we have some excellent big museums – even the old dinosaurs feel alive these days – new build refurb and touch at often huge cost to provide wow…
maybe the need for ‘wow’ is overstated or what we believe ‘wow’ might be/should be/is
that other ‘wow’ the one that’s not wham bam thank you ma’am but that ‘wow’ those ‘wows’ that come after engaging with something maybe something quite insignificant at first sight when after giving it some attention it begins to whisper to us and then ‘wow’ …
this kind of personal wow maybe stays with us longer than the the more manufactured universal wow perhaps even a lifetime
engagements that encourage new interpretations new thinking new learning rather than big bold brassy buildings and these engagements digital or not let them be from the heart to the heart as much as mind to mind
of course a role for museums as tourist attractions and maybe tourist attractions as museums…
pigeons work
from table to table
a catkin wind
response to Bridget Mckenzie out of her proposed presentation to the British Council in Moscow "The English Obsession wit the New"
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Sunday, February 21, 2010
Playing Musical Instruments Improves Reading and Language Skills
Children who learn to play a musical instrument may have an advantage when it comes to reading.
Professor Nina Kraus of Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois found that a part of the brain stimulated in musicians when they play music is also important in reading.
Professor Kraus found that people that can pick out harmonies and timing in sounds are better at reading.
Many chidren in the UK are entering secondary school with reading ages below that expected for their age and some are asking if music was given a higher position within the curriculum would reading improve?
Although all UK pupils up to the age of 14 have to have at least one lesson of music education a week very few pupils actually learn to play a musical instrument.
Music education and learning how to play a musical instrument are not the same thing.
The number of children learning musical instruments has decreased since free music instrument tuition for all was withdrawn from state education. Most pupils have to buy an instrument and pay for private lessons and for many families this is an expense that they just can't afford.
A curriculum that features more strongly learning how to play a musical instrument might bring real benefits for improving reading and language skills.
spring snow
her fingers too cold
for chopsticks
"Schools which fail to make music a core subject are making a mistake, because it has advantages for the growing brain and would help all children, including those with dyslexia and autism, neuroscientist Professor Nina Kraus said yesterday."
"Words and music, such natural partners that it seems obvious they go together. Now science is confirming that those abilities are linked in the brain, a finding that might even lead to better stroke treatments"
"Musical experience can enhance everyday listening and language tasks. We are making new strides in understanding what changes happen in the brain with musical experience."
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The Internet has Killed Rock Stars
Kasabian's Tom Meighan says the internet is "killing rock stars"
The singer with Leicester's Brit Award rockers Kasabian feels that rock stars reveal too much about themselves on the internet. Meighan feels that stars who constantly update news about their lives on Twitter, Facebook and other blog sites have no mystique.
He says that people read rock stars blogs and think "Wow, what rubbish"
Kasabian are nominated for 6 awards at next weeks Shockwaves NME Awards 2010.
Saturday, February 13, 2010
Thursday, January 14, 2010
A Biting of Words
world summit to bring you weapons
a big fan not just of peace
these women never die grubby
once upon a future true heroes
finding joy in the gathering
curious love splash
blood and conservation make a bright ballet
seasonal monotone delights
poetic train giving tourists new voice
hand in hand a biting of words
This piece is from the 'shreadline' series 2005. Headlines from newspapers are cut up and placed in a bag - they can be from a particular paper on a particular day or a mixture. Five fragments are picked out at random. The player has to create a new line using at least three of the fragments. This series were all ten line poems. Each line is a 'shreadline'. Another action is to take each 'shreadline' and use it as the 'headline' for a new story.
The process is one of physical literary detournement.
I have run intervention pieces using the 'shreadline' process both on the street and other settings - passers-by being encouraged to pick out fragments and make a shreadline sticking it directly on to a sheet of cardboard to make a collaborative piece that works both visually and as a piece of text - a poem.
paul conneally
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
The Frequent Flyer
Henry Rollins starts the European leg of his massive spoken word world tour tonight in Dublin - he's all energy and The Skinny has a good wide ranging interview with him:http://www.theskinny.co.uk/article/98316-regarding-henry
He talks beyond the normal American showbiz line - here's his answer to a question on why so many Americans appear to be against free health care:
"You would be against it if you were in bed with big insurance, or you would be against it if you are inherently against the idea of equality. What would happen if there was a better education system in America? What if America was number five in literacy, not number 46? It would mean a lot of non-white people with college education, and you know what that means? It means the prisons would be empty and it means that the next time we have a fake war with a sovereign nation, like the invasion and occupation of Iraq, millions of Americans would go "ahhh, NO!" you wanna go to war? I’m not showing up to work today.”, “I’m throwing my rifle on the ground and you'll have to court-martial me and 300 000 other guys because we're not going; because we are educated, we know our history and we're not going for this blood lust.” And that’s why this country fears the education and fears the equality of health care. Because, heaven help us if we had a whole bunch of healthy people making wise decisions; we might just have peace and posterity. I think there is a concerted effort to keep some people where they are and I think that is the inherent thing about the health care system. I don’t want my Americans to lose their home because momma gets cancer, because I like people and I like my countrymen, and I want them happy and well. Because if they are happy and well, our factories work better, our roads are better, quality of life is better. You don’t feel like robbing a liquor store or slugging your wife. Things get better."
