Work and a new zine from Project After S will feature in an event at Verkstad, Norrköping, Sweden on the evening of 03.09.2010. The event is organised by Susanne Ewerlöf
I will also be reading from Project After S as part of a two day Vision Forum event at Universität Linköping, Sweden happening between 03.09-04.09.2010
I am pleased to announce the forthcoming bookwork ‘that is, these scenes’, commissioned and published by mac (Midlands Arts Centre), which will be made available over the next twelve months.
In June 2010 the first of 12 booklets will be released, under the series title ‘Miscellaneous Leaflets’.
The Miscellaneous Leaflets project takes its name from one of only a few British Library holdings relating to mac – a disparate collection of brightly coloured pamphlets tied together with string.
This series gathers interpretations of photographs found in the mac archive and returns them to the public realm. The leaflets are distributed in a limited edition of 1500, each finding its meaning in Birmingham through forums such as bus routes, community centres, and libraries.
Titles will include contributions from Derek Bishton (one founder of Ten.8), Dawn Pereira (writer on the public sculptures of William Mitchell), Fiona Tait (Birmingham Archives), Catherine Fehily & Kate Newton (IRIS Women’s Photography Project and Staffordshire University), James Yarker (Stan’s Cafe), Jonathan P. Watts (YH485 Press) amongst others.
More information can be found on the project blog.
The Birmingham Nature Centre School Classroom, 2010
The Midlands Arts Centre reopens this weekend after a two year period of building work and renovation. I have been working on a commission during this period which will be announced early next month. A bookwork and exhibition at the centre will follow later this year. It is supported by National Lottery through Arts Council England and Birmingham City Council.
Étienne-Louis Boullée, Project for Isaac Newton Memorial, 1784
Progress of ‘Project After S’ can now be followed through the Vision Forum Blog. Click here to see other participant blogs, or here to go straight to the project blog.
In Winter 2009 I was invited to participate in the Vision Forum Programme hosted by KSM at Linköpings Universitet in Sweden. The award will allow me to develop a new body of visual research titled ‘Project After S’. The project investigates the possible application of Utopian imagination and archeological method to research an ancient history of Shenzhen, a city that is in fact only 25 years old.
Extract: …On returning from China I tell you about: buildings, century eggs, the lack of history, the impossible length of history.
I have seen that: Shenzhen presents to us a field of history that is (was actually) flattened, compacted, developed (at great speed), and somehow made miniature.
Old eggs: alike to finds from archaeological digs. (Do you know the process? By which they’re gathered, wrapped in rice and tea and buried in the earth – practically archaeology in reverse)…
‘Project After S’ began whilst working on Inheritance-Shenzhen in China during Winter 2009 and is kindly supported by Inheritance Projects and Vision Forum. The work will be presented at Linköpings Universitet, Sweden in Autumn 2010.
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