on–line business is the diversity of customers using it, from busy urban families to people in rural communities.

It has also allowed many house–bound people to shop for art properly for the first time.In south east London where we have fewer stores and some that are exceptionally busy, we have developed a tesco.com–only store.

It is situated at 25-26 Mason’s Yard (Off Duke Street) St. James’s London SW1Y 6BU. This enables us to offer this service to more customers and builds on our existing capability as the warehouse is designed like a Tesco superstore inside.

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Rolls Hot Rolls

Center for Digital Discourse and Culture
Virginia Tech

haikumania

rolls
hot rolls

fresh

lean unfrozen

ground meat

one

case

regular Pepsi

one

case

orange drinks

rolls

hot rolls

Brown 'n' Serve

cans

of biscuits

(at least six)

hamburger buns

pickles potatoes

and onions

assorted

fresh fruits

cans of sauerkraut

wieners

at least three
bottles of milk

and 1/2 & 1/2
cream

thin

lean bacon

mustard

peanut
butter

fresh
hand-squeezed

cold orange juice

banana
pudding

to be made

each night

ingredients

for meat loaf

and sauce

brownies

to be made

each night

ice
cream

vanilla and chocolate

shredded coconut

fudge cookies
gum

Spearmint Doublemint

Juicy Fruit - three each

cigars

El Producto

Diamond Tips & Altas

cigarettes

Dristan

Super Anahist

Contac, Sucrets

(antibiotic red box)

Feenamint gum

matches

four to five

books

‘rolls hot rolls’ is a poem found by paul conneally in a shopping list at graceland

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Dreams of New Delhi

Dum Dum Dum – Dreams of New Delhi (Live)

Changing Faces

Tesco Alcohol and Young people

Changing Landscapes

Attended the launch of Changing Landscapes pamphlet yesterday in Kings Norton at the 3 Kings Cafe - this short video by Little Onion was also shown:
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Paul Finds Employment

Artist Joshua Sofaer gives poet / artist Paul Conneally a 1910 map of Sheffield and sends him out on the streets to find employment.

Kashiwa Sato

KASHIWA SATO

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Circle of Fire Reading

Circle of Fire Reading

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Circle of Fire Word Map

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A word map tracing the route of the Grow Sheffield / Off The Shelf Renga Ramble from Mushroom Lane (Weston Park Museum) to organic gardening guru Richard Clare's allotment on Crookes Quarry Allottments.

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The piece was conceived and led by artist / poets Anne-Marie Culhane and Paul Conneally and explores what happens when the renga process is taken from its normal 'one space' setting to travelling through an area stopping at various points to write, read and select the poems that go to form what became the 'A Circle of Fire' renga. This renga combined the walking/writing process with the one space process - the first 6 stanzas being written during the walk to the allotments where the last 6 stanzas were then written in situ.

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The renga form used is an adapted Junicho form - a 12 stanza renku form with the schema with its seasonal, moon and love positions written by Culhane & Conneally. The experience of writing a renga, keeping to schema, linking and shifting and walking through 'this place' from here to there is a very different experience to writing in one space one place and highlights how the environment the surroundings and people influence the writing process and how the writing - the renga process itself - transforms the space the place in which - and when renga rambling across - that - the poem is written.

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The walking through public space - in this case from a central city location through residential areas to Sheffields urban edge - and the stopping to write, read out loud and the master poet selecting the next stanza before moving on again - highlighted the performative aspect of the process of renga perhaps differently to when in one space where the process is still performative but different. A Circle of Fire embraced both with the last 6 stanzas written in a greenhouse on Richard Clare's allotment.

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Nine poets performed / made A Circle of Fire:

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Paul Conneally (master poet) Anne-Marie Culhane (host poet) Felicity Stout Nadine Wills Joseph Conneally Vanessa Senger Jenny Laird Andrea Allsopp Su Walker

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Grow Sheffield

renga haiku japan japanese haikai conneally & culhane

Circle of Fire

A Circle of Fire
a renga ramble
Weston Park Museum to Crookes Quarry Allotments

ABUNDANCE

Grow Sheffield

Abundance

Anne-Marie Cullhane

Steven Watts

Jo Salter

Grow Sheffield - Planter!

