the event what not to wear at shed and a half gallery , shoreditch, on thursday 23rd and saturday 25th october has been CANCELLED. many apologies
x
Wednesday, 22 October 2008
Sunday, 19 October 2008
duckie thoughts and website
just a note to say, i will be reflecting on here my thoughts on The Darkroom @ duckie last night shortly and feedback would be welcome :) i'm feeling elated about the whole experience- a new departure for me- a much less rehearsed approach for the dialogue, just following a score for actions- feels good, i'm no actor, nor wish to be, engaging in real conversations being in the real here and now moment like the moment of the act of photography. and a huge thanks to the ever so lovely laura bean for co-performing my piece, mitch for the fantastic curatorial input and just generally great support, as well as the wonderful participants that we whisked off the dance floor to the labyrinth beyond, shared with us both so openly, a real privilege to have met you all.
...and on the website front it's in the process of being updated..watch this space as they say....
and meantime, as today is my birthday and i'm eating a big chocolate bear with my name on it, and off to the delightful camille at the roundhouse.
xx
Saturday, 18 October 2008
The Darkroom @ Duckie: The score
The score I set to follow of the 'happening' : Outline of an encounter
Mitch approaches a person in the main bar/dancefloor/outside area.
Mitch asks person “ Would you like to go to the darkroom?” and continues to ask until gets a willing participant and puts a sticker on them.
Performer approaches person wearing a sticker, gets out a mobile phone from her handbag, puts arm round them(?) and takes a phone photo of the two of them together. Performer plays back image and shows the participant the image. Mobile phone goes back in the performers handbag.
The Performer says/whispers “Come with me” OR lead by hand, and the two go to the edge of the bar near the club entrance, to the door marked “Private.”
They open the door and walk upstairs, across the landing and sit together a few steps up on the main (ornate) staircase. If there is someone already on the stairs they sit below/above.
The Performer asks them what they keep in their pocket/on their person, and if they’d like to share it.
They then talk about the item if they want to share, and the Performer may share an item too.
The Performer then gets up and walks to the bathroom with the participant. Performer knocks on the bathroom door. If there is someone in there they stand and wait OR return to the ornate staircase and sit.
They go inside and sit on the floor.
Performer gets out photographic paper and asks the Participant to put their item on the paper. Performer does the same if they also told their story.
Performer/participant then turns on the bathroom light/ gets out torch on a key ring and exposes the photo paper.
Performer then gets up and moves towards sink. She puts in the plug.
She asks the participant to put the image in the sink. She then opens a bottle sitting on the side of the bath/sink and pours it over the image. Performer gets out tweezers from her handbag, moving image around with tweezers to coat it fully.
They watch the image partially develop.
Performer then gets out their mobile phone and finds the photo of the two of them, and holds it over the image to kill it to black completely.
The image is then deleted by the participant. The mobile goes back into the performers handbag.
The Performer turns on the cold tap and as it fills up, takes the plug out and holds the image under the tap to wash it.
Performer wraps and blots the image in a towel/flannel and puts it [in a small wash bag] inside her handbag. The two leave the bathroom, shutting the door firmly behind.
The two go to the laundry room. The photogram is taken out of the handbag to hang up on string with pegs in the laundry room with all the other ones.
The performer leaves the laundry room shutting the door firmly behind. She then walks down the stairs with the participant and stops by the door to the club. She gets out a business card form her handbag, takes off the participants sticker and sticks it on the back of the card, and puts the card in the participants pocket. She then opens the door back to the dance floor and the participant and the performer leave one another.
Event starts again.
Questions
Does the performer offer their story first or only if feels right to do so
How much do you need to gesture for the participant to move around the space, if performer sat down or walked in the bathroom would they follow?
How much developer to pour each time and how to sort out refilling. Using the idea of a bottle on the side of the bath OR perfume bottle? Test out half strength dilution in the chosen exposure lighting conditions.
Set up:
Black out bathroom, laundry room, Top landing (all single windows)
Hang up black curtain over the door to laundry room if needed and other glass door possibly.
Laundry room:
Set up red light. Hang up string for photo paper. Put pegs on the side.
Bathroom:
Set up red light. Clear space to sit on floor. Check plug fits if needed. Sort out white lighting arrangements. Test exposure and development time.
Walk through whole piece with Laura and Mitch.
Get dressed up for the club!
Mitch approaches a person in the main bar/dancefloor/outside area.
