Public contemporary art show.

My piece in our Yr2 Contemporary Fine Art Group Show - in an empty shop on The Moor, Sheffield. More pics here. I took voyeuristic close-up on faces video of people walking down the street outside the venue. The intriguing, often apparently miserable features of many a shopper echoed the current economic recession. The faces were captured and frames blown up and overlaid with my notes, posters placed around an existing hole in the wall of the empty shop (being known as 'slack space') in a rosette style. Inside the hole the rules around printing banknotes. A pile of fake banknotes on the floor (adhering to said rules) in a shape which mirrored said hole. Interesting responding to the space but a pretty heartless and shallow exercise really, in order to fulfill this part of the course requirement. I made a short compilation video of the said shoppers' faces which I might make public.

Flame, gong, strike...

Busy time

Haven't even got time to write this... need some time management skills! Just been to many London galleries and played a couple of gigs (thanks to Jonny Mugwump on Resonance FM - download the prog archive and Cafe Oto)... Katie filmed (thanks!) and i'll get clips up when time allows. Fuck the parking in London - aside from the congestion charge and £15 overnight at Irish Jim's in Brick Lane, Sunday is £3.50 an hour on the street..! My 2 hour ticket (after getting up at 8am to buy it) sadly blew over on the dash when i shut the door resulting in a £60 penalty... wait that's not all - sure i had the ticket so i could prove i was innocent but then lost both during the day. Ouch! So.... what else... oh yeah, invited to join Sheffield Live media team in the hope to soon get my own long awaited show.. Got group show coming up in an empty shop on the Moor (main shopping area). PV 23rd 7pm then 11-5 on 24 & 25. Working along the lines of process and what art means to the general public so will set up a drop in centre of sorts. Also been filming shoppers up close and intend to get some reaction by posting A0 size prints under the title 'Lost & Found'... Got a show at Bloc coming up for Martin's Kelvin Records launch - I'm doing the film...when I get my finger out. One really good dialogue group on the go based on Bohm's principles and just signed up for some 'performative text workshops'. And some decent Freenoise gigs at Micks. So much going on though hard to keep track. It will be like this until May when the main essay deadline and assessments come. Then floating free into a Summer job I hope. Peace...

I am not an Artist

The Sonic Weapons of Vladimir Gavreau forms the main spoken part of this track I made around '06 for backing to a Tajalli Vortex gig. I feel like making a new compilation of early stuff as I had lots of ideas and some of them need resurfacing, such as Wipe Out as well, made around the same time. Playing live with BLISTRAP recently I've sometimes used samples of talking (usually Hakim Bey), live processed usually but listening to this stuff of my own is more interesting.
Thinking of these ambient textures also reminds me I'm getting involved (well, organising) a launch event along those lines in April at Bloc and putting together a film for the show. Please come! Info.

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Coming soon - University (Contemporary Fine Art BA) group show on The Moor, Sheffield. Mar 23 - 25.
Private View 23rd 7-9pm
Film premiere - part of Kelvin Records Launch, Bloc Space, Sheffield.
April 17th. 7.30pm