MILL24

The Memories - 29th May 2010

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John Leyland and Annette Cookson

Matthew Dekersaint Giradeau

Jamie Thomas

Seekers Of Lice

Jerome Cooper

Matt Jackson

Bill Aitchison

Sam Gieben and Chris Mackenzie

Fivethreefive Project

Lois Macdonald and Helen Collett

Tracing mill24 - Helen Abbott

Gary Fishers Blog:

http://soundcloud.com/garyfisher/sets/mill-24

Graham Dunnings Blog:

http://grahamdunningmill24.wordpress.com/

Steven Hutchinson

May Line-Up

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Curated by: Lois Macdonald | Helen Collett | Anna Beam
Guest Curators: Blank Media | Emily Phillips | Esther Arocha and Ida Galvan

MILL24 PART2 Schedule 12noon - 12noon 29th - 30th May

Islington Mill, Salford, M3 2DD

Ground Floor:

Gallery:

12-14. Jerome Cooper

15-20. Matt Jackson

21-02. Jamie Thomas

03-04. Laura Lowe

07-08. Lois Macdonald and Helen Collett

09-10. Steven Hutchinson

10-12. Helen Abbott

Venue:

13-14. Peter Matthews

15-16. Seekers of lice

17-18. Bill Aitchinson

19-20. Matt Dekersaint

21-22. Annette Cookson/John Leyland : Blank Media

23-00. Bill Shatnerrr

01-02. Sam Gieben and Chris Mackenzie

03-08. Sam Gieben and Chris Mackenzie DJ set

03-08. PING PONG CLUB

11-12. Fivethreefive: Blank Media

Entry Corridor:

12-12. You

Courtyard:

00-03. 07-12. Bar-B-Q

12-12. Sam Gieben and Robbie Porter hiding places

Engine House:

12-00. Kim's homemade food

12-00. LuckyPDF TV monitor

One69a Studio:

13-17. Screen printing workshop

First Floor:

Common Room:

12–12. Emily Phillips: Marielle Hehir/Hannah Mosley

Toilets:

12-12. Lucky PDF TV Monitor

Second floor:

12-12. LuckyPDF TV monitor

Fifth Floor:

12-12. Lucky PDF TV Studio

12-12. Sam Gieben and Robbie Porter hiding places

12-12. Rob Bellman

12-19. Tasha Whittle

20 - 23.30. Action Cover Party

00-08. Anna Beam and Rebecca Manley

Owain's Pics - 24th April

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Artist Profile: Rebecca Maeve Manley

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Name/Pseudonym:

Rebecca Maeve Manley

Permanent working location:

Manchester

General Working Practice:

Three-dimensional paper artist / filling spaces / making paper dance

Mill24 Exhibition:

Collaboration with Anna Beam / invite the audience into our paper world / 8-hour long installation

Website:

www.rebeccamaevemanley.co.uk

Contact Email:

rebecca.manley@hotmail.com

Curriculum Vitae:

Summer 2010 / Solo / Galerie Herzblut / Braunschweig / Germany

Jan 2010 / 'SAMPLERS' / Ashton-Under-Lyne Art Gallery

Oct 2009 / ‘ILLUSTRATIVE' / Berlin / Germany

Images:

face painting project / still life / cat's cradle / cardboard cross-stitch

Curator/Artist Profile: Lois Macdonald and Helen Collett

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Name/Pseudonym:

Lois Macdonald and Helen Collett

Permanent Working Location:

Manchester

General Working Practice:

"Lois Macdonald and Helen Collett become one"

Thursday 28th October 2009

Collett and Macdonald have been working together as artists and curators for just over a year. Their partnership formed in December 2008 when they took over curating the Link Gallery. Both artists were involved in personal projects regarding the portrayal and disruption of physical/conscious environments and so led to their first collaboration in February 2009 as a detailed reworking of the interior space of the gallery. They still work together on this ongoing project, Back and Forth, as a changing installation rebuilt to encompass its environment. Since then, they have worked on a large-scale solo exhibition in an unused archway, as part of the Free For Arts Festival in October 2009, resulting in their first performative video work based on the systematic reflection of their working relationship; a process which now dominates their working practice. The Free For Arts Festival 2009 was also one of their first external curatorial experiences, being a weeklong series of events and exhibitions that they created and directed. Artistically, throughout 2010 their videos and installations have been exhibited in various group exhibitions at NOISElab, the Dance House and beyond. Currently, they are undertaking an internship at Islington Mill culminating in their self-curated series of 24-hour exhibitions, Mill24, scheduled to take place in April and May 2010. Their future lies in further joint exhibiting and curating; with their work scheduled to be on show monthly at the Green Room as well as at an upcoming exhibition at the Departure Gallery, London, in addition to once again organising the Free For Arts Festival.

Mill24 Exhibition:

“the aggressive yet playful quality that subconsciously directs their work as an all-female artist couple”

Collett and Macdonald continue their working relationship as an artist couple in the latest and final installment of their 3-part installation series, Back and Forth. First exhibited in the Link Gallery and then as part of the Manchester Art Crawl, they now want to embrace their performative style in creating their concluding chapter for just one-hour as part of Mill24. Their work has developed in succession from part i, space, to part ii, sound, and now to part iii, performance. Performing Back and Forth part iiiwill act as a full stop to their working past, and form a creative platform for them to move forward from as live performers within a sculptural environment. They will move in mirrored ritual around the white-cube gallery space, now transformed into an all-new environment by its submergence in calico fabric; their strange, dance-like performance reflecting the overlapping confines and communication that make up their working relationship. Choosing to exhibit their piece at a time when the exhibition will be most quiet, the sensory deadening of sound that their abundant use of calico fabric creates, will be enhanced more than ever before. The audience’s perception of the artists and their environment will become one.

Mill24 Exhibition Date:

Curators: Saturday 24th April 2010 & Saturday 29th May 2010

Artists: Saturday 29th May 2010

Website:

www.loisandhelen.blogspot.com

Conversely, www.lois-sense.blogspot.com and www.helen-non.blogspot.com

www.wecurate.co.uk

Contact Email:

lois@wecurate.co.uk

helen@wecurate.co.uk

Curriculum Vitae:

Free For Arts Festival 2010. October 2010

'All Systems Go', Departure Gallery, London. June 2010

Vaudeville, The Greenroom, Manchester. May 2010

Collective Vision, NOISElab, Manchester. April 2010

Manchester Art Crawl - Not Part of NYE, Dance House, Manchester. March 2010

www.freeforartsfestival.com, Manchester. October 2009

Images:

(i) Milk fig. ii | film still

(ii) YouI fig. i | film still

(iii) Collapsable Spaces | performance/installation

(iv) YouI fig. i | installation

Artist Profile: Laura Lowe

2010-05-25T17:04:00.000-07:00

Name/Pseudonym:
Laura Lowe

Location:
Manchester /  Manchester Metropolitan University

General  Working Practice:
I  am currently in the process of developing my  work into a field  of psychological experiences concerning the effects  of colour and light  on the human mind, in which vision and focal points  become lost and the  potential of transcendence experiences can occur.   A series of works in  which perception is the object in matter. 