Mitch asks person “ Would you like to go to the darkroom?” and continues to ask until gets a willing participant and puts a sticker on them.
Performer approaches person wearing a sticker, gets out a mobile phone from her handbag, puts arm round them(?) and takes a phone photo of the two of them together. Performer plays back image and shows the participant the image. Mobile phone goes back in the performers handbag.
The Performer says/whispers “Come with me” OR lead by hand, and the two go to the edge of the bar near the club entrance, to the door marked “Private.”
They open the door and walk upstairs, across the landing and sit together a few steps up on the main (ornate) staircase. If there is someone already on the stairs they sit below/above.
The Performer asks them what they keep in their pocket/on their person, and if they’d like to share it.
They then talk about the item if they want to share, and the Performer may share an item too.
The Performer then gets up and walks to the bathroom with the participant. Performer knocks on the bathroom door. If there is someone in there they stand and wait OR return to the ornate staircase and sit.
They go inside and sit on the floor.
Performer gets out photographic paper and asks the Participant to put their item on the paper. Performer does the same if they also told their story.
Performer/participant then turns on the bathroom light/ gets out torch on a key ring and exposes the photo paper.
Performer then gets up and moves towards sink. She puts in the plug.
She asks the participant to put the image in the sink. She then opens a bottle sitting on the side of the bath/sink and pours it over the image. Performer gets out tweezers from her handbag, moving image around with tweezers to coat it fully.
They watch the image partially develop.
Performer then gets out their mobile phone and finds the photo of the two of them, and holds it over the image to kill it to black completely.
The image is then deleted by the participant. The mobile goes back into the performers handbag.
The Performer turns on the cold tap and as it fills up, takes the plug out and holds the image under the tap to wash it.
Performer wraps and blots the image in a towel/flannel and puts it [in a small wash bag] inside her handbag. The two leave the bathroom, shutting the door firmly behind.
The two go to the laundry room. The photogram is taken out of the handbag to hang up on string with pegs in the laundry room with all the other ones.
The performer leaves the laundry room shutting the door firmly behind. She then walks down the stairs with the participant and stops by the door to the club. She gets out a business card form her handbag, takes off the participants sticker and sticks it on the back of the card, and puts the card in the participants pocket. She then opens the door back to the dance floor and the participant and the performer leave one another.
Event starts again.
Questions
Does the performer offer their story first or only if feels right to do so
How much do you need to gesture for the participant to move around the space, if performer sat down or walked in the bathroom would they follow?
How much developer to pour each time and how to sort out refilling. Using the idea of a bottle on the side of the bath OR perfume bottle? Test out half strength dilution in the chosen exposure lighting conditions.
Set up:
Black out bathroom, laundry room, Top landing (all single windows)
Hang up black curtain over the door to laundry room if needed and other glass door possibly.
Laundry room:
Set up red light. Hang up string for photo paper. Put pegs on the side.
Bathroom:
Set up red light. Clear space to sit on floor. Check plug fits if needed. Sort out white lighting arrangements. Test exposure and development time.
Walk through whole piece with Laura and Mitch.
Get dressed up for the club!
Friday, 17 October 2008
on the eve of duckie thoughts....'the darkroom'
this week has been manic in sorting things for duckie...exciting though :)
laura bean kindly agreed to co-perform with me :) this means the issue of trying to get the work down to 5 minutes is not necessary as we can work between 5 and 10 minutes each. i'm also looking forward to those overlaps on the stairs, seeing each other in an encounter but trying not to overhear...
laura bean kindly agreed to co-perform with me :) this means the issue of trying to get the work down to 5 minutes is not necessary as we can work between 5 and 10 minutes each. i'm also looking forward to those overlaps on the stairs, seeing each other in an encounter but trying not to overhear...
Monday, 13 October 2008
what not to wear- projection trials
idea of live feed of image of an forgotten/past outfit that a participant once wore projected live from inside the shed out onto the roof garden onto a washing of t-shirts- temporal image as design on the t-shirt. the image registers on front and back. image erased live.
Wednesday, 1 October 2008
shed-and-a-half gallery upcoming show
i'm also doing a show as part of Photomonth 2008 on 23rd and 25th October at the shed-and-a-half gallery, which lives on a rooftop in shoreditch...
here's the latest information from the shed and a half gallery website:
What not to wear? explores the relationship between the redundant and the nostalgic through the dual narrative of a past-industrial site of a haberdashery factory and redundant items of clothing we no longer wear. The two sheds of the gallery are also important as both a site of secrecy, and where forgotten or discarded items end up.
