tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-99859132024-02-21T15:30:40.522+00:00Hilary JackHilary Jack is an artist, curator and writer. This blog documents recent work.Hilary Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02728489107236499040noreply@blogger.comBlogger27125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9985913.post-6676124932785316162009-02-12T18:47:00.006+00:002010-05-18T09:04:17.497+01:00Welcome<div align="center"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEii2qLEpRIfY-mZ3bt_fYeU1uCIPHkwqalcFcDkiNPAA8Mpp7H8A0aa71C_fjbJ0dASZ-ago6RTO5SvgJx3Sub5UJ-XF-bvl-z8uKBoB1mrPOEYAbTs_x4_YtiEgO_NyRk0VXYx/s1600-h/Hilary+Jack+berlin.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 262px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5301985755882058578" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEii2qLEpRIfY-mZ3bt_fYeU1uCIPHkwqalcFcDkiNPAA8Mpp7H8A0aa71C_fjbJ0dASZ-ago6RTO5SvgJx3Sub5UJ-XF-bvl-z8uKBoB1mrPOEYAbTs_x4_YtiEgO_NyRk0VXYx/s400/Hilary+Jack+berlin.jpg" /></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#999999;"> <span style="font-size:85%;"><em>Glove</em>, "Meeting Point" at Axel lapp Projects, Berlin</span><br /></span><div align="justify"></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#999999;"></span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#999999;">I work across media in socially interactive research based projects,which often take place in the public domain and involve the collection, "repair" and redistribution of discarded material found on city streets, in charity shops and on ebay. </span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#999999;">I am currently showing with Carter Presents in London at Leroy House with Dallas Seitz, Sarah Baker and others.</span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#999999;">To see recent exhibitions and projects scroll down. For past work, exhibitions, press and commissioned texts click on the headings on the right. Alternatively visit<span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;color:#999999;"> <a href="http://www.hilaryjack.com/"><strong><span style="color:#666666;">www.hilaryjack.com</span></strong></a></span></span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#999999;">For the past five years I have also had a collaborative curatorial practice with Paul Harfleet, together curating an annual programme at <a href="http://www.apartmentmanchester.blogspot.com/"><span style="color:#666666;">Apartment</span></a> an exhibiton space in Pauls one bedroom council flat in Manchester. </span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#999999;">I have also contributed articles to a number of magazines, most recently "Time for Change" for <a href="http://www.axisweb.org/dlFull.aspx?ESSAYID=171"><span style="color:#999999;">Axis</span></a> . </span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#999999;"><br /></span></div><div align="justify"> </div></div>Hilary Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02728489107236499040noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9985913.post-59012965738044485922008-05-09T15:24:00.007+01:002008-10-03T18:10:18.304+01:00Open Studios<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjN-gbcAjH8Ovk2isdsCLbheZC6JJs_L4DM0aXx03auWmZ5yAQzXqay1VdJYru-FsKTzZpCIaopfKZulwu3Jc9YoHSjDYFgHrCIsn41Fd1xqcoPep99mowHkGFIiuPOuimb5l8D/s1600-h/openstudio+08+042.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5220987201364076242" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: pointer; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjN-gbcAjH8Ovk2isdsCLbheZC6JJs_L4DM0aXx03auWmZ5yAQzXqay1VdJYru-FsKTzZpCIaopfKZulwu3Jc9YoHSjDYFgHrCIsn41Fd1xqcoPep99mowHkGFIiuPOuimb5l8D/s400/openstudio+08+042.jpg" border="0" /></a> <div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; COLOR: rgb(153,153,153)font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Rogue Open Studios 2008</span><br /></div><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><span style="COLOR: rgb(153,153,153);font-family:trebuchet ms;" >17th, 18th May,11-4<br />preview 16th May 6-9</span> <div style="TEXT-ALIGN: left"><span style="COLOR: rgb(153,153,153);font-family:trebuchet ms;" >The repair and transformation of broken objects found on ebay and in charity shops is a strong</span><span style="COLOR: rgb(153,153,153);font-family:trebuchet ms;" > element within my practice. For some time I've been collecting broken figurines and</span><span style="COLOR: rgb(153,153,153);font-family:trebuchet ms;" > "repairing" them, exaggerating the breaks, thereby distorting the figures and coupling them</span><span style="COLOR: rgb(153,153,153);font-family:trebuchet ms;" > with seemingly opposing elements. Below and above are</span><span style="COLOR: rgb(153,153,153);font-family:trebuchet ms;" > examples of this new work shown for the first time at this year's Open Studios at Rogue.</span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikGv-phgmbbmi-ac0eUnXvPqD6d1cyRbGcozGU8h_mxkiwTdEKOCShYvvapfTRpdFx3vBCOf5-_kWs5lrA2A15JODaBXLDdv_L2-lWa7zR5j9qUa4imbZWlKGK-la-TyobJ5JZ/s1600-h/openstudio+08+002.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5201393393662030786" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: pointer; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikGv-phgmbbmi-ac0eUnXvPqD6d1cyRbGcozGU8h_mxkiwTdEKOCShYvvapfTRpdFx3vBCOf5-_kWs5lrA2A15JODaBXLDdv_L2-lWa7zR5j9qUa4imbZWlKGK-la-TyobJ5JZ/s400/openstudio+08+002.jpg" border="0" /></a></div><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: left"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"><span style="COLOR: rgb(153,153,153)">above:Running Woman with no Hand Trips on a Heap of Shit and Hangs Herself, <span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">(Royal Doulton Figurine and studio detritus)</span></span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgY1E8ZUUEpQ_k3kig0ABbhi8oUxDmz86je1LIKMCmrCMCf2RtR4WiTnYwh66Xps1oaCCeWZItZvPEx4sRnSAOok7n2kHNzCcjYNqshnRKr1xyKI4KLeRbQF_Xrtyy6PIR6y28j/s1600-h/sex+and+witchcraft+images+2+037.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5220988706235336546" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: pointer; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgY1E8ZUUEpQ_k3kig0ABbhi8oUxDmz86je1LIKMCmrCMCf2RtR4WiTnYwh66Xps1oaCCeWZItZvPEx4sRnSAOok7n2kHNzCcjYNqshnRKr1xyKI4KLeRbQF_Xrtyy6PIR6y28j/s400/sex+and+witchcraft+images+2+037.jpg" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijIpx67SyEL9oX5WTYcQLMX0tlz4lIPyEoehuPStxyS7zLRUyqgfmBYlmhdWAiX1LaBR0hgkLNX5UJJRhTJUkwLngmzYzq95BCoiCGEGC16tsMZcHakRzDX5pp9qdM_DAbruSS/s1600-h/sex+and+witchcraft+images+2+033.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5220990670905793442" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: pointer; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijIpx67SyEL9oX5WTYcQLMX0tlz4lIPyEoehuPStxyS7zLRUyqgfmBYlmhdWAiX1LaBR0hgkLNX5UJJRhTJUkwLngmzYzq95BCoiCGEGC16tsMZcHakRzDX5pp9qdM_DAbruSS/s400/sex+and+witchcraft+images+2+033.jpg" border="0" /></a><span style="COLOR: rgb(153,153,153);font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >above: Beheaded Girl in a Red Dress takes a Long Look at Herself </span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"><span style="COLOR: rgb(153,153,153)">below: </span></span><span style="COLOR: rgb(153,153,153);font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >Wandering Woman in a Landscape, <span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Lladro figurine with tree roots and mirror</span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyXwgi_HPU5Sk4IQfDv5XmC7ubA3LS3esJ4d_IzwxJtEtGFx2XQGWb7L-2wfrX7BXTcNoTTS7OTzZeufcPvAQBne9V0Rf8bh30S_R8AdVcA4-jO-InefPfTh_E0pNQUAuCnIGA/s1600-h/Copy+of+openstudio+08+030.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5213235685500723026" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: pointer; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyXwgi_HPU5Sk4IQfDv5XmC7ubA3LS3esJ4d_IzwxJtEtGFx2XQGWb7L-2wfrX7BXTcNoTTS7OTzZeufcPvAQBne9V0Rf8bh30S_R8AdVcA4-jO-InefPfTh_E0pNQUAuCnIGA/s400/Copy+of+openstudio+08+030.jpg" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgB1kk6Gcxw0cNSHHkY7KWyQ3c-DbLyZnjmkMrgPY7eGMQM-P-EI6YQZarmyIZ74V11eQVWswdU4aUSwlgdEk3Ky6Vcl2L1W7etzGrOo3zkUSoh-v2bBsAH3BbwGPuaS5fD49uo/s1600-h/Copy+of+openstudio+08+012.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5213229784539427554" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 289px; CURSOR: pointer; HEIGHT: 391px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgB1kk6Gcxw0cNSHHkY7KWyQ3c-DbLyZnjmkMrgPY7eGMQM-P-EI6YQZarmyIZ74V11eQVWswdU4aUSwlgdEk3Ky6Vcl2L1W7etzGrOo3zkUSoh-v2bBsAH3BbwGPuaS5fD49uo/s400/Copy+of+openstudio+08+012.jpg" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgM75JvXH01N5mC_Q31m8J1FHrgTeuAdjhC4d8DPicCqBkMwljBK_xVNaTW9PC-dKjgHuudB_lV7P5h8m2HOgTpNG-uujzXvhaLjU84It6c3SSBM8q2u5cZrxt-Iri-IUa1wOCT/s1600-h/Copy+of+Copy+of+openstudio+08+063.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5213227589874195490" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: pointer; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgM75JvXH01N5mC_Q31m8J1FHrgTeuAdjhC4d8DPicCqBkMwljBK_xVNaTW9PC-dKjgHuudB_lV7P5h8m2HOgTpNG-uujzXvhaLjU84It6c3SSBM8q2u5cZrxt-Iri-IUa1wOCT/s400/Copy+of+Copy+of+openstudio+08+063.jpg" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYRCwzaVCbqYhkHDAKXw9qXGsJ7eHVvyMfFdKl3GDqLRg7P-wTP5t1PU4x8Z8lttyMR3DJ_NzOuDMfD7rdbNEZ49QkE1pb22QUbfX9IGwOwaLGvZDyy1SySnZDfMIu12iFo3Vn/s1600-h/Copy+of+openstudio+08+003.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5215944648848334306" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: pointer; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYRCwzaVCbqYhkHDAKXw9qXGsJ7eHVvyMfFdKl3GDqLRg7P-wTP5t1PU4x8Z8lttyMR3DJ_NzOuDMfD7rdbNEZ49QkE1pb22QUbfX9IGwOwaLGvZDyy1SySnZDfMIu12iFo3Vn/s400/Copy+of+openstudio+08+003.jpg" border="0" /></a><span style="COLOR: rgb(102,102,102);font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >above: "Broken Chair, Repair" <span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Edwardian palour chair with broken leg and lead piping</span> </span></div></div>Hilary Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02728489107236499040noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9985913.post-1136488201769396672007-09-28T12:39:00.000+01:002008-07-11T16:24:57.266+01:00Make do and Mend, Conflux06, New York<div align="justify"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/128/752/1600/IMG_0469_edited.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; cursor: pointer; text-align: center;" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/128/752/400/IMG_0469_edited.jpg" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);font-family:trebuchet ms;" >This September I was selected to take part in </span><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">Conflux 06 </span>in Williamsberg New York, </span><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);font-family:trebuchet ms;" >the annual festival</span><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);font-family:trebuchet ms;" > for</span><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);font-family:trebuchet ms;" > contemporary psycho geography. To find out more read </span><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);font-family:trebuchet ms;" >on, or</span><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);font-family:trebuchet ms;" > click on the link <a style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);" href="http://www.confluxfestival.org/"><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">here</span></a> or the logo below to discover mo</span><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);font-family:trebuchet ms;" >re about the festival, my project </span><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);font-family:trebuchet ms;" >and the </span><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);font-family:trebuchet ms;" >other</span><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);font-family:trebuchet ms;" > artists involved</span><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);font-family:trebuchet ms;" >.<br />When I arrived in Williamsberg I began to explore the area surrounding the McCaig W</span><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);font-family:trebuchet ms;" >elles Gallery, taking photos and looking for objects I could work with for Make do and Mend. Some of the images I took can be seen at my blog </span><a style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153); font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://www.nearlynothing.blogspot.com/">Nearly Nothing</a><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);font-family:trebuchet ms;" >. One of the first things I discovered amongst the almost overwhelming array of discarded objects left on the streets was a silver ring. It had been lost, crushed underfoot, then presumabley found by a passer by and placed on a bollard on Bedford Avenue. I photographed it, cleaned it with sil</span><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);font-family:trebuchet ms;" >v</span><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);font-family:trebuchet ms;" >er</span><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);font-family:trebuchet ms;" > polish and took it to neighbouring jewellers where I had it repaired, and engraved with the</span><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);font-family:trebuchet ms;" > words</span><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);font-family:trebuchet ms;" > "repaired by Hilary Jack".</span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/128/752/1600/IMG_0379.3.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; cursor: pointer; text-align: center;" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/128/752/400/IMG_0379.3.jpg" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/128/752/1600/IMG_0422.5.jpg"><img style="width: 126px; cursor: pointer; height: 83px;" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/128/752/200/IMG_0422.3.jpg" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/128/752/1600/IMG_0391.1.jpg"><img style="width: 123px; cursor: pointer; height: 82px;" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/128/752/320/IMG_0391.1.jpg" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/128/752/1600/IMG_0453.1.jpg"><img style="width: 131px; cursor: pointer; height: 83px;" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/128/752/200/IMG_0453.jpg" border="0" /></a> <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/128/752/1600/IMG_0467.4.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 400px; cursor: pointer; height: 292px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/128/752/400/IMG_0467.3.jpg" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);font-family:trebuchet ms;" >The repaired silver ring became part of an installation of other objects I had found and rejuvenated in some way. All the objects were eventually replaced where I had found them on a walking tour with friends, artists and visitors to Conflux.