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@passport2pimlico
Publication of Passport to Pimlico: May Day Art Day in Churchill Gardens Estate
Now online as a free ebook: http://issuu.com/lanalocke/docs/passport_to_pimlico_by_lana_locke__ and available to buy in print at cost price: http://www.blurb.co.uk/books/5478548-passport-to-pimlico?redirect=true Documenting the collaborative event that took place on 5 May involving over 60 artists in Pimlico’s largest housing estate.
Work in focus: Michele Allen: Trees Not Tarmac - Stories from the M65
A short slideshow featuring photographs and accounts from people who took part in the No M65 road protest. The route passed through ancient woodland and sites of special scientific interest leading to a sustained protest by people from the local area,Earth First groups and the wider environmental movement. The protest lasted for over a year with multiple sites being occupied on the course of the route and non violent direct action including the occupation of building sites and offices to slow the progress of the road and increase the price of the project. Two woodlands were occupied during the course of the campaign, Cinder path woods and Stanworth Valley the latter became the site of an extensive village of tree houses connected by rope walkways. The eviction of the site began on the 2nd of May 1995 and took several days, with the under Sheriff of Lancashire employing professional climbers to remove us from the trees. We never expected to win but we hoped that the process would act as a deterrant to future projects.
Work in focus: Anna Minshall: Street Tango; A dance of resistance; spontaneous moments in response to urban architecture
Work in focus: Where are my Social Horizions?
Work in focus: The Chelsea Collective
Work in focus: Portable/Photocopy Archive (the No M11 Link Road Campaign)
Passport to Pimlico
Portable/Photocopy Archive
(the No M11 Link Road Campaign)
Alison Marchant
The archive is composed of a notice board, 2-3 tables and 20 chairs, 6 for the archive viewers and the rest for the video screening. The table tops display folders of news-cuttings, postcards and badges and other data from 1984-1994 gathered from three different London archives which track the lead up to, and the campaign itself from Leyton and Wanstead (both re-named Leytonstonia and Wanstonia with passports to match. One of the archives tables contains a 1980's television and VHS video showing 'Life In The Fast Lane : The No M11 Story' by protesters Mayyasa Al-Malazi and Neil Goodwin. The screening chairs splay out into the space for the video screening noting this portable archive as a place of social engagement exactly 20 years on as an anniversary celebration of the protest. The intention in copying and combining three archives as one into this compact and portable model is to enable access and this story to be retold in different contexts and across time.
Alison Marchant is a socially engaged artist who began showing her installations in 1984 when she lived in an Acme House in Leyton on the M11 Link Road route. In 2006 she was appointed as AHRC Post-doctoral Research Fellow at London College of Communication, University of the Arts researching 'Artists & the M11 Link Road Campaign 1984-1994'. As part of dissemination her way of programming and marketing an anniversary film-screening in 2006 was to walk both sides of the M11 Link Road route and all side roads the length and breadth of the area according to the sound of the Link Road Traffic leafleting the screening in all letterboxes, enabling an audience of a 100 to attend.
Alison Marchant
Close To Home, 1987-9
Colville Road, London/Whitechapel Art Gallery
Open Studios
The Rooftop Protest that Launched a thousand Protests, 28 November 1994, the first day of the final eviction of Claremont Road. By Jason Royce
'Life In The Fast Lane : The No M11 Story' by Mayyasa Al-Malazi and Neil Goodwin which mirrors and is a part of Portable/Photocopy Archive and is a feature length documentary presenting the inside story of the No M11 Campaign, 'recounting 15 months of direct action against one of the most controversial schemes in the history of British road-building. Filmed in 1994 where on the rooftops of Claremont Road, 300 protesters waited for the start of what was to become the most extraordinary eviction in British history. Nearby, two diggers stood poised to demolish the last remaining houses in the path of the M11 Link Road. By 1:30 pm a convoy of 120 vehicles containing 700 police and 400 private security guards had arrived in the area...Drawing on personal testimony and nearly 200 hours of front-line footage, LIFE IN THE FAST LANE features the battle for Wanstead's George Green, and the subsequent eviction of its 250 year- old Sweet Chestnut tree. It re-lives the days of the Independent Free Area of Wanstonia, and highlights the celebrated rooftop protests at Westminster and the home of the then Transport Secretary, John MacGreggor. Against a backdrop of growing resistance to the Criminal Justice Act it charts the emergence of CLAREMONT ROAD as an extraordinary symbol of cultural defiance, and for the first time tells the story of what became the most expensive eviction in British history'.
