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Innovation Box: Heather Agyepong

Oct 2, 2016
2 min

Innovation Box: Heather Agyepong

Ethics of Planned Obsolescence Embedded in Digital Commodities Until 12th October 2016 Heather Agyepong is a visual artist & performer who lives and works in London. Images exhibited are from ‘The Gaze on Agbogbloshie: The misrepresentation of West Africa as dystopia’* and form part of a larger series on photographs. It is at this point there is clear divergence from Heather’s original project. This exhibition begins the Innovation Box intervention here in a grade II listed

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Creative Home: Human Ingenuity in Times of Upheaval

Oct 2, 2016
4 min

Creative Home: Human Ingenuity in Times of Upheaval

Across London there is increasing visibility of the housing crisis with much of the media and charity attention rightly focused on the plight impacting individuals and families. Yet few probably give a great deal of attention to the creativity and innovation that stems from such situations. This project explores the ingenuity required to survive living on the streets, focusing on how people deal with the most basic of need, that of shelter. We want to celebrate the resource

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WASTE.AGENCY: NOTIONS OF BROKEN

Jan 13, 2015
4 min

WASTE.AGENCY: NOTIONS OF BROKEN

Stage two of the Waste.Agency explores the notions of the word broken. To know if something is broken often requires at least the minimal understanding of how something works. Broken Ukulele Image, popestatesPhotography Stage one of the Waste.Agency (Oct-Dec 2014) was to ascertain whether there is an appetite in The City, the UK capital’s financial heart, to engage in a conversation considering the economic system built on consumption and wastefulness. The abstract art on

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WASTE.AGENCY: A SILENT CACOPHONY

Jan 6, 2015
2 min

WASTE.AGENCY: TIMELINE

Timeline of key points in the creation of Waste.Agency intervention in the City of London, estimated to last 3 years, keys to first location handed over 3rd October 2014, and introductory video. Filming and Editing: Andreas Lambis 23rd February 2015: Comments Book from Waste.Agency fully typed up [here]. 152 individual written remarks from 1,662 visitors. 10th February 2015: All Waste.Agency artworks and equipment now stored 6th February 2015: Keys returned to Waterstones.

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WASTE.AGENCY: NO MORE DUST TO DUST

Dec 14, 2014
2 min

WASTE.AGENCY: NO MORE DUST TO DUST

No more Dust to Dust by Paul Hazelton on display at the Waste.Agency A tornado of dust sucking up all that stands before it. Work-in-progress image, 2013 Art, in its most basic state, is dirt. Its production, as a by-product of living, results from the breakdown and fusing of ideas and materials. “Framing is essential. It separates acts of creation (which are labelled deviant acts) from such phenomena as camouflage, errors, dreaming, pornography and madness, which are unframe

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WASTE.AGENCY: DUST COINS BY PAUL HAZELTON

Dec 9, 2014
2 min

WASTE.AGENCY: DUST COINS BY PAUL HAZELTON

Paul Hazelton is Making Money at Last… Paul Hazelton is an internationally established artist who creates sculptures often intricately constructed using household dust, cobwebs, hair or cut paper, toys or other materials. His work focuses around ontology, myth, decay and creation. Paul is presently exhibiting No more Dust to Dust [click to read more] and Paul Hazelton is Making Money at Last… at the Waste.Agency, challenging the way money is perceived while considering what i

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WASTE.AGENCY: COULD WATERBORNE PLASTIC BE A RISK TO POWER PLANTS?

Nov 23, 2014
3 min

WASTE.AGENCY: COULD WATERBORNE PLASTIC BE A RISK TO POWER PLANTS?

This blog post asks whether plastics in water could potentially damage power plant cooling systems and if there were a risk identified would it lead to an insurance claim? If the answer is yes, then we want to explore how such a claim could be mitigated and whether it is in the insurance industry’s interest to take a lead role in reducing plastic entering the seas and rivers. Photo: Martin Nikolaj Bech under creative commons _______________ Kloe Wu is on a work placement at

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WASTE.AGENCY: ARTS COUNCIL ENGLAND FUNDING

Nov 22, 2014
3 min

WASTE.AGENCY: ARTS COUNCIL ENGLAND FUNDING

Monday 17th November 2014 Arts Council England and SHM-Foundation have awarded funding towards maintaining the Waste.Agency intervention, which begun in a disused HMV record store in the heart of the City of London on 3rd October 2014. The Waste.Agency is applying 6-years of research gathered by Platform-7’s through a series of abstract art performance events exploring how people reach opinions on various issues that have broader social consequences. This is the first applic

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GLIMMERS OF HOPE ON CANNON STREET

Nov 8, 2014
2 min

GLIMMERS OF HOPE ON CANNON STREET

The autumn installation on London Cannon Street station is Glimmers of Hope on Cannon Street by Maria Alvarez Echenique's, created in memory of those who were injured or killed in London trying to keep the capital's railways moving. An artist talk will take place at 6.45pm on Thursday, 18th December 2014 at the station [tell us you are coming here]. Image Copyright: Eva Bachmann During both World Wars, London was regularly bombed, initially by Zeppelins during the First Worl

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LONDONIST OUT LOUD: A PODCAST ABOUT LONDON, 15 AUGUST 2014

Aug 15, 2014
1 min

LONDONIST OUT LOUD: A PODCAST ABOUT LONDON, 15 AUGUST 2014

John McKiernan is this week's Londonist Out Loud Podcast guest discussing The Tights Ball and other Platform-7 abstract performance art interventions with N Quentin Woolf on London Bridge train station's platform seven Click to Listen Londonist Out Loud is presented and produced by N Quentin Woolf. This week’s show focuses one man and his tights. John McKiernan of Platform 7 has collected thousands of pairs of used tights and rolled them into a ball. The pair talk at London B