Mill24  Exhibition:

I  plan to experiment in an area i have been  developing for some time. This  will consist of a number of lights with  various coloured filters, over  the course of the hour I will try to  alter the atmosphere and  environment with the use of these colours,  combining and contrasting the  colours to see the effects of flooding  vibrant colours within an  occupied space with the hope of affecting  mood and vision.

Mill24 Exhibition Date:
saturday 29th May  2010

Website:
http://yolandalove.wordpress.com/

Contact  Email:

helolora@hotmail.com

Curriculum  Vitae:
Free  For Arts Festival / Collective Vision at Noise Lab

Artist Profile: Helen Abbott

2010-05-25T16:54:00.000-07:00

Name/Pseudonym:

Helen Abbott

Location:

Manchester School Of Art – Interactive Arts

General Working Practice:

My work is based on every day life, the focus is around people; I am interested in surveillance and peoples reactions to the world around us.

Mill24 Exhibition:

We all leave traces of ourselves, be it something physical or just memories. I plan to track the flow of people during Mill24; while it is easy to see the movement of people as fast pace, constantly changing and new. I am looking closer, at the impressions we leave behind and making these traces more permanent to reflect the documentation of the passage of time within our lives, and the impact we all have upon our surroundings.

Mill24 Exhibition Date:

Saturday 29th May 2010

Contact email:

helen_melon76@hotmail.co.uk

Website:

http://heleniarts.blogspot.com

Curriculum Vitae:

Free For Arts Festival 2010 John Rylands Library exhibition

Action Cover Party. Performance of Bruce Nauman’s “Violent Incident” with Adriano Digaudio

Artist Profile: Bill Aitchison

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Name/Pseudonym:
Bill Aitchison

General Working Practice:

My  curatorial practice has grown recently  out of my artistic practice  which in turn is referenced within my  academic writing (Practice led  PhD, Uni. of London 2007). Originally  derived from considering the  framework in which my performances are  created, I have more recently  brought this framework explicitly within  some works and also used it to  shape curated events such as the recent  day of talks 'Views From The  Grassy Knoll' that framed the lecture  performance 2012 that I will  present at Mill24.   

Mill24 Exhibition:

I  plan to respond to  the theme of lecture by presenting the lecture  performance of mine  '2012'. This lecture covers subjects connected of  conspiracy theories  and places these within an artistic and political  framework. Researched  and created in London and Beijing, it adopts an  open-ended structure  that places the diverse materials cited in dialogue  and collision.

Mill24 Exhibition Dat:
Saturday 29th May 2010

Website:

www.billaitchison.co.uk

Contact Email:
bill.aitchison@googlemail.com

Curriculum Vitae:
Views From The Grassy Knoll (curated) The Bluecoat, Liverpool 2010

Open Performance Art Festival (presented) 798 Art Zone Beijing 2009
Artist's Performance Series (presented) Wallspace Gallery London 2009

IIFUT Tehran 2010 Caravan Showcase Brighton 2010 Lights On/Off Mannheim 2010

Image: 2012 lecture performance at Wunder Der Praerie Festival Mannheim 2008

Artist Profile: Matt Jackson

2010-05-20T06:01:00.000-07:00

Name/Pseudonym:

Matt Jackson

Permanent Working Location:

Bristol

General Working Practice:

Matt Jackson builds interactive audio and video hardware and software. He uses MaxMSP, Arduino, Processing
and Flash to produce his work, which can take many forms. From live performance software and useful apps to
wireless midi controllers and large installations, Matt’s work always has a strong focus on play. Working with the
University of Wales, Bristol festival, Arnolfini, and Switch Dialogue, amongst others, Matt regularly runs workshops on the software he uses and showcases his own and local artists' work at local events.

Mill24 Exhibition:

Spirus is a large projection of a sound emitting double helix, which can be manipulated using four rotating controllers. The controllers change various aspects of the projection such as the shape, colour, speed and viewing angle.

The idea behind Spirus is to submerge the user into an audio and visual feedback loop, whereby both user input and output are intrinsically interconnected. The result is very addictive. The controls are not labelled, so much of the user experience is an exploration of the interface and how this affects the audio and the video.

Mill24 Exhibition Date:

Saturday 29^th May 2010

Website:

http://jacksonmatt.wordpress.com

Contact Email:

makebreakbeat@hotmail.com

Curriculum Vitae:

Curator of the A/V installations area at Bristol Festival '09 & '10. www.thebristolfestival.org
Exhibited interactive work at the Arnolfini in Bristol as part of unCraftivism. - http://www.craftivism.net
Exhibiting work at Simplexity Applied @Centerspace Gallery, Bristol. - http://www.simplexityapplied.org

Artist Profile: Louise Woodcock

2010-05-20T05:45:00.001-07:00

Name/Pseudonym:

Louise Woodcock

Permanent Working Location:

Islington Mill Studios, Manchester.

General Working Practice:

My work deals with fear and horror and how these are physiologically associated with the body, especially the female body. My work investigates the role of the Bible, specifically The Old Testament, and its impact on our collective cultural, moral and psychological make-up. My work raises questions about femininity and masculinity, beauty and disgust, the synthetic and the organic, through an ongoing process of inquiry. My conceptual concerns are inspired greatly by the work of psychologist and linguist, Julia Kristeva, and her theory of 'the abject' contained in her book: Powers of Horror. I mainly work in Live Art and make installations using found and made objects, sound and light. My practice is experimental and crosses many disciplines.

Mill24 Exhibition:

I intend to crochet myself into an object made mainly out of red acrylic live over the course of the exhibition. The piece will have biomorphic/organic/mutational elements and will cover my whole body by the end of the exhibition. The form will change according to my mood and my situation. I will sometimes walk around the other parts of the exhibition which will inform how my piece takes shape. If I am tense the stitches become narrower, if I’m relaxed they tend to be looser. The shape of the overall piece is improvised and spontaneous. It is a long process so each part of the object will vary as my intention about the piece changes with time and space (the external) and with my psychological state (the internal). There will be an element of fear for me as the artist as the form may make it difficult for me to move, causing me to feel trapped or claustrophobic.

Mill24 Exhibition Date:

Saturday 29th May 2010

Website:

www.kraak.co.uk (with specific reference to the Lost Language exhibition and Late Night Live Art at Kraak series)

Contact Email:

louwoodcock@hotmail.co.uk

Curiculum Vitae:

4-5/2010: Lost Language, Kraak gallery, Manchester (Curator and exhibitor)

10-12/2009: Late Night Live Art at Kraak (series of events) Kraak gallery, Manchester(Curator, Live performer and exhibitor)

07/2009 Around this house (a happening by composer Matthew Lee Knowles) Shorditch Library, London (Live performer)

05/2010: Unsung, poetry festival at the Contact Theatre Manchester (exhibitor)

07/2010: a collaborative work with international Live Artist Yingmei Duan (Live Artist)

Images:

live performance, untitled 12/2009. Description: artist eating words from books, with books, projection screen, dining objects, light.