<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Trousers</span><br /></span><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);font-family:trebuchet ms;" >The other objects I worked with were two pairs of trousers, a man's pair and a woman's pair. These were photographed and taken to a professional dry cleaners. Later in the week I collected and returned the clothes close to where I had found them. </span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/128/752/1600/IMG_0362.2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; cursor: pointer; text-align: center;" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/128/752/400/IMG_0362.1.jpg" border="0" /></a></div></div><div align="justify"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/128/752/1600/IMG_0362.1.jpg"></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/128/752/1600/IMG_0365.jpg"><img style="width: 119px; cursor: pointer; height: 179px;" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/128/752/320/IMG_0365.jpg" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/128/752/1600/IMG_0368.0.jpg"><img style="width: 116px; cursor: pointer; height: 179px;" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/128/752/320/IMG_0368.jpg" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/128/752/1600/IMG_0457.jpg"><img style="width: 111px; cursor: pointer; height: 179px;" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/128/752/320/IMG_0457.jpg" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/128/752/1600/IMG_0461.1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; cursor: pointer; text-align: center;" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/128/752/400/IMG_0461.1.jpg" border="0" /></a></div><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">Umbrella</span><br />During Conflux it rained for two days. The streets of Manhattan and Brooklyn</span><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);font-family:trebuchet ms;" > were littered with discarded, broken, black, umbrellas; the kind you can buy in </span><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);font-family:trebuchet ms;" >a 99 cents store. I collected several and repaired as many as I could, returning them to their original location when I had done so. </span><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/128/752/1600/IMG_0501.1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; cursor: pointer; text-align: center;" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/128/752/400/IMG_0501.0.jpg" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/128/752/1600/IMG_0560_edited.0.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; cursor: pointer; text-align: center;" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/128/752/400/IMG_0560_edited.0.jpg" border="0" /></a></div><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);font-family:trebuchet ms;" ></span><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Click on the logo to follow the link to the Conflux and Glowlab website.....<br /><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.confluxfestival.org/"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; cursor: pointer; text-align: center;" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/128/752/320/confluxlogo.0.png" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/128/752/1600/ace%20logo.0.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 76px; cursor: pointer; height: 69px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/128/752/200/ace%20logo.0.jpg" border="0" /></a></div></div></div></div></div>Hilary Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02728489107236499040noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9985913.post-41477993880932921062007-08-02T11:30:00.000+01:002007-11-27T16:45:27.012+00:00Tap, CUBE, Manchester<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg92yTm1Gq5rvl1pQqVvRZm_JaVr6rFuK1yJ5o-R0Yk5IiCv8cYew9rLKDFDHXnqYi4N-RMe3m0DeWq-REw5oJf1naLMFS59Zn4fSa3jRFjjCD8uJ-mTMmX5qZhlnCozyYoCv8N/s1600-h/Copy+of+IMG_2823.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5096287240550804082" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: pointer; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg92yTm1Gq5rvl1pQqVvRZm_JaVr6rFuK1yJ5o-R0Yk5IiCv8cYew9rLKDFDHXnqYi4N-RMe3m0DeWq-REw5oJf1naLMFS59Zn4fSa3jRFjjCD8uJ-mTMmX5qZhlnCozyYoCv8N/s400/Copy+of+IMG_2823.jpg" border="0" /></a> <div align="justify"><span style="COLOR: rgb(153,153,153);font-family:trebuchet ms;" >For <span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">The World is My Imagination</span>, curated by Andrea Zapp at <a style="COLOR: rgb(204,153,51)" href="http://www.cube.org.uk/">CUBE</a>, nine artists and collectives are exploring the model and the miniscule as an artistic interface in video, networked and interactive installations, digital sound sculptures, photography, found objects and custom built environments.</span><br /><span style="COLOR: rgb(153,153,153);font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><br /></span><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="COLOR: rgb(153,153,153);font-family:trebuchet ms;" >For <strong style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal; COLOR: rgb(153,153,153)">The World Is My Imagination</strong>, Hilary Jack has been commissioned to make a new installation. The work, entitled <span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Tap</span>, involves harvesting clean drinking water from an existing dripping tap (in the Ladies Toilet) which is be redirected into a reservoir and used to nourish an indoor</span><span style="COLOR: rgb(153,153,153);font-family:trebuchet ms;" > plant. The plant in turn acts as host, feeding a myriad of miniature self propagated baby plants to which it is umbilically connected. <span style="COLOR: rgb(153,153,153)"></span></span><span style="COLOR: rgb(102,102,102);font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="COLOR: rgb(192,192,192);font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="COLOR: rgb(153,153,153)">Placed on a nest of domestic tables in the gallery the installation</span></span></span></span></span><span style="COLOR: rgb(102,102,102);font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="COLOR: rgb(192,192,192);font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="COLOR: rgb(153,153,153)"> acts as a model and metaphor for domestic mains water systems and their satellite networks - networks currently under threat from various environmental and man made disasters such as flood, drought, sabotage and terrorist attack. The work hints at our fragility once those</span></span></span></span></span><span style="COLOR: rgb(102,102,102);font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="COLOR: rgb(192,192,192);font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="COLOR: rgb(153,153,153)"> networks are threatened while highlighting our waste of and dependence on, one of our most precious natural resources - clean water.</span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:+0;"><span style="COLOR: rgb(153,153,153);font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilNNfGejHrfBcg81XRIdHWT3C7VPi-dQoTxy0Bm71hgN9k1ZhcnSCNOqipGHEew_J4ou2oZgbfnkSLM_61WSc5XjTtbez-CGKqd8e1qUT0lpJSeGaS0UJNwoa3yhFe4Wxub5rm/s1600-h/Copy+(2)+of+the+worls+is+my+imagination+087.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5111156409672116066" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: pointer; HEIGHT: 267px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilNNfGejHrfBcg81XRIdHWT3C7VPi-dQoTxy0Bm71hgN9k1ZhcnSCNOqipGHEew_J4ou2oZgbfnkSLM_61WSc5XjTtbez-CGKqd8e1qUT0lpJSeGaS0UJNwoa3yhFe4Wxub5rm/s400/Copy+%282%29+of+the+worls+is+my+imagination+087.jpg" border="0" /></a>A clear plastic hose is connected to the dripping tap. The drip is forced by water pressure through the clear hose piping, which is fed through a hole drilled in the wall of the Ladies loo and into the gallery space. The hose is supported by a series </span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXzxsBZQ3uvE4xTJvsbKVt96RTFlNGwciFmBxnuiuzwjz8t1a6fnf0JdXZDowc_f2wVU1ox2_MNABbttSPUzFaj5f7DxpCspCHIle6S-wBxYwW0k0Z1DlCMMVrEMNwkyXza8l6/s1600-h/the+worls+is+my+imagination+090.jpg"></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXzxsBZQ3uvE4xTJvsbKVt96RTFlNGwciFmBxnuiuzwjz8t1a6fnf0JdXZDowc_f2wVU1ox2_MNABbttSPUzFaj5f7DxpCspCHIle6S-wBxYwW0k0Z1DlCMMVrEMNwkyXza8l6/s1600-h/the+worls+is+my+imagination+090.jpg"></a><span style="font-size:+0;"><span style="COLOR: rgb(153,153,153);font-family:trebuchet ms;" >of tree</span></span><span style="font-size:+0;"><span style="COLOR: rgb(153,153,153);font-family:trebuchet ms;" > branches which lead it through the gallery and down to the rest of the installation in the basement.<br /></span></span><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><span style="font-size:+0;"><span style="COLOR: rgb(153,153,153);font-family:trebuchet ms;" ></span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCmiuBbOcU-6CgdjeKa5KNOq_OokQ9PHO1YVM2lelnk2lapAn_ynKv3ma7djSieDvkuE6gZ_V9iQ5MlL2qzralfjVut4sHqpqGGRHtBvuHcxrp7W0wlDqmDko0ILEjPgKtM_lH/s1600-h/Copy+of+tap.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5111156933658126194" style="WIDTH: 129px; CURSOR: pointer; HEIGHT: 169px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCmiuBbOcU-6CgdjeKa5KNOq_OokQ9PHO1YVM2lelnk2lapAn_ynKv3ma7djSieDvkuE6gZ_V9iQ5MlL2qzralfjVut4sHqpqGGRHtBvuHcxrp7W0wlDqmDko0ILEjPgKtM_lH/s320/Copy+of+tap.jpg" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXzxsBZQ3uvE4xTJvsbKVt96RTFlNGwciFmBxnuiuzwjz8t1a6fnf0JdXZDowc_f2wVU1ox2_MNABbttSPUzFaj5f7DxpCspCHIle6S-wBxYwW0k0Z1DlCMMVrEMNwkyXza8l6/s1600-h/the+worls+is+my+imagination+090.jpg"> </a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXzxsBZQ3uvE4xTJvsbKVt96RTFlNGwciFmBxnuiuzwjz8t1a6fnf0JdXZDowc_f2wVU1ox2_MNABbttSPUzFaj5f7DxpCspCHIle6S-wBxYwW0k0Z1DlCMMVrEMNwkyXza8l6/s1600-h/the+worls+is+my+imagination+090.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5111159377494517650" style="WIDTH: 202px; CURSOR: pointer; HEIGHT: 169px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXzxsBZQ3uvE4xTJvsbKVt96RTFlNGwciFmBxnuiuzwjz8t1a6fnf0JdXZDowc_f2wVU1ox2_MNABbttSPUzFaj5f7DxpCspCHIle6S-wBxYwW0k0Z1DlCMMVrEMNwkyXza8l6/s320/the+worls+is+my+imagination+090.jpg" border="0" /> </a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXzxsBZQ3uvE4xTJvsbKVt96RTFlNGwciFmBxnuiuzwjz8t1a6fnf0JdXZDowc_f2wVU1ox2_MNABbttSPUzFaj5f7DxpCspCHIle6S-wBxYwW0k0Z1DlCMMVrEMNwkyXza8l6/s1600-h/the+worls+is+my+imagination+090.jpg"></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNBHtO2GsjIoMdBycyco_ENnmtOrc4nX2-Oa6uPKYW21zTwMiM6dqDuU9oaPZ67Da3x9l_sB496ymPl6KNP08MI8te_nLZcdUSU92-LSToS-1tATep1enlM8Lg_-IxCHpa6o2c/s1600-h/Copy+of+the+worls+is+my+imagination+069.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5111158295162759042" style="CURSOR: pointer" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNBHtO2GsjIoMdBycyco_ENnmtOrc4nX2-Oa6uPKYW21zTwMiM6dqDuU9oaPZ67Da3x9l_sB496ymPl6KNP08MI8te_nLZcdUSU92-LSToS-1tATep1enlM8Lg_-IxCHpa6o2c/s400/Copy+of+the+worls+is+my+imagination+069.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /></div><span style="COLOR: rgb(153,153,153);font-family:trebuchet ms;" >The water drips from the clear hose into a garden water butt where it is then pumped out via a watering system to water the spider plant. The water overflows the plant, dripping into three saucers, arranged in steps in the manner of an indoor fountain, and then into an orange bucket. From here it is pumped out of the bucket, every hour during gallery opening hours and into a watering can. The water collected in the watering can is eventually used to water other plants in the gallery and in the rest of the building.<br /><br /></span></div><span style="COLOR: rgb(153,153,153);font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><div align="center"><strong>Participating Artists for this exhibiton are</strong>: Nick Hardy, UK, h.o Media Group, Japan, Hilary Jack, UK, Jennifer and Kevin McCoy, USA, Markus Kison, Germany, Amanda Oliphant, UK, Mark Pilkington, UK, Joel Porter, UK, Andrea Zapp, Germany/UK<br /></div><strong></strong><div align="center"><strong>7th September – 3rd November 2007</strong><br />Opening Times: 12.00pm – 5.30pm Monday – Saturday<br />Preview: Thursday 6th September 6.00pm-9.00pm<br />Sponsors: ACE North West, Manchester Metropolitan University, Ars Electronica Center Linz, Austra, Astra Signs<br />For more info contact CUBE on 0161 237 5525 or at info@cube.org.uk<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="COLOR: rgb(192,192,192);font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br /></span></span></span><b><span lang="EN-GB"><?xml:namespace prefix = o /><o:p></o:p></span></b></div></span></div>Hilary Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02728489107236499040noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9985913.post-83578703060204883242007-06-09T13:52:00.000+01:002007-11-27T16:46:19.703+00:00Maxply, Transition Gallery, London<img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5074047956036042754" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgo6uTMKw0mT3Vncg6uvWHB7JdY01aiGpy-ORhGazlVAfyJZcf1sG85Ftn9ZZ7WKaofITszRvRttR2-VmqspURxFDQKaYptwp1ASWpOcxB79EtNP-QoI_iLdT99obwa7dgKV9bh/s400/Copy+%282%29+of+apartment+berlin+048.jpg" border="0" /> <span style="COLOR: rgb(153,153,153);font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >Found Maxply tennis racquet, Broadway Market, London</span><br /><div align="center"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"></span></div><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="COLOR: rgb(102,102,102);font-family:trebuchet ms;" >The "Maxply" tennis raquet, the famous classic, wooden framed and made for fifty years of champions by Dunlop between 1933 and 1983. Rod Laver won the grandslam using a Maxply and the last one manufactured was the MacEnroe Maxply in 1983 at the end of wood raquet era. "Buy one to play with and one to hang on your wall as a work of art" reads the Dunlop slogan. This Maxply leans cassually against a graffittied wall behind Broadway Market in Hackney. Abandoned, and broken.</span></span><br /></div><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXrnjphQSCjI8ZCAJjUDKOv7r4ETc4CLC_8ObifrBx2g9s_XKRt3G2LkArbBOYnSLIUSY_8gCC1NxsnoPKrYuV9h8u3JbcVbvxSXSaA7BuFjdY5sOIHrTnjJnhHNQlz8WBTrxj/s1600-h/Copy+of+interludes+image+berlin+003.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5074065127315292226" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXrnjphQSCjI8ZCAJjUDKOv7r4ETc4CLC_8ObifrBx2g9s_XKRt3G2LkArbBOYnSLIUSY_8gCC1NxsnoPKrYuV9h8u3JbcVbvxSXSaA7BuFjdY5sOIHrTnjJnhHNQlz8WBTrxj/s400/Copy+of+interludes+image+berlin+003.jpg" border="0" /></a> <span style="COLOR: rgb(102,102,102);font-family:trebuchet ms;" >F</span><span style="COLOR: rgb(102,102,102);font-family:trebuchet ms;" >or <strong><a href="http://www.transitiongallery.co.uk/"><span style="COLOR: rgb(204,153,51)">E8; The Heart <span style="COLOR: rgb(204,153,51)">o</span></span></a><a href="http://www.transitiongallery.co.uk/"><span style="COLOR: rgb(204,153,51)">f </span></a></strong></span><span style="COLOR: rgb(204,153,51)"><strong><a href="http://www.transitiongallery.co.uk/">Hackney at Transtion Gallery</a></strong></span><strong>, </strong>a group show, selected by Cathy Lomax, I photographed this broken tennis racket, pictured above, and took it home to Manchester. Using Seventies "Pin and Thread" technique to "re-string".