On Saturday, the live version of Façades/Fronts was performed twice in Aberdeen as part of Look Again Festival. Although it probably seemed like the main deal from the outside, the project has been in development since last October, so it was in fact, a lovely end to a really incredible journey. Building on recent …
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A Parade of Architectural Commas
I have been a tad lax on updates recently! A few exhibitions have gone up (and come down) in the meantime including (Re)learning to Read, a group show curated by TORQUE at the Grundy Art Gallery, Blackpool Transparency, an Arts Council collection show at Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool [Re]construct at the Chapel at Yorkshire Sculpture Park …
Basic Principles for Building Construction
This will be a new work commissioned by Wewiora Projects for Northern Art Car Booty and two performances of the piece will take place on Sunday 30th August 2015. Expanding on a costume piece made the previous year – a hybrid of clothing and architectural shapes – the work has been developed since as the first …
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Build-Up: A Practice
On Sunday 7th April, four acrobats will perform for around one hour in Castlefield Gallery, as an extension or further exploration of the film work in the exhibition. The exercises they perform will be a repetition of certain structures, because they cannot hold the shape for long, it will have to be built over and …
Castlefield dates
The exhibition with Hayley Newman is open and will be in until 7th April. There’s a couple of events coming up at Castlefield Gallery… 23rd March at 3.30pm – A panel discussion with Hayley Newman, curator Bridget Crone and moi. 7th March – Build-Up: A practice at 3.30pm. Four acrobats will perform a series of …
Blue Room
I wanted to share this amazing work by Jo, a member of Blue Room, an arts service for people with learning difficulties that runs three days a week at the Bluecoat. I visited them while Topophobia was on, and they came into the gallery a couple of times to see me performing inside my work. …
Tunnels
Body/Building (Grottenbahn/Limoni Tonnel)
Atelierhaus Salzamt, Linz
On Tuesday I am heading back to Austria to work for six weeks at Atelierhaus Salzamt in Linz. I was there for three months in 2009 as part of the Urban Interventions exchange with Liverpool Biennial so I’m thrilled to have been invited back. The City of Linz have purchased ‘Inhabitant’, the work I made …
Human Castle
It happened! It rained, of course. No one fell. Below is gathered a few words, images and the commissioned film of the project. Documentation film by Daniel Warren: https://vimeo.com/46924459 Review by Alex Hetherington: http://www.a-n.co.uk/interface/reviews/single/2355544#.UB-w9MnHYhY.twitter Blogpost on a BlurofWoodSmoke: http://blurofwoodsmoke.wordpress.com/2012/08/02/mostly-art-human-castle-melvin-moti-and-spl/ Photo set by Yellow Book on Flikr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/yellowbookltd/7698808970/in/photostream/
City walk
Back in the UK, but I had time to take ‘Inhabitant (St Louis)’ out into the city for the day before I left. I also performed at the opening in the park so will add the work to my website properly as I gather all the footage and images together. For now, the City Gardens, …