We’ve Got A Show!
Loughbohemia - Under the Radar
The Gallery of the Street is Open
Where Copyright is Applicable Charnwood Arts and Individual Authors - August 2015
We’ve Got A Show! A day long workshop with Paul Conneally as part of the Summer 2015 Charnwood Arts Residency by students of the National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan. This was the first of our Charnwood Arts led projects investigating alternative ways of utilising the town centre as part of our partnership project with LU Arts at Loughborough University. Starting from the base of the 1960s film ‘The Young Ones’, Paul introduced the students to ideas of alternative uses and approaches to urban spaces and introduced the concept of ‘Involuntary Painting’, a term first coined in this context by New York artist Millree Hughes and further developed by him with Loughborough based artist Paul Conneally. Paul also showed the group an earlier work created with Kevin Ryan as part of the ‘Walk to Work ‘ series where he transposed his normal walking route onto a new environment which he then invigilated as if it were an exhibition. We then collectively read the Splacist Manifesto as a poem before embracing the idea that we were a room full of aliens who knew all about the art of painting and installation (in its many forms), without ever having seen or produced any. Having landed in Loughborough, what might we discover in terms of what we might consider art and how could we curate that into an exhibition? Waiting in the wings we already had 21 track titles from the Cliff Richard film. Having explored the town centre, our intrepid aliens returned to the Market Town Corner shop in the Carillon and curated the work, produced a catalogue and now invite you to find them! The works that is...
Friday Night
Got A Funny Feeling
Peace Pipe
Nothing’s Impossible
The Young Ones
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JKtHcM05Dk
All For One
Lessons In Love
No One For Me But Nicky
Have A Smile For Everyone You Meet
Tinkle, Tinkle, Tinkle
Algy The Piccadilly Johnny
Captain Ginjah
Joshua
Where Did You Get That Hat?
We’ve Got A Show
Living Doll http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHQXL8wPsCE
When The Girl In Your Arms Is The Girl In Your Heart
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wzqp_3g_xxI
Just Dance
Mood Mambo
The Savage
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAheCG0lKU0
We Say Yeah
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyVCPIpXn8o
SPLACIST MANIFESTO (V2) splacist (splÄ sÄst) A contemporary mode of practice proposed by Paul Conneally. A new set of ideologies defined by Hannah Nicklin and Nikki Pugh. A hop, skip and a jump away from phsychogeography and the works of the situationist international. Think space, place, time and splice. Developed empirically by whoever is interested
WE ARE THE SPLACISTS We will own this city. We will take it back. We will link and shift; across time, space, people, places and processes. We will weave throughout the fabric of people’s lives. We will unpick it. We will expose and re-see. We recognise our observation affects the outcome unavoidably. We will affect and be affected. We will glory in the moment, the collage, the marking and then passing on. We reject your beginning, middle and end. We will work on and across edges. We will push them. We will blur them. We will trace and leave traces. We will work with you, not for you. We reject your shopping centre, your pavement, your cultural quarter; We will undermine pre-defined spaces. We reject them. We will fail spectacularly, vitally, elegantly. Our practice will be open, although it may not always be out in the open. We will make exchanges. We will make adventures. We will reveal beautiful moments. We will reveal the ugly. We will hold your hand. We will whisper in your ear ‘let go’. We will reclaim the city, not for you, but with you. We are you.
WE ARE ALSO THE TECHNOLSPLACISTS We will not be technosplacist when being splacist will suffice. We will never underestimate the power of cardboard and masking tape. We will not be afraid to get our hands dirty. We will not be afraid to do without digital at all. We will use ‘digital’ as tool and material, not as veneer. We recognise ‘digital’ is not necessarily something ‘other’. We will make and share our own tools as appropriate. We will collaborate. We will be generous. We will be porous. We will re-reveal technology as used by private interests. We will hold them accountable. We will put it to our own uses. We will cut, and we will paste. We will undo. We will be artful. We will be skilful. We will fail usefully. We will find our own energy sources. We will pervade.
People Making Places
A Charnwood Arts project as part of ‘Market Town’ in association with RADAR - Loughborough University A collaborative act involving discussion, writing, photography, film, workshop and presentation with: Jian-Sheng Sun Ting-An Lin Yi-Ping Zhan Yi Yang Yi-Hsueh Huang Natalie Chabaud Paul Conneally Kev Ryan