Delighted to be starting WICK ON WHEELS, a new project for Hackney Wick and Fish Island. 

WICK ON WHEELS is a roaming production unit, which will travel across Hackney Wick (East London) and its surrounding areas. It will intensively engage with Local communities to reuse, recycle, repair and re-make. It will explore and encourage direct, collective on site production using existing local materials, resources and skills. Production will focus on three areas in particular: Narrative products, direct interventions on vacant sites and harvest maps.

WOW is a pilot project for a mobile recycling unit, which connects the three ecological principals (recycling, re-use and repair) with local cultural and collective production of artefacts and spaces. The pilot project is part of r-urban, a European partnership project with AAA, Paris (www.urbantactics.org) which aims to establish participatory strategies for urban resilience. www.r-urban.net

Posted April 19, 2012 17:16 by Andreas Lang

We first came across performance]SPACE[ during the 'Printers Paradise' walk. The door was open and a small sign invited us in. A quick detour into a smoke filled room with people performing across the space seemingly ignoring the audience of 20 strangers that just walked in on them. As first encounters go, this one was curious enough to get in touch and find out more about what was going on. We met Bea, Benjamin and Anna who have been generous in offering their space for one of our Wick Sessions (unfortunately it was double booked) and have recently invited us to a very local dinner as part of their international residency project [neighbourHOOD] EVENT which will conclude on Saturday the 3rd of December.

[neighbourHOOD] EVENT

Saturday 3rd December 11am - 11pm
Following a 10 day intensive research residency the [neighbourHOOD] artists will draw together an exhibition and evening of performance art and film. Artists: Tine Voeks, Maria Lucia, Benjamin Sebastian, Kimbal Quist Bumbstead, Liam Yeates and isik met knutsdotter

Exhibition: 11am - 11pm
Developed and led by the artists, the exhibition is anticipated to grow out of the research-lab, through install-action and the exhibition of research material. Constructed throughout the day, the exhibition will both lay bare artistic process and weave together loose ends to form a live archival document of Hackney Wick now. The exhibition will also include performance-for-camera photographic prints from each artist, produced site-specifically in collaboration with ]performance s p a c e [ photographer Marco Berardi.

Performances: 7 - 9 pm (TBC)
New performances made in response to the [neighbourHOOD] residency in Hackney Wick.

Film: 9pm - 'DEFAULT THE BRUTAL'
by Enrico Masi, produced by CAUCASO FACTORY (10' UK, 2011, color/B-w, 16mm/Full HD)
'Discovering a new space in east London, after the negative stigma of the 80's, Stratford will now present himself as a thrilling new urban device for people to move, work, shop and travel. The increasingly spectacular Olympic park, with Anish Kapoor's monumental red panoramic tower growing in his middle and a special toilet only for the queen. 'Default the Brutal' is like forecasting on weather conditions.' CAUCASO FACTORY have worked in collaboration with ]performance s p a c e [ and PAS throughout [neighbourbourHOOD] to document the activity unfolding. The collective's current area of research has focused on the regeneration and development of Olympic boroughs and the current socio-economic climate across Europe.

[neighbourHOOD] is a free event
Beer, gin and bagels will be served all day!!

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Posted November 29, 2011 12:17 by Dorian

We first came across performance]SPACE[ during the 'Printers Paradise' walk. The door was open and a small sign invited us in. A quick detour into a smoke filled room with people performing across the space seemingly ignoring the audience of 20 strangers that just walked in on them. As first encounters go, this one was curious enough to get in touch and find out more about what was going on. We met Bea, Benjamin and Anna who have been generous in offering their space for one of our Wick Sessions (unfortunately it was double booked) and have recently invited us to a very local dinner as part of their international residency project [neighbourHOOD] EVENT which will conclude on Saturday the 3rd of December.

[neighbourHOOD] EVENT

Saturday 3rd December 11am - 11pm
Following a 10 day intensive research residency the [neighbourHOOD] artists will draw together an exhibition and evening of performance art and film. Artists: Tine Voeks, Maria Lucia, Benjamin Sebastian, Kimbal Quist Bumbstead, Liam Yeates and isik met knutsdotter

Exhibition: 11am - 11pm
Developed and led by the artists, the exhibition is anticipated to grow out of the research-lab, through install-action and the exhibition of research material. Constructed throughout the day, the exhibition will both lay bare artistic process and weave together loose ends to form a live archival document of Hackney Wick now. The exhibition will also include performance-for-camera photographic prints from each artist, produced site-specifically in collaboration with ]performance s p a c e [ photographer Marco Berardi.

Performances: 7 - 9 pm (TBC)
New performances made in response to the [neighbourHOOD] residency in Hackney Wick.

