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Friday, April 23, 2010
OBEY THE NEW WAVE - Post-Punk Classics
Monday, March 15, 2010
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.
Friday, March 12, 2010
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
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
Thursday, March 11, 2010
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
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
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
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.
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:
Tuesday, March 09, 2010
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.
Monday, March 08, 2010
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
Sunday, March 07, 2010
Botox Barbie - Woman Who Injected Child With Botox Runs Sex Parties
A woman who bragged to the press about how she injected her 15-year old daughter with botox admits that she is an international sex party organiser.The Daily Star reports that 'Human Barbie' Sarah Burge calls herself Madame Pink and charges £500 an hour to 'be whatever you want me to be'
Madame Pink claims to organise glamorous parties where guests, says Burge, are "Young, beautiful hipsters. Rich. Cool. The kind of people everyone wants to have sex with.”.
The truth is that Burge and her ilk are old fashioned Madames who exploit sad and lonely clients by promising them sexual happiness whilst taking their money from them. That's fine but somehow Skin After Skin feels unhappy that on the make Burge is called the Human Barbie. Barbie was made for finer things than sleazy sex parties for losers in Phuket.
Barbie has always and will always be a Park Lane girl with a degree in art from Goldsmith's tucked neatly in the pocket of her silk knickers.
As for Sindy she's a political activist living in Croydon teaching teenagers how to use The Web as weapon.
Burge could take a leaf out of old Madame Cyn's book, buy a semi in suburbia, accept luncheon vouchers and earn enough money to put her daughter through University.
Tuppaware parties I'm sure would be even more fun and help us on the road to economic recovery and cut the chance of contracting venereal disease of the moment Chlamydia at the same time.
Does anyone still get the Betaware man calling round? And no it's not a gambling addiction charity.
Mickey Rourke Sleeps With 14 Women in One Night
Actor and old soak Mickey Rourke claims to have slept with 14 women in one night on a visit to the UK.
Rourke made the claim as he dissed football love rats such as Chelsea FC players Ashley Cole and John Terry who are dominating UK soccer and celebrity headlines with stories of their infidelities.
Hollywood hell raiser Rourke tells soccer star wives and girlfriends (WAGs)that the sexual antics of Premier League Soccer stars are nothing compared to movie stars.
Rourke said "British footballers have got nothing when it comes to women"
Chelsea left back Ashley Cole is said to be devastated after wife Cheryl Cole left him after finding out about his latest sexting revelations and is currently licking his wounds both football and love in a French clinic.
Skin After Skin doesn't know who is sadder Mickey Rourke for feeling the need to brag about sleeping with 14 women or the 14 women for sleeping with Mickey Rourke.
“In societies where modern conditions of production prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has moved away into a representation.” - Guy Debord
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Saturday, March 06, 2010
Dizzee Rascal Writes Book
That funster funkster rap star London's own Dizzee Rascal is to write his autobiography and promises to give a real insight into his upbringing and the world of London's UK Rap, Grime and Garage scenes.
The book will be a co-production between Dizzee's Dirtee Stank label and publishers Canongate.
The book is provisionally titled The Dizzee Rascal Story - come on Dizzee you can do better than that!
It will be out in hardback in October.
Bonkers!
The book will be a co-production between Dizzee's Dirtee Stank label and publishers Canongate.
The book is provisionally titled The Dizzee Rascal Story - come on Dizzee you can do better than that!
It will be out in hardback in October.
Bonkers!
Dizzee (real name Dylan Mills) was brought up in Bow, East London, where he was born in 1985 making him 24 by my reckoning.
Yes! Dizzee is still only 24 but seems to have been around forever. He was 17 when he won the Mercury Music Prize with his first album Boy in Da Corner.
Skin After Skin has a feeling he'll be around a long time more so maybe he'll come up with a better title for the 2nd installment of his life story out in maybe five or so more years time.
Go for it Dizzee!
Composer Plays Piano From The Grave
George Gershwin died aged 38 in 1937 but he has been heard playing his famous piano solo from Rhapsody in Blue on stage in Florida.
His ghost was summoned up by the Florida Orchestra who took to the stage without a live piano player but took with them a Yamaha Disklavier Grand Piano.
The Disklavier had been programmed up with a midi file made from a piano roll recorded by George Gershwin himself in 1927. Because the file was made from a piano roll rather than an audio recording some of the subtleties of touch and emotion that the the great American composer brought to the piece were preserved.