Installation view at Late Night Live Art at Kraak, 12/2009 title: Part, 02/2009. Description: Installation including large crochet acrylic object, meat hook, chain, sound from tape recorder.

Installation view degree show, University of Salford Visual Arts BA, 06/2009, untitled installation (vanitas). Description: cast wax objects, dressing table, TV screen with static for light and sound (quiet), extreme darkness with black satin curtains covering room.

May E-Invitation

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May Press Release

2010-05-17T17:41:00.001-07:00

The Curators

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Mill24 is curated by Helen Collett, Lois Macdonald and Anna Beam.

Official Photographer Profile: Owain Clark / Spun_Design

2010-05-10T04:16:00.000-07:00

Name/Pseudonym:

Owain Clark / Spun_Design

Permanent working location:

Art Dept - Servlite uk

General Working Practice:

Started off studying Multimedia design then afterwards picked up a camera and started doing band and event photography. Although ive never done a course on photography I'm pretty much self taught with 2 years of working with organizers and bands. The next step for me now is getting a lighting kit sorted out and turning my bedroom into a studio ha!

Mill24 Exhibition:

Photographing the mill was great! Although I only lasted 7 hours which is a fraction of what some people did!

Website:

www.wix.com/spun666/spun_design

Contact Email:

spun_design@hotmail.co.uk

Anna's Pics - 24th April

2010-05-06T00:36:00.001-07:00

James Moffat

Valerie Pezeron

Lisa Handley

Giles Ripley

Edwyn Butler

Rosanne Robertson

Sam Long

Edward Wiffen

Paul Hallows

Troopers.

Ultimate Thrush. Longest drum solo ever

Natasja Loutchko

Josef Bull

The entrance to Liam Wright-Higgins and Billy Anderson Barnes' Installation

Alex Misick

Ultimate Thrush

Mongol Rally Ice Cream Van

Maud Goldberg

Tom Watson

James Nicholas

MRBL KRSHRRRRR

Welcoming Committee

Estelle Woolley, Tom Watson, Chloe Roberts

More pictures of more artists - coming soon!

The memories - 24th April

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Mutt TV.

Tom Watson.

Cygnus/James Moffatt

Jammie Nicholas.

Sam Long.

Edwyn Butler.

Liam Wright-Higgins and Billy Anderson Barnes.

Alex Misick.

Valerie Pezeron.

Ed Wiffen.

Natasja Lotucho.

Josef Bull.

Max Prus.

MCwhippy

One69a vs. MMU

Imperium

MRBLKRSHRRRRR

Limited Edition Mill24 T-shirts

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Been there? Seen it? Wondering what to do next? We here at Mill24 have hand screen printed (with an extra helping hand from one69a) 24 limited edition mill24 t-shirts. Each T-shirt is numbered 00:00 to 23:00, and they cost ten pounds each. Design Below.

Email us at mill24@hotmail.com for more info.

This post will be regularly updated with stock levels. There are currently 20 T-shirts left.

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April Map

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April Line-Up

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Helena Barrett Gallery 19:00-20:00

James Nicholas Gallery 21:00-22:00

Katie Hare Gallery 23:00-00:00

Alex Wilson/Robin Reeder/MUTT-tv Gallery 01:00-02:00

Josef Bull Gallery 03:00-04:00

Natasja Loutchko Gallery 05:00-06:00

Chloe Roberts Fifth Floor 19:00-20:00 Gallery 07:00-08:00

Maud Goldberg Fifth Floor 19:00-20:00 Gallery 07:00-08:00

Estelle Woolley Fifth Floor 19:00-20:00 Ground Floor Toilets 07:00-08:00

Paul Hallows Gallery 09:00-10:00

Edward Wiffen Gallery 11:00-12:00

Sam Long Gallery 13:00-14:00

Rosanne Robertson Gallery 15:00-16:00

Edwyn Butler Gallery 17:00-18:00

Rosie Cooper Venue 18:00-18:00

Mrbl Krshrrrr Venue 21:00-22:00

Imperium Venue 22:00-23:00

Ultimate Thrush Venue 23:00-23:30

Valerie Pezeron Venue 23:30-18-00

Daniel Staincliffe Stairs 18:00-00:00

Rachel Maclean Engine House 18:00-18:00

Kim’s Homemade Food Engine House 18:00-00:00 12:00-18:00

James Moffat/Cygnusss Common Room 18:00-18:00

Daniel Andersson First Floor Toilets 18:00-18:00

Giles Ripley Stairs 00:00-18:00

Tom Watson Fifth Floor 18:00-22:00

Max Prus Alex Misick James Wright Fifth Floor 00:00-03:00

Liam Wright-Higgins & Billy Anderson Barnes Fifth Floor 12:00-18:00

Frida Hållander Fifth Floor 18:00 – 00:00

Lisa Handley Nooks and Crannies 18:00-18:00

One69a Manchester School of Art Open Studio 18:00-18:00

Artist Profile: Sam Long

2010-04-16T12:00:00.000-07:00

Name/Pseudonym:

Sam Long

Permanent Working Location:

Easyjet Generation

General Working Practice:

Lifecoachy

Mill24 Exhibition:

Felix & Edmund On average 150 Polo mints are eaten every second. In cricket the average fast bowl is 38m/s. All Ribena products contain at least 38% of the (average adult) recommended dietary intake of Vitamin C. A 750g helping of Baron's New Green Cucumbers would provide 24% of the recommended (average male) daily Calorie intake.

Mill24 Exhibition Date:

Saturday 24th April 2010

Website:

www.myspace.com/motherlandsquash

Curriculum Vitae:

Previous Shows as MOTHERLAND

7 x 14 , Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden, May, 2009

Rich: 70%, Silberkuppe, Berlin, September, 2009

Rooms Without Walls: Silberkuppe at the Hayward Gallery Project Space, London, November 2009

Artist Profile: one69A

2010-04-16T11:50:00.000-07:00

Name/Pseudonym:

one69A collective

Permanent Working Location:

Screen printing studio - Islington Mill Workshops + Education - Zion Arts Centre, Hulme

General Working Practice:

One69a are a creative collective based in Manchester who specialise in screen printing.

We design, make and print a variety of products at our studio in Islington Mill, Manchester. All of our products are printed by hand using silk screens.

One69a also facilitate a range of creative practical projects with various schools and community groups.

In addition to this, we also run live screen printing sessions at events including festivals, gigs, private hire and corporate hire.

