Another package arrived today for Would you like this badge? design by William Hibberd
This is the Come to Ours blog curated by Josh Greet
Come to Ours is a programme of activity and events that celebrates and showcases the work of both emerging and established artists and curators. This artist-driven programme will temporarily occupy unusual and unconventional sites, spaces and contexts around Plymouth (UK), running alongside British Art Show 7 (Sept-Dec 2011) as part of Plymouth Fringe.
Come to Ours is devised and managed by a group of individual artists (Rachel Dobbs, Bryony Gillard, Mark James, Hannah Jones, Christopher Green, Beth Emily Richards and Neil Rose) who have come together to develop this special programme of events.
Come to Ours is supported by the National Lottery through Arts Council England and by Plymouth City Council.
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For more information and to register for the event please please visit the fireplace gallery website.
Guy Oliver’s film to be shown at the Video Takeaway as part of Come to Ours.
Look what arrived in the post yesterday 500 fold out leaflets for Would you like this badge? Designed by William Hibberd
Roy Menahem Markovich’s Film to be shown at the Video Takeaway
16th September - 3rd December 2011 Ali Baba’s New York Express, Notte Street, PL1 2AG
Mondays - Thursdays / 7pm - close
Jakes, Regent Street, PL4 8BA Fridays and Saturdays / 7pm - close
Video Takeaway presents a series of exciting moving image works from a range of national and international artists.The curated programme is presented on existing TV monitors located in two of the Come to Our’s teams favourite takea- ways in Plymouth, Jakes and Ali Babas New York Express. Video Takeaway will present a curated programme of dynamic, short artist film-works to the captive audience of two of Plymouth’s best takeaway restaurants. The project also aims to help to acquaint visiting art audiences unfamiliar with the city, with what Plymouth has to offer.
Jakes can be found on Regent Street, opposite Plymouth College of Art and Ali Babas New York Express is situated on Notte Street, on the Barbican. The Video Takeaway programme will be screened throughout the entire duration of the Come to Ours programme and throughout the British Art show 7, from 16th September - 3rd December 2011. The programme showcases the work of: Rebecca Ballard, Rachael Haines, Tony Hill, Charlotte Jackman, Jamie Lobb, More Soon, Roy Menahem Markovich, Sophie Michael, Aaron Oldenburg, Guy Oliver, Thomas Smith, Tim Steer, Emily Warren, Ryan Whittier Hale and Matthew Williamson.
Image courtesy of Guy Oliver
Plymouth Aural Survey will explore how people navigate the city of Plymouth whilst listening to music. The ‘results’ of Plymouth Aural Survey (the resulting audio-visual artwork) will communicate listening trends amongst pedestrians and how they link to the individual journeys of participants. During a 12 hour period of a single day, (at specified locations around the city) the artist (Neil Rose) will approach pedestrians who are wearing headphones and ask them a series of questions, such as “Where have you come from?” and “Where are you going?”. The artist will request to record 20 seconds of audio from the participants audio player. These recordings will be compiled (in real time or to an exact ratio) to recreate an audio canvas of the day, and will be mapped as a flash animation plotting the course of individual participants along with data from their questionnaire. The animation/audio canvas will be available online to download for free and will also be screened at selected venues around the city. Also dont forget to add Come to Ours on Facebook
Heres a sneak peak at the delivery that arrived today. Its the shinny new badges for Would you like this badge? But you will have to wait till september to get your hands on one.
Would You Like This Badge? takes an alternative, personal and handmade approach to typical slogans and taglines used to promote and brand a city. 300 specially designed badges (50 x 6 different designs) will be available from selected Plymouth pubs during Sept-Dec 2011.
The individual badges are developed in response to our experiences of living and working in Plymouth, thinking about how people view the city (from the inside and outside) and reflecting what is distinctive about this place.
“Passing a second-hand shop some objects in the window catch my eye - a star wars figure, an old yo-yo and a penknife. I remember my hidey-hole in the old family house; a boarded-up fireplace in my bedroom where I kept my treasured possessions, that were probably still there, waiting to be found. The memory brings a smile to my face, a smile that evaporates as I remember what else was hidden there.”
Steven Paige will be exhibiting in the fireplace gallery from October 2-9th 2011.
