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A boy in a brown shirt and a Norwegian tanktop.

A boy with in an aran jumper with pink corduroys and a divining stick

A girl in a yellow jumper with a red ball in her arm.

A boy in a red jumper holding a blue boat.

A lady in a pink jumper holding a scarf.

A man in a burgundy jumper and a cravat.

A boy wearing an aran jumper looking over a fence.

A girl in an aran jumper with a gold ring and a digestive biscuit.

A girl holding a fan with her hand on a mahogany table.

A girl with bunches wearing a floral chemise.

Drip Music, Fluxversion 1 George Brecht 1969

This week Maddy and I have decided to focus on a one word event by George Brecht for this weeks DIY Happenings WATER.  Events will range from water droplet racing, generative rain drawing, musical water bottles, to boat building and transporting puddles.

Recently I read “Between Water and Stone” by Kristin Stiles from the exhibition catalogue for “In the Spirit of Fluxus” at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis in 1993.  

“Performed for the 1963 Fluxus festival in Amsterdam, the actions that constitute Zyklus für Wassereimer [oder Flaschen] (Cycle for Water-rhymes [or Bottles] are direct and simple, subtle and conceptually sophisticated. The score permits the performer between ten and thirty bottles or buckets. Its duration depends upon the speed and precision with which the artist undertakes the process of pouring, a procedure either quickly resolved or enduring for long periods. The task may, but does not have to, depend upon skill. It is the kind of quiet action that a thoughtful child might perform as a means to study the operation of things…Speculating on the nature of existence, the artist who performs Zyklus undertakes the careful exploration of human labor as a concrete condition that determines meaning. While Schmit’s score leaves the construction of labor and its  significance open to a mechanics of doing, at the same time, doing emphasizes the concrete condition of being. This doing, because it has a temporal dimension, equally calls into question the relationship of being to becoming, in and through time, and positions ontological speculation in the pragmatic activities of labor. Doing both exhibits and stabilizes the unstable relationship between objects and the human states of becoming and being. Metaphysical questions circle in Zyklus in the mundane conditions of the piece itself, in the actual flow and change among human action, bottles, and water.”

Tomas Schmit Cycle for Water bottles 1963

*  Drop by the Spacex meeting point to pick up a Project Club Art Kit at Art in the Park at the CCANW (Centre for Contemporary Art and the Natural World) in Haldon Forest Park.

Sunday 16 August — 11:00 – 16:00 CCANW

*  Spend August summer evenings stitching and embellishing patches for a contemporary Friendship Quilt at Spacex and the Quayside (weather permitting).  Spacex

*  Artkits – things like making badges, recording sound, drawing plants, taking pictures, collecting things, writing posters, making performances, exploring printing, pet collage, documenting days, starting a band and other stuff . 

Drop in to Spacex to use art kits made especially for you by Project Club,Pick up a different kit every week from Spacex and spend some time in the gallery as you embark on your own art making activity.

We are arranging the space to trigger situations for developing individual projects, collective activities, making friends, reflective space, sharing ideas, getting lost in making, acting on materials and time-out.

The lab activites are based on ideas for looking, talking, listening, noticing, thinking, arranging, displaying, playing in, measuring, exploring, describing and interrogating space. This might be the space a coffee cup takes up on a table. architectural space, political space, the space of a page or, say, the space between a hotdog and a handbag.

What if this happened in the project club concept lab. . .

basketball/process based work/pegging out/arranging/instruction art/drawing/performance actions/colouring in/craft activities/reading/

photocopying/publishing/videoing/DIYing/researching/skills aquisition/sewing/laughing/folding/measuring/talking?

3pm – 7pm Spacex

OUR PLACE YOUR SPACE

SPACEX ,UK

28 July – 22 August 2009

The gallery doors will be open for members of the public of all ages to participate in and experience a series of workshops led by artists including project club.  Our place, your space will comprise of a four week programme of open ended activities and events  Join us  for DIY Happenings.

Artkits – things like making badges, recording sound, drawing plants, taking pictures, collecting things, writing posters, makingperformances, exploring printing, pet collage, documenting days, starting a band and other stuff .

A full schedule of opening times and a calendar of events will be available to download from this site very shortly.

find out more at www.spacex.co.uk

Project Club is artists  Maddy Pethick and Helen Pritchard