<br /><br /><div align="justify"><span style="COLOR: rgb(102,102,102);font-family:trebuchet ms;" >While Hackney borough council focuses its energies on newly established recycling methods and doorstep refuse collection, my action refers back to times when our energies were more focused on repair and reuse rather than recycling and waste.<br /></span></div></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:85%;">"Maxply" Found and repaired Maxply tennis racquet at Transition Gallery. click image to enlarge.<br /><br /></span><div align="justify"><span style="COLOR: rgb(102,102,102);font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><strong>E8; The Heart of Hackney opens on June 15th-July 15th</strong> and is accompanied by a catalogue with texts by Ian Sinclair and Dr Amanda Ravetz. Click <span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">here</span> to read The In Betweenness of Things by Amanda Ravetz.<br />The exhibition includes work by <strong>Emily Cole . Gary O'Connor . walkwalkwalk . Laura Oldfield-Ford . Tom Hunter . Barbaresi & Round . Matthew Stock. </strong>For more information about related events, press, and opening hours</span><span style="COLOR: rgb(102,102,102);font-family:trebuchet ms;" > please follow this link to <a href="http://www.transitiongallery.co.uk/">http://www.transitiongallery.co.uk/</a> <img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5115318217913955474" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRQA6JYjuXyLgeG23KWFjClArqJjN1u1EvTCUaKe_jfc-1oPiF6c05zCBuxqasGxWqzgcugw6HnL8Vb45GLDEI_H70D0QwFfM9oJyn7PyNALY6JkZKImFIpW9u2padZ8Fjy_FB/s400/IMG_2591_edited.jpg" border="0" /></span></div><span style="font-size:85%;">"Maxply", Installation shot at Transition Gallery, London</span><br /><br /></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"></span>Hilary Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02728489107236499040noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9985913.post-53344209597780172492007-06-07T15:03:00.000+01:002007-11-27T16:47:26.454+00:00Glove, Axel Lapp Projects, Berlin<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjO_xfquN2Pdlho4dfn4MRNUcPnxcwwfcpEOUxmVPAc57f0cAmA-sIEnn3m3iIzICc58lQ6k1amJtLkRNnAUJTcB5QB7Sdv0g20r_Wz5UtTHEMDRKDwp4juIdp2MgJYzreYixyA/s1600-h/Copy+of+apartment+berlin+038.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5073685881703055298" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjO_xfquN2Pdlho4dfn4MRNUcPnxcwwfcpEOUxmVPAc57f0cAmA-sIEnn3m3iIzICc58lQ6k1amJtLkRNnAUJTcB5QB7Sdv0g20r_Wz5UtTHEMDRKDwp4juIdp2MgJYzreYixyA/s400/Copy+of+apartment+berlin+038.jpg" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="COLOR: rgb(102,102,102)"></span></span> <div><div align="center"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="COLOR: rgb(102,102,102);font-size:85%;" >"Glove", c print of a single glove found on waste land at the site of the Berlin Wall, Bernauer Strasse.<br /></span></span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="COLOR: rgb(102,102,102)"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Meeting Point at Axel Lapp Projects, Berlin</span><br />For ‘<span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Meeting Point</span>’ I use </span><a href="http://www.axellapp.de/"><span style="COLOR: rgb(192,192,192)"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Axel Lapp Projects</span> </span></a><span style="COLOR: rgb(102,102,102)">as studio, workplace and exhibition space to focus on themes of loss and separation. Throughout the duration of the exhibition I am creating a new partner for a single, lost, black glove, found and photographed, on waste land at the site of the Berlin Wall, at Bernauer Strasse, on a previous research trip to Berlin. When finished the glove will be returned with its partner back to the wire on Bernauer Strasse. The work is part of a group show curated by <a href="http://www.apartmentmanchester.blogspot.com/"><span style="COLOR: rgb(192,192,192)">Apartment</span></a> at the invitation of Axel Lapp for his programme "Interludes" which showcases artist led activity from outside Berlin. Follow the links above for more information about the spaces and artists involved </span><span style="COLOR: rgb(102,102,102)">.</span></span> <img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5073329992122974066" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiq91e93-Ru5VuZmJ17Do1ruJx9yW7j2aIfkNQYpMhUvhiSPVuygV5rK5UlVs8Ovjn3OPlHA8auEiNnxOU5EgYTRJKne9r_jyntooOIsBT2WvZivdjIDdUceXnH9dhJdA5q60Ff/s400/Copy+of+installation+shot.jpg" border="0" /> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvC51EOmTrtgk2acw1PVhx0l9JicnyMkoSYxmQtWtDW5NDGZ9WhNtg_OpLP3lKC6kT9qUxYxXPBdq1cxl6XPx_D6smCFvZ4_k1YwBBwFHNUqo0F5Rd3lE4d52SM6KGXjUpKTjU/s1600-h/Copy+of+meeting+point+exhibiton+berlin+070.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5073328811006967634" style="WIDTH: 185px; HEIGHT: 146px" height="177" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvC51EOmTrtgk2acw1PVhx0l9JicnyMkoSYxmQtWtDW5NDGZ9WhNtg_OpLP3lKC6kT9qUxYxXPBdq1cxl6XPx_D6smCFvZ4_k1YwBBwFHNUqo0F5Rd3lE4d52SM6KGXjUpKTjU/s320/Copy+of+meeting+point+exhibiton+berlin+070.jpg" width="282" border="0" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHJu-YLpjv9ksFGcMMYcUK7agPh9BPJ0tZ0Ivm_gMstiSExmZfMV95vU-TM47aO4TnvJlxJk2vNth9IBzM1iiVJMy6bn9gyG9pAJkKsKd97NN_QXgjjAuC94x_ye7gbjME4tzi/s1600-h/Copy+of+knitting.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5073329206143958882" style="WIDTH: 177px; HEIGHT: 145px" height="191" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHJu-YLpjv9ksFGcMMYcUK7agPh9BPJ0tZ0Ivm_gMstiSExmZfMV95vU-TM47aO4TnvJlxJk2vNth9IBzM1iiVJMy6bn9gyG9pAJkKsKd97NN_QXgjjAuC94x_ye7gbjME4tzi/s320/Copy+of+knitting.jpg" width="302" border="0" /></a> <img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5075890655919816818" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNeVrOoC1ZJXx1Xnn4h0GbPImYJv0yUvcc4XiKtqzLW90XJS8knItPnunX_AhV-fl2o0w21w6A-__emN-CN4jSDe8QpBP-JWEVQ83lHXBhhKq4a7GIy9Jcu8XK0Eg_s3E7BEhj/s400/knitted+glove.JPG" border="0" /> <img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5075890995222233218" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidMCecZ5cvjbme6Ra_uTPbCZNPJX91T8SdMoOpQzl4NteR-S3X_j3XFKbMpYoqIx9Y9bqwbPT7RMAp0oskzBNeCSfXq34lVi1yRHwoS4ETqajL87Jd6UtZqHFgsje8SD0jqBW8/s400/knitted+glove+2.JPG" border="0" /> <p align="left"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;">Above: "Glove", the pair of gloves returned to the wire fence as part of Meeting Point at Axel Lapp Projects, Berlin.</span></p></div></div>Hilary Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02728489107236499040noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9985913.post-37961321982668104342007-06-07T14:47:00.003+01:002008-07-10T11:27:02.161+01:00Car, Extreme Crafts, CAC, Lithuania<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjw5Lijj_N58IMG8UrihgHyB89TSc3ctDfqqlJk_N0pQyorQ-ZfWoPcdFfzTTC0yd7k5S6yx6txqTMcnM9_Thnax61dakY5tAMJnmpPiuQ3m7Ij7-hX4uEZD5SwR9Hr9D9J2n0w/s1600-h/Copy+of+CAZ2SZN9.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5073321956239163186" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjw5Lijj_N58IMG8UrihgHyB89TSc3ctDfqqlJk_N0pQyorQ-ZfWoPcdFfzTTC0yd7k5S6yx6txqTMcnM9_Thnax61dakY5tAMJnmpPiuQ3m7Ij7-hX4uEZD5SwR9Hr9D9J2n0w/s400/Copy+of+CAZ2SZN9.jpg" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">"Extreme Crafts" at <a href="http://www.cac.lt/"><strong>CAC, Vilnius, Lithuania</strong></a> selected by curators Jennie Syson and Catherine </span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Hemelryk, explores how handicrafts and customization are increasingly being used by contemporary artists as a source of inspiration and method of manufacture. The artists selected include a wide range of international artists working across media including Juneau Projects, Catherine Bertola, Knit Knit, and Via Vaudeville.</span></span><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">For Extreme Crafts the curators have selected an object (shown above) that they found in the street for me to augment. They have exhibited a photograph of it in the gallery packaged it and sent it to me in Berlin where I'm currently working. When it arrives I will "repair" and customise it in some way and then return it to them to exhibit in the gallery along with its packaging and the documentation of its transformation.</span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-9t2SJr6cHI85mFV9cXMq_nLPAhZip3f9B5rRayqKuC6CDYGaUn4Jkzggg6qyW0VBYgUbGBCykk9YVRjDr4QQP7rAOJHr0FM2ofgnJCLvoJxzHqBzart5MQzrP-jY-8OpAmYz/s1600-h/car+4.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5114890744113951874" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; cursor: pointer; text-align: center;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-9t2SJr6cHI85mFV9cXMq_nLPAhZip3f9B5rRayqKuC6CDYGaUn4Jkzggg6qyW0VBYgUbGBCykk9YVRjDr4QQP7rAOJHr0FM2ofgnJCLvoJxzHqBzart5MQzrP-jY-8OpAmYz/s400/car+4.jpg" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> </span></span><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);font-family:times new roman;" ><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">The Yellow car arrived a few days ago. Its now back on the road after having been given a car wash, a respray, its broken door is fixed, a new windscreen has been fitted, it has new tyres, and Ive added a turbo charged exhaust system recycled from a broken toy car. Ive packaged it up in acid free tissue paper with handling gloves and its now on its way back to CAC in</span></span><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);font-family:times new roman;" ><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> Li</span></span><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">thuania via registered post, where the curator of Extreme Crafts will place it in the</span></span></span><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"> gallery with the images Ive sent showing its transformation. </span></span></span><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">........</span></span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWSOVtltT5coD1ILKtQ45z_UMFcRmltCuKXCtpIqF7ljvotuE1Ba6CJ51ROO_lwCCXJMzk_fvoTjgaQH02ydWHz8RSVGIdS8CTzxKlhS9csfiuEr2j3PWDLaXNGW9-HDRm1XTl/s1600-h/Copy+of+6.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5085164202714112658" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; cursor: pointer; text-align: center;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWSOVtltT5coD1ILKtQ45z_UMFcRmltCuKXCtpIqF7ljvotuE1Ba6CJ51ROO_lwCCXJMzk_fvoTjgaQH02ydWHz8RSVGIdS8CTzxKlhS9csfiuEr2j3PWDLaXNGW9-HDRm1XTl/s400/Copy+of+6.jpg" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);font-family:trebuchet ms;" >The car eventually arrived in Lithuania just before the closing of Extreme Crafts and was returned to its original location by the curator Catherine Hemelryk.</span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSmxmQcoctCZCvRCFoaNCImwZbN8W9IVhI3OF17R1ZG66_NolRq0-YArFKVpADmOIeIfulkJKqfDDE1NS5_342rBg3GGYBPVLI9wpSY7BClXCG4izz5gU1MQY3yZrnbr81Me8Q/s1600-h/cac+car+2.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5114887007492404322" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; cursor: pointer; text-align: center;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSmxmQcoctCZCvRCFoaNCImwZbN8W9IVhI3OF17R1ZG66_NolRq0-YArFKVpADmOIeIfulkJKqfDDE1NS5_342rBg3GGYBPVLI9wpSY7BClXCG4izz5gU1MQY3yZrnbr81Me8Q/s400/cac+car+2.jpg" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZ7fxqD4AXMMmU-WQFVOgbpGbKhE3lcMxPb76XL4MNd4KTyQbha7CK9hqHH6QS-jes8T3ssb1li9GQE3ZgnBC172pBMkgMd9wXH02hVbE48Dw-K42qrEjDUFMSoR8aO6X4G-9e/s1600-h/cac+car3.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5114887209355867250" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; cursor: pointer; text-align: center;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZ7fxqD4AXMMmU-WQFVOgbpGbKhE3lcMxPb76XL4MNd4KTyQbha7CK9hqHH6QS-jes8T3ssb1li9GQE3ZgnBC172pBMkgMd9wXH02hVbE48Dw-K42qrEjDUFMSoR8aO6X4G-9e/s400/cac+car3.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);font-family:trebuchet ms;" >More images of this work and the show at CAC can be accessed by clicking on this link.. <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/8593586@N07/">flickr</a></span>Hilary Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02728489107236499040noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9985913.post-9596375230033736212007-04-08T15:20:00.000+01:002008-07-11T16:23:19.935+01:00Sex and Witchcraft, Transition Gallery, London<div align="justify"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkfg7ZArlLcs5fYTZxDAv8LMtvRWivGa1d-2reVmHDOWZirfRDudMWSh-QtYjofmK5yuA55DzkOTGB48Fl4rZyCkw7lg6DYMNhea71kfmMe4kroe0spkrc07IatVleyrl-FqC9/s1600-h/6.detail.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5168371437034942002" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; cursor: pointer; text-align: center;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkfg7ZArlLcs5fYTZxDAv8LMtvRWivGa1d-2reVmHDOWZirfRDudMWSh-QtYjofmK5yuA55DzkOTGB48Fl4rZyCkw7lg6DYMNhea71kfmMe4kroe0spkrc07IatVleyrl-FqC9/s400/6.detail.jpg" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:78%;"><span style="font-family:arial;">Above: Detail of "Beheaded Girl in a Red Dress takes a Long Hard Look at Herself", found broken Royal Doulton Figurine, tree branch and table, Hilary Jack 2008</span></span><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;" ><strong>Sex and Witchcraft at Transition Gallery, London</strong></span></div><div align="center"><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><strong>Preview February 14th 6pm</strong></span></div><div align="center"><a href="http://www.transitongallery.co.uk/"><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);font-family:trebuchet ms;" >www.transitiongallery.co.uk</span></a><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"> </span></div><div align="center"><br /><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Lisa Penny, Hilary Jack, Anne Marie Kennedy, Beata </span><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Veszely, Susan Taylor, Rache</span><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);font-family:trebuchet ms;" >l Tweddell and Kate Street</span></div><div style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Working across media, often incorporating the use of found materials and table top techniques</span><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);font-family:trebuchet ms;" > the artists engage in a disturbing alchemy. Dabbling </span><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);font-family:trebuchet ms;" >in the chemistry of a first </span><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);font-family:trebuchet ms;" >sig</span><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);font-family:trebuchet ms;" >hting and the</span><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);font-family:trebuchet ms;" > magical fusion of opposing elements the artists reveal a dark underbelly to the world of love</span><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);font-family:trebuchet ms;" > and flowers, white horses and watercolours. The exhibition is accompanied by a com</span><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);font-family:trebuchet ms;" >missioned essay b<span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">y <a href="http://hilaryjack.blogspot.com/2008/02/sex-and-witchcraft-gary-lachman.html"><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">Gary Lachman</span></a></span><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">, t</span>he author of a numb</span><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);font-family:trebuchet ms;" >er of books exploring links between</span><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);font-family:trebuchet ms;" > occultis</span><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);font-family:trebuchet ms;" >m and modern culture. </span></div><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><div style="text-align: left;" align="left"><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Images from the Show</span></div><div style="text-align: left;" align="left"><strong></strong></div></span><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7M3VgCLgZ2wly6jzix86vxOPxlChWRwftj627IoCFpD6LXZtGwyEPNRwppvy30RGIIWCbk3Xy-B60zojziFvHeQRG0qIsS2FVgQQ5N-4Jjr5Alx-0NIo4n9NLulIsv5I_3QN9/s1600-h/5.Hilary+Jack.