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Hello again Livejournal! This is what all that what-are-you-thinking-about stuff earlier this year was in aid of:
I have an exhibition, starting on Sunday 4th October, in a vacant shop in Templars Square mall in East Oxford, along with 17 other local artists (that number keeps changing) as part of The Oxford Empty Spaces Project. It features the results of my livejournal survey turned into a big hanging structure made of string and wire, plus some more normal pieces of artwork hanging on the wall. All the details are here.
Come and see! Or come to the launch party on Saturday 10th! Party start time's not settled but there will definitely be one (the organisers are a bit Tony-Wilson-ish, all "no rules! whatever! do what you want!", so I have DECREED that there will be a launch party), perhaps moving on to the Marsh Harrier when the shopping centre closes.
I'll be invigilating at the exhibition quite a lot over its run - if you let me know you're coming, I can give you the guided tour.
Big thanks to everyone who contributed. And especially to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
secretrebel, who put me in touch with the TOES people.
(Please excuse half-made state of website, obligatory art-wanky blurbage, and simultaneous LJ/facebook/twitter spamming. That's it for now.)
I have an exhibition, starting on Sunday 4th October, in a vacant shop in Templars Square mall in East Oxford, along with 17 other local artists (that number keeps changing) as part of The Oxford Empty Spaces Project. It features the results of my livejournal survey turned into a big hanging structure made of string and wire, plus some more normal pieces of artwork hanging on the wall. All the details are here.
Come and see! Or come to the launch party on Saturday 10th! Party start time's not settled but there will definitely be one (the organisers are a bit Tony-Wilson-ish, all "no rules! whatever! do what you want!", so I have DECREED that there will be a launch party), perhaps moving on to the Marsh Harrier when the shopping centre closes.
I'll be invigilating at the exhibition quite a lot over its run - if you let me know you're coming, I can give you the guided tour.
Big thanks to everyone who contributed. And especially to
secretrebel, who put me in touch with the TOES people. (Please excuse half-made state of website, obligatory art-wanky blurbage, and simultaneous LJ/facebook/twitter spamming. That's it for now.)
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This sort of thing = crowdsourced stuff?
Partly that, but more specifically the idea of repurposing abandoned shops and other unused urban spaces. (That link I posted on your FaceBook thread was via his blog at
He's developed these two complementary concepts "Favela Chic" and "Gothic High Tech", which I can't do justice to in a short summary but a rough overview would be that the global corporations have become increasing vast in scale but are no longer quick or effective enough to shape the future. So all the cool, futuristic stuff is done in a rough, agile, improvised, ad-hoc manner by the general population (or at least the creative subset of it). It's all about living in the shadow of these huge, corporate undead entities and doing cool things with their byproducts (whether mobile phones and other techy things or less intentional output such as abandoned buildings, waste resources and so on).
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