This show is a three phase event. Firstly, in CLOTHING there are intimate performances for one at a time in a staged darkroom exploring photograms and clothing. The private view event, PHOTOS, is then intended as a cathartic and collective experience sharing photos of audience members wearing forgotten/embarrassing/lost items of clothing, mediated through photographic manipulation of the live projected destruction of the clothing’s image within the Shed and a half gallery rooftop environment.
The FINAL EVENT will be a short viewing of the installation relics in the half shed, as a single group that would have met off site collectively and then go to a pub nearby for an informal talk about the work and feedback.
Wednesday 22nd October
2-6.15pm one-to-ones, What not to wear- CLOTHING.
6.30-9 private view, What not to wear - PHOTOS
Saturday 25th October
12-4 one-to-ones, What not to wear- CLOTHING
4.30-6 What not to wear- FINAL EVENT. Installation viewing 4.30-5, followed by post show discussion in a nearby venue tbc.
Event details:
CLOTHING: A participatory performance for one at a time. Participants are required to bring an unwanted item of soft clothing they no longer wear to surrender- they will not get the item back.
PHOTOS- Participants are required to bring a photograph of them wearing an outfit/item of clothing they no longer wear to surrender- they will not get the photograph back. Photocopies not accepted.
FINAL EVENT: Installation viewing of the final relics of performance and post show discussion, near gallery, venue tbc
NB All events strictly by appointment only and participants must agree to bring item(s) required. Please book asap to avoid disappointment.
Booking: via email stating in the header which event(s) you are booking for to whatnotphoto@rocketmail.com. You can come to as many as you wish! Any further information please contact Harriet on 07900 563631 or email as given.
Central to the work are theories in the work of Roland Barthes and Tino Sehgal, the first for his theories of the ‘mortality’ of the paper based photograph as an ‘impossible’ record of ‘now,’ and the latter for the fleeting materiality of his art works. Poole is researching principles of non-matrixed theatre and audience participation through the subversion of time based media practices. She is also experimenting with pushing the temporal nature of performance through marrying with the temporal nature of photography, placing the process of image making intrinsically at the heart of an intimate and participatory, performative experience.
About the artist:
Poole's approach to photography is to experiment with both the low and the high tech, from pinhole photography and photograms, to holgas and film SLR, to digital SLR and live feed and pre-recorded film, and found photographs and slides. She has a wide ranging style and use of technique that fuses the photographic with the performative; her work in her MA has put the spectator as participant directly in the process of image making in a staged darkroom in gallery and non-gallery spaces.
For further information on the artist's work please see www.harrietpoole.com
here's the latest information from the shed and a half gallery website:
What not to wear? explores the relationship between the redundant and the nostalgic through the dual narrative of a past-industrial site of a haberdashery factory and redundant items of clothing we no longer wear. The two sheds of the gallery are also important as both a site of secrecy, and where forgotten or discarded items end up.
This show is a three phase event. Firstly, in CLOTHING there are intimate performances for one at a time in a staged darkroom exploring photograms and clothing. The private view event, PHOTOS, is then intended as a cathartic and collective experience sharing photos of audience members wearing forgotten/embarrassing/lost items of clothing, mediated through photographic manipulation of the live projected destruction of the clothing’s image within the Shed and a half gallery rooftop environment.
The FINAL EVENT will be a short viewing of the installation relics in the half shed, as a single group that would have met off site collectively and then go to a pub nearby for an informal talk about the work and feedback.
Wednesday 22nd October
2-6.15pm one-to-ones, What not to wear- CLOTHING.
6.30-9 private view, What not to wear - PHOTOS
Saturday 25th October
12-4 one-to-ones, What not to wear- CLOTHING
4.30-6 What not to wear- FINAL EVENT. Installation viewing 4.30-5, followed by post show discussion in a nearby venue tbc.
Event details:
CLOTHING: A participatory performance for one at a time. Participants are required to bring an unwanted item of soft clothing they no longer wear to surrender- they will not get the item back.
PHOTOS- Participants are required to bring a photograph of them wearing an outfit/item of clothing they no longer wear to surrender- they will not get the photograph back. Photocopies not accepted.