Screenings 12, 2, 4, 6
Work in focus: PaintUnion: Postcard to Pimlico
On Bank Holiday Monday 5 May 2014 a one-day collaborative event called Passport to Pimlico will be staged in Churchill Gardens Square and Community Hall, Pimlico. The event is inspired by the 1949 Ealing comedy Passport to Pimlico in which residents of Pimlico declare themselves independent from the rest of Great Britain, its laws and governance, freeing themselves from post-war austerity measures. This May Day art event in Pimlico's largest housing estate will offer a similar ideal of freedom through the creation of an independent art state within the community.
In the spirit of Passport to Pimlico, PaintUnion extends an open invitation to send a painted postcard to this independent art state, to be shown at the event on May 5th in the central atrium of the community centre.
If you would like to participate please make work on a postcard and send it to: Lana Locke, Passport to Pimlico, C/o Sue Walsh, Churchill Hall, Churchill Gardens Estate, London SW1V 3AL
If you have any questions please contact us at [email protected]. We will hang the postcards on the morning of May 5th before the event opens at noon, so please post leaving plenty of time for them to arrive. If you prefer to deliver your work by hand please bring it along to PaintUnion at the Griffin Gallery on April 29th or to Churchill Gardens on May 5th before 12 noon. You can either take it home after 6pm on the 5th, or collect it from the next PaintUnion event. There will also be the opportunity to make works on postcards at the event, and to have them stamped with a special event stamp on the day.
See the blog for the full programme of contributors including Tim Brennan undertaking a 24 hour performance, Brian Dawn Chalkley appearing as the May Queen, and Alison Marchant bringing her Portable/Photocopy Archive (the No M11 Link Road Campaign) to the May Day festivities. The event Passport to Pimlico is created by practice-based PhD student Lana Locke through the support of Chelsea, Camberwell and Wimbledon College of Arts' Student Initiative Fund.
Please note if you wish your work to be insured please arrange this for yourself as PaintUnion cannot accept any responsibility for loss or damage to pieces displayed. PaintUnion was established by Liz Elton and Rebecca Byrne to create opportunities for artists to meet and discuss issues around contemporary painting.
Work in focus: Kill Your Pillow II
KILL YOUR PILLOW II
A manoeuvre by Tim Brennan and others
‘Art like art’ is fine but when one becomes diseased it is life which is of the utmost concern.
Kill Your Pillow - a 24 hour ‘laboratory in transit’ was first developed by Ulay and in 1992 as part of Brennan’s artistic leading of W139 Gallery in Amsterdam.
The work then involved around 25 participants living in the locked gallery for 24 hours. Anything was permitted.
A short edited video sequence by Dean Brannagan exists as a trace. This will be shown at the Passport to Pimlico event at intervals. It will include a brief section on Kill Your Pillow II.
Kill Your Pillow II - from 12.00 midnight on May 5th- - 11.59.59 on May 5th 2014, Brennan will be present in the vicinity of Churchill Community Hall and Gardens. In that time he will abide by the following behavioural co-ordinates for the duration of 24hrs:
He will not sleep
He will not speak
His hood will be up
He will carry no bag
He will eat only from his pockets
He will drink only from his pockets
He will act with compassion
He will consider the following:
“When an aesthetic history amputates itself from social history, the former will unavoidably wither, while the latter draws attention.
‘Life like art’ is essentially suspicious of those divisions;
‘Life like art’ as opposed to ‘art like art’, cannot and will not detach itself from the social - ethical fabric.
In a climate of great social upheaval, ‘life like art’ is sensitive.
What are our objectives?
Are we to broaden ‘life like art’ into the civilian sector?
We concentrate on given conditions and qualities of living from which new values emerge.”
Brennan, T. and Ulay, March 1992
http://w139.nl/workspace/files/centale-4.pdf
Brennan welcomes the participation of anyone along the way.