Film: 9pm - 'DEFAULT THE BRUTAL'
by Enrico Masi, produced by CAUCASO FACTORY (10' UK, 2011, color/B-w, 16mm/Full HD)
'Discovering a new space in east London, after the negative stigma of the 80's, Stratford will now present himself as a thrilling new urban device for people to move, work, shop and travel. The increasingly spectacular Olympic park, with Anish Kapoor's monumental red panoramic tower growing in his middle and a special toilet only for the queen. 'Default the Brutal' is like forecasting on weather conditions.' CAUCASO FACTORY have worked in collaboration with ]performance s p a c e [ and PAS throughout [neighbourbourHOOD] to document the activity unfolding. The collective's current area of research has focused on the regeneration and development of Olympic boroughs and the current socio-economic climate across Europe.

[neighbourHOOD] is a free event
Beer, gin and bagels will be served all day!!

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Posted November 29, 2011 12:17 by Dorian

Today I received the 'Compandium for the civic society' put together by 00:/, Nesta and Cabe which is full of inspiring case studies among them - as a foot note only - the Wick Curiosity Shop.

you can see and get it here:
http://civiceconomy.net/
http://issuu.com/architecture00/docs/compendium_for_the_civic_economy_publ

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Posted October 18, 2011 16:43 by Dorian

We recently started work with aaa on a 3 year long EU funded project called Life+, which takes place across two neighbourhoods: the suburb of Colombe in Paris and Hackney Wick in London. It addresses issues of urban cycles of ecology, economy and culture, and aims to result in four prototype buildings fit for local communal living, trading and recycling. A first workshop in Paris takes place on the weekend 15th and 16th September, combining ad hoc on site design from reclaimed material with some presentations of work in the Wick and research in recycling and architecture.

Posted October 12, 2011 16:58 by Kathrin Böhm

photo: George Ramsay

Posted October 7, 2011 11:29 by Andreas Lang

Come & join us at Wick Green & help transform the play equipment using materials from the Albion Kids Show.

TAKE OVER
WICK GREEN
OCTOBER 6TH 2011
1PM - 6 PM
Opposite St Mary's Church

Pirate Ships, Puppet Theatre, Parachute Tents, Wheels & Swings will be available for you and your family to play on.The day will help inform more permanent future changes to Wick Green.

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Posted October 4, 2011 15:41 by Dorian

Wick Green Take Over poster

Detail from an older Albion Kids Show poster

For the last couple of weeks we have been working with the brilliant Albion Kids Show, hanging out in their depot, chatting to Roger, making funny drawings and asking many annoying questions. Partly to get to know them but also for the pleasure of looking at and understanding all their mobile treasures. The Depot is a kind of save haven for a number of mobile porjects. Amongst them for the last two years we stored the Mobile Porch on the same yard (in the part belonging to Space Studios).

Last month muf asked the Wick Curiosity Shop to help develop a brief for the play equippment on Wick Green. What better then asking the expert who live just next door and we suggested to develop the brief with the Albion Kids Show and their playworkers who have been delivering mobile play in Hackney for the last 30 years. 

As a first step we made a detailed inventory and have taken lots of pictures which you can see on our on our flickr group. On Thursday the 6th of October we will be on Wick Green flooding it with equippment from the Albion Kids Show and testing out how the green can be transformed, first temporarily and then more long term via muf's redesign. So bring your child and join us from 1-6 next Thursday!

You can download a pdf version of the WICK GREEN TAKE OVER poster here 
Thanks also to the HATO press for printing it! 

Posted September 29, 2011 10:49 by Andreas Lang

Pages from The Hackney Wick

Francesca Webernewth came to visit us at the studio to talk about our involvement in Hackney Wick. Francesca is a PhD researcher looking at urban regeneration, public space and community - a comparative analysis of two case studies: Hackney Wick and 'MediaSpree' (East Berlin). Francesca wrote this nice piece on the Eaton Manor Boys which has recently been published in new, quarterly 'THE HACKNEY WICK' newspaper.

Half way through the conversation she produced this curious book mark which is part of a page from Vogue magazine predicting that Hackney Wick will become the 'centre of the cultural universe' (at least in the oppinion of a fashionable Vogue reporter) thanks to an art centre???. The moment Hackney Wick arrived in Vogue has been enshrined in a book mark. I wonder what other everyday products one can think of that map or register the transformation of Hackney Wick.

You can download Francescas Eaton Manor Boys article -> here

Posted September 20, 2011 12:35 by Andreas Lang

NOT JUST FOOTBALL PITCHES .....

Tell us what you'd really like to do on Mabley Green. It can be anything you like, anything at all - from the fantastical to the practical.

Then on Saturday 20 August, all of your ideas will be sketched out and painted HUGE on the grass of Mabley Green using Hackney Council's football-pitch painting machine. Better still, your ideas will be used to help kick start a new Master Plan for Mabley Green. So get creative and help build a brand new park. The People's Pitch is a collaboration between public works and Christopher King, with support from muf and the Design for London. All ideas will be published on the PEOPLES PITCH WEBSITE. If you'd like to get in touch, email us on peoplespitch@gmail.com

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commissioned by muf and Design for London

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Posted August 10, 2011 13:56 by Dorian