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5168353857733799410" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; 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display: block; cursor: pointer; text-align: center;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9a7flp7h0sOydqJsJlOA-8pWhSu0Adq_7MTKbucbswHba1mCwK1jf8QNWrVPN8GwjTeWBhrvBaGDVzad088XpdftGdnnQ7njE2iulzB25rOcLh8hEANl8rfT11dy5lpv8pSvO/s400/16.+The+End.jpg" border="0" /></a></p></span><br /><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);font-family:Arial;font-size:130%;" >Press</span><br /><span style="font-family:Arial;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:Arial;">February 18, 2008<br />'Sex and Witchcraft' Exhibition<br />Transition Gallery • 15th February – 9th March 2008<br />Who doesn't want to believe in magic? Whether we can suspend our disbelief or not, I'm certain that a little bit of enchantment in our lives wouldn't go amiss. The seven female artists in <a href="http://www.transitiongallery.co.uk/htmlpages/sandw_pr.htm" target="_blank">'Sex and Witchcraft'</a> (<a href="http://www.hilaryjack.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Hilary Jack</a>, Anne Marie Kennedy, <a href="http://www.artsunwrapped.com/artsunwrapped_studio.php?wk=wk2&st_idb=21&ar_id=277&artistsec=work" target="_blank">Rachel Tweddell</a>, Lisa Penny, <a href="http://www.katestreet.co.uk/" target="_blank">Kate Street</a>,<a href="http://www.staffs.ac.uk/cgi-bin/ariadne/show?artist=taylor_s" target="_blank"> Susan Taylor</a>, <a href="http://www.newcontemporaries.org.uk/artist_single.php?aid=156" target="_blank">Beata Veszely</a>) explore the ideas of the occult in very different ways; resulting in works that range from the exuberant to the quietly melancholic.<br />An essay by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Valentine_Lachman" target="_blank">Gary Lachman</a>, an author interested in links between the occult and modern culture, contextualises the work nicely. I’m one of those exhibition-goers who laps up any kind of socio-historic background to work, particularly when the essay in question gives such valuable tit-bits such as that sleeping with the devil is akin to being with ‘a stallion among mares’. Although there is undoubtedly an undercurrent of sexuality to some of the work, I saw the exhibition more in terms of ‘sex’ as a celebration of the feminine.<br />Highlights included Kate Street’s ‘Orchis’, a drawing of slow, considered beauty. The work seemed somewhere between a memento mori and a botanical catalogue image, fusing delicate petals with skull-like imagery. According to the ancient Greeks, orchids sprang from the spilt semen of mating animals; this rather earthy belief contrasts with the delicacy of the work.<br />Beata Veszely’s video piece ‘On the Way to Heaven’ also seemed to comment on the inherent beauty in nature; it celebrated in a dream-like way the power and movement of a white horse. The interaction between nature and the artist was a recurring idea in the exhibition, fittingly so since so much of our ideas of witchcraft are tied up with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wicca" target="_blank">Wiccan</a> beliefs of nature-supreme. The icon of the white horse is unavoidably linked with the unicorn, well at least in my child-like mind it is…and this is why this exhibition is so enjoyable: work that explores ideas of witchcraft persuades us to be as imaginative and as open to ideas of magic as we were when we were children.<br />Written by Beth Richards Posted on February 18, 2008 12:36 PM<br /></span></span></div>Hilary Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02728489107236499040noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9985913.post-1163074950379220992006-10-28T12:19:00.000+01:002007-11-27T16:48:34.698+00:00Make do and Mend, London<div style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/128/752/1600/154198/IMG_0954.jpg"><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: pointer; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/128/752/400/756889/IMG_0954.jpg" border="0" /></a><span style="COLOR: rgb(153,153,153);font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Make do and Mend at Transition Gallery London<br />Make do and Mend</span> is an ongoing project which has taken place in</span><span style="COLOR: rgb(153,153,153);font-family:trebuchet ms;" > Manchester, London, and New York. Make do and Mend involves the collection and rejuvenation of discarded material found on city streets. In November I spent a week in London exploring the area</span><span style="COLOR: rgb(153,153,153);font-family:trebuchet ms;" > around Transition Gallery and Broadway Market, looking for objects to work with for an event</span><span style="COLOR: rgb(153,153,153);font-family:trebuchet ms;" > </span><span style="COLOR: rgb(153,153,153);font-family:trebuchet ms;" >I hosted at the gallery on December 3rd</span><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"> </span><span style="COLOR: rgb(153,153,153);font-family:trebuchet ms;" >as</span><span style="COLOR: rgb(153,153,153);font-family:trebuchet ms;" > part of Super Nature.</span><span style="COLOR: rgb(153,153,153);font-family:trebuchet ms;" > The images</span><span style="COLOR: rgb(153,153,153);font-family:trebuchet ms;" > on this</span><span style="COLOR: rgb(153,153,153);font-family:trebuchet ms;" > bl</span><span style="COLOR: rgb(153,153,153);font-family:trebuchet ms;" >og</span><span style="COLOR: rgb(153,153,153);font-family:trebuchet ms;" > 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style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="COLOR: rgb(153,153,153)"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">When I visited London in November I explored the area surrounding the gallery and </span></span><span style="COLOR: rgb(153,153,153)"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">found</span></span><span style="COLOR: rgb(153,153,153)"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> a pair of mens's shoes in a bus stop off Broadway Market, near Transition. I </span></span><span style="COLOR: rgb(153,153,153)"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">took them back to Manchester with me. There I had them resoled and reheeled at Timpsons in Didsbury with beautifully embossed leather soles. I also took them to John Hedleys Foil and Emboss Printing, in Ancoats, where I asked them to make a block to add some gilt text to the soles of the shoes. On the undersole of the right shoe the text reads "I found these shoes in a bus stop near Broadway market" and on the left undersole it reads " I have cleaned repaired and erturned them here for someone else to re use". I then took them back to London for an off site project at Transition Gallery where exhibited them in the gallery as part of a forum I hosted. Later that day, and with visitors to the gallery, I returned them to the bus stop where I'd found them and left them there. When I went back a couple of hours later they had gone. </span></span><span style="COLOR: rgb(153,153,153);font-family:trebuchet ms;" ></span><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/128/752/1600/216698/Copy%20of%20IMG_1299.jpg"><img style="DISPLAY: block; 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MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 238px; CURSOR: pointer; HEIGHT: 358px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" height="341" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/128/752/400/811899/IMG_1318.jpg" width="193" border="0" /></a></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"></div><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: left"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/128/752/1600/951986/Copy%20of%20IMG_1341.jpg"><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: pointer; TEXT-ALIGN: center" height="263" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/128/752/400/466347/Copy%20of%20IMG_1341.jpg" width="349" border="0" /></a><span style="COLOR: rgb(153,153,153);font-family:trebuchet ms;" >.</span> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:0;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/128/752/1600/96931/Copy%20of%20IMG_1364.jpg"><img style="WIDTH: 237px; CURSOR: pointer; HEIGHT: 177px" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/128/752/200/468785/Copy%20of%20IMG_1364.jpg" border="0" /></a> <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/128/752/1600/198702/IMG_1350.jpg"><img style="WIDTH: 144px; CURSOR: pointer; HEIGHT: 177px" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/128/752/200/206600/IMG_1350.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>Hilary Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02728489107236499040noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9985913.post-1159613802337425692006-08-19T11:29:00.000+01:002007-11-27T16:49:30.423+00:00Make do and Mend, Manchester<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/128/752/1600/1.Make%20do%20and%20Mend%20Found%20Umbrella.jpg"><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: pointer; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/128/752/400/1.Make%20do%20and%20Mend%20Found%20Umbrella.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/128/752/1600/2.Make%20do%20and%20Mend%20Repaired%20Umbrella.jpg"><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: pointer; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/128/752/400/2.Make%20do%20and%20Mend%20Repaired%20Umbrella.jpg" border="0" /></a><span style="COLOR: rgb(153,153,153);font-family:trebuchet ms;" >I began my ongoing project Make do and Mend in Manchester after noticing the amount of discarded broken umbrellas that appeared on the street after rainfall. I began photographing them and later collecting them, taking them to my studio. I realised that most of the umbrellas were cheaply made, the kind you buy in a pound store. Many were not badly broken and just needed minor repairs to function properly again. So I began to repair them, adding an embroidered label, (which read "repaired by Hilary Jack") and then I replaced them where I had found them, finally photographing them again. </span>Hilary Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02728489107236499040noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9985913.post-1136550367736244142006-07-20T23:25:00.000+01:002006-11-13T11:13:04.676+00:00<div align="center"><a href="http://www.amazingcounters.com"><img src="http://c3.amazingcounters.com/counter.php?i=744973&c=2235232" alt="Counters" border="0" /></a><br /><small><a href="http://www.computers-coupon-gateway.com"><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">Computer Coupons</span></a></small></div>Hilary Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02728489107236499040noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9985913.post-1163415477195378752006-07-19T00:50:00.000+01:002007-11-27T16:49:52.376+00:00Trade, Manchester<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/128/752/1600/Copy%20of%20IMG_1021.0.jpg"><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: pointer; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/128/752/400/Copy%20of%20IMG_1021.0.jpg" border="0" /></a><span style="COLOR: rgb(153,153,153);font-family:trebuchet ms;" >As part of this years 10th Anniversary <a href="http://www.blogger.com/www.rogueartistsstudios.co.uk/jack.htm">Rogue</a> Open Studios, I offered up my space as a market place for the trading of unwanted goods, services and ideas. From Midday onwards goods were left in my studio, and services were pledged.<br />At 8pm trading began.<br />Over the course of the evening all manner of goods and services were traded; a set of retro curtains for an engraved pebble, a stalkers telephone number for Joseph Conrad's novel "The Heart of Darkness" and an original Adam Ant notebook for a used cinema ticket with a history. Numerous other items were offered and exchanged including; a kiss, a haircut, a gold watch, a loaf of homebaked bread, a plastic mole and an offer to sweep a driveway free of Autumn leaves. Throughout the evening, frenzied trading took place face to face and over mobile phones, but no money exchanged hands.<br />Trade is documented <a style="COLOR: rgb(204,153,51)" href="http://apebbleforasetofretrocurtains.blogspot.com/"><span style="COLOR: rgb(204,153,51)">here</span></a>.<br />Many thanks to all those who participated in Trade. </span>Hilary Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02728489107236499040noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9985913.post-1159614491767735142006-06-19T23:13:00.000+01:002007-11-27T16:50:41.703+00:00Make do and Mend, Berlin<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNrNurbFvwhzp7lp-JTBRTy_wGCJrT9XvBD5E-XdtyaBJvrMaTWbAyZpBMZQJB4kplTVePuNvmJqoUzglmDjFtdQYfePBQCEtFHLA3sBGGuEsCiXgResq3QMLIuKYMOFCKhdIF/s1600-h/1+Copy+of+berlin+035.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5118920831124980066" style="WIDTH: 169px; CURSOR: pointer; HEIGHT: 249px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNrNurbFvwhzp7lp-JTBRTy_wGCJrT9XvBD5E-XdtyaBJvrMaTWbAyZpBMZQJB4kplTVePuNvmJqoUzglmDjFtdQYfePBQCEtFHLA3sBGGuEsCiXgResq3QMLIuKYMOFCKhdIF/s400/1+Copy+of+berlin+035.jpg" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfLGh3HVmhpIFcAKTRB6xgEsMctF06QyfCdoJWZkeGQy9wFtB5_Xyf8_e52f65ja3Z-U2r6M1NSmXktRYRYuCDCYdc-AiU_Tst13RC-FlnTVaLCDUun1kLe50X2MIfFam3iQOh/s1600-h/2+Copy+of+IMG_1859.