I love these lights. I just love these lights.
We’d hoped to produce another limited edition poster, same layout as the Rendlesham Traces Poster, but with images and material from the Radar Museum, (including lights, which were after all a phenomenon at the heart of Charlie). However, the exhibition is finishing on Saturday, so some debate as to the purpose of such a print.
I think that the research material from our second touring day out in East Anglia has been disadvantaged and placed in the shade purely by virtue of being second. We have been working within a strict time frame dictated by the exhibition structure /proposal and have spent most of the time sorting, uploading, downloading, processing all the ‘stuff’ connected to the Rendlesham incident, including our long day tour in that Sufffolk area.
Probably both Nicola and I have material from the Radar Museum that still needs to see the light of day in some form, but I wonder, within which structure and under what auspices? I certainly have a fair bit of video and some sound that I’d like to have time to finish editing. Poor Operation Charlie has been rather left out in the cold. And what about these lights?
Dominique Rey
We gave our talk at Aid and Abet on Saturday. It was interesting to present the very beginnings of our respective research interests. We presented our talk in a small room, a constructed space within the wider space which is Aid and Abet. Given our recent trip to The Radar Museum it put me in mind of some kind of RAF briefing room which I imagine I saw when I was a child, when I would, on the odd occassion, go with dad to the control tower.
We were lucky enough to have Ailie Rutherford who was there to carry out her Ganzfeld Experiment after our talk. She is an artist who is based at The Royal Standard and although not native to Liverpool, knows it well. Whilst talking about an image I had of the Clarion Clubhouse in Liverpool, The Arc, I was able to ask her about the area and what is happening there now. She also have a working interest in cycling clubs so we plan to catch up when we go to Liverpool.
So we need to plan our trip to Liverpool and complete the rest of the UFO data / research – its been a busy project and we need to take some time to contemplate and deliberate. The three strands: Satellite Portfolio, UFO Research and the Liverpool Inexpert Talk has kept us busy, but its been a learning curve as all of these types of projects are. We want to capitalise on this new methodology of making and collaborating by consider how we could extend the invitation to other artists who could make use of our skills as research assistants and collaborators.
In addtion to our artist talk Saturday also featured Norwich away to Liverpool with a very reasonable result of 1 -1.
Nicola Naismith
Visiting Aid & Abet to give our Inexpert Talk yesterday, we were able to see the UFO Archive in the flesh, or the paper and screen in this case. We brought the section of branch and the 250 posters with us.
Having only been at the begining of the archive process researching, generating, editing and sending, how strange to see the fragments of our research curated / displayed at a distance and to experience the physical shape they now create within the space. What was possibly most interesting for me was the knowledge of all the information and images we have chosen not to send in to the gallery, the parts that have been edited out, kept back or filed away off to one side. Signified almost literally by the gaps on the table and the breathing space surrounding it. I supose there will in effect be a secondary or even tertiary East Anglian UFO Archive sitting quietly on a shelf?
Dominique Rey
Struggling with technology again today, trying to get some sound recordings from my p.c-only digital recorder onto the mac so that I can edit some radar footage to send in. The devices and technologies are out of synch. What I need are some high-tech zap rays or some-such. I’ll try again tomorrow evening.
Dominique Rey
Editing my talk for the gallery tomorrow, I seem to have somehow broken iphoto. My head is full of Army Seafort specifications. I think I need some fresh air……
Dominique Rey
