projects
A listing of selected projects, works, residencies etc grouped in approximate chronological order.
2008
- Emergent GameNow in progress
Commission for New Generation Arts. www.emergentgame.org.uk. Interactions, instigations, collaborations and play.
- Pathways to Becoming an Engineerin preparation…
Publication accompanying the acquisition of Day Science/Night Science by the University of Birmingham’s permanent collection of artworks.
Includes a specially commissioned essay by writer and cultural critic Sadie Plant.
2007
- Yamanote Storiesin development from July…
Collaboration with Orie Inoue.
Downloadable mp3 file of tales originating from the SoPG:Yamanote walks.
How can you tell a story, convey a sense of journey and encourage an engagement with location?
- Research trip to Japan13th of July - 2nd of August 2007
Attendance at Dislocate07 and various collaborative projects with Japanese artists.
- Invigilator seriesOn-going from May
As for us, by means of this place, various things are being noticed.translation of sign used for Invigilator:Tokyo
Part of the Walk to Work project: transposition of a part-time job as gallery invigilator to unexpected locations. How can presence affect space?
Invigilator: New Forest
Invigilator: Derby
Invigilator: Tokyo
Invigilator: Nuneaton
Invigilator: Digbeth- Walk to WorkOn-going from May
Collaborative project with Paul Conneally and Kevin Ryan.
Walk to work is the umbrella under which a series of collaborative projects are being developed. The central idea is that of taking your everyday journey to work; transposing it to a new location; and then enacting some sort of work function at your new destination.
we transform the new space with our presence and work and this then begins to lead on to other questions…
PaulLink and shift.
- Sites of Potentiality Guidebooks: AnsdellMarch 2007
Expanding the Sites of Potentiality Guideboks project: using appropriated maps of Tokyo and transposing them onto different locations to seek out alternative points of interest.
In Ansdell, members of the public were invited to use the maps to provide a schema for exploring their local environment.
Jeremy’s café was used as the hub through which their experiences were re-told.
- Self Service: Pub ConversationsThroughout 2007 and into 2008
Self Service invites a series of speakers to converse with a guest of their choice in front of an audience in the Lillie Langtry room at the Old Lamp Tavern, Birmingham.
In our quest to counter-balance the flood of talks about development/infrastructure of the arts/creative industries in the city of Birmingham, we’re talking about art practice over a pint.
More information from the Pub Conversations website.
Subscribe to the podcast by entering this address into your feed-reader (eg iTunes):
2006
- Sites of Potentiality Guidebooks: Yamanote Line1st, 2nd, 4th and 5th of November 2006
4 days; 29 stations; 1 map.
Using a single map from a Sites of Potentiality Guidebook to systematically explore central Tokyo looking for alternative points of interest.
- Sites of Potentiality GuidebooksOctober/November 2006
Their anonymity gives them flexibility. They can be transposed onto wherever you are. Locate your starting point, allow their straight lines and right-angles to guide you through the real world and then find your place to be. There will always be something of interest there – you just need to find it. Examine, explore or just sit and spend time with the place.
- Peer-to-Peer SketchbooksFrom August 2006
A creative strategy for investigating an artistic landscape. A series of books of ‘blank pages’ to which artists are invited to contribute a fragment of their current work. Each participant is then asked to pass the book on to an artist of their choice for completion of the next page. In this way, the process of gathering these contributions will result in a subjective cartography that maps out the current terrain of individuals and also the links between a progression of artists.
Whilst the content of the sketchbooks remain unknown to us until such time as they are returned, the journey each book makes is logged on the Peer-to-Peer Sketchbooks documentation pages.
Funded by the Springhill Project support, 2006.
- Research trip to Japan8th of September - 20th of November 2006
4 weeks as an assistant in the sculpture department of Joshibi University of Art and Design; 2 weeks travel; 4 weeks developing project work and visiting more galleries than you can possibly imagine.
See also: Peer-to-Peer Sketchbooks, Sites of Potentiality: Yamanote Line, and the blog pages.
- The Anti Talent ZoneAugust/September 2006
At the heart of the Anti-Talent Zone you will find an emptiness organised by Nikki Pugh… Pugh has wiped clean a section of our glorious city currently in the grips of a reality adjustment adding one new name to the mix. The site of Hewitt Street in Manchester, home to a successful contemporary art scene originated by local artists, is also the model of growth for Birmingham’s Eastside as overheard by Pugh in the halls of power.
introduction by Gavin WadeWith Asia Alfasi, Elizabeth Rowe and Liam Scully, curated by Gavin Wade.
Curated space within the TEN4 Magazine.- submissionJune - December 2006
A back-catalogue of various creative activities subjected to an arbitrary judgment process.
As part of the [insertspace] project, Open where artworks are faxed through to the MILL-WORKERS building in Manchester and subjected to the will of the tenants.
- Counsel for the ArtistJune 2006
8 statements chosen to form the keystones to future artistic practice.
The statements are distilled from the work untitled (testimony) and therefore have come from a wide range of sources. Now printed onto postcards, you are invited to select the words pertinant to you/others and continue the process of dissemination.
- untitled (testimony)June 2006
Over 200 statements chosen to from a year’s worth of notes. These are the statements written down because they seemed significant at the time. These are the statements that resonate.
- Day Science/Night ScienceFebruary - June 2006
Installation at the University of Birmingham developed out of the Interdisciplinary Support Programme.
- Interdisciplinary Support Programme, ISPNovember 2005 - March 2007
R&D grant that enabled a 9-month residency at the University of Birmingham.
ISP explored creative possibilities arising from collaboration across disciplines… Emphasis was placed on collaborative research and cross-disciplinary activity through risk taking and experimentation
Supported by Vivid, Equal, Arts Council England and Birmingham City Council
Early Works
- lecturenotesLate 2002 - early 2003
Respond to the idea of getting lost. Go to a university you are not a student of. Go to a lecture you do not know the content of. Take notes on whatever seems appropriate.
- theweatherprojectFrom 2001
An ongoing project in which volunteers collect a sample of weather and document the experience.
- Rotting Pots2003
Adventures in electrochemistry…
