publishing public works showed their recent Friday Sessions Fanzine production and the full series of Stand Aside issues, designed and compiled by Polly Brannan for the Granville Cube project in Kilburn, London.
A MASSIVE THANK YOU to Deepa Naik and Trenton Oldfield from This Is Not A Gateway for helping out on the stall during the fair!
The Folk Float, a mobile archive to tour Egremont this summer is currently being built. A milk float is being adapted to host the existing and growing local archive, and to offer social space for meetings, screenings, workshops, chatting and hanging out.
The Folk Flaot has been commissioned by Grizedale Arts for their ongoing Creative Egremont project.
public works is now registered as publishers (publishing public works), and will be presenting their recent fanzines at this year's Publish and Be Damned Fair at Rochelle School, Arnold Circus, London on Sunday 29th July from 2-7pm.
Stanley Picker Fellows in Design, public works will hold a one day mapping workshop in the former Stanley Picker Fellows Studio in the Stanley Picker Gallery at Kingston University on Wednesday 11th July 2007.
The workshops aims to trace and visualise the spaces of research within the fields of Art&Design at Kingston University, with a focus on the social contexts, encounters and relationships which underpin its development and dissemination. Feedback and knowledge gained in the workshops will be used to inform plans to redevelop the studio as a resource for future faculty research.
The workshops form part of the public works fellowship research and will inform their exhibition in the Stanley Picker Gallery in November 2007. As part of their fellowship public works wants to establish links and explore overlaps with faculty members and will be around to introduce themselves and their work.
As part of Architecture Week, public works will join the podium discussion following Optimistic Productions screening of 'The Games'. Wednesday the 20th of June at 7pm in the building Center, 26 Store Street, London WC1E 7BT
‘The Games’. A 15 minute film by Hilary Powell involving the staging of a surreal alternative Olympics. Produced by Dan Edelstyn and Optimistic Productions with support with the Office for Subversive Architecture and co-commissioned by Urbis.
Hilary Powell is an artist and partner with Dan Edelstyn in the film company Optimistic Productions. (www.optimisticproductions.co.uk). ‘The Games ‘ is an example of the hybrid practice they are developing fusing documentary, urban debate and event based art practices. Optimistic Productions are consistently working in this arena having produced a series of channel four three minute wonders called ‘ Subverting the City’ and a documentary on a recycled tube carriage development in Shoreditch where they are now based. They are continuing their work with the Olympics through an extended documentary called ‘ The Ghosts of the Games’ exploring the stories of the sites they passed through during the making of ‘The Games’. This led to their recent collaboration with Andreas Lang of Public Works on an ad hoc tour of the Olympic area.
During the tour on a roof in Hackney Wick overlooking the Olympic site
Julian introducing Clays Lane Estate before the screening of 'The Games' in Clays Lane Community Centre.
Still from 'The Games' by Optimistic Productions
Public works together with Optimistic Productions are organising a one day workshop and tour of the Olympic site in Stratford on Thursday the 8th of June 2007. A group of 14 master students in urban planning from the university of architecture in Oslo, Norway will join the tour and produce an ad hoc alternative tour guide to the Olympic site.
The day will start of with a bus tour across the site organised by Newham Council, followed by a screening of optimistic production’s film ‘The Games’ in the Clays Lane community centre. After Lunch at Rosie’s Cafe the day will conclude in the Manor Gardens allotments where the tour guide will be assembled.
public works in collaboration with
OPEN MARKET. THE OBJECT AS A RESULT AND A START
public works is organising an informal discussion on the role of the
object/product within the circle of production and consumption.
Wednesday 23 May 2007, from 2.00 – 4.00 pm
at the Serpentine Gallery, London, with
Wapke Feenstra, artist, Rotterdam and member of myvillages.org
Dr Jaime Stapleton, Associate Research Fellow in the School of Law at Birbeck, University of London and external consultant to the World Intellectual Property Organisation
Prof Mike Hitchcock, Director of the International Institute for Culture, Tourism and Development at LMU, editor of the book “Souvenirs, The Material Culture of Tourismâ€
Sally Tallant/Louise Coysh, Special Projects and Education Programme, Serpentine Gallery
Adam Sutherland, Director Grizedale Arts, Lake District
Kathrin Böhm and Andreas Lang from public works
A mapping workshop to trace some of the current produce on offer in Kensington Gardens will start at 11.00 and is open to the public.
The object as a result and a start
In 2004 public works have devised a project called Park Products for the Serpentine Gallery, which was based on the concept of using local resource (cultural, social and material) to be transformed into new products, which were bartered from a mobile stall that was roaming Kensington Gardens. The idea was to use the concept of an informal economy to initiate a new social and cultural space within the park and to create an extension to the gallery as a space for cultural production and consumption.
Three years later we want to revisit some of the issues and open a more general discussion.
We invited a number of practitioners and researchers who are involved in generating and analysing cultural production as a public good.
We want to use the afternoon to talk about the active potential of objects and artefacts in regards to the social and public realm they circulates within. How much do they represent a process and how much can they suggest/initiate a new process? Can objects stimulate new social exchange and networks, and what qualities would the object need to embody?
This is part of Local Operations (23 May - 1 July 2007) is a free series of self-organised events, talks, screenings and workshops by writers, curators, theorists, independent groups, not-for-profit spaces and students at The Sackler Centre of Arts Education at the Serpentine Gallery. All discussions will be available as free podcasts from www.serpentinegallery.org after the events.
No reservations, first-come, first-served
Serpentine Gallery
Kensington gardens
London W2 3XA
T 020 7402 6075
Nearest Undergrounds: Knightsbridge, Lancaster Gate and South Kensington
Buses: 9, 10, 52, 94, 148
public works are invited to the first Folkestone Sculpture Triennale, to take place next summer, and curated by Andrea Schlieker. Walking along the beach and around town we were talking and thinking of our proposal, which is a mobile mapping station to capture and illustrate the Triennale as a wider social and spatial network to take place within a context of culture lead regeneration. And the public town map accordingly points out that spatial sitings are never that simple, with three "You are here" arrows on the same map.
Public works with Demos will contribute to a one day symposium at the Joseph Rowntree Foundation entitled 'Rethink! New Perspectives on public spaces'.
“Democratic innovation in public spaceâ€
Facilitator: Emma Daniels (Joseph Rowntree Foundation)
Contributors: Melissa Mean (Demos), Andreas Lang (Public Works)
The rise of corporately owned malls... private CCTV security systems... radical demographic and cultural diversity... The dominant urban story of the past 10 years has been of creeping privatisation and social fragmentation resulting in the loss of shared spaces in our towns and cities. This session will question this ‘new conventional wisdom’ and explore how people and communities are experimenting and innovating, reclaiming corporate spaces and creating new kinds of shared spaces. The session will then ask what this means for the planning, design and management of our towns and cities and how people’s power to produce better public spaces can be better supported.
Electric Vehicles in Brompton, Oxfordshire, has a good selection of 2nd hand milk floats, and John, the owner is an expert in converting them. We ordered one for the Mobile Archive project in Egremont, currently running under the project name FOLK FLOAT.
We are big enthusiasts of milk floats at the moment, they're good value for money and no MOT required!
More about milkfloats? Visit www.milkfloats.org.uk