Programme for 5 May
PASSPORT TO PIMLICO – MAY DAY ART DAY - 5 MAY 2014
PROGRAMME OF ART AND EVENTS
Main exhibition 12-6pm other timings as shown
ROVING EVENTS
Tim Brennan 24-hour performance: Kill Your Pillow II
Starts Sunday night at midnight (12am Monday 5 May), and ends 11.59pm
Brian Dawn Chalkley: Honorary May Queen
Gavin Freeborn: The Freeborn Travelling Portrait Project
Rebecca Hooper: installation of cardboard work
Anna Minshall: Street Tango; A dance of resistance; spontaneous moments in response to urban architecture
Laura Smith: installation of floor/ground-based photographs
Christiana Spens and Darran Anderson: Free London Corner chapbooks
Neal Tait: exhibiting artist
Karolina Webb: photographic project
Les ZoINgs - Brockley's very own French Marching Band
Gabrielle Black, Toby Paton and Alex Roberts: documenting the day’s events
OUTDOOR EVENTS
Churchill Square
(in the event of wet weather to be moved to Churchill Hall)
Alison Ballance performance: Return to the Commons (timing TBA)
Claire Harmer: May King/Queen photo booth
Hedgepigs performance: live folk music
John Hui: photographic work, John’s MI6
Lindsey Kistler: decorate-your-own-cake workshop
Vanessa Pope for the Effort Collective and Sarah Pager for the Chelsea Collective:May Pole collaboration and dance activity
Chang Sun: Invasion (extension version) performance painting game
Carla Wright & Anna Chrystal Stephens: Terra, risky playspace
Joseph Lichy: Post-war era / May Day inspired paintings on plywood
Outside Churchill Hall
The Chelsea Collective: Exhibition in a van curated by Sarah Pager, exhibiting artists: Rebecca Byrne, Eun Sook Choi, Aaron Distler, Liz Elton, Isabel Ferreira, Ann-Marie James, Lana Locke, Jacopo Natoli, Maria Sassetti, Jeeti Singh, Mu Tian, Sarah Pager, Will Teather, Adam Frank Walker, Ian Royce Warner
Entrance to Churchill Hall
Lana Locke: found object bunting
INDOOR EVENTS
GROUND FLOOR
Lounge Bar
Passport to Pimlico (1949) Film screenings at 12pm, 1.30pm, 3pm and 4.30pm
Central Atrium
PaintUnion exhibition of postcard works curated by Rebecca Byrne and Liz Elton
Front Small Bar Room
Mijung Jung series of paintings
Anna Nelson Daniel: Greetings, small-scale sculpture
Main Hall
Joshua Y’Barbo: drawing workshop after Roy Ascott’s Ground Course Drawing
Lana Locke: Winston Churchill colouring competition and collaborative drawing board: Design a new use for the Balmoral Castle
Claire McArdle, Kate Slipper, Martin Edwards and Fabrice Desfard: performative work with objects: Are you asking me to speak French?
Anna Nelson Daniel: sculpture-making workshop
Poppy Whatmore: sailing boats oil cloth with red thread: Where are my social horizons?
Café Bar
Ali Hodgen: Film and 5-person coffee shop
Joshua Y’Barbo: cooking food
Stage
Hayley Hare and Katriona Beales - introducing Artists' Union England
FIRST FLOOR
Ismail Erbil: Path 1 & 2, Fabric, string (2008)
Radio Room
Dean Brannagan: Performance/reading: Chimera Republic
Dance Studio
Michele Allen: slideshow and poster documenting the M65 road protest movement
Evy Jokhova: Three Little Pigs video and postcard work
Alison Marchant: Portable/Photocopy Archive (the No M11 Link Road Campaign)
Mayyasa Al-Malazi and Neil Goodwin: Life In The Fast Lane : The No M11 Story, screening times: 12pm, 2pm, 4pm, 6pm
Mohammad Namazi, exhibiting artist
May Day Art Event
On Bank Holiday Monday 5 May 2014 I am staging a one-day collaborative event called Passport to Pimlico in Churchill Gardens Square and Community Hall, Pimlico.
The event is inspired by the 1949 Ealing comedy Passport to Pimlico in which residents of Pimlico declare themselves independent from the rest of Great Britain, its laws and governance, freeing themselves from post-war austerity measures. Their music-making and merriment does not last forever, but before they return to British citizenship they triumphantly secure a plot of land for the community, away from the hands of developers.
This May Day art event in Pimlico's largest housing estate will offer a similar ideal of freedom through the creation of an independent art state within the community. Challenging the usual rules that govern interaction with artwork in the exhibition space, residents and visitors are encouraged to become participants.
The day will be about creating work in the space, including workshops, stalls, music and performance. Themes to include protest, independence, territory and community, as well as original interpretations of traditional (spring/Pagan) May Day celebrations such as dancing, the May Pole, flowers and food.
Full list of artists / collaborators to be announced shortly.
If you would like to register your interest, please email: [email protected]
The event is funded by CCW Graduate School's Student Initiative Fund. Best wishes
Lana