Mill24 Exhibition:

Part 1: In Mill24 we are opening our studio to the students of fine art sculpture at Manchester Art School, allowing them to produce 800 hand screen printed cotton bags for distribution at their degree show. The 24 hour period also allows us to show guests our printing practise and the skills needed to produce high quality clothing and posters for commercial selling.

Part 2: In Mill24 we are opening our studio to all. Visitors will be able to screen print their own t-shirts with the expertise and equipment of one69a at hand. This allows us to show guests our printing practise and the skills needed to produce high quality clothing and posters for commercial selling.

Mill24 Exhibition Date:

Saturday 24^th April 2010 & Saturday 29th May 2010

Website:

www.one69a.com

Contact Email:

Screen printing studio - jermyn@0ne69a.com

Education - sally@one69a.com

Curriculum Vitae:

Poster exhibition celebrating the launch of local print ventures: tba magazine and the one69a collective.

tba is a monthly poster-zine committed to unearthing Manchester’s creative foundations. Hand produced and independently generated to promote the city’s diverse art and music communities.

Based at Salford’s Islington Mill, one69a mobilise the medium of screen printing to both create and educate with their workshops and live printing events. As a business they offer a bespoke and friendly service.

Together they are putting on NEW MANCHESTER, an art and music showcase taking place at their Islington Mill home on May 14 & 15. A preview of the poster exhibition will be on display at Manchester’s latest pop-up gallery, The Art Corner above Trof, Fallowfield.

NEW MANCHESTER

A FREE art and music showcase celebrating the launch of tba magazine and the one69a collective.

Friday night we unveil our poster exhibition. One69a will also be throwing open their studio doors, regaling visitors with drink and DJs. A host of exciting workshops, food and music is planned for Saturday, culminating in ONE BIG FAT PARTY come evening.

Here is a chance to meet some of the city’s rising talents and experience its vivacious creative core, the New Manchester...

Artist Profile: Rosanne Robertson

2010-04-14T14:22:00.000-07:00

Name/Pseudonym:
Rosanne Robertson

Permanent Working Location:
Manchester

General Working Practice:
My general working practice involves having lots of ideas about pieces of art which I believe to be interesting. I then carry on with cups of tea, nasty letters from banks, reading, researching, working, doing the washing, going to the shop, smoking cigarettes, watching films. During this time ideas continue to either form or fade out. The ones that last with me the longest and remain interesting to me get some sort of output. Common outputs within my practice have previously included: Documentation of research projects, video, text, installation, performance, live art, photography, social networking and 3D virtual design.

Mill24 Exhibition:
Artist/Viewer 2009/10, Performance/installation/video, 60mins. This piece questions the position of the viewer and artist equally. By using the artist as an object and the viewer as an element of completion within the piece the power balance of the ‘artist installation’ is thrown off. The questions and ideas surrounding the piece originate from the emphasis in contemporary art practice on process, interaction and commenting on the actions and working process of the artist. Activities such as workshops, open studios, talks, lectures, discussions, presentations, blogging, posting videos and other communication and documentation methods are all asked of from the contemporary artist in order for a piece to ‘exist’ and be communicated to the public. The changing role from artist to artist/curator challenges the artist themselves to communicate the private as public within spaces that demand multiple responses.

Mill24 Exhibition Date:
Saturday 24th April 2010

Website:
http://rosannerobertson.art.officelive.com

Contact Email:
RosanneRobertson1984@gmail.com

Curriculum Vitae:

‘Emellee Was Here, You Were There’ 2008/09 Two Main Outlets for ongoing project involving constructed character blurring the real and the fictional with stolen human interaction and personalities- Odd Bar, Manchester http://www.oddbar.co.uk/odder/event/1099 and Manchester Art Crawl 09 (part of ‘Not Part of Festival’), Service Point Manchester http://bit.ly/bRvKpK

‘Castlefield Contemporaies’ 2009, easaHQ http://www.alexmaxwell.co.uk/easauk/easaindex.html pieces shown were ‘How To View Art’ 2009/10 and ‘Journal’ 2009.

Future exhibitions, projects and new art group information made available via the RosanneRobertson website.

Images:

‘Emellee Was Here, You Were There’ 2008/09, Installation shot of output
information from project, MMU Degree Show.

‘Emellee Was Here, You Were There’ 2008/09, screening/discussion of secret
filming at Odd Bar, 2009.

‘How to View Art’ 2009/10, A4 handouts and A1 poster. Guidelines for viewing
an exhibition based on manuals written for non arts educated individuals who
teach art based subjects in schools. Piece installed at ‘Castlefield
Contemporaries’ EasaHQ 2009.

‘Journal’ 2009, A4 Journal about keeping a journal and preparation work for
creating work for an exhibition. Piece installed at ‘Castlefield Contemporaries’ EasaHQ, 2009.

April E-Invitation

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April Press Release

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Press Attention

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Jotta interview with James Nicholas

Article published in print and online with All About Manchester Magazine

Critical Network

The Art Guide

jotta online

Axis

Blank Media

Wallflower

Artist Profile: Giles Ripley

2010-04-13T15:10:00.000-07:00

Name/Pseudonym:
Giles Ripley

Permanent Working Location:
London

General Working Practice:
“Giles Ripley is a cunning young artist-filmmaker making short, potent films satirizing aspects of human motivation and a growing trend for neurosis about achievement and self-actualizing. His films are funny, disarming and immediately likeable but also connect us to deeper and more uncomfortable emotions – fear of looking stupid and fear of wasting our life by not living up to potential. Ripley has been curated into international exhibitions, picked up by a number of savvy collectors and included in the likes of Kay Saatchi’s top picks.”

Mill24 Exhibition:
An unlikely take on a motivational seminar, “I’M A WINNER!!!! (Why aren’t you?)” follows its creator Giles Ripley’s journey on the road to success, delivering his simple secrets to a better life. Comprised of three video chapters, each lasting approximately three minutes, this quick fix formula offers an alternative to average, a chance to make a change and the key to creating amazing in your life.

Mill24 Exhibition Date:
Saturday 24th April 2010

Website:
http://www.gilesripley.com

Contact Email:
gilesripley@gmail.com

Curriculum Vitae:
I’M A WINNER!!!! (Why aren’t you?), City Inn Westminster, London, 2010
Evolution Festival ’09, Leeds Metropolitan Gallery, May 2009
Far From The Madding Crowd, Road Agent Gallery, Dallas, TX, May 2009
New Contemporaries 2008, A Foundation, Liverpool Biennial, September 2008

Artist Profile: Rob Bellman

2010-04-13T14:46:00.000-07:00

Name/Pseudonym:

DKS.co

Permanent  working location:
London,  England

Mill24 Exhibition:
“What’s  this? I said I wanted a Macchiato!!” Wined the thin man in the  thin  jeans. “Not this muck”…………………….

