Dear old Hackney Wick
The place of our abode
There is no other in the land, it beats the mile end road
It's there that we were born; it's there that we will stick
There is no other in the land like dear old hackney wick
Have a banana !
public works got a new commission for a small temporary project
in Hackney Wick. The piece - Route Book (working title) -
is commissioned by muf
architecture/art as part of their wider involvement
with the public realm work in the area.
As the landscape of Hackney Wick and Fish Island changes once
again and new routes are being cut across the area, bridges being
build and new connections being made we will revisit every day
journeys, walks and narratives that cut through Hackney Wick and
Fish Island from a very local perspective.
The piece will directly contribute to - and be a continuation of
the Wick Curiosity
Shop, an eclectic collection of local produce,
memorabilia, oral history, songs and stories from or about Hackney
Wick in East London
We are happy to be back in the Wick - not that we ever left -
but its a great opportunity to spend more time on site.
Posted September 2, 2010 18:05 by Andreas Lang
Mobile Porch is on a month long visit at Abbey Wood and Woolwich
in South East London. Polly and Paul from Avant Gardening are roaming
through two estates on two separate projects. For more details
visit their ever growing Avant Gardening website.
http://www.avantgardening.org/projects/avant.gardening.barnfield
http://www.avantgardening.org/projects/flowers.in.the.wood
Posted August 30, 2010 09:29 by Andreas Lang
The "Individuals Group" from the Colchester Inn project are
organising a Public Tea Party to test run a few
ideas for their contribution to the overall project which looks at
different forms of hosting:
- an oven made from local clay, kind of replicating a roman clay
oven
- homemade cakes and collecting recipes for "camping baking"
- a great selection of cups and mugs from the local Charity
shops.
If you re around drop by for a cup of tea and some freshly baked
(hopefully) cake.
Posted August 18, 2010 12:28 by Kathrin Böhm
The art department of the school has moved in with their work and are now taking over from public works
The art department moves into St Angela's secret garden
The dye garden which aimed to start the beginnings of a flower
garden to make dye for the art department is now up and running. We
made 3 pots of dye from beetroot, leaves of sweet peas and
marigolds with saffron.
The science department want to collaborate with the art
department through the garden, as science students learn about dyes
from flowers.
The picture above shows the launch of the garden to the wider
school, the management and the governors.
Posted July 7, 2010 12:46 by Torange Khonsari
We re running a three day ad hoc production stall called
"shred
exchange" on Reuters Plaza/Canary Wharf, as part of the
London Festival of Architecture
2010.
Local material: shredded paper from some of the large
corporations (extremely fine stuff!).
Tool: a handpress on a mobile stall.
To do what: to compress shredded paper and anything else from
your pockets into balls.
It s less about function but about fun.
The brand new Abbey Gardens Honesty
Stall will accompany us, with a bag full of compost and seeds
to compress seed-bombs in exchange.
Fri 25th - Sun 27th July, daily from 11.00 - 17.00.
With Emmett Walsh and Millie Harvey
Posted June 24, 2010 10:57 by Kathrin Böhm
Location map of the Folkestonomy project by public works
Coffee drinking customs in north and south Nicosia
public works has been invited to run a workshop
on cultural mapping in Nikosia as part of the Euromed Heritage
programme an EU funded programme which contributes to
mutual understanding and dialogue between cultures through the
Mediterranean region.
The workshop will take place from the 17th to the 19th of June.
You can read more about the workshop in the Euromed Heritage
press release.
We have been invited via Dr Julie Scott, Senior Research Fellow
for Tourism, Culture and Development from London Metropolitan
Business School. Julie and our path have crossed on many different
projects which dealt with aspects cultural mapping (e.g. Folkestonomy)
and tangible or intangible history (e.g. Folk Float)
We are also currently collaborating with Julie and Jonathan on
an EU funded project in India adventurously entitled
Ethnomagic which is lead by Banglanatak a very
energetic NGO based in Kolkata, India.
Posted June 17, 2010 22:34 by Andreas Lang
public works created a new informal space - a
dye garden in a left over space in St Angela Ursuline Catholic
school in Forest Gate, London - as part of a year long
residency for the Whitechapel Gallery's 'Contested Spaces'
programme.
The project opens at the Whitechapel Gallery on 16th
June 4pm-6pm, please come and join us.
There will be an open talk about the project on 17th June at
6:30pm at the Whitechapel Gallery. The project questions the role
of artist residencies in schools and demonstrates the spatial
potentials it can create.
Posted June 14, 2010 21:37 by Torange Khonsari
Kunst Station Triemli
Decken Projekt by public works on the brand new Kunst Station
public works is currently working on a three
part commission for the Triemli Hospital in Zürich, Switzerland.
The City of Zürich has initiated an ambitious 10 year long public
art programme which will take place inside the Hospital. The
programme "Kunststation Triemli" is curated by Karin Frei
Bernasconi together with Sabine Schaschl and Barnaby Drabble and
will be launched on the 8th of July 2010.
public works are involved in designing and
setting up the mobile space to house and implement the art
programme on site, as well as running a six months long ad hoc
production workshop in the hospital. Additionally we have designed
the website for the programme which will go live with the
launch.
www.kunststationtriemli.ch
Posted June 14, 2010 01:00 by Andreas Lang
The shop will be open
for the evening.
This time at Tate Britain as part of Grizedale's curation of "Late
at Tate" on
Friday 4th June from 18.00.
Posted June 2, 2010 09:05 by Kathrin Böhm