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REGARDING OBSOLESCENCE

Jul 2, 2012
7 min

REGARDING OBSOLESCENCE

In response to Deluge artist Paul Halliday and sociologist Francisco Calafate Faria presented papers discussing obsolscence, waste and redundancy to an open audience at Tapescape Catford Regarding Obsolescence An essay by Paul Halliday responding to his own art installation 'Deluge' Ob-sol-escence. What does this word mean? Such an intriguing word. A word that points to a rich etymological journey contained within the form itself; possibly even hinting at some remaining trace

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DELUGE: RETURN OF THE VIDEOCASSETTES BY PAUL HALLIDAY

May 23, 2012
5 min

DELUGE: RETURN OF THE VIDEOCASSETTES BY PAUL HALLIDAY

Blockbuster Catford Part of Tapescape Catford: The Intervention II Original Deluge as part of Tapescape Catford: The Intervention I by Paul Halliday. Poster by Daniel Crawford from Type&Numbers DELUGE: A MOVING ART INSTALLATION RETURN OF THE VIDEOCASSETTES LOCATED IN CATFORD’S NEW 24 HOUR EXHIBITION SPACE Forgotten Catford can claim a London rarity: a 24-hour live art exhibition space May 23 to June 24, 2012 More than a thousand old videocassettes will be recycled after an ar

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DEMONSTRATE BEING AFFECTED

May 18, 2012
1 min

DEMONSTRATE BEING AFFECTED

Demonstrate being Affected by 14-15-77 Blockbuster Catford Part of Tapescape Catford: The Intervention II ‘Demonstrate being Affected’ has 8352 pictures taken every 20 seconds for 3 days on a train from Lhasa in Tibet to Beijing. The sky train we travelled on is one of the highest in the world at 5,072m above sea level. The still pictures have been edited together to make a stop motion animation and a sound track was composed from chanting monks recorded in the Tashilumpo mon

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TAPE MEASURE

Apr 18, 2012
12 min

TAPE MEASURE

A Provocation By Roanna Mitchell, PhD How technology makes our body its business: the shaping of the ‘good citizen’ from Jane Fonda to the Wii fit. Interactive installation followed by a talk and discussion by Roanna Mitchell Provocation for the Tapescape Catford: Intervention I My work is all about bodies. I work as a movement director and choreographer, I teach drama students, and I am writing my PhD about the body politics of acting: what happens to actors in those aspects

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Mar 28, 2012
1 min

Nathan Harmer: Ext1

Ext1 is an interactive sound installation by Nathan Harmer centred round the nostalgic qualities of magnetic tape, particularly VHS. The piece takes place in a darkened room lit simply by the flicker of a cathode-ray tube television set playing back a video tape loop spliced together from videos found discarded in the street. As the loop runs it gradually degrades over time engaging the audience in repeating hypnotic visual glitches. With large clusters of tape hanging from t

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MARGATE OR CLIFTONVILLE: WHO DO YOU LOVE?

Jan 12, 2012
3 min

MARGATE OR CLIFTONVILLE: WHO DO YOU LOVE?

A beautiful mosaic artwork, in the form of a giant mobile, that for many captured the communities of modern day Margate and Cliftonville. Artists: Maureen (Mo) Black and Jane Black Concept: Maureen Black and John McKiernan Cliftonville and Margate are two separate areas on the Kent coast interweaved in a physical sense yet, as the Moonbow Margate art intervention found, distant in the sense of harmonic living. Moonbow Margate was situated on the very border between the two ar

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DARREN SPERRING

Jan 8, 2012
1 min

DARREN SPERRING

September 2011, part of 'What is Food' Darren Sperring, trained as a dietician and worked in hospitals and surgeries throughout England while pursuing his art practice. The concept for the exhibition ‘What is Food?’ initiated from discussions centred on Darren’s humorous observational practice, which focussed on how people consider their diet, what they choose to eat and the way the consume food. Click for gallery Darren's response to 'What is food?' Answer: Any substance con

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BRAN JONES - MOONBOW MARGATE PHOTOGRAPHER

Nov 30, 2011
4 min

BRAN JONES - MOONBOW MARGATE PHOTOGRAPHER

Bran Jones became the official Moonbow Margate photographer because of his love of espresso. Up The Line Remembrance 2011, Margate Cemetery Living and studying in Thanet, Bran discovered the Moonbow Jakes café in Cliftonville while researching his beach photography project. He was invited to photograph the amazing Akleriah, a live interactive performance around the streets of Cliftonville, Margate and inside the Turner Contemporary. Only shooting in black and white the result

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ARTIST PAUL HAZELTON REFLECTS ON MOONBOW MARGATE

Sep 24, 2011
4 min

ARTIST PAUL HAZELTON REFLECTS ON MOONBOW MARGATE

Throughout Summer 2011 Paul Hazelton is an international artist, presently preparing for a commission for the New York Museum for Art & Design, born and grew up in Cliftonville, Kent. Throughout the summer project, Paul was pivotal to the success of the Moonbow Margate intervention, with many of the interesting artworks and performances that appeared having in some way Paul’s prints on them. Paul Hazelton's thoughts on the project: 'My first intervention at Moonbow was the w

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