FINAL EVENT: Installation viewing of the final relics of performance and post show discussion, near gallery, venue tbc
NB All events strictly by appointment only and participants must agree to bring item(s) required. Please book asap to avoid disappointment.
Booking: via email stating in the header which event(s) you are booking for to whatnotphoto@rocketmail.com. You can come to as many as you wish! Any further information please contact Harriet on 07900 563631 or email as given.
Central to the work are theories in the work of Roland Barthes and Tino Sehgal, the first for his theories of the ‘mortality’ of the paper based photograph as an ‘impossible’ record of ‘now,’ and the latter for the fleeting materiality of his art works. Poole is researching principles of non-matrixed theatre and audience participation through the subversion of time based media practices. She is also experimenting with pushing the temporal nature of performance through marrying with the temporal nature of photography, placing the process of image making intrinsically at the heart of an intimate and participatory, performative experience.
About the artist:
Poole's approach to photography is to experiment with both the low and the high tech, from pinhole photography and photograms, to holgas and film SLR, to digital SLR and live feed and pre-recorded film, and found photographs and slides. She has a wide ranging style and use of technique that fuses the photographic with the performative; her work in her MA has put the spectator as participant directly in the process of image making in a staged darkroom in gallery and non-gallery spaces.
For further information on the artist's work please see www.harrietpoole.com
duckie night out- 27th september
ok- so really enjoyed this night- great vibe, really good and not so cabaret/live acts, bit like a party in your living room with your student union old music- neneh cherry, kate bush, suede...dress code seems to be mixed- some dressed up, live acts were if it was part of their act, few burlesque ladies, mostly jeans wearing cute boys with beards and stripey jumpers ;) met the guy daniel who designed the duckie flyer, he lived the shed camera obscura idea for REAL as a kid- his auntie had a gypsy caravan with a knot hole....lovely
performance wise, i think anything would go down here- more provocative the better, innuendo and brash reigns. revisited the upstairs for noise levels- it was coming through the floor but not banging so voices still were completely audible for conversations in the upstairs space. was thinking about the idea of starting with me going and asking people myself from the dancefloor, if they wanted to go upstairs to the darkroom, then taking the photo, publicly of me and them, with the mobile phone picture on the dancefloor, before proceeding upstairs together for the rest of the encounter as per previous post. andrew thought it would be good to have a flyer on the door saying you may be propositioned to go to the darkroom tonight and so that people are aware, i could go round asking people is they wanted to go with me, if they say no move onto the next. thinking about this, i could waste a lot of time with this, a badge system may work better- wear it if you are up for the darkroom?
the other issue as i've been working on this over the last couple of days, is the issue of it being 5 minutes per encounter- i don't think in cases where people opened up and talked, that this would be possible, 10 minutes more likely, which gives issues for the 5 minutes set- some encounters may well be this or less though- does it matter? another performer? that would be good with the idea of bumping into each other/brushing past one another in both using the space- people appearing and disappearing into rooms, knocking on doors- soliciting connotations...just to think about for now...hmmm...
outfit? possibly my gun metal grey and black dotty netted dress, fishnets and heels and big pink rosette :) a dressed up self
performance wise, i think anything would go down here- more provocative the better, innuendo and brash reigns. revisited the upstairs for noise levels- it was coming through the floor but not banging so voices still were completely audible for conversations in the upstairs space. was thinking about the idea of starting with me going and asking people myself from the dancefloor, if they wanted to go upstairs to the darkroom, then taking the photo, publicly of me and them, with the mobile phone picture on the dancefloor, before proceeding upstairs together for the rest of the encounter as per previous post. andrew thought it would be good to have a flyer on the door saying you may be propositioned to go to the darkroom tonight and so that people are aware, i could go round asking people is they wanted to go with me, if they say no move onto the next. thinking about this, i could waste a lot of time with this, a badge system may work better- wear it if you are up for the darkroom?
the other issue as i've been working on this over the last couple of days, is the issue of it being 5 minutes per encounter- i don't think in cases where people opened up and talked, that this would be possible, 10 minutes more likely, which gives issues for the 5 minutes set- some encounters may well be this or less though- does it matter? another performer? that would be good with the idea of bumping into each other/brushing past one another in both using the space- people appearing and disappearing into rooms, knocking on doors- soliciting connotations...just to think about for now...hmmm...
outfit? possibly my gun metal grey and black dotty netted dress, fishnets and heels and big pink rosette :) a dressed up self
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