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

Norman Mailer and Germaine Greer

happy holidays

Call for Video for BIF

We are posting a call for short video work for a screening event during the Big in Falkirk events, May 3 and 4th, 2008. The works need to be silent due to the nature of the screening and under 5 minutes. Acceptable formats: DVD and preferably with a high resolution Quicktime file also on DVD. There is no specific theme, though the work will be public and addressed at a specific audience. It is a kind of secret installation. Experimental, non-narrative, challenging, vivid video work would be most welcome. Pass this call onto interested parties. Send DVDs to
Alex Hetherington/Janie Nicoll, Artists in Residence
Callendar House
Callendar Park
FALKIRK
FK1 1YR
Deadline ongoing through Mid April 2008

Electric Theatre

Any information please on the Electric Theatre, Falkirk?

Village Voice

Auditioning ghosts/active forgetting

AN OPEN LETTER TO NYC
BEASTIE BOYS

Brooklyn, Bronx, Queens and Staten
From the Battery to the top of Manhattan
Asian, Middle-Eastern and Latin
Black, White, New York you make it happen

Brownstones, water towers, trees, skyscrapers
Writers, prize fighters and Wall Street traders
We come together on the subway cars
Diversity unified, whoever you are
We're doing fine on the One and Nine line
On the L we're doin' swell
On the number Ten bus we fight and fuss
'Cause we're thorough in the boroughs and that's a must
I remember when the Duece was all porno flicks
Running home after school to play PIX * 1
At lunch I'd go to Blimpies down on Montague Street
And hit the Fulton Street Mall for the sneakers on my feet
Dear New York I hope you're doing well
I know a lot's happen and you've been through hell
So, we give thanks for providing a home
Through your gates at Ellis Island we passed in droves

Brooklyn, Bronx, Queens and Staten
From the Battery to the top of Manhattan
Asian, Middle-Eastern and Latin
Black, White, New York you make it happen

The L.I.E. the B.Q.E
Hippies at the band shell with the L.S.D.
Get my BVD's from VIM
You know I'm reppin' Manhattan the best I can
Stopped off at Bleeker Bob's got thrown out
Sneakin' in at 4:00 am after going out
You didn't rob me in the park at Dianna Ross
But everybody started looting when the light went off
From the South South Bronx on out to Queens Bridge
From Hollis Queens right down to Bay Ridge
From Castle Hill to the Lower East Side
From 1010 WINS to Live At Five
Dear New York this is a love letter
To you and how you brought us together
We can't say enough about all you do
'Cause in the city were ourselves and electric too

Brooklyn, Bronx, Queens and Staten
From the Battery to the top of Manhattan
Asian, Middle-Eastern and Latin
Black, White, New York you make it happen

Shout out the South Bronx where my mom hails from
Right next to High Bridge across from Harlem
To the Grand Concourse where my mom and dad met
Before they moved on down to the Upper West
I see you're still strong after all that's gone on
Life long we dedicate this song
Just a little something to show some respect
To the city that blends and mends and tests
Since 911 we're still livin'
And lovin' life we've been given
Ain't nothing gonna take that away from us
Were lookin' pretty and gritty 'cause in the city we trust
Dear New York I know a lot has changed
2 towers down but you're still in the game
Home to many rejecting know one
Accepting peoples of all places, wherever they're from

Brooklyn, Bronx, Queens and Staten
From the Battery to the top of Manhattan
Asian, Middle-Eastern and Latin
Black, White, New York you make it happen

Smoke On the Water

Callendar Park in the Mist, December 07

San Francisco Chronicle Poltergeist Auditions

Extracurricular activities memory calamity superimposition

Perfomance development

For May events at park gallery, more information soon.

Antonine Wall Plaque

Falkirk residency House for Rent

Falkirk Residency#15 Memory collapse drawing

Falkirk Residency#13 Carpet with permanent shadow

Falkirk Residency#12 Cowboy

Falkirk Residency#11

Falkirk Residency#10

Mystery eyesore zone

Falkirk Residency#9

Falkirk Residency#8

Falkirk Residency#7

Falkirk Residency#6

"I made a mistake..... I made a mistake... I made a mistake....."

Falkirk Residency#5

2001 with marble paper and difficult memory ware.

Falkirk Residency#4

Marble paper with astronaut, 2007

Falkirk Residency#3

Typeface of the year; exploring secretary script too

Our new office......(Second window from the right, ground floor).

Falkirk Residency#1

Janie Nicoll and Alex Hetherington commence visual art residency at Falkirk 2007-08 from 19 November 2007. We will be developing a series of projects from our own practice coupled with projects developed with residents of the High Flats and other events.

Alex Hetherington will during the course of the residency be setting up a performance theatre company, more information on this to follow.

More information on the development of the work will be announced here soon.

Thanks to Paul Eames & Gillian Smith