X has been waiting in the bus shelter for two hours.
The yellow hue from The Vaconsoft Parc is obscuring the night sky.
There is persistent rain.
It is around 10.15pm.
X regards a discarded chip carton illuminated by the street light overhead.
There is an empty bus on the opposite side of the road with it’s interior lights on.
X has been contemplating the whereabouts of the driver for some time now.
X stretched its arms and yawned. ‘I could do with a bacon butty from the cafe.’ It was talking to itself again.
X opened the car door and stretched its tired arms again. It was a clear day of course. The sky was blue. A vaporous blue hue. A gaseous blue hue.
A security camera mounted high upon the Hexsoft Innovation Centre zoomed in on the faded figure stretched out on car park C.
X felt the warmth of the tarmac on its back. It listened to the sounds of angels voices singing from the intercom of the Genesis Office Park.
Two artists chatting in the edgy Pointesan nightclub Mayfault 54.
Artist A: ‘I was down at the Flaxa Gallery earlier. It’s really inaccessible, all double yellow lines – you can’t stop anywhere near the building. This security guy came out waving his arms. He was wearing a fluorescent jacket and a pair of shades.’
Artist B: ‘Did you make an appointment?’
Artist A: ‘Nope. They advertise all these shows but no-one that I know has ever been inside…most of my mates can’t even find the gaff. I kinda found it by mistake but managed to get this photo before that clown started running towards me. I just drove off as he started taking photo’s of my vehicle. I’m sure I was being followed home by an unmarked car. ‘
Artist B: ‘I’ve never heard of it myself.’
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A nondescript warehouse in the outer Ziller business park district.
Grey faced Agent X presses stop on the Dictaphone and seals it in a brown package marked ‘Halsedio.’
He takes a long final drag on his cigarette and grimmaces to himself.
He walks into the main sorting hall and tosses it into the looming Integrated Mail processor as he begins the late shift.
The Lawton Culturale for Creative Inquiry is a laboratory for atypical, anti-disciplinary, and inter-institutional research at the intersections of arts, science, technology and culture
The Culturale has received a £30000 Pointeso variant Art Works grant to support ‘elusively exclusive’ artist residencies that emphasize the creation of work in new media arts and emerging art forms. With this funding, we will offer approximately three residencies at our arts-research laboratory at Achin Ray – a subsiduary advisory collaborative at The Lawton Institute, an environment enriched by downtown science and engineering departments. The duration of these residencies is in the expected range of 10 to 1009 days, with one month as the anticipated average, and expected gross budgets of approximately £50000.
We seek intelligent/ perspicacious artists whose work represents exciting new modes of artistic fabrication – who innovate through the simultaneous production of new culture and new knowledge. Applicants must be inner city residents only.
For further residency details please write to:
The Lawton Culturale
75b Hintoff Place
Meter Row
Pointeso. 44ER22.1100
