tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24112521869005802452009-10-29T10:18:25.143ZJonny Drury's art and meanderings plus observations, musings and news from the contemporary art world, unusual musics...Jonny Druryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10391784657426543214noreply@blogger.comBlogger156125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2411252186900580245.post-44948314096579162492009-10-21T12:27:00.003Z2009-10-21T12:57:41.964Z

The Manifest. The Hidden.

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One painting a day Aug-Sep 09

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That's the BLISTRAP World Tour over with. Starting at the Grapes pub and finishing 2 days later in London. It went so quick we didn't even notice all those gigs in 57 amazing countries! Stefano came over for the evening (from Italy!) and played like dynamite! Pity there were no bloody cymbals on the studio drum kit, but he made a excellent meal out of the bits he'd brought. Thanks also to Paul '

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'How to properly destroy a guitar'. Tremendous fun! Finally got round to the slow destruction of a crappy old acoustic guitar that's been haunting me for ages - on stage though a PA with a contact mic! Yes I forgot to document it but hey, you shoulda been there. I got this pic which captures the final end after I threw it off stage. The decent sized audience enjoyed the set too. This was toward

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Getting a pretty good flow of ideas this Summer but a lot of energy is going into planning for Enable (new blog here) and my dissertation as well as an application to the SSE for a year long course alongside the final year of my degree. On top of that I've also been given some work at Bloc organising their pilot educational project. So, art output currently includes a submission to Pan-demonium,

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Pan-demonium resonates with the current global political, ecological and economic situation - one in which the hegemonic forces of order have been overwhelmed by a dynamic of chaos and disorder, turning the world 'upside-down'. Does it offer a metaphor for a critique of global capitalism and its 'devils' - its pan-demons - in all their guises (pan-demics included)? Or perhaps it conjures up

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Just scraped through 2nd yr, pleased considering extremely tricky subject matter for essay ('Can Art Be Taught') as well as some strenuous circumstances. Out of the trees now though and getting down to some real creating and planning. Completed first workshop for kids at Bloc and started entering some exhibitions including Pan-demonium (NY) and Leeds Open as well as looking at ideas for a 2 week

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This two-day conference at the Time & Tide, the maritime museum at Great Yarmouth in Norfolk, will be held on Saturday 5th and Sunday 6th September 2009 as the fourth Legendary Weekend of the Folklore Society. We'd like to hear from anyone who can attend and present a paper - folklorists, performers, historians, singers and cultural or local historians. Come and celebrate mermaids, scrimshaw,

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Bloc's current exhibition is drawing on A4 paper by studio holders and past exhibitors, under a loose theme around the financial recession. It's a fascinating range of work and the simplicity of the traditional format and ethos is appealing. I'm very happy to have a piece of work alongside established and new talented artists, which I called 'Index' with eighty lines drawn with a found marker pen

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News of our first tentative workshop at Bloc Space. It will be very informal and more like a fun get together but we should have a couple of games and exercises as well as loads of musical instruments to play with.TUNING FORKS. Percussion and Music Workshops.(provisional informal meeting #1)Sun 28th June. 11am - 1pm. Bloc Gallery. 71 Eyre Lane Sheffield. S1 4RB An opportunity for children ages 5

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Freenoise got off to a great start this season with White, BLISTRAP and Hunter Gracchus at the Shakespeare last week. Brilliant to see our old school regulars and loads of new faces! Great room and an excellent pub too. Here's what's coming up at OTT in collaboration with the superb outfit Notes and Sounds who've been putting on alternative gigs in Sheffield for nearly 35 years!!Check out the

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Really happy to have a new studio at long last. This is the first time I've had a studio outside of my house or uni since 1995. Bloc is a really great place to be and I really thought it would be nice to be there before I even thought it would be realistic. Lovely big, light room shared with two other artists. This Sat and Sun we'll have a few paintings and drawings up as part of the Open Up art

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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

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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,

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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

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http://www.fearandoptimism.comGood title... What's going on? Well, universities aren't just people spurting on about nonsense... Stood at a 'Do not use chairs at these PCs' PC... in the main atrium at Hallam City Campus, half way through my degree. Long time since I put anything here and just killing a few mos til the next meet. Boy has life changed recently..!!! Gigs, art, materiality, atoms..

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Trying to keep lots of balls up in the air as usual... considering a new anti-gravitational approach..Just been asked to contribute to FAD - London based arts website so replicating posts as you see this blog is widening in view more to the arts in general away from just the free music aesthetic. Couple of nicely contrasting gigs coming up, first off this Friday a classically rich theme with Ask

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BerinOriginally uploaded by scrambledvisionSHU Arts outside Temporare Kunsthalle, Berlin. The exhibition was three large video pieces by Candice Breitz. More pictures follow here and video here

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Yards from the boiler room of one of the tallest buildings in Sheffield which now sadly houses some of the uni's Fine Art studios, is the Workstation where Sheffield Live now live, the community radio station. Monday night I had the pleasure of being guest on The Loon Show for the whole two hours, having lots of fun with Tim 'Loon' and playing loads of my favorite music over the airwaves. You can

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Well the Sheffield Hallam Uni (Shu also means 'go away') have been treating the art students like shit so I'm making a comment on the huge shit coloured paintings hanging in the main atrium - nasty, nasty, nasty stuff. While I'm at it, wtf is this all about (below)? (text is mine, work it out). x

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Sorry no updates for a while. Uni has started again which means shaving off tons of activities I built up over the Summer, drat! Melding the creative stuff going on in my life with the uni logic, documenting, theory etc. is pretty tough, but at least I ain't short of creativity. Currently putting together a remote recording project which means some solo drumming recording from Stefano Giust (who

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THE OTHER INTERNATIONALS is the new name I've decided for any art projects involving people, for example this years' Moon Jams. It's a nod to Welfare State International, the 38 year old arts collective who I've only just heard about precisely on their final cessation of existence. It's going to be interesting as this year at uni I'm to do a 'solo' exhibition so (lo) I've decided to actually play

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