John McKiernan, founder of Platform-7 Events discusses public art interventions and contested space on The News Agents radio show with Professor Andy Pratt (City University, London) and Professor Loretta Lees (University of Leicester). This radio show was first broadcast on Resonance Radio 104.4FM in London, 1st March 2014 and is available as a podcast. Resonance 104.4fm The News Agents Radio Show, Saturday 1st March 2014, 2.30pm Producer: Jude Cowen Montague // Host: Rob Edw

In response to the Deluge artwork, at Tapescape Catford: The Intervention I, by artist Paul Halliday, sociologist Francisco Calafate Faria presented a paper discussing obsolescence, waste and redundancy to an open audience in disused Blockbuster Video store, Catford, London, SE6. DELUGE: DISEMBOWELLING BLACK BOXES An essay by Francisco Calafate Faria responding to Deluge In the beginning there was the motion picture film - a sequence of photographs with a sound track. The ree

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

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

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

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

FRIDAY 20th from 9pm Riot Act 2012 Night: Sculpture Presents An incautious amalgam of mutant electronic forms, mechanical and digital animation techniques, computer sequencing and analogue tape edits, the avant-garde and looney tunes. Dan Hayhurst plays digital media devices, reel to reel tape recorder, sampler, effectron and walkman. Reuben Sutherland plays video zoetrope record deck. Psychophonotropic picture discs printed with intricate visual patterns animate when videoe

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