Skank Bloc Bologna #1

Skank Bloc Bologna #1
Bill Berkson
Sari Carel
Alejandro Cesarco
Ishan Clemenco
Anne Colvin
Caroline Colvin
Jordan Essoe
Graham Fagen
Oliver Farley
Marcella Faustini
Urs Fischer
Alex Hetherington
Nico Ihlein
Fabienne Lassere
Rebecca Miller
Frank Olive/Rudy Shephard
Anne Waldman

Launch:
Toscas in North Beach, San Francisco, US
Wednesday February 13th
6-8pm


www.tartsf.com

Green Velvet Shoes

These shoes made by H.B. Watson in Falkirk, circa the 1880's, must have been the Lanvin pumps of their time....

Banner image

Another close up of this political reform banner from 1832...... This is really difficult to photograph as its behind perspex, but I really like the contrast of its frailty, (its almost falling to bits), with the strong political voice it has as an item.

Jackie Kennedy, at The White House

The White House tour Audio file, radio broadcast, Jackie Kennedy gives a tour of the White House, Pennsylvania Avenue.

Supermarket in California, Allen Ginsberg

Thank god I have an innocent eye for nature. I was born to remember a song about love - on a hill a butterfly makes a cup that I drink from, walking over a bridge of flowers.

Supermarket audio file.

JFK

JFK Radio Broadcast, listen here.

A Waur Cause

The Bairns O' Fa'kirk
May they Ne'er Join
in a Waur Cause

Political Reform Banner carried in a riot in 1832, from Falkirk to Stirling.

Tart San Francisco

Anne Colvin, San Francisco artist and curator highlights our work at her fantastic new web site, TART

Fool for A Pretty Face

Photographs © Jennifer Beaton, reproduced by kind permission

Fool for A Pretty Face House/Lights

We are presenting a performance with Glasgow-based band Fool for A Pretty Face on Saturday May 3 at park gallery in Callendar Park, Owen Hedges and Mikaela Skogsberg who form the band will be playing a series of songs that I have asked them to work as a kind of response to the show Janie and I are presenting at the gallery. I’ve asked them to cover Subterranean Homesick Blues by Bob Dylan ( I’ve wanted to do this since seeing Diane Thater’s film Jump); I Feel Love by Donna Summer and Computer Love by Kraftwerk among other songs plus their own work. I really enjoy Mikaela’s voice with its Scandinavian twang and its vulnerability and Owen’s more mellow solid rounded intonation. I wanted them to do songs that feel like a shift in sound, a change in sound perception. Well for my world anyway, this is debateable.

I will also be rehearsing House/Lights now for a performance of the work on May 4. I’ll rework the entire show with more of the original text and more on video; I’ve asked Lorna Shields (who is already picking out an outfit and hairstyle), Finn Hobson, Janie Nicoll to again work with me as well as two other performers for live and on-video appearances.

Janie and I have been discussing other events, which coincide with Big in Falkirk and hope to use park as a kind of workshop of events, a studio of experiments, a confederacy of quotation. We are presenting a show Meddle with The Devil, so I guess House/Lights and Faust/Elaine and Mephisto/Olga will work here. I have a collection of drawings and prints as well as my heroin New York Times carpet and other works in mind to show, Lorna is knitting a Heroine/Heroin Carpet drawing; I am hoping to include a new voice work, so it’s back to the archive at the House for texts and examples of ancient Vocoders.

The PUBLIC show name may change, Janie and I need to discuss the potential of this video and film screening and how its title will make sense to an audience of seniors; the programme will now commingle found footage with artists film and sound work, I saw Dave last night and we discussed a radio broadcast to fill in the sound, create a soundtrack for these silent films. I feel now we are breathing intention onto this site, I feel secure in our willingness to engage with this place.

New proposed facade for Belmont Tower

To add the facade of 311 California Street onto Belmont Tower

Public art Scotland

We have been invited to Blog in Public Art Scotland's site, and will be posting more writing there alongside this blog.

beta.publicartscotland.com

Park Avenue New York, here I come...

The Kennedys

Janie and I are working on an idea about Jackie Kennedy and JFK. Do you have recollections of the assassinated president, where were you when the assassination took place? Do you have newspaper clippings or any thoughts on the Kennedy family or reports from TV or Radio? JFK seems to connect people with a new optimism that was wiped out with a bullet; do you have any thoughts on this and how the world has changed since the 60s. In addition do you have thoughts on the Civil Rights Movement or thoughts on Democracy and how it has evolved since the 1960s? Contact us at alexander.hetherington@virgin.net