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5118921703003341170" style="WIDTH: 184px; CURSOR: pointer; HEIGHT: 249px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfLGh3HVmhpIFcAKTRB6xgEsMctF06QyfCdoJWZkeGQy9wFtB5_Xyf8_e52f65ja3Z-U2r6M1NSmXktRYRYuCDCYdc-AiU_Tst13RC-FlnTVaLCDUun1kLe50X2MIfFam3iQOh/s400/2+Copy+of+IMG_1859.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style="COLOR: rgb(153,153,153);font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Early in 2007 I went to Berlin to research new work and curatorial projects for <a href="http://www.apartmentmanchester.blogspot.com/">Apartment</a>. While I was there I found a discarded broken umbrella on waste land at the site of the Berlin Wall, close to the intersection at Bernauer Strasse. I photographed it and took to back to Manchester with me. I began to repair it, removing all the rusted metal frame and replacing it with a new frame and handle. Several months later when I returned to Berlin to do more research for a project with Axel Lapp, I replaced the repaired umbrella close to where I had found it, and then photographed it as near as possible to where I had taken the original image.<br /></span>Hilary Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02728489107236499040noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9985913.post-1136821999400970262006-01-05T12:38:00.000+00:002007-11-27T17:02:55.669+00:00Surveillance, Three Colts Gallery, London<div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/128/752/1600/three%20colts%20and%20apartment%20093.jpg"><span style="COLOR: rgb(153,153,153);font-size:85%;" ><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: pointer; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/128/752/400/three%20colts%20and%20apartment%20093.jpg" border="0" /></span></a><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="COLOR: rgb(153,153,153)"><span style="COLOR: rgb(102,102,102)"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="COLOR: rgb(153,153,153)">"</span><strong><span style="COLOR: rgb(153,153,153)">Repaired</span> <span style="COLOR: rgb(153,153,153)">Umbrella</span></strong><span style="COLOR: rgb(153,153,153)">" in Surveillance at <strong>Three Colts Gallery</strong></span><span style="COLOR: rgb(153,153,153)">, London, with work by Mathew Brotherhood, (Brain made of lard, on floor), John Tiney, (Video), Rachel Tweddell, (coloured spider plants) and Emi (photographs) in the background. </span></span></span></span></span></div><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;color:#999999;"></span></span></div><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;color:#999999;"></span><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify" align="left"><span style="color:#666666;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:100%;">For Surveillance, a group show of eight artists at Three Colts in London, I repaired an umbrella, I found outside the gallery and exhibited it alongside photographs of broken umbrellas. </span><br /></span></span></div></span>Hilary Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02728489107236499040noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9985913.post-1116273709895687502006-01-05T12:15:00.000+00:002007-11-27T16:51:29.823+00:00Turquoise Bag in a Tree The Bigger Picture, Manchester<div style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: left"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/128/752/1600/a.%20Turquoise%20bag%20in%20a%20tree,%20photograph%20of%20found%20Turquoise%20bag.jpg"><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: pointer; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/128/752/400/a.%20Turquoise%20bag%20in%20a%20tree%2C%20photograph%20of%20found%20Turquoise%20bag.jpg" border="0" /></a> <span style="COLOR: rgb(102,102,102);font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; COLOR: rgb(153,153,153)">Turquoise Bag in a Tree</span><span style="COLOR: rgb(153,153,153)"> is an ongoing project which focuses on the environmental impact of plastic carrier bags. The project began 2003 and includes video, photography, events and interventions in public spaces. See below and follow the link to</span> <a style="COLOR: rgb(51,204,255)" href="http://www.turquoisebaginatree.com/"><span style="COLOR: rgb(51,204,255)">www.turquoisebaginatree.com</span></a><span style="COLOR: rgb(153,153,153)"> </span><span style="COLOR: rgb(153,153,153)">to see this work on line.</span></span><br /><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="COLOR: rgb(153,153,153);font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" ><span style="COLOR: rgb(102,102,102);font-family:trebuchet ms;" >I<span style="COLOR: rgb(153,153,153)">n 2005 Turquoise Bag in a Tree was selected by Kate Taylor and Kathy Rae Huffman at Cornerhouse Manchester as one of four new commissions for BBC's <span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">The Bigger </span></span></span></span><span style="COLOR: rgb(153,153,153);font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" ><span style="COLOR: rgb(102,102,102);font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><span style="COLOR: rgb(153,153,153)"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Picture</span></span></span></span> <span style="COLOR: rgb(153,153,153);font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" ><span style="COLOR: rgb(102,102,102);font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><span style="COLOR: rgb(153,153,153)">in Exchange Square Manchester. I made a short video work filmed around</span></span><span style="COLOR: rgb(153,153,153)"> </span><span style="COLOR: rgb(102,102,102);font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><span style="COLOR: rgb(153,153,153)">Manchester which showed several windblown turquoise bags caught in trees in different locations</span></span><span style="COLOR: rgb(153,153,153)"> </span><span style="COLOR: rgb(153,153,153);font-family:trebuchet ms;" >and at different stages of decay. The slowly dissolving images suggest the passing of time. I also organized a number of events and interventions which took place in Exchange Square during the course of the commissions</span></span><br /><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/89/2924/640/DSCF0335.jpg"><span style="font-size:130%;"><img style="BORDER-RIGHT: rgb(0,0,0) 1px solid; BORDER-TOP: rgb(0,0,0) 1px solid; MARGIN: 2px; BORDER-LEFT: rgb(0,0,0) 1px solid; BORDER-BOTTOM: rgb(0,0,0) 1px solid" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/89/2924/320/DSCF0335.jpg" border="0" /></span></a><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;">Turquoise Bag in a Tree, video, The Bigger Picrure, Exchange Square, Manchester</span><br /><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/89/2924/640/DSCF0343.jpg"><img style="BORDER-RIGHT: rgb(0,0,0) 1px solid; BORDER-TOP: rgb(0,0,0) 1px solid; MARGIN: 2px; BORDER-LEFT: rgb(0,0,0) 1px solid; BORDER-BOTTOM: rgb(0,0,0) 1px solid" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/89/2924/320/DSCF0343.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="COLOR: rgb(102,102,102);font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >Plastic Bag Amnesty, badges and canvas bags</span><br /></div><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><div style="COLOR: rgb(102,102,102); TEXT-ALIGN: justify" align="justify"><span style="COLOR: rgb(153,153,153)"><span style="COLOR: rgb(102,102,102);font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><span style="COLOR: rgb(153,153,153)">Introduced just over twenty five years</span><span style="COLOR: rgb(153,153,153)"> ago, we now consume between 500 billion and one trillion plastic bags a year, many end up in landfill others as windblown bags in trees.</span></span></span><span style="COLOR: rgb(153,153,153)"><br /></span><span style="COLOR: rgb(204,153,51);font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><span style="COLOR: rgb(102,102,102)"><span style="COLOR: rgb(153,153,153)">For the launch of <span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">The Bigger Picture Commissions</span>, canvas bags were offered to those attending the preview and to passers by in a "<span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Plastic Bag Amnesty</span>" in the street. Collected and found turquoise bags are being added to "Rope" (see below). By using the canvas bag in replace of a plastic one when you shop, you have the capacity to eliminate thousands of plastic bags in its lifespan</span>.</span></span></div><span style="COLOR: rgb(153,153,153);font-size:100%;" ><span style="COLOR: rgb(51,204,0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><span style="COLOR: rgb(102,102,102)"><span style="COLOR: rgb(153,153,153)">After reading the statistic, that if all the one trillion plastic bags annually manufactured worldwide were knotted together they would form a rope which could encircle the world 64 times, I decided to begin to make my own rope out of found and donated turquoise bags. I will continue to make this for as long as this project lasts.<br /></span></span></span></span><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/244/3676/1024/knottedbags1.jpg"><img class="phostImg" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/244/3676/400/knottedbags1.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="COLOR: rgb(153,153,153);font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><span style="font-size:85%;">Rope, donated plastic bags made to form a rope</span></span><br /><div align="justify"><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/89/2924/640/DSCF0292.jpg"><img style="BORDER-RIGHT: rgb(0,0,0) 1px solid; BORDER-TOP: rgb(0,0,0) 1px solid; MARGIN: 2px; BORDER-LEFT: rgb(0,0,0) 1px solid; BORDER-BOTTOM: rgb(0,0,0) 1px solid" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/89/2924/320/DSCF0292.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="COLOR: rgb(102,102,102)"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Sign, custom made metal sign, outside Lamport Court</span></span></span><br /></div><span style="COLOR: rgb(153,153,153);font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><strong></strong><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="COLOR: rgb(153,153,153);font-size:100%;" >Plastic bags have become so embedded in our society that I believe some people dont notice them at all. The custom made signs which read "turquoise bag in a tree" are placed in trees with windblown turquoise bags caught in them. They are intended to highlight the existence of the bags.This one is outside Lamport Court, on Lamport</span> <span style="COLOR: rgb(153,153,153)"><span style="font-size:100%;">Close in central Manchester.</span> </span></span></span><a href="http://www.hello.com/" target="ext"><span style="COLOR: rgb(153,153,153);font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" ><img style="BORDER-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; BORDER-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; BACKGROUND: 0% 50%; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: 0px; moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial" alt="Posted by Hello" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/pbh.gif" align="middle" border="0" /></span></a></div><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/89/2924/640/edale%20and%20tb%20012.jpg"><img style="BORDER-RIGHT: rgb(0,0,0) 1px solid; BORDER-TOP: rgb(0,0,0) 1px solid; MARGIN: 2px; BORDER-LEFT: rgb(0,0,0) 1px solid; BORDER-BOTTOM: rgb(0,0,0) 1px solid" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/89/2924/320/edale%20and%20tb%20012.jpg" border="0" /></a></div><p align="justify"><span style="COLOR: rgb(102,102,102);font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><span style="COLOR: rgb(153,153,153)"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:100%;">I have made some oversized carrier bags which appear anonymously in public spaces from time to time. The giant bag appeared in and around Manchester during the The Bigger Picture commission and will feature in a new video work, </span><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold;font-size:100%;" >The Shopper</span>.</span></span></span></p><p align="justify"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/128/752/1600/shopper%20and%20HA%20002.jpg"><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: pointer; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/128/752/400/shopper%20and%20HA%20002.jpg" border="0" /></a></p><p align="justify"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;"><span style="COLOR: rgb(153,153,153)"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">The Shopper</span> is a video work in progress which explores the economics of the high street and asks the viewer to consider their own accumulaion of material goods in a lifetime of shopping.</span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEit1QFDpjPnlJdPuD_iL4vSRJ_DzBldMK4BXATuA_LbiOhHMW27sx_fmwegWnsrBPQy07_Hc-65sw2UnhEpkJ3oYxMOUbTnDvDOSIvU5AFBY9jya_2diAGFyMidqFm6PsVVs3Jn/s1600-h/Copy+of+DSCF0018.