Artists Interview Podcasts

Tuesday, October 14th, 2008 | Artists Interviews | 1 Comment

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 Lois Weaver Interview [32:31m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

 

 Loraine Leeson Interview [24:45m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

 

 Manu Luksch and Mukul Patel Interview [26:41m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

 

 Stacy Makishi Interview [42:23m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Tags: Lois Weaver, Loraine Leeson, Manu Luksch, Mukul Patel, podcasts, SPACE, Stacy Makishi, Time Jones

Developing Projects with Communities

Sunday, October 5th, 2008 | Developing Projects with Communities | No Comments

Have you ever wondered if there are exciting pools of knowledge out there, that you’ve spent idle time wondering about, vaguely searching for….but then, over years, began to conclude that perhaps they don’t exist - at least not in a way you will encounter? I have. And: isn’t it great when someone whose intellect you admire recommends a book you should read?  It’s bound to be useful to chew on under any circumstances - but what if this book allows you access to that world of ideas you’ve been half-imagining and which you realise, now the book is in your lap, that you’ve been yearning for?

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Tags: art, Communities, Grant Kester, Loraine Leeson, Manu Luksch, Mukul Patel, participation

Manu Luksch & Mukul Patel with Laka D and the SPACE Sirens

Wednesday, May 14th, 2008 | Manu Luksch & Mukul Patel | 2 Comments

Manu Luksch, Mukul Patel with Laka D and the SPACE Sirens – defying categorisation

“We never deliberately entered the field of ‘community arts’….” [Mukul]

For The Not Quite Yet, Manu Luksch and Mukul Patel worked with the SPACE Sirens, an Older People’s choir active in Tower Hamlets for many years. Their collaboration resulted in a text based and sound installation, setting sung vocal scores to the contents of user manuals for technological appliances such as washing machines.

In conversation, the two artists reveal their positions and feelings about participatory art and technology projects to be as distinctive as the work they produce. Distancing themselves and their participatory projects from the “community arts” tag that might be imposed by funder and governmental policy agendas, they question whether a ’sector’ can or should be defined, or whether there is greater strength, self-determination and possibility if we remain unclassifiable:

“[Participatory arts projects are] not the space of architecture, the space of gaming, the space of advertising, it’s not the ‘Creative Industries’ – it’s this ‘counter-environment’ – potentially.” [Mukul]

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 Manu Luksch & Mukul Patel Interview [26:41m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Tags: CCTV, Filmaking, Laka D, Manu Luksch, Mukul Patel, The Space Age Sirens