”Cauw-fey”……….lulled the daemon.  His little red eyes flicker-flicked as  he spoke. Having no mouth one  just assumed that was where the sound came  from.

“YES I WANT A  COFFEE!” said thin man, who was now a bit red.                                      

……….“Cauw-fey”……..             

“Yes, a  coffee, yes, a little tiny fucking coffee with some fucking  frothy milk  on the fucking top you RETARD!”

……”Cauw-fey”……the daemon moaned  with the same hollow intonation and  timing………..

……..”Cauw-fey”……………………….

The  thin man in the thin jeans was storming off down the long dark   corridor, taking very long angry strides. He hadn’t got his Macchiato.
The  white paper cup lay on its side on the floor, thick black glossy   syrupy coffee crawled out of it.

The daemon had to do a 3-point  turn in the narrow corridor to get the  coffee cart to face the other  way. The tiny little wheels, over burdened  as they were, squeaked a  little too much to be comfortable as the  daemon shuffled off towards  the opposite horizon in the corridor.

THE END

Contact Email:
diekillshoes@yahoo.co.uk

Curriculum Vitae:
-LAST SHOW -  'IDIOT STRENGTH' -  25th November, Tim Pritchard Gallery, 2009 London
-NEXT  SHOW - RCA  Work in Progress.  Title - TBC . April 2010. London

Artist Profile: LuckyPDF

2010-04-13T14:24:00.000-07:00

Name/Pseudonym:
LuckyPDF

Permanent Working Location:
Peckham, SE London

General Working Practice:
LuckyPDF is a project by project grouping of artists, writers, musicians, curators and organisers who tey to make good things happen.

Mill24 Exhibition:
LuckyPDF will be running a 24 hour in house TV studio, broadcasting live and continuously throughout the building.

Mill24 Exhibition Date:
Saturday 29th May 2010

Website:
http://luckypdf.com

Contact Email:
john@luckypdf.com

Images:
1) Amy Goodman presenting Democracy Now! http://democracynow.org
2) The Broom Cupboard c. 1991 courtesy http://www.the-broom-cupboard.co.uk
3) Proh-soh' pa-peer (2009) Richard John Jones autoitaliasoutheast.org

Artist Profile: Sam Gieben

2010-04-13T14:15:00.000-07:00

Name/Pseudonym:
 Sam Gieben  

Permanent working location: 
Berlin  

General Working Practice: 
My work is just like a record of things I've seen or heard or thought, usually right then or the night before, last week or whenever. Sometimes its super weird or funny or serious or just however I'm feeling. My process is basically I draw wherever and make millions of drawings and keep them in a big mess around me and they start to change and merge and develop that way. Or if its not a drawing, its just like, what is the idea, and how do we make it happen? What do we have to learn/make/steal?  

Mill24 Exhibition: 
I'm working with a good friend of mine, and we will be building a den, or maybe a few dens, in and/or around the space. They will be for everyone and people can do what they like inside. They will be an escape from the rest of the show, while being a part of it; places to hide, play, rest, be alone, be with your friends, do what you like.

Mill24 Exhibition Date:
Saturday 29th May 2010

  Website: 
www.samgieben.eu iamelsewhere.tumblr.com

  Contact email: 
samgieben@gmail.com  

Curriculum Vitae: 
Winter Warriors @ Stadtbad, Berlin, Feb 2010 
Eclections @ Theartmarket/Kunstfreund Gallery, Leeds, Nov 2008

Artist Profile: Robbie Porter

2010-04-13T13:29:00.000-07:00

Name/Pseudonym: 
Robbie Porter  

Permanent working location: 
Edinburgh  

General Working Practice: 
My practice revolves primarily around drawing, yet my finished pieces can take on various forms. For me drawing enables the manipulation of a page or image in order to take creative control over ones reality, dreams or fantasies. It enables me to explore my imagination and create things that don't exist in the world around me. In this sense it is possible to become an inventor even if one possess' no technical or scientific skill. I find it far easier to understand my role as a visual scientist or a visual author than as a visual artist. My work isn't entirely coherent though, I have no overall theme I wish to explore or issues I am trying to raise or deal with. I simply enjoy having ideas. What I want to move towards in the future is a body of work that engages people for longer, that gives someone an experience. I want to explore how an image can be experienced or how a picture can take you on an adventure. I'm hoping to move towards a visual narrative that holds it's own story, not a comic or an animation but a journey which retrospectively will have a clear beginning middle and end.  

Mill24 Exhibition:
 I'm working with a good friend of mine, and we will be building a den, or maybe a few dens, in and/or around the space. They will be for everyone and people can do what they like inside. They will be an escape from the rest of the show, while being a part of it; places to hide, play, rest, be alone, be with your friends, do what you like.

Mill24 Exhibition Date:
Saturday 29th May 2010  

Website: 
www.robbieporter.co.uk

Contact Email: 
robbieporter85@hotmail.com  

Curriculum Vitae: 
"Reveal" - Edinburgh Printmakers – 2010
"Go Reborn" - Princess Street Mall - 2009 "Winter Exhibition" - Edinburgh Printmakers - 2009 "Print Factory" - Owl & Lion Gallery - 2009

Images:
 1 - "the electrician's day off" 
2 - "take a leaf out of his book" 
3 - "weather man" 
4 - "sense of perspective"
 5 - "professor saturn"

Artist Profile: Steven Hutchinson

2010-04-13T13:15:00.000-07:00

Name/Pseudonym:
Steven Hutchinson

Permanent working location:
Bolton, Lancashire

General Working Practice:
As a film maker working primarily in narrative based work, I have produced a number of short films as a writer, director and editor. Throughout my work I have tasked myself with the frankly audacious practice of exploring the nuances of human nature, by trying to tease out the fine details which form our behaviour. As I have developed my work, I have found that to best represent an abstract and characteristically nonlinear thought process, a similar approach is required to represent this in an overtly visual medium such as film.

Mill24 exhibition:
My proposed piece will explore how we waste time (for good or bad), and how precious it is. It will explore the distractions of every day life, which themselves could be the very thing we live for.
The piece, titled 30 Minutes, will be a film featuring a working clock set against thirty varying locations and incidents. The clock will appear in front of the various scenes in succession, with each scene lasting precisely one minute. Each minute will act as a window into different worlds, offering a fractured glimpse into situations and locations; never seeing its start, nor seeing it play out to its conclusion.
Within the thirty scenes I intend to explore themes of pleasure and the mundane as the elements that shape and dominate our time in different forms, and manifest themselves in the distractions and experiences which ultimately fill or waste time.