It was the first time since his death from a stroke that his piece Rhapsody in Blue has been heard with the piano solo more or less exactly as Gershwin himself played it.
The mix of live and digitally played music is commonplace in pop and dance music but not in the classical music hall. For some it's a step too far but the novelty of hearing the ghost of Gershwin play the piano alongside a full live orchestra is a sure crowd puller.
George Gershwin with his brother Ira Gershwin he wrote some of the best loved songs in the American song book. True music legends.
George and Ira Gershwin Official Site
George Gershwin at American Masters
Geoorge Gershwin Brought Back To Life
Friday, March 05, 2010
I Will Renew Wedding Vows with Cheryl - Ashley Cole
Chelsea FC love rat Ashley Cole has vowed to regain wife Cheryl Cole's love by offering to renew their marriage vows.
Speaking from his medical clinic in Biarritz, France, Cole told friends that he would make the offer when he talks to Cheryl next week in London.
Meanwhile Cheryl flew from Heathrow to Copenhagen, Denmark, last night looking sad but stylish in a £1,000 T-shirt. Cole is appearing on Denmark's version of the X-Factor and hopes to wow them with her performance as she prepares for a forthcoming European tour.
Thursday, March 04, 2010
Plan B - Writings On The Wall - Live from Cafe de Paris
Plan B continues to show versatility as this soul soaked live performance of Writings On The Wall shows.
See it as the next installment of 'The Defamation Of Strickland Banks' Plan B's new album.
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Plan B - Writing's On The Wall (Live from Cafe De Paris)
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Little Boots Steps Gently - Acoustic Set from Blackpools Finest
Victoria Heskith is Little Boots.
The geeky music obsessed teenager from Blackpool has become one of the UK's brightest young stars. Little Boots makes beautifully crafted pop songs with an electronic production that sees kids stomping to Little Boots hits in clubs the across the globe.
In this just realeased video of Little Boots performing an acoustic selection of her hits including Stuck On Repeat and Remedy we see just how good the songs are beyond the dance floor. We also get a version of the Kate Bush classic 'Running Up That Hill'.
See NowPublic From Geek to Goddess for more.
The geeky music obsessed teenager from Blackpool has become one of the UK's brightest young stars. Little Boots makes beautifully crafted pop songs with an electronic production that sees kids stomping to Little Boots hits in clubs the across the globe.
In this just realeased video of Little Boots performing an acoustic selection of her hits including Stuck On Repeat and Remedy we see just how good the songs are beyond the dance floor. We also get a version of the Kate Bush classic 'Running Up That Hill'.
See NowPublic From Geek to Goddess for more.
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Bullying - a Growth Industry
Bullying is a growth industry.
It's always been around and was accepted as something that happened in playgrounds and schoolyards - a part of growing up.
Perhaps ten years ago things started to change.
Schools started to introduce anti-bullying policies and have embraced, with a little pushing from government, 'emotional health and wellbeing'.
The Social & Emotional Aspects of Learning (SEAL) are now well and truly built into the U K's primary school curriculum with secondary schools also implementing 'SEAL strategies'.
Countless consultancy companies have been set up to service the training needs of teachers and advisers as they strive to refine anti-bullying policies and charters.
Sub-genres emerge with courses on combating cyber, homophobic, girl-on-girl and racist bullying taking place all over the country.
Workplace bullying is now shaping up to be the next big money spinner for consultants on the back of the allegations that Prime Minister Gordon Brown is a bully - a workplace bully.
All over the country self-styled educational and management gurus are quickly amending their school anti-bullying training materials to address the not new but now out-there and in your face issue of how to tackle and eradicate the workplace bully.
Bullying is a spiteful and belittling activity that should not be tolerated at school, work or at home.
If the 'Gordon Brown's a Bully' furore opens up the workplace bullying issue to scrutiny then at least something good will come out of it.
Me? I'm sitting down to pen new materials for a workshop supporting small businesses develop Workplace Anti-Bullying Policies. I'd best be quick its a dog eat dog world!
Tags: Schools | Health | economics | Education | bullying | Workplace | United Kingdom | consultants | Gordon Brown | workplace bullying | anti-bullying | Human Behaviour | Gordon Brown is a Bully | school bullies | workplace bully | growth industry
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
wow and flutter
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"
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"
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."
Culture | Music | Education | musical | Language | Reading | instrument | Musical Instrument
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
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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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