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5118998273680294322" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: pointer; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEit1QFDpjPnlJdPuD_iL4vSRJ_DzBldMK4BXATuA_LbiOhHMW27sx_fmwegWnsrBPQy07_Hc-65sw2UnhEpkJ3oYxMOUbTnDvDOSIvU5AFBY9jya_2diAGFyMidqFm6PsVVs3Jn/s400/Copy+of+DSCF0018.JPG" border="0" /></a></p><p align="justify"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;"><span style="COLOR: rgb(153,153,153)"><br /></span></span></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;"><strong><span style="font-size:+0;">Contemporary Art and The Contemporary Past:<br /></span></strong></span></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;" ><strong><span style="font-size:+0;">Hilary Jack showing on The Bigger</span></strong><strong><span style="font-size:+0;"> Picture</span></strong></span><span style="font-size:+0;"><br /><br /><span class="text011" style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">For an archeologist, Hilary Jack's Turquoise Bag in a Tree" showing on The Bigger Picture as commissioned by Cornehouse, <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 /><st1:place st="on"><st1:city st="on">Manchester</st1:city></st1:place>, is unsettling. Jack photographs and films empty turquoise plastic carrier bags in urban situations. They have been blown into the branches of trees. People email digital photos of similar bags in similar trees to her through her website. These collections are juxtaposed with her own situated sculptural interventions: placing carefully-made or oversized bags in unusual public places, or showing an oversized video of a plastic bag in the wind in Exchange Square. The result is a compelling project that documents things that survive from the most recent past, and works with their presence in what archaeologists Victor Buchli and Gavin Lucas have termed ‘contemporary past’ (Buchli and Lucas 2001). The work deals with quotidian waste that persists: by capturing moments and working on material objects it engages with archaeological matters, challenging the boundaries of our practices (Shanks 2005, Bradley et al 2004). It deals with </span><span class="text01italic" style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Garbage</span><span class="text011" style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">, </span><span class="text01italic" style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Consumerism</span><span class="text011" style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> and unexpected </span><span class="text01italic" style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Enchantments</span><span class="text011" style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">. </span><br /><br /><br /><strong style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:+0;">Garbage</span></strong><br /><span class="text011" style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Notions of garbage, trash, junk are at the heart of this work: the excess of forgotten, discarded objects generated through the material practices of everyday life. These thin, translucent, empty bags appear to have outlived their usefulness, have been discarded as waste products. They are usually invisible or passed over, but Jack’s work documents their continued presence, their afterlives. We are surprised that they’re still here. They have not been pressed into landfills but, thrown away, have escaped on the breeze, filled and lifted up like kites, slipping from the fingers and spiraling above our heads. Superfluous, tattered and windblown, they cling to the branches of municipal trees like awkward, rustling windsocks. By engaging with garbage, the work acknowledges context – documenting through film where these scraps of carrier bag survive. Jack’s practice serves to document the shifting situations of these plain bags, and of the artist’s material engagements (cf Doherty 2004). Jack re-uses and recycles these hopeful scraps of plastic. She deals like Bill Rathje’s ‘Garbage Project’ at the Staten Island landfill, <st1:place st="on"><st1:state st="on">New York</st1:state></st1:place>, with the ‘garbology’ of the modern world (Rathje and Murphy 1992). Here, artistic practice intersects with contemporary archaeology - scavenging, and creatively working with rubbish in its present contexts. </span><?xml:namespace prefix = o /><o:p style="FONT-FAMILY: trebuchet ms"></o:p></span></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify;font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><span style="font-size:+0;"><br /><span class="text01italic" style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><b>Consumerism</b></span><br /><span class="text011" style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Meanwhile, there is a quiet activism to the project’s engagement with consumption and environmental concerns. Plastic carrier bags are commonplace, everyday items. Their textures, sounds, stretchability, how they pull heavily at our arms as we walk home, are all familiar. Yet here, they are presented as the messy remains of consumerism – empty containers for carrying things from one place to another, discarded en route. Jack reminds us that they will resist transformation and decay for hundreds of years. She raises the environmentalist critique of an unsustainable consumer culture by examining what survives from thousands of momentary purchases, ephemeral moments. This challenges the boundaries of what we define as refuse: the attitudes that Ellen Lupton and Abbott Miller, in their studies of changing domestic interiors, called ‘the aesthetics of waste’ (1992). The artist’s critical interventions have a delicate politics to them: one that critiques throwaway material culture, wh<span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">ile at the same time recognizing its strange, affective powers. </span></span><o:p style="FONT-FAMILY: trebuchet ms"></o:p></span></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify;font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><span style="font-size:+0;"><br /><span class="text01italic"><b>Enchantments</b></span><br /><span class="text011">We might imagine that modern, industrial processes of commodification have drained from the world of objects any sense of enchantment – leaving only homogenizing and deluding ‘culture industries’. Material culture studies increasingly challenge such perspectives through the notion of object agency. Ethnographers have explored the nature and limits of the power of objects (especially art objects) in social life (Gell 1998). Prehistorians working on ‘rubbish pits’ have recognized the aesthetics of many depositional practices in the past (Pollard 2001). In contemporary archaeology, and in Jack’s contemporary art, the ‘enchanting’ nature of objects is present not just in distant ethnographic or prehistoric situations, but all around us in the detritus of the contemporary world. Jack documents taphonomic accidents rather than purposeful assemblages – the stuff that remains. Her knotted rope of turquoise bags hanging from a sixth-floor balcony evokes contemporary fairy tales. In its archaeological encounters, Jack’s work invites us to extend complex intentionalities to nonhuman objects (not just to humans). The bags arrange themselves in trees. They dance in the wind. They withstand degradation. They resist fragmentation. This is what Jane Bennett (2001: 14) has called ‘enchanted materialism’: the refuse is animated, enchanting, ineffable. Unsettling and compelling for an archaeologist: a timely reminder of the common ground that is shared between contemporary art and contemporary archaeology: the contemporary past. </span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="FONT-FAMILY: trebuchet ms"><span style="font-size:+0;"><br /></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><st1:placename st="on"><span class="text011"><span style="font-size:+0;">Dan</span></span></st1:placename></span><span class="text011" style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-size:+0;"> <st1:placename st="on">Hicks</st1:placename></span></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /><st1:placename st="on"><span class="text011">Archaeology & Anthropology</span></st1:placename><br /><st1:placetype st="on"><span class="text011">University</span></st1:placetype><span class="text011"> of <st1:city st="on"><st1:place st="on">Bristol</st1:place></st1:city></span></span><span class="text011" style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-size:+0;"> </span></span><span style="font-size:+0;"><br /><a href="http://www.bris.ac.uk/archanth/staff/hicks.html" target="_blank">http://www.bris.ac.uk/archanth/staff/hicks.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="text01" style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify;font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><span style="font-size:+0;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">© 2005 Dan Hicks</span> <o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="MsoNormal" style="FONT-FAMILY: trebuchet ms"><span style="font-size:+0;"><hr style="WIDTH: 75pt" align="left" width="100" size="2"></span></div><strong style="FONT-FAMILY: trebuchet ms"><span style="font-size:+0;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Reference</span>s</span></strong><span style="font-size:+0;"><br /><span class="text011" style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Bennett, J. 2001. </span><span class="text01italic" style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">The Enchantment of Modern Life: Attachments, Crossings and Ethics.</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">.</span><st1:city st="on" style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span class="text011">Oxford</span></st1:city><span class="text011" style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">: </span><br /><st1:place st="on" style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><st1:placename st="on"><span class="text011">Princeton</span></st1:placename><span class="text011"> <st1:placetype st="on">University</st1:placetype></span></st1:place><span class="text011" style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> Press. </span><br /><span class="text011" style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Bradley, A., V. Buchli, G. Fairclough, D. Hicks, J. Miller and J. Schofield (eds) 2004. </span><span class="text01italic" style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Change and Creation: historic landscape characterization 1950-2000</span><span class="text011" style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">. </span><a style="FONT-FAMILY: trebuchet ms" href="http://www.changeandcreation.org/" target="_blank">http://www.changeandcreation.org/</a><br /><span class="text011" style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Buchli, V. and G. Lucas 2001.</span><span class="text01italic" style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> Archaeologies of the Contemporary Past</span><span class="text011" style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">. <st1:place st="on"><st1:city st="on">London</st1:city></st1:place>: Routledge.</span><br /><span class="text011" style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Doherty, C. 2004. The New Situationists. In C. Doherty (ed.) </span><span class="text01italic" style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Contemporary Art from Studio to Situation</span><span class="text011" style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">. <st1:place st="on"><st1:city st="on">London</st1:city></st1:place>: Black Dog., pp. 7-13.</span><br /><span class="text011" style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Gell, A. 1998.</span><span class="text01italic" style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> Art and Agency</span><span class="text011" style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">. <st1:place st="on"><st1:city st="on">Oxford</st1:city></st1:place>: Clarendon Press.</span><br /><span class="text011" style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Lupton, E. and J.A. Miller 1992. </span><span class="text01italic" style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">The Bathroom, the Kitchen and the Aesthetics of Waste: A Process of Elimination</span><span class="text011" style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">. <st1:city st="on">Cambridge</st1:city>, <st1:state st="on">MA</st1:state>: <st1:place st="on"><st1:placename st="on">MIT</st1:placename> <st1:placename st="on">Visual</st1:placename> <st1:placename st="on">Arts</st1:placename> <st1:placetype st="on">Center</st1:placetype></st1:place>.</span><br /><span class="text011" style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Pollard, J. 2001. The Aesthetics of Depositional Practice. </span><span class="text01italic" style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">World Archaeology</span><span class="text011" style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> 33(2): 315-33.</span><br /><span class="text011" style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Rathje, W. and C. Murphy 1992. </span><span class="text01italic" style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Rubbish! The Archaeology of Garbage</span><span class="text011" style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">. <st1:place st="on"><st1:city st="on">London</st1:city></st1:place>: Harper Collins.</span><br /><span class="text011" style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Shanks, M. 2005. </span><span class="text01italic" style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Archaeologies of the Contemporary Past</span><span class="text011" style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">. </span><a style="FONT-FAMILY: trebuchet ms" href="http://traumwerk.stanford.edu/~mshanks/traumwerk/index.php/Archaeologies%20of%20the%20contemporary%20past" target="_blank">http://traumwerk.stanford.edu/~mshanks/traumwerk/index.php/Archaeologies%20of%20the%20contemporary%20past</a><span class="text011"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">(accessed 14 march 2005)</span> </span></span>vj </div></div></div></div></div></div></div>Hilary Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02728489107236499040noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9985913.post-67011032760368200902006-01-05T12:10:00.000+00:002007-10-08T17:02:35.286+01:00Contemporary Art and The Contemporary Past, Dan Hicks<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinaeDRuq_Hb86EfR7lCs14rAxCxSh31zY0JNYAS4i2yUbxig_O_t_HpxnG-3RmbYGE90-IohFutMgw0LN52Igw-j2r2Aa0FT_dLiZOU4CJv0YSd0cUi5cOJ0vOwAOlW0k8uJUd/s1600-h/Copy+%282%29+of+turquoise+bag+in+a+tree+001.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinaeDRuq_Hb86EfR7lCs14rAxCxSh31zY0JNYAS4i2yUbxig_O_t_HpxnG-3RmbYGE90-IohFutMgw0LN52Igw-j2r2Aa0FT_dLiZOU4CJv0YSd0cUi5cOJ0vOwAOlW0k8uJUd/s400/Copy+%282%29+of+turquoise+bag+in+a+tree+001.