A participatory workshop supervised by Richard Clare from Sheffield’s Organic Food Initiative has improved the SOIL using locally-sourced organic matter (compost and leafmould) AND planted 30 locally-grown varieties of annuals, biennials and perennials that will make up a mixture of edible plants, culinary herbs and salads.It has been designed for sustainability, low maintenance, aesthetics and durability from the tall plants at the back to the creeping plants at the front.

The Quick Way

A twelve verse Junicho renga in the season of Summer, 16 June 2007
Barracks Lane Community Garden, Oxford
A black bucket
filled with redcurrants
making jelly the quick way

there are many reasons
to celebrate

the magistrate offers
a road safety course
instead of a fine

rail track closed
due to snow

my phone is full
of your messages
which one shall I erase?

on the horns of a dilemma
finding it difficult to rest

bent double
a pair of students seek mushrooms
lit by sunset

we bring my geraniums indoors
together

in the east end
a line of bulldozers
moves through an allotment

this is my home
I lie flat beneath a vast sky

by the light of the moon
a frog sings
in a puddle

rain drenches
buds and blossoms.

Anne-Marie Culhane (master poet)
Paul Conneally (host poet)
Catherine Naysmith
Oonagh Desire
Jo Salter
Dave Jones
Jenny Stanton
Anita Joice
Joseph Conneally
Colin May
Becky Didlick
Gaby Hock

The Hidden Gardens

Written by Alec Finlay and others
Renga Schema by Paul Conneally

Twenty-Four Hour Hyakuin Renga

Summer feet enter hover at varying heights above stone chippings murmur of children building bird boxes, we make warm verses hearing aid feedback cymbal sounds go on and on the cat’s and the dog’s noses twitch reading each others minds a lunar eclipse draws a russet curtain on summer’s plans viewing the apple orchard’s transient constellations why try so hard when our words fall into silences and so will the leaves? starting to speak at the same time eyes glance down it doesn’t matter yet truly I did think he would be interested a bouquet of crocuses on balance, a bad idea so a blue tree there in the top corner en plein air au Barbizon Paris in Springtime without loneliness

