Sophie's Autumn news
PROJECTS:
Art for Kidbrooke
I am currently working with Independent Photography on developing a community art programme for Thomas Tallis School. The first event on 24 November on the Ferrier Estate brings together videos and images of past community art initiatives in the area with food and workshops. For more info go to the blog: http://art4kidbrooke.blogspot.com/
RECENT PUBLICATIONS:
'Pictures of Lily', a short story written in response to Shez Dawood's one year project Knightsbridge, West London in ARTISTS' STUDIO edited by Capucine Perrot (London: Cultureshock Media)
http://www.artistsstudio.org/flash.html
'Resource', profiles of 12 'participatory' art projects from the B+B Archive in the LUCY + JORGE ORTA PATTERN BOOK edited by Paula Orrell (London: Blackdog)
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Lucy-Jorge-Orta-Pattern-Book/dp/1904772757
'tenentspin' in ART OF NEGOTIATION edited by David Butler and Vivienne Reiss (Manchester: Cornerhouse)
http://www.cornerhouse.org/books/info.aspx?ID=1934&page=0
'Taking Play Seriously' in TAKING THE MATTER INTO COMMON HANDS edited by Johanna Billing, Maria Lind and Lars Nilsson (London: Blackdog)
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Taking-Matter-into-Common-Hands/dp/1906155186
UPCOMING TALKS / PANELS / DISCUSSIONS:
Friday 23 November 2007, 2pm–10.30pm: Spike Island, Bristol
Hosts & Guests: A Setting in Search of a Celebratory End hosted by Paul O'Neill and Can Altay.
Tuesday 27 November, 7pm: ICA, London
Political Manifesto as Curatorial Project with Liam Gillick, Mark Nash, Will Bradley and Marysia Lewandowska.
Friday 7 December: Broadway Media Centre, Nottingham
3rd National Public Art Conference - Art in Public: The Culture of Possibilities.
Recent projects:
THE 2007 ALMANAC OF POLITICAL ART
The 2007 Almanac of Political Art is ready for you to download! Go to the news page ('this season's crop') of the Reunion website. The Almanac contains over 80 A4 contributions from artists, curators, activists and writers from around the world and offers a completely partial survey of what political art might mean today.
HET RESERVAAT
Sophie's residency in the Dutch new town Leidsche Rijn culminated in a big one day event on 15 July that attracted over 800 visitors! Sophie worked with director Daphne de Bruin and producer Joost de Groot to create a one day open air museum of life in 2007 and convince the residents of Leidsche Rijn they were travelling back in time from 3007 to 2007. Visitors could experience strange spectacles such as local politicians discussing the meaning of democracy in 2007, rare sightings of elderly people playing board games and Dutch residents practicing an ancient art called Tai Chi in amongst the trees while the infamous (local teenage) rock band EitherWay screeched up to a stage in a bright orange jeep and performed their four song repertoire every hour, among lots of other strange goings on...
See images of the day on the Beyond website: http://www.beyondutrecht.nl/
MANIFESTO OF POSSIBILITIES
The Manifesto has been re-edited and the final version now appears online at www.manifestoofpossibilities.co.uk where you can still add comments and feedback. The Manifesto will be published as a poster and distributed as an insert with Art & Architecture Journal in December 2007.