Mill24 exhibition date:
Sarurday 29th Mar 2010

Website:
http://clocksproject.blogspot.com/

Contact email:
clocksproject@hotmail.com

Images:
1. 'Kassia' (Short Film, 2010)
2. 'Samuel Doesn't Live Here Anymore' (Short Film 2008)
3. 'Six Chords' (Music Video, 2009)

Artist Profile: Valerie Pezeron

2010-04-13T12:44:00.000-07:00

Name:
Valerie Pezeron

Permanent working location:
London, University of East London, The School of Architecture and the Visual Arts (AVA)

General working practice:
Throughout all my projects, be it as an an illustrator, motion graphics designer and art writer, my commitment is to art as the perfect agent for social change and political awareness. And not to be a bore but find ever newer ways to communicate. To that end, I have worked for the likes of New Humanist, Ctrl-Alt-Shift, Inside Out and Amelia’s magazines.
A distinction can be made between my commercial and personal work but the binding common touch is my striving to produce images that are visually arresting and innovative. If you are left unmoved, then I have not done my job well!
Strong concepts and distinctive mixed media digital collages are all manipulated to fit a given brief for clients in the advertising, editorial, publishing, broadcasting, cinema, fashion and music industries. Besides my freelance work, I am also the author of distinctive graphic novels- "Written by Men, Blame It On God" is to be published by The Rationalist Association before the end of the year.
Over the years an unexpected side to my work has emerged amidst all that daily tackling of youth culture iconography or delving the depths of dark and serious current affairs issues. I must confess that I enjoy drawing naughty sexy girls in funny, surreal and quirky situations.

Mill24 exhibition:
Relaxation corner with Pussy Galore. An intense bouquet of humour and feminity is about to take over an entire corner of the Mill 24. My aim is to create an oasis where visitors and artists alike will be able to sit down, relax and immerse themselves in a fantasy of eccentric vixens inhabiting an outlandish Rousseau-like décor where nothing quite fits... An entire wall will feature a painted mural with assorted hand made heavy cushions laid about.

Mill24 exhibition Date:
Saturday the 24th of April 2010

Websites:
www.valochedesigns.co.uk
http://valochedesigns.blogspot.com/

Contact Email:
valerie@valochedesigns.co.uk

Awards:
Association of Illustrators Images 33- New Media Section
Association of Illustrators Images 32- Editorial Section
Association of Illustrators Images 31
Images is the Association of Illustrators Best of British Illustration book and exhibition produced on a yearly basis

Curriculum Vitae:
20 October to 6 November: Comica at the ICA, London
http://www.comicafestival.com/
July 2009: Group Exhibition with AOI Images 33 New Media Section
July 2008: Group Exhibition with AOI Images 32 Editorial Section
July 2007: Group Exhibition with AOI Images 31
July 2006: Solo Exhibition at the Duke of York in Camberwell, London
June 2005: Group Exhibition at the Conningsby Gallery, London

Images:
Fear. Halloween Poster. Client: Penelope Illustration competition
Cityscape. Frame shot from animated music video. Client: Hush the Many
Bipolar Blues. Client: Inside Out magazine.
Ziad. Fashion Illustration for London Fashion Week 2010. Client: Amelia’s magazine

Matthew de Kersaint Giraudeau

2010-04-12T06:05:00.000-07:00

Name:
Matthew de Kersaint Giraudeau

Location:

East London

General Working Practice:
Matthew de Kersaint Giraudeau is an artist, writer and musician living and working in London. His art work ranges from drawing, to video and performance. His performance work nestles in the gap between critical theory and everyday experience, drawing together anecdote and abstraction to create chaotic narratives.

Mill24:
The Sadness of Mark Speight

In April 2008, Mark Speight, presenter of children's TV art show Smart,hanged himself in Macmillan House next to Paddington station. Three months earlier his girlfriend Natasha Collins had died from severe burns and drug overdose. Using shallow internet research, personal anecdote and poor quality visual aids, Matthew de Kersaint Giraudeau presents a lecture on The Sadness of Mark Speight.

Website:
www.dekersaint.co.uk

email:
info@dekersaint.co.uk

Past Exhibitions:

February 2010. 'Buckminsterfullerene Dream' at Space in Between, London. ARKA: Onerios installation exhibited.

January 2010. 'Stay Lucky' at the Centre for Recent Drawing, London. Psychosis Drawings exhibited.

Future Exhibitions:
-May 2010, Resident exhibition at The Lombard Method, Birmingham.
-May 2010, 'Empty Sets' at Waterside Project Space, Islington, London.

Previous Work:

Two Friends, digital video, 2007

Specific Cultural Reference #4, digital video, 2008

Unnon, digital video, 2007

Graham Dunning

2010-04-10T13:16:00.000-07:00

Name/Pseudonym:

Graham Dunning

Permanent working location:

Manchester

general working practice:

My working practice deals with temporality, memory and narrative through sound, performance and installation. I am interested in people’s discarded memories - in photographs, sound recordings or objects - and the function of archiving. Found home recordings from the recent past feature in my work investigating notions of the artifact and implied narrative. Experimentation is important in my work, and my practice is often informed by scientific experimental protocol.

Mill24:

I intend to spent 24 hours as the conductor and subject of a pseudo-scientific experiment into entropy and the Arrow of Time, exploring the laws of thermodynamics by using my artistic practice as a metaphorical scientific specimen. Simultaneously I will be the scientist, making measurements and recording results, and the group of atoms interacting with other parts of the system.

Islington Mill, and my studio within it, will act as the closed system under study. The limited time frame will be an experimental condition. Loosely equating creativity with heat, I will start from a temperature of absolute zero: a blank scientific sketchbook, an empty workspace and no preconceived ideas for making work.

At the close of the exhibition I will have made a combined lab report / sketchbook. Within the report there will be written records of interactions with other artists; Polaroids, taken on the hour, of my workspace; drawings, diagrams, charts and graphs; found objects or pieces of paper; or anything else that seems relevant. In addition there are likely to be sound recordings, video footage, photographs, maquettes and other objects, all of which will be thoroughly documented.

Website:

http://www.grahamdunning.com

Contact:

grahamthedunning@hotmail.com

images:

Image 1: Untitled (2010), Installation: tape machines with three-channel audio.

Image 2: Ring a bell until you tell yourself to stop (2010), Installation, tape machine, audio tape loop and bell.

Image 3: Untitled (2008), Installation: found bottles and audio.

Past Exhibitions:

Lost Language, Kraak, Manchester, April 2010: Sound installation featuring reel-to-reel tape players with three channel audio plus performance and sound art workshop. Part of a group show featuring experimental emerging artists from Manchester and London.

sixty_six_events, Five Years Gallery, London, February 2010: Videos and sound object shown as part of a group show of documentation from international global art event sixty_six_events.

Krumm, Outlet Temproary Gallery Space, Manchester, May 2008: Video installation and performance as part of a group show.