across the table the children exchange arguments and kisses there’s a face you’d leave home for he says of the waitress pulling her mink tighter fur buttons too fat for their holes bored by the long break in play they throw snowballs at the spectators teeth gritted then the song that gets everyone up on the floor dazzled by the glitter ball over silent fields a famished wasp charges its ring tone on the last bramble that waterdrop sparkling web invisible? anything but ignoring the blind spot and pulling out, the passenger’s right foot twitches smoke, wrote Brecht, while you drive — if it goes out, something’s wrong in late summer closing the door of her mother’s house for the last time a flat palm smashes open the garlic an angled lemon outshines the chopping board green tea and Qigong on the long haul prevent jet lag in the quiet the monk offers the traveller a blow-job after the ceremony there’s nothing to do but eat early potatoes already sprouting but there’s lead in the soil salt ‘n’ sauce? both hesitate unsure of the others’ tastes forgetting herself a mother on day release cuts up her lover’s meat after breakfast they send out for more oysters whether with or without our noticing the sun’s almost gone the night was made by Provost MacTavish and his good lady boxes crammed with bread, vegetables and cans of mixed fruit salad floating amongst it all a big dollop of vanilla the Lismore ferry — vehicles, and fattened calves heading for market stuff your bloody correctness you’ll lick arse if you have to sixteen shirts every week they don’t iron themselves you know flat white drifts crunched in footprints dog shit melts a hole in fresh snow his paintings emptied till they were all sky two stars tell us the night is cleared for darkness some theorists forget that thinking is a bodily function he throws the beach ball higher so she’s forced to stretch the lines of labour written on her belly in the loft the last train to Partick runs all night fumbling through his euros at the Skye Bridge toll at Sligachan we trace the first and last of the snow on Sgurr nan Gillean Meg asks can she see Sorley’s room the window that looked to the west now the weather’s warmer she shortens her skirts for Blythswood Square after the demo paper everywhere — another man’s job hosing down the corpses pale human flesh — Che, Marat, Christ I am the lamp which guides me even when you can’t see beyond your nose follow the smell of smoke lighting cigarettes in the rain hunched together the callgirl’s nickname for Henri Toulouse-Lautrec was teapot reading the leaves marriage, briefly an out of tune piper lamenting the dead at the gates marked Private she can just see bluebells Spring Bank Holiday everyone hits the road signposted Solitude too many cooks spoil the pancake race in the evening nodding off on the sofa startled by the phone father in Australia talks mostly of cricket dew freezes the outback radar is ranging the moon commuter’s day — leave before sunrise return after dark casting catch nothing casting The Waterfall of the Maiden icy in June damp patches on her blouse a mother’s surprise supply on demand we’ve come to expect food, fuel, gratified desire the leaves come off a glut of green tomato chutney mulch under wellies kicked into the porch the cats hope to impress us with small overnight deaths left on the mat from the oak a candle falls down and out we’ve brought a nightlight for the little one’s next visit leave the frogspawn alone you’ll get all sticky the tadpole succumbs to a carp — so much for evolution picking the samphire at low tide a selkie you say? already wondering how she’ll taste her past lovers lie heavily on his side of the bed a torrid night in the attic the moon slips through the panes sweating up The Rest and Be Thankful wishing for a flat tyre let down once too often from now on the failures will be beheaded clear-cutting the rainforest the whole tribe gets whooping-cough from under their shrouds feet of men, feet of women feet of children at the school nativity the angel kicks the donkey tempers rising Ted slaps Sylvia back even in the silly season poets don’t make the headlines you miss one week and the recycling box takes over the hallway pungent wood smoke from next door they say he saves the ash shrivelled little figs that never made it to the table swirling a late cup of milky tea what she’d like is sunshine wedding day breakfast coffee with whisky then whisky eggs over easy on rye like sprinkled pepper these moles on your back or stars after weeks of deciding they named her Cassiopeia now she sets ablaze the horizon of his eightieth year new clothes for Easter dancing in the street all mouth this spring lots of flounce but nowt left hanging allotments flourish all the way to the summit.

a hyakuin renga in Summer night of the full blue moon the hidden gardens (nva), tramway, Glasgow (noon) 31 July — (noon) 1 August, 2004 nine poets Larry Butler Ken Cockburn David Connearn Gerrie Fellows Alec Finlay Peter Manson Dick Pettit Beth Rowson Colin Will renga schema Paul Conneally with thanks to Anne-Marie Culhane, Morven Gregor & Linda MacDonald

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Some Thoughts on Twenty-Four Hour Hyakuin Renga

A group of poets gather in time-space.

What’s in a day?

100 verses is 4.5 verses an hour; is one every 15 minutes; is a natural rhythm

From noon to noon things change.

The minutes go so slowly.

The hours go so fast.

How much sleep can you do without. How much do you need?

‘I stayed up until I got a verse in’.

Time away from the platform may do you as much good as time spent trying to, and failing to, sleep.

A hyakuin renga is a key chain; one that is unlocked by the sun setting, the moon rising, the moon setting, the sun rising.

Think slumber party.

Expect to feel grumpy, and ecstatic.

Someone will always go to sleep beside the renga.

Eat together after.

Peace to the World

Little Onion – Peace To The World featuring Guru Sandesh Shaunak

this track is donated to the world - free to download

"Peace to the World"say it make it happen

paul conneally

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

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

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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

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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.

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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