The New Level of Confronatation



Strike Back!
 The Workers are out on the street's.
Britain wants a living.
The government is squeezing and the mood is gripping.



1922

Has anything changed?

                                           Sean O'Casey: 1880 - 1964

1922:  Troubled Times. Civil War, much drinking, love, song and laughter, but within the echoes, there was darkness and sorrow and death.
                                     Juno and the Paycock:  by Sean O'Casey.


1791 Georgian houses sold in Dublin for £8.000 and a decade later for £2.500
1840's  The Great Hunger "Famine"  Landlords profiteering, came the dark Dublin slums, the Georgian houses being sold for £500
1930's Dublin's dilapidated tenements were deemed the "worst slums in Europe"
                                              Has anything changed?
                                   

Ref:

The Harvard Classic 1909 - 14

The Peacock and Juno:

The peacock once placed a petition before Juno desiring to have the voice of a nightingale in addition to his other attractions; but Juno refused this request, when he persisted and pointed out that he was her favourite bird; She said: "Be content with your lot; one cannot be first in everything".

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Photo by:  Mark Douet

"XIII"

This metal rod has a weld - joining two rods together, approx 16ft in length.  Seemed to be abandoned out side the triangle space and a bit of a danger, people having to walk over it.  I pulled it to one side for safety,  made some enquiries and before you know it, I'm the new owner!  Right there on the spot, using my feet and hands I twisted the metal into this wonderful shape, having in mind for a plinth?   Had missed an earlier opportunity in salvaging some breeze blocks, someone beat me to it.  With the breeze blocks I had in mind of gluing together and form a shape like The Rock, a slim version, to use as a plinth.

Getting ready for our first exhibition in the triangle space, as a group.
Focus on planning!
Have submitted my proposal form, now in the process of making, already having made changes - love it!
Some writing on the back of the photos, right click and go into properties, will give some information.  Check it out!



again! having more luck in salvaging metal from the scrap box in the metal workshop.
I create the cube, a bit Francis Bacon, but my real inspiration comes from the play "13"
Also looking at Eva Hessa's work.

The inspiration for this comes from Phyllida Barlow.  Her recent exhibition at Hauser & Wirth, Piccadilly, London
Also looking at William Turnbull work, in particular...Tall Balance 1992.

13 - Productions - National Theatre

Now that I have attached the cube to the plinth, I realise its a bit top heavy.
Had to think about it over the weekend.  How I could stabilise, but at the same time
keep the spring movement intact, some ideas, but those ideas would have taken
away from the aesthetics.

My work has turned upside-down.  I like it!  Now the plinth has become
the art, the cube has become the plinth.  Will it work?  viewing the spring
from different angles it looks to me like a sketch or writing. 
Has lots of possibilities.

http://jogroglog.blogspot.com/2011/12/playtime-with-patrick.html

Have been very busy this past few days.
Had great fun with moving my ideas about, using lots of metal,
not wanting to over work a piece, I moved on to making more, with the same team in mind.
Now I got to decide on what to show next Monday?

Reading The City

Mapping our way, with a few twists and turns !

A collective derive:

A rap on Queen Anne

Sue arrived on the steps of St Paul's this morning with her Art work in a roll under her arm,
wondering where she could display her 10 metre scroll? the ground was a little too wet,  but Sue's got initiative, and before you know it she has several people helping with unveiling her work on the top step of St Paul's.
I was operating video camera, documenting the moment, as they slowly  descended the steps and attached the scroll to the railings.  Sue's work is about Civil Disobedience.  She encouraged people to either write or draw on the scroll,
With quite a response, interestingly one person wrote - Go home to your family!!!
After about three hours, Sue was approached and quietly asked to remove the scroll, this she did without any hesitation. She was obedient and pleased with her day's work.  It went very well I might add.
Well done Sue!

Wall Street Sit Down - UK
Sing along!
When one percent is running the show
Then ninety-nine percent say no
chorus
Sit Down, just take a seat
    Sit Down and rest your feet
Sit Down on the concrete
Sit Down,  Sit Down.

Don't get drunk.  Don't get high.
Get together and occupy.
chorus

Anti-Capitalist occupation at St Paul's Cathedral.
One year on, students march the streets again over the scrapping the education maintenance allowance.
Tuition fees and the rising graduate debt - headlines on the London Evening Standard: 'Descent into Chaos' Begins.
Italy on the brink as borrowing rates go into meltdown. Fears of contagion in economic turmoil.

We Are The 99%