Gary Fisher

2010-04-10T13:12:00.000-07:00

Name/Pseudonym:

Gary Fisher

Permanent working location:

Islington Mill, Salford

General Practice:

a continuous process of experimentation and enquiry focused around investigatory or instinctive responses to sounds, objects, words and images. The work explores amplification of surfaces, textures and objects, combining found materials and reappropriating found objects and technologies for use as instruments or noise-makers. The process includes, sound recording, collecting, archiving, drawing, construction, photography, and text. It generates many outcomes including live performance, sound installation, CD or tape recordings, graphic scores. Sometimes the line between research and outcome is not clear and often they are the same. Objects, images, sound recordings and live performances may be seen as individual pieces in their own right as well as parts of a bigger 'work in progress' that is the process itself.

Mill24:

Produce a series of 24 different tracks using sounds sourced or recorded from around the Mill during those 24hours - with 1 hour to record and produce each track. The tracks may vary in length and form from field recordings to ambient compositions to pure noise. Each new track will be published online every hour into a blog set up especially for this purpose, also notes and pictures relating to the track may be posted. After the event the 24 tracks will be released in the same order online as a free download album.

Website:

http://www.myspace.com/gfisherart

http://last.fm/music/Gary+Fisher/+albums

http://www.gary-fisher.co.uk

Contact:

g.r.fisher@hotmail.co.uk

Past Exhibitions:

2009 - 'Krumm', Outlet, Manchester.

2008 - 'Openended', Bristol.

Future Exhibitions:

April 2 - 23 2010 'Lost Language', Kraak Gallery, Manchester.

Seekers of Lice

2010-04-10T13:05:00.000-07:00

Name/Pseudonym:

seekers of lice

Permanent working location:

UK

general practice:

seekers of lice proposes art as an insect bite, infecting the blood through proximity, anecdote, annexation, colonisation, infection, inoculation: scratch the itch & itch the scratch.

seekers of lice creates material interventions, sometimes of an ephemeral nature, which find gaps and spaces in which to operate. Its practice is concerned with objects and text.

Works range from interventions in public places, participation in curated projects and exhibitions in galleries to book publishing and multiples.

Mill24:

Invent the Present (part II)

This is a collaged performance piece, the lecture as art work. It includes words by artists and poets cut into writings by seekers of lice, with a simultaneous slide show of images. The images form a separate discourse which at times overlaps with the speech.

The mode of the lecture moves between manifesto, quotation, description, declamation, question and statement. Its subjects include the positioning of the artist and the artwork in society, and the relationship of art and artists to institutional structures.The lecture will be accompanied by a "programme", a short pamphlet produced for Mill24.

Invent the present was given as a lecture in February 2010 at Chelsea College of Art. Part II is a development and recasting of that lecture. The lecture is an ongoing dialogue between seekers of lice's art and writing and other art and artists' and poets' words.

Exhibition Date:

Saturday 29th May 2010

images:

1. seekers of lice East End 359º installed November 16th 2007
an installation of 359 text objects

2. 2008 210 postcards on Thames foreshore left to the tide

3. foreshore : precarious to Rapunzel 2008
2 tides later

4. every//same//is//and//the//now//here
7 boxes with text and objects

5. study wall 28.05.09 09:40

Website:

www.axisweb.org/artist/seekersoflice

Contact:

seekersoflice@aol.co.uk

TXLW

2010-04-10T12:54:00.000-07:00

Name/Pseudonym:

Tasha Whittle / TXLW

Permanent working location:

Manchester

General Practice:

Still learning and still evolving,but drawing through the subconscious my work is based in illustration.Characters are heavy based in my work, i draw what id like to see in the world.. funny looking critters that make me chortle.

I like to draw to music, so the outcome is un-predictable, using the beats and textures of the songs to create lines and patterns. Never one to keep to a certain medium or surface, art is open and inspiring.I am inspired by my surroundings, progression, peers, moments, being on my bike, sounds and tea.

Mill24:

A creatimation! Using the powers of animation, live art and creating it all together with the playfulness of transformation. Documenting the process of creating a peice of artwork through time lapse/stop frame animiation.. transforming a solid block of colour into something readable, an image.

This working experiment is created specifically for Mill24.

Exhibition Date:

Saturday 29th May 2010

Website:

www.thecolouringbox.co.uk

Contact:

thecolouringbox@hotmail.com

Past Exhibitions:

Focus : Solo Show : Odder Bar, Manchester 2009

Spring : Group Show : The Art of Tea, Manchester 2009

An Introduction : Solo Show: Bis Auf Messer, Berlin 2010

Future Exhibitions:

Note To Self : Solo Show : Chinese Arts Center, Manchester 2010

TBA New Manchester : Group Show : Islington Mill, Manchester 2010

Rubbish Art : Group Show : Centro, Manchester 2010

Marielle Hehir and Hannah Mosley

2010-04-10T12:42:00.001-07:00

Name/Pseudonym:

ArtMath

Permanent working location:

Manchester

General Working Practice:

Artmath is an ongoing collaborative experiment between painter Marielle Hehir and illustrator Hannah Mosley. There is definite thematic overlap between Marielle and Hannah's work, but whilst Hannah comments more on the strange and intimate experience of the individual, Marielle's work is more directed towards commenting on the exterior aspects of society. Somewhat provoked by an admiration of each others practice, we are now interested in what happens when the two forces are combined.

Mill24:

“24 Hour Growing Pains” is a live painting that will evolve over 24 hours. The painting itself will grow from artefacts taken from the Artmath exhibition “Attack of the 50ft Growing Pains”, allowing the artists to revisit and create an alternate ending for the work. By showcasing documentation of an already bygone exhibition within the opening night context, Artmath intends to trick the viewer into consuming a whole 6-week exhibition, as well as witnessing the rebirth of a related, but individual piece of artwork.

Website:

Artmath - http://weareartmath.blogspot.com

Marielle Hehir – http://mariellehehir.blogspot.com

Hannah Mosley – http://www.hannahmosley.com

http://hanmosley.blogspot.com

Contact:

weareartmath@gmail.com

Past Exhibitions:

Eclectism at the Triangle – October 2009

Attack of the 50ft Growing Pains at Nexus Art Café 16^TH April 2010 – 30^th May 2010

'When we were younger and better'

Emily Phillips

2010-04-10T12:36:00.000-07:00

Name/Pseudonym:

Emily Phillips

Permanent working location:

Nexus Art Cafe, Manchester

General Curatorial Practice:

I am interested in anthro-sociological questions concerned with art objects, spaces and humans. In how art galleries, exhibitions and encounters potentially open up certain kinds of exploration, reflection and meaning making. Such a slant turns any sort of curatorial experience inside out, or at least shifts the stakes. My own practise is concerned with thinking through how this impacts on my own practise.

Mill24:

‘24 hour Growing Pains’ will be the epilogue to an exhibition entitled ‘Attack of the 50ft Growing Pains’, exhibiting at Nexus Art café during April and May 2010. The project stages the unfolding of an ongoing exchange between Hannah and Maz, artists who collaborate under the moniker Art Math. This exchange, begun initially as a merely visual dialogue, has developed into a broader exploration of how ideas, objects, practices and knowledge interact across different working contexts and relationships. The project looks at growth and transformation, and the very real pain that often accompanies this- how people, ideas and objects fall away or get left behind.

