A picture of my piece. Is this perhaps a bit of a ‘one liner’? Yes. And it’s pretty badly made too.
Camberwell Collage of Arts – Photographs
February 25, 2008 — johnkhillInstallation shots of work from all 21 participants, click for big.
Camberwell Collage of Arts – Now on!
February 20, 2008 — johnkhill‘Camberwell Collage of Arts’ is now up and open for public viewing. The show includes work by:
Alicia Logan, Anna Galkina, Catherine Devrien, Federico Campagna, George Harwood-smith, Helen Ballantine, Joe Balfour, John Hill, Joseph Waller, Louis Eastwood, Lora Haynes, Lucy Thomas, Maria Hawkins, Natasha Bird, Oliver Osborne, Robert Prouse, Sara Brouwer, Sue Morgan, Theo Turpin, Timur Uzel, Tom Foottit and Tristram Bellotti.
The exhibition will be on until Friday.
EVENT – Piss up in a toilet – Thursday 5pm
The location, within Camberwell College of Arts, is still secret, ask someone who looks like they know.
Traversion – Fri 22 – Sun 24 Feb
February 17, 2008 — johnkhillNot an exhibition I’m in, but it’s in The Very Good Room and I wrote the blurb.
Traversion
Oscar Cass Darweish, Samantha Penn, Laurence Price, Iwona Makuszynska, Salvatore Fanara, Raju Mali, Olga Koroleva.
Traversion is a collaborative audio-visual event looking to reinterpret its basement gallery setting by engaging with the space as a physical and virtual environment.
Developed by Oscar Cass Darweish remotely using 3D reconstructions, the project brings together seven artist working across film, sound, sculpture and performance to interact with the gallery and each other in real and imagined space.
An interactive preview of the space is available at http://traversion.co.uk
More info at theverygoodroom.co.uk
Camberwell Collage of Arts – Request for submisions
February 13, 2008 — johnkhillCamberwell Collage of Arts – 20-22 Feb 08 in a secret location within Camberwell College of Arts – Peckham Rd. London SE5.
Joseph Waller- Monalezza – Digital Collage
Submission guidelines: Work must be 2D collage (in the broadest of senses) of no bigger than A4 (ish) and be able to be affixed to a wall with bluetack.
Deadline: Tues 19 Feb – 4pm. By email or on my desk (with your name).
Camberwell Collage of Arts
February 10, 2008 — johnkhillI’m thinking of doing an Collage exhibition next week, open submission, perhaps in the toilet down the back stairs from the department.
Not sure what work I’d show, would quite like to do some more collage, but haven’t got a pressing subject or material I want to use. Maybe I could do something with the the lasertran I bought to make the mug for Joe.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
February 10, 2008 — johnkhillI first thought of using Martin Luther King as a subject when Richard and Simon where asked to find something to perform in a church that might still be a bit taboo. They chose a reenactment of Michael and Macaulay’s sleepovers. I thought that blacking up and reading a MLK speach in a ’southern’ accent might also be quite distasteful.
On MLK day though, I heard Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence (text/audio) and realised I could maybe do something with some wider relevance and not just focus on some kind of privileged/universal tension.
I’m never sure to what extent I like doing performance. At first I thought about delivering the speech myself, perhaps somewhere like parliament square but after meeting an American I decided it might be more interesting to get her, and other Americans to read the speech and answer some questions about MLK as a cultural figure and his place in their education.
There are times when the interviews could get a bit ‘look at these stupid white americans’ and times when their reading of the speeches could get a bit didactic – me making them say things that criticise ‘their government’ that might be closer to my opinions than theirs. But hopefully in the editing I can pick out the interesting bit.
Interviewed 3 people (all girls) and will need a few more, hopefully get it finished in the next couple of weeks.
Guarjazeera cutup
February 5, 2008 — johnkhillMade this ages ago, but my hosting wasn’t working at the time.
Is it just really bad?
Burns Night – 25 Jan 08
February 5, 2008 — johnkhillI attempted to read Edwin Muir’s Scotland 1941:
Now smoke and dearth and money everywhere,
Mean heirlooms of each fainter generation,
And mummied housegods in their musty niches,
Burns and Scott, sham bards of a sham nation,
Rather better than my penning for the occasion, which I’ll spare you.
Met an American called Janet who I decided should be in a film of mine.