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5118995795484164514" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; font-weight: bold;">Contemporary Art and The Contemporary Past:<br /></span></span><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" ><strong><span style=""><span style="font-weight: normal;"> Hilary Jack showing</span><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; font-style: italic;"> </span></span></strong><strong style="font-family: trebuchet ms; font-style: italic;"></strong></span><span style=""><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; font-style: italic;"><span style="font-size:100%;">on</span> </span><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; font-style: italic;">The Bigger Picture, Manchester</span><br /><br /><span class="text011" style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">For an archeologist, Hilary Jack's "Turquoise Bag in a Tree" showing on The Bigger Picture as commissioned by Cornehouse, <st1:place st="on"><st1:city st="on">Manchester</st1:city></st1:place>, is unsettling. Jack photographs and films empty turquoise plastic carrier bags in urban situations. They have been blown into the branches of trees. People email digital photos of similar bags in similar trees to her through her website. These collections are juxtaposed with her own situated sculptural interventions: placing carefully-made or oversized bags in unusual public places, or showing an oversized video of a plastic bag in the wind in Exchange Square. The result is a compelling project that documents things that survive from the most recent past, and works with their presence in what archaeologists Victor Buchli and Gavin Lucas have termed ‘contemporary past’ (Buchli and Lucas 2001). The work deals with quotidian waste that persists: by capturing moments and working on material objects it engages with archaeological matters, challenging the boundaries of our practices (Shanks 2005, Bradley et al 2004). It deals with </span><span class="text01italic" style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Garbage</span><span class="text011" style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">, </span><span class="text01italic" style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Consumerism</span><span class="text011" style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> and unexpected </span><span class="text01italic" style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Enchantments</span><span class="text011" style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">. </span><br /><br /><br /><strong style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><span style="">Garbage</span></strong><br /><span class="text011" style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Notions of garbage, trash, junk are at the heart of this work: the excess of forgotten, discarded objects generated through the material practices of everyday life. These thin, translucent, empty bags appear to have outlived their usefulness, have been discarded as waste products. They are usually invisible or passed over, but Jack’s work documents their continued presence, their afterlives. We are surprised that they’re still here. They have not been pressed into landfills but, thrown away, have escaped on the breeze, filled and lifted up like kites, slipping from the fingers and spiraling above our heads. Superfluous, tattered and windblown, they cling to the branches of municipal trees like awkward, rustling windsocks. By engaging with garbage, the work acknowledges context – documenting through film where these scraps of carrier bag survive. Jack’s practice serves to document the shifting situations of these plain bags, and of the artist’s material engagements (cf Doherty 2004). Jack re-uses and recycles these hopeful scraps of plastic. She deals like Bill Rathje’s ‘Garbage Project’ at the Staten Island landfill, <st1:place st="on"><st1:state st="on">New York</st1:state></st1:place>, with the ‘garbology’ of the modern world (Rathje and Murphy 1992). Here, artistic practice intersects with contemporary archaeology - scavenging, and creatively w<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">orking with rubbish in its present contexts. </span></span><o:p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"></o:p></span></p> <p style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style=""><br /><span class="text01italic"><b>Consumerism</b></span><br /><span class="text011">Meanwhile, there is a quiet activism to the project’s engagement with consumption and environmental concerns. Plastic carrier bags are commonplace, everyday items. Their textures, sounds, stretchability, how they pull heavily at our arms as we walk home, are all familiar. Yet here, they are presented as the messy remains of consumerism – empty containers for carrying things from one place to another, discarded en route. Jack reminds us that they will resist transformation and decay for hundreds of years. She raises the environmentalist critique of an unsustainable consumer culture by examining what survives from thousands of momentary purchases, ephemeral moments. This challenges the boundaries of what we define as refuse: the attitudes that Ellen Lupton and Abbott Miller, in their studies of changing domestic interiors, called ‘the aesthetics of waste’ (1992). The artist’s critical interventions have a delicate politics to them: one that critiques throwaway material culture, while at the same time recognizing its strange, affective powers. </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style=""><br /><span class="text01italic"><b>Enchantments</b></span><br /><span class="text011">We might imagine that modern, industrial processes of commodification have drained from the world of objects any sense of enchantment – leaving only homogenizing and deluding ‘culture industries’. Material culture studies increasingly challenge such perspectives through the notion of object agency. Ethnographers have explored the nature and limits of the power of objects (especially art objects) in social life (Gell 1998). Prehistorians working on ‘rubbish pits’ have recognized the aesthetics of many depositional practices in the past (Pollard 2001). In contemporary archaeology, and in Jack’s contemporary art, the ‘enchanting’ nature of objects is present not just in distant ethnographic or prehistoric situations, but all around us in the detritus of the contemporary world. Jack documents taphonomic accidents rather than purposeful assemblages – the stuff that remains. Her knotted rope of turquoise bags hanging from a sixth-floor balcony evokes contemporary fairy tales. In its archaeological encounters, Jack’s work invites us to extend complex intentionalities to nonhuman objects (not just to humans). The bags arrange themselves in trees. They dance in the wind. They withstand degradation. They resist fragmentation. This is what Jane Bennett (2001: 14) has called ‘enchanted materialism’: the refuse is animated, enchanting, ineffable. Unsettling and compelling for an archaeologist: a timely reminder of the common ground that is shared between contemporary art and contemporary archaeology: the contemporary past. </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><span style=""><br /></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><st1:placename st="on"><span class="text011"><span style="">Dan</span></span></st1:placename></span><span class="text011" style="font-size:130%;"><span style=""> <st1:placename st="on">Hicks</st1:placename></span></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /><st1:placename st="on"><span class="text011">Archaeology & Anthropology</span></st1:placename><br /><st1:placetype st="on"><span class="text011">University</span></st1:placetype><span class="text011"> of <st1:city st="on"><st1:place st="on">Bristol</st1:place></st1:city></span></span><span class="text011" style="font-size:130%;"><span style=""> </span></span><span style=""><br /><a href="http://www.bris.ac.uk/archanth/staff/hicks.html" target="_blank">http://www.bris.ac.uk/archanth/staff/hicks.html </a><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="text01" style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="">© 2005 Dan Hicks <o:p></o:p></span></p> <div style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal" ><span style=""> <hr style="width: 75pt;" align="left" size="2" width="100"> </span></div> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><span style="">References</span></strong><span style=""><br /><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="text011" >Bennett, J. 2001. </span><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="text01italic" >The Enchantment of Modern Life: Attachments, Crossings and Ethics.</span><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >.</span><st1:city style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;" st="on" ><span class="text011">Oxford</span></st1:city><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="text011" >: </span><br /><st1:place style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;" st="on" ><st1:placename st="on"><span class="text011">Princeton</span></st1:placename><span class="text011"> <st1:placetype st="on">University</st1:placetype></span></st1:place><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="text011" > Press. </span><br /><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="text011" >Bradley, A., V. Buchli, G. Fairclough, D. Hicks, J. Miller and J. Schofield (eds) 2004. </span><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="text01italic" >Change and Creation: historic landscape characterization 1950-2000</span><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="text011" >. </span><a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://www.changeandcreation.org/" target="_blank">http://www.changeandcreation.org/ </a><br /><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="text011" >Buchli, V. and G. Lucas 2001.</span><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="text01italic" > Archaeologies of the Contemporary Past</span><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="text011" >. <st1:place st="on"><st1:city st="on">London</st1:city></st1:place>: Routledge.</span><br /><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="text011" >Doherty, C. 2004. The New Situationists. In C. Doherty (ed.) </span><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="text01italic" >Contemporary Art from Studio to Situation</span><span class="text011" style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">. </span><st1:place style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" st="on"><st1:city st="on">London</st1:city></st1:place><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">: Black Dog</span>., pp. 7-13.</span><br /><span class="text011" style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Gell, A. 1998.</span><span class="text01italic" style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> Art and Agency</span><span class="text011" style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">. <st1:place st="on"><st1:city st="on">Oxford</st1:city></st1:place>: Clarendon Press.</span><br /><span class="text011" style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Lupton, E. and J.A. Miller 1992. </span><span class="text01italic" style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">The Bathroom, the Kitchen and the Aesthetics of Waste: A Process of Elimination</span><span class="text011" style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">. <st1:city st="on">Cambridge</st1:city>, <st1:state st="on">MA</st1:state>: <st1:place st="on"><st1:placename st="on">MIT</st1:placename> <st1:placename st="on">Visual</st1:placename> <st1:placename st="on">Arts</st1:placename> <st1:placetype st="on">Center</st1:placetype></st1:place>.</span><br /><span class="text011" style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Pollard, J. 2001. The Aesthetics of Depositional Practice. </span><span class="text01italic" style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">World Archaeology</span><span class="text011" style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> 33(2): 315-33.</span><br /><span class="text011" style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Rathje, W. and C. Murphy 1992. </span><span class="text01italic" style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Rubbish! The Archaeology of Garbage</span><span class="text011" style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">. <st1:place st="on"><st1:city st="on">London</st1:city></st1:place>: Harper Collins.</span><br /><span class="text011" style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Shanks, M. 2005. </span><span class="text01italic" style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Archaeologies of the Contemporary Past</span><span class="text011" style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">. </span><a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://traumwerk.stanford.edu/%7Emshanks/traumwerk/index.php/Archaeologies%20of%20the%20contemporary%20past%20" target="_blank">http://traumwerk.stanford.edu/~mshanks/traumwerk/index.</a><span class="text011"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">(accessed 14 march 2005)</span> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></p>Hilary Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02728489107236499040noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9985913.post-56443279062777127932005-07-18T21:58:00.000+01:002007-10-08T11:25:30.371+01:00Meeting Point Axel Lapp Projects, Berlin<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgniFu9ZJbLMzth2O8h-eOb0VQfq4t6mUifMb5Wvg55w2tNB9XZFD9baF_psJBP5ojvG3cq9o0PA1Vhhcvt91w-vsN11XCRws8VSM92hCItcf3KtMD1Frga94izoub5JTwyGfmB/s1600-h/Copy+of+IMG_2582.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgniFu9ZJbLMzth2O8h-eOb0VQfq4t6mUifMb5Wvg55w2tNB9XZFD9baF_psJBP5ojvG3cq9o0PA1Vhhcvt91w-vsN11XCRws8VSM92hCItcf3KtMD1Frga94izoub5JTwyGfmB/s400/Copy+of+IMG_2582.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5118909853188571426" border="0" /></a><strong></strong><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Twice a year Axel Lapp is inviting artist led spaces from out side Berlin to exhibit in a programe entitled Interludes. For the first of this programme Axel Lapp has selected myself and Paul Harfleet aka Apartment to select a show. For Interludes 1, we brought together the work of ten artsists from Manchester, Glasgow, Budapest and London in "Meeting point". The show offers an insight into the breadth of activity that Apartment has facilitatated over the past three years. For details of the show and artists involved follow this link to <a href="http://www.apartmentmanchester.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">Apartment</span></a><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">.</span></span>Hilary Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02728489107236499040noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9985913.post-11836942199509243592005-07-18T09:57:00.000+01:002007-10-08T11:06:12.338+01:00On The Shelf<a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/128/752/1600/DSCF0171.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center;" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/128/752/400/DSCF0171.jpg" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"> <span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">above,</span> <span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">work for On the Shelf by Stuart Edmundson, Laurence Lane, Martin Vincent, Pavel Buchler, Ken Chu</span></span></span><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">, Ian Rawlinson and David Bellingham </span></span></span><br /><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><strong>On the Shelf</strong> is a collaboration with Paul Harfleet which explored the nature of artists networks. For the tenth anniversary of Rogue open studios I invited all the artists I had contact details for to take part in a group show. All the work I received was placed in the order it arrived on a single shelf which ran around the interior wall of my studio space. Over eighty artists took part with artists sending work from Manchester, London, Sheffield, Cardiff, Sydney, Tokyo, New York, Budapest, Glasgow and Dublin. For more details of On the Shelf and do</span></span><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">cumentation of the work of the eighty artists who took part visit <a style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192);" href="http://www.compartmentmanchester.