‘Growing Pains’ at the Mill will take place over 24 hours, being durational, site and situation specific. Drawing upon B movie culture, science fiction imagery, antique and vintage culture and the surreal, work will be created live in the space throughout this period in response to the exaggerated sense of time, space and experience that the Mill project affords. Alongside this, documentary materials from ‘Attack…!’ will be exhibited, tracing the growth and development of the project so far, and prompting reflections and distortions on the nature of the ‘opening night’ consumption- in effect the viewer will be witnessing the life cycle of an exhibition in one visit and will be witnessing a kind of live post script.

Website:

www.nexusartcafe.com

Contact:

info@nexusartcafe.com

Jennifer McDonald

2010-04-10T12:32:00.000-07:00

Name/Pseudonym:
Jennifer McDonald
Location:
Manchester based  artist
General Working Practice:
My work investigates how  different spaces and environments create sensual and emotional  experiences and is especially concerned with the idea of sacred spaces  and how these affect how people feel and behave. My work is inspired by  significant cultural spaces such as the football stadium, the theatre,  Disneyland and the shopping mall and how these relate to the Church and  the Temple in contemporary Western European society. My work deals with  issues around religion and conformity and raises questions about our  acceptance of social, moral and cultural codes and practices. My work  investigates our need for spirituality and the sacred.
Mill24:
I am intrigued in the effect 24 hours of sleep  deprivation could have on the minds perception. When the brain is  denied the fundamental need of sleep the normal state of consciousness,  and the brains design of survival becomes disturbed. I am interested in  Aldous Huxley’s idea, that sleep depravation...
‘lowers the efficiency of the  brain as an instrument for focusing the mind on the problems of everyday  life on the surface of our planet. This lowering of what may be called  the biological efficiency of the brain seems to permit the entry into  consciousness of certain classes of mental events, which are normally  excluded because they possess no survival value. Similarly intrusions of  biologically useless but aesthetically and sometimes spiritually  valuable material may occur.’
For the  duration of the 24 hour event I will be in silence which can also  assist in creating this ultra sensitive state of thinking and feeling.  Throughout the event I will be keeping a diary logging and cataloguing  my sensory experiences. For the event I plan to begin and complete an  installation piece. In the piece I will explore the ideas which have  attracted me to the 24 hour project. The piece I make will attempt to  create an experience which will evoke the viewer’s sensory feelings.  Smell, sight, sound, touch and sound (or silence) will all be employed  in this project. Due to the interest I have in creating a very sensitive  and instinctive creative environment I am interested in what ideas and  work will come from this experience. For this reason I will be allowing  the event to dictate or guide what the end installation will look and  feel like.
Exhibition Date:
Saturday 29th May 2010
Website:
jenmcd1986@yahoo.co.uk
Future Exhibitions:
April 2nd KRAAK, group exhibition Lost Language

Blank Media Collective

2010-04-10T12:22:00.000-07:00

name/Pseudonym:

Blank Media Collective

Location:

Manchester, North West

General Working Practice:

Established in 2006, Blank Media Collective champions emerging artists, writers, musicians and practitioners through exhibitions, performance, free portfolio hosting on our website and via our online magazine, blankpages. Under Director Mark Devereux, the organisation has gained an excellent reputation, particularly within Manchester and the North West. Blank Media are actively involved in a range of other projects which can be found on our website at www.blankmediacollective.org.

Mill24:

Blank Media Collective have commissioned Fivethreefive Project and John Leyland & Annette Cookson on behalf of Mill24. The organisation has supported these two talented groups in the preparation and implementation of their final pieces for the festival.

Website:

www.blankmediacollective.org

Past Exhibitions:

Seeing and Being Seen, greenroom, Manchester, February – April 2010 Neck of the Woods, Nexus Art Café, Manchester, February – April 2010

Upcoming Exhibitions:

Unbuilt, easaHQ, Manchester, May 2010

John Leyland and Annette Cookson

2010-04-10T12:17:00.000-07:00

Name/Pseudonym:

John Leyland & Annette Cookson

Location:

Manchester, North West

General Working Practice:

Annette Cookson is a social and emotional commentator, a true Mancunian performer whose wide experiences of life inform her art. Her poetry is free, her voice strong; always searching to convey the humanity in society. John Leyland is a poetic magic realist. His work often explores the communal nature of personal relationships. He transports the audience to an honest, creative truth, observing with significance the importance of detail.

Mill24:

HOW TO BE ART - The Secret to finding an affordable masterpiece. You won't know it until someone tells you. Identity is fragmented. Subjectivity is always fluid. Movement is poetic. John Leyland & Annette Cookson present a playful, grotesque, seditious production; the next level of poetry performance.

Who the fuck is Alan Yentob?

Exhibition Date:

Saturday 29th May 2010

Website:

www.blankmediacollective.org/portfolios/John_Leyland

Past Exhibitions:

Crow of Murders Contact Theatre, Manchester 2008 - queer community poetry installation Neck of the Woods Curated by Blank Media Collective, Nexus Art Cafe, Manchester Feb 2010 - commissioned response to works on show, exploring the dichotomy of art and social realism within the notions of space and community through poetic voice, performance and movement.

Fivethreefive Project

2010-04-10T12:12:00.000-07:00

Name:

Fivethreefive Project

Location:

Manchester, North West

General Working Practice:

Fivethreefive Project are an experimental theatre company interested in producing performances which not only present a state of being, but actively immerse audiences in the creation of experience. We play with varying forms and universal concepts, to create atmospheric, innovative pieces, which are intellectually engaging and emotionally stimulating. Much of Fivethreefive Project’s work relates back to the human condition - what it is to feel under pressure; to be a member of a community; to be nostalgic.

Company members:

Jennifer Gaskell, Daniel Gunson, Louisa Leggett, Erica Mileham, Amy Ward & Eleanor Whitfield

Mill24:

Inspired by Islington Mill’s transition from industrial workplace to artistic platform, Fivethreefive Project will again transform the space into another space; the notion of escapism; the desire and the process of creating something optimistic out of a dusty abandon. Picnic will be a performative presentation, infused with physical theatre, centred on the idea of creating something idyllic - the perfect picnic in the perfect setting. Through the course of the performance, the space will be temporarily transformed into a nostalgic gathering of strangers.

Exhibition Date:

Saturday 29th May 2010

Website:

www.blankmediacollective.org/portfolios/fivethreefiveproject

Past Exhibitions:

The Chatter - curated by Blank Media Collective as part of Neck of the Woods, Nexus Art Café, Manchester. February – April 2010

Vertigo - Nuffield Theatre, Lancaster

Of All These Memories – Nuffield Theatre, Lancaster