When is an event participatory and when is it not – when is an event like a conference and when is it not – lots of semantics this week and we struggle to make ourselves understood to ourselves and each other. Pictured above is one of the access points to the Rock, that needs clearing to open up the right of way again. With the help of some guerrilla gardeners we should be sorted.
Talking tech this week – Nick brought Ableton’s Push pad-based controller to create and perform music, with loads of instruments & effects, so hoping to develop somethings specific for the arts centre with this technology – discussed documentation and social media to capture participant experiences to be edited into a single short film – will establish a Facebook page to hold content and mediate work prior to the event – It’s hard to establish way of communicating in between meetings … Read More
Quod Petis Hic Est – What You Seek is Here
Working as a group getting things down on paper is tough – so we projected the text onto the wall and took it apart moved cut and pasted until we were happy with the summary project description.
Small group today – focussing on translating ideas into words so that we can communicate with people who we hope will translate those words back into their own creative ideas – bit of a loop going on there.
Coming out of a closet near you soon
Week 8 and we had another walk through. The sun was shining this morning and there was nowhere better to be than at the top of the Rock looking out over the town across to the Uillinn Arts Centre and the surrounding hinterland. The area is so large we gave names to particular places to help identify them to ourselves when working out our plans. Doctors Hill, Telecom Lane and Windmill Lane are access points. Well Lane, Fire Pit, Famine Memorial, … Read More
Artist as educator – transforming institutions from within or setting up new communities of learning Pedagogy new forms of cultural presentation Pablo Helguerais the author of Education for Socially Engaged Art: A Materials and Techniques Handbook (2011) Freire emphasises dialogue as does Kester based on conversation & exchange Hugo Chavez Allo Presidente Beuys radical opening of roles that had previously been closed – President / Professor Feminist activists / student movement focus attention on small gatherings cultural cells … Read More
Week 7 was important for us. We decided that we can continue to work together as a group after the research phase is complete. The experience of having spent 6 weeks meeting in different sites, discussing diverse artistic practices and processes gives us a shared field of reference and a language for discussing our artistic ambitions. Next week we will try and pin down those ambitions more specifically – a process that will be both iterative and generative. This week we … Read More
Vernacular materials of everyday life Ephemeral Public Art Guest Lecturers Tom Finkelpearl : What we Made: Conversations on Art and Social Cooperation – collaborative practice ‘overclaims” Enrique Penalosa Mayor of Bogota reclaiming public space for pedestrians People need to walk as birds need to fly Rick Lowe Project Row Houses Claire Doherty Situations Public Art Now