Henry, who fronted Black Flag from 1981 is in Leicester on Thursday. On his radio show he plays Dum Dum Dum from time to time and we're planning to link up sometime on Thursday if only for a few minutes as I'd promised to send him an original copy of the Dum Dum Dum EP from 1979/80 and never got round to it - so no excuses this time - must get up into the loft and find it first though!
The Haiku Parrots
click picture to download pdfA linked hypertext work by Paul Conneally featuring work by George Waring, hortensia anderson, Debra Woolard Bender, Sheila Windsor, Max Verhart, Robin Estil and Robert Wilson.
The source text is an extract from: FREE-RANGING PARROT POPULATION OF HAIKU DISTRICT, MAUI, HAWAII by George Waring. Conneally sets up a colloborative linking process that sees readers encouraged to engage with and interpret the original academic paper in new ways.
Acting in ways similar to the sabaki or master poet does in the renga process Conneally brings together a group of disparate poet artists to engage, link and shift with Waring's piece. What was initially an academic paper 'FREE-RANGING PARROT POPULATION OF HAIKU DISTRICT, MAUI, HAWAII by George Waring' now becomes something much more whilst remaining the same. A detournement takes place encouraging reading across and between different media.
Acting in ways similar to the sabaki or master poet does in the renga process Conneally brings together a group of disparate poet artists to engage, link and shift with Waring's piece. What was initially an academic paper 'FREE-RANGING PARROT POPULATION OF HAIKU DISTRICT, MAUI, HAWAII by George Waring' now becomes something much more whilst remaining the same. A detournement takes place encouraging reading across and between different media.
Clicking on any one of Waring's paragraphs in the PDF download starts the journey.
Wednesday, December 16, 2009
Saturday, November 14, 2009
LIAR - Look I Am Reading
LIAR Eccentric City May 2009
LIAR - silent reading as psychogeographic intervention
Paul Conneally
Avignon Festival and Birmingham Bullring 2008
psychogeography detournement stewart home guy debord
Friday, November 13, 2009
Bottoms for Topshop
Bottoms for Topshop continues throughout November in branches of Topshop across the Midlands.
SHOPPUTTING is an ongoing work that sees Paul Conneally placing clothes, shoes and other goods in shops. It is the opposite of shoplifting. The goods are not for sale but have a label informing shoppers that if they like this article they can simply take it. The labels have messages or slogans on them (Conneally calls these poems) often coupled with images.
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Saturday, October 24, 2009
Won't You Tell Me How To Mend This Broken Heart?
Won't You Tell Me How To Mend This Broken Heart?
Little Onion
2009
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Thursday, October 15, 2009
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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"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
--------
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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Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Sunday, May 31, 2009
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
Sunday, May 24, 2009
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.
(free download at LastFm)
Thursday, May 21, 2009
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.
Sunday, May 17, 2009
Wednesday, April 01, 2009
Summer Haze
Summer Haze Net Kasen Renku
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.
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.
Sunday, March 15, 2009
Monday, March 09, 2009
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.
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.
Sunday, March 08, 2009
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
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
Thursday, November 20, 2008
Monday, October 20, 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
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
Sunday, June 29, 2008
Friday, June 06, 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.
Friday, May 30, 2008
Saturday, May 24, 2008
Renga Bandstand
CLICK HERE TO SEE VIDEOPoet / 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.
Saturday, May 03, 2008
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!
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Sunday, April 06, 2008
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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Friday, April 04, 2008
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.
Wednesday, April 02, 2008
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
Sunday, March 30, 2008
invigilators - digbeth
Here's a picture that Nikki took of the Invigilators before they set off on their walk to work as part of Invigilator : Digbeth.
Saturday, March 08, 2008
Most successful on-line art shopping service in the world
Tesco.Com is the most successful on–line art shopping service in the world. Sales continued to grow strongly in the year - up by 31.9%, to reach almost £1 billion. Profit increased by 54.9% to £56.2 million.
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.
Visit us at Tesco.com
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.
Visit us at Tesco.com
Saturday, March 01, 2008
Rolls Hot Rolls
Center for Digital Discourse and Culture
Virginia Tech
Virginia Tech
rolls
hot rolls
fresh
lean unfrozen
ground meat
one
case
regular Pepsi
one
case
orange drinks
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
Monday, February 25, 2008
Sunday, February 24, 2008
Tesco Alcohol and Young people
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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:
Check out this video: Changing Landscapes - Walk the Line
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Check out this video: Changing Landscapes - Walk the Line
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Saturday, February 09, 2008
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.
Saturday, December 08, 2007
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