The names of the silver winning rowers are Zac Purchase and Mark Hunter.
Had an idea: putting blue plaques on building that “used to be” something else. For Example, the Hilton Hotel in Blackpool stands on the site of Derby Baths – an Olympic size swimming pools with boards that was “replaced” by the Sandcastle amusment, wave pool. Retirement homes in Lytham used to be a public swimming baths. Etc, etc, etc, you get the idea.
http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/CrimeJusticeAndTheLaw/Typesofcrime/DG_181578
defines vandalism as “a crime that damages people’s quality of life and costs communities millions to repair. It’s easy to dismiss it as a minor offence, but it has a big impact on neighbourhoods.”
The old, Post Office building in Preston has been empty since 2002. Preston City Council and the North West Development Agency bought it in 2005.
A fortnight of multi-tasking; cutting up cook books, bought from charity shops and watching the olympics.
Compare and contrast the joy of bronze won by Tom Daley, with the sadness of silver won by the rowers whose names I don’t know.
Performed literal#37 at Hazard on Saturday.
Expression of intertest that could contribute to a one day participatory event.
Maps of the world, from memory (2012)
Materials
White A4 paper (landscape), clip-board and felt tip pens (coloured for children; black for adults).
Instructions
Draw a map of the world from your memory. For younger participants, ask a friend, family member or member of staff for help, if necessary. Sign and date.
Exhibit
Scan into computer to present as a montage, then hang en-masse.
Thank you for your proposal for our participatory event. If your proposal is short listed you will be notified by email in due course. Unfortunately we unable to contact candidates who are not short listed. Many thanks for your interest in Tate,
Hazard 2012 accepted “Moving goalposts” proposal,
Experimentica 2012 rejected proposal (see below).
It’s been a week now since UCLan 2012 Degree Show. Waiting in the new atrium, the building has just been cladded, like the rest of “UCLad”, someone commented that the show seemed very tired. I didn’t quite understand so they explained, not the work so much as the whole. Tired, as in, the students were tired, exhausted.
An observation – images not quite straight which is, not quite right. So tired they couldn’t be arsed to use a spirit level. Whose call is that? Did the students think Foxtrot Indigo, or the tutors?
Anyway, the best bits were: big dog drawings; drawings of derelict buildings with incremental colour; concrete furniture and all the photos and postcards asking people about art.
The criticism of the best bits: the big dog drawings spoilt by Clinton greeting card platitudes and pinned using push pins, should’ve used rusty nails and a pile of dog shit on the floor would have won me over was my first gut thought but then later amended to just a black bag to look like there could have been dog shit inside (someone makes the effort to carry the bag and clean up but leaves the deposit on the pavement); the artist who drew the derelict buildings had obviously got business cards from vistaprint and the image on front of the card looked like she was an aromatherapist; you couldn’t sit on the concrete setee!