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><span style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204);">www.compartmentmanchester.blogspot.com</span></span></a><span style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204);"><br /><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"><br /></span></span></span></span>Hilary Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02728489107236499040noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9985913.post-37768549749608528642005-07-18T09:56:00.000+01:002007-10-08T11:10:43.531+01:00beneath, Nottingham<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/128/752/1600/DSCF0120.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; cursor: pointer; text-align: center;" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/128/752/400/DSCF0120.jpg" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">For beneath, Paul and I invited all the artists on Surface Gallery's mailing list to submit work for an unselected group show. The work was placed beneath a red line which ran round the gallery walls. For more details go to <a href="http://www.surfacegallery.org.uk/">www.surfacegallery.org.uk</a> </span></span>Hilary Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02728489107236499040noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9985913.post-44232153371743678962005-07-18T09:54:00.000+01:002007-10-08T11:35:47.095+01:00CUBE Open, Manchester<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEje1a9wvNkeyYgghg44U8oy3KCgomqueHyRExVN7KFWEfHMi_zkQKG335WREDeO20C4-LvrdACZf8xaKbtq1sNZKe4zPq7N3zqJ-JwNebX_UcF2pezhMEX3FlCoxXxvnj1fYjQM/s1600-h/Copy+of+IMG_2707.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEje1a9wvNkeyYgghg44U8oy3KCgomqueHyRExVN7KFWEfHMi_zkQKG335WREDeO20C4-LvrdACZf8xaKbtq1sNZKe4zPq7N3zqJ-JwNebX_UcF2pezhMEX3FlCoxXxvnj1fYjQM/s400/Copy+of+IMG_2707.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5118910987059937586" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Paul Harfleet & Hilary Jack were recently invited to select and curate </span><a href="http://www.cube.org.uk/"><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Cube</span></a><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);font-family:trebuchet ms;" >’s first annual OPEN Competition. The competition was open to any creative; applicants were asked to respond to the theme of the Urban Built Environment. Harfleet and Jack made a selection from 250 submissions, subsequently narrowed down to 14 practitioners who were thought to best convey the contemporary insights and thoughts on the given theme. A selection was subsequently made of two prize winning artists, Robin Maurice and Michael James Jones, Marquette of the Night, shown above, and a residency at CUBE was awarded to <a href="http://www.counterwork.co.uk/">Rich White</a><br /></span>Hilary Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02728489107236499040noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9985913.post-1140640699628541462005-02-11T20:37:00.000+00:002007-11-27T16:52:06.243+00:00Visitor Assistance, Cornerhouse, Manchester<span style="COLOR: rgb(153,153,153);font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;" ><strong></strong></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/128/752/1600/vis%20ass.jpg"><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: pointer; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/128/752/400/vis%20ass.jpg" border="0" /></a><span style="COLOR: rgb(153,153,153)"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Visitor Assistance</span> is a live collaboration with Paul Harfleet. The project ran concurrently with the British Art Show 06 using Cornerhouse as its base. Business cards picturing the image above were placed on the public telephone in the foyer at Cornerhouse for visitors to Manchester to take. Anyone phoning the number was connected to an artist who assisted them in any way they could. During this project advice was offered on a diverse range of topics such as; where to buy fashionable trousers, which shows to see in Manchester, where the BAS06 after show party was and how to cure a hangover........... for more information see www.apartmentmanchester.blogspot.com</span></span><br /><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="COLOR: rgb(153,153,153);font-family:trebuchet ms;" ></span></span><span style="COLOR: rgb(153,153,153);font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" ><br /></span></div>Hilary Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02728489107236499040noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9985913.post-1148654590182850392005-01-10T15:26:00.000+00:002007-11-27T16:52:43.388+00:00Sparrow House, Apartment, Manchester<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/128/752/1600/sparrowhouse31-1.jpg"><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: pointer; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/128/752/400/sparrowhouse31-1.jpg" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/128/752/1600/DSCF0082.1.jpg"><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: pointer; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/128/752/400/DSCF0082.0.jpg" border="0" /></a><span style="COLOR: rgb(153,153,153)"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">After reading about the dramatic decline in numbers of the Common House Sparrow due to lack of nesting sites in urban areas, I decided to design and install a multiple occupancy sparrow house in a mature tree out side Lamport Court, a sixties tower block where <a style="COLOR: rgb(153,153,0)" href="http://www.apartmentmanchester.blogspot.com/">Apartment</a> is based. It is hoped that the birds, who prefer to nest in large colonies, will return to the area in the Spring. </span></span></span><span style="COLOR: rgb(153,153,153)"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">While some sparrows have shown initial interest in the bird house, none have actual nested there to date.<br /></span></span></span><span style="COLOR: rgb(153,153,153)"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Sparrow House has been made to mirror the architectural model used for Lamport Court, a council tower block sited on a housing estate which is largely ignored by the regeneration of Manchester which encroaches closer on a daily basis. In response to this situation Apartment co ordinated a group show, <a style="COLOR: rgb(51,102,255)" href="http://apartmentmanchester.blogspot.com/2005/09/cyclists-dismount_10.html">Cyclists Dismount</a><span style="COLOR: rgb(51,102,255)"> </span>in which Sparrow House is included. </span></span></span>Hilary Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02728489107236499040noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9985913.post-20002579495414111192004-10-01T23:29:00.000+01:002007-11-27T16:34:22.721+00:00The World is My Imagination, CUBE, Manchester<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgduoMfezRsTi47KG3vTyuGkPwE3XXpEcX6lO28itz7E5PqSTJh51MRhL2SIHn9FN26fYOeyj8BHrySyDYQdrjDFckqE1Xqpt11tVVsKyFXDykebTxVqQoNiKaMhzyCwL2Mj1ZQ/s1600-h/CAPWMT9B.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5119323179366302162" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 317px; CURSOR: pointer; HEIGHT: 399px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgduoMfezRsTi47KG3vTyuGkPwE3XXpEcX6lO28itz7E5PqSTJh51MRhL2SIHn9FN26fYOeyj8BHrySyDYQdrjDFckqE1Xqpt11tVVsKyFXDykebTxVqQoNiKaMhzyCwL2Mj1ZQ/s400/CAPWMT9B.jpg" border="0" /></a>Hilary Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02728489107236499040noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9985913.post-34952711301476575662004-10-01T13:02:00.000+01:002007-11-27T16:37:46.797+00:00The In Betweenness of Things, Dr Amanda Ravetz<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVynn__fPVlJ7DKWEox8yQyldnYZk1_jnuHZRP0yZVVzvUTRD243jmLxFURxLGbvEw21BJrHA-PMx7-Dum701iZPblBoGXlyvfbYVYRVQ7DBdHphoP5Pf7Hw2LxbD4Jl7mux8t/s1600-h/e8+catalogue+001.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5118963892467089810" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: pointer; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVynn__fPVlJ7DKWEox8yQyldnYZk1_jnuHZRP0yZVVzvUTRD243jmLxFURxLGbvEw21BJrHA-PMx7-Dum701iZPblBoGXlyvfbYVYRVQ7DBdHphoP5Pf7Hw2LxbD4Jl7mux8t/s400/e8+catalogue+001.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >The In Betweeness of Things</span><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">:</span></span> </span><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;"><br />Hilary Jack at Transition Gallery for E8, The Heart of Hackney</span></i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;"><?xml:namespace prefix = o /><o:p></o:p></span> <p class="MsoNormal" style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Amanda Ravetz</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;">A pair of leather shoes on a bus stop bench, a torn football by a bin, a wooden tennis racquet propped against the wall. Jack’s matter-of-fact images evoke the journeys objects take towards obsolescence, suggesting an easy-come, easy-go attitude to mass-produced goods. And yet a melancholy hangs over these discarded bits of lives, evocative of human loss and of how the shedding of things leaves us strangely diminished. Once they are broken, we can no longer take them for granted; they disturb and unsettle us.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;">Jack not only photographs discarded and lost objects, she brings them back from the brink. The leather shoes have been repaired, polished and embossed with golden words. The football re-stitched and inflated. The racquet has been made fit for a new purpose, migrating from the street to the gallery. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;">At a time when local authorities in the UK are making the recycling of household waste compulsory, this work has a particular resonance.<span style="font-size:+0;"> </span>Local government websites explain the (complicated) arrangements residents must follow in sorting their waste into colour-coded boxes. They list the collection times, the types of vehicle and equipment that will remove the bottles, plastic and tins. Turning attention to more idiosyncratic items, Jack’s work also references the excesses of an economy based on built-in-obsolescence. And yet the very bathos of her gestures provokes the thought that recycling itself may be a futile action in the face of so much consumption and waste. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;">Indeed it is through the possibility of failure—the futility of the repairs carried out, the possibility that the replaced objects will not survive—that Jack’s work lodges its appeal. There is no guarantee that the things that have been cleaned or repaired and returned to the places where they were found will re-enter the social worlds they left. And so, cut adrift from their pasts, their futures uncertain, their very in-betweeness invites curiosity about their trajectories—and about other inanimate things. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;">Running through avant-garde theory is a strong belief in the purposelessness of art. The power of the aesthetic encounter lies in its freedom from instrumentality, evoking in turn a future free of human self-interest. By taking the everyday into the social world of art, the relationships surrounding objects are gently re-aligned, their purposes changed. Jack’s work causes utilitarian items to reveal a side of themselves beyond their practical usefulness, their original journeys, or the contexts of their use and abuse.<span style="font-size:+0;"> </span>The emblems of sociality that Jack adds in the forms of inscriptions, the other subtle interventions she makes, draw these ordinary objects into another aesthetic domain, and in so doing, insert a tiny pause between purpose and purposelessness. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;">When the door-closer ‘goes on strike’, says anthropologist Bruno Latour, we momentarily acknowledge its agency in our world. We speak bitter words when things let us down, investing the things around us with expectations, memory, frustration, hope. Objects are not human, but they are part of our social world. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;">At the heart of Hilary Jack’s work is a commitment to ‘the social life of things’. Her gathering and rehabilitation of lost or abandoned objects are less acts of altruism than statements of fact. Holding open the possibility that objects are (non-human) people, treating them as interlocutors, the artist momentarily defies the incommensurability between our world and theirs.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;">Dr. Amanda Ravetz is an AHRC Fellow at MIRIAD, <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 /><st1:place st="on"><st1:placename st="on">Manchester</st1:placename> <st1:placename st="on">Metropolitan</st1:placename> <st1:placetype st="on">University</st1:placetype></st1:place> where she is currently pursuing research into ‘Contemporary Convergence of Aesthetics and Ethnography'. <o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;"><span style="font-size:+0;"></span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>Hilary Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02728489107236499040noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9985913.post-82957505720004260292003-10-01T13:51:00.000+01:002007-11-27T16:36:01.562+00:00E8, The Heart of Hackney, Transition Gallery, London<span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="COLOR: rgb(102,102,102);font-family:arial;" >Time Out, London, </span></span><span class="style9 style8 style2" style="COLOR: rgb(102,102,102);font-family:arial;" ><span class="style2">Around Town June 13-19 2007</span></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5075882645805809762" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 393px; HEIGHT: 228px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" height="254" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_kJCnB5hPbJ0/RnEoX4jTQGI/AAAAAAAAACk/IBl8eN1ChgY/s400/Time_Out-E8.jpg" width="410" border="0" /></span><span style="COLOR: rgb(102,102,102);font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><span style="COLOR: rgb(102,102,102)"><span style="font-family:arial;">The Guardian Guide</span> </span></span><span class="style2" style="font-family:arial;">Exhibitions Saturday 16 June</span><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_kJCnB5hPbJ0/RpImN2dOoqI/AAAAAAAAADE/tLvwzWyVaTE/s1600-h/guardian_e8.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5085168948652974754" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: pointer; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_kJCnB5hPbJ0/RpImN2dOoqI/AAAAAAAAADE/tLvwzWyVaTE/s400/guardian_e8.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="COLOR: rgb(102,102,102);font-size:100%;" >T<span style="font-family:arial;">he Hackney Gazette</span></span></span></span></span></span><span class="style9" style="COLOR: rgb(102,102,102);font-family:arial;" > June 21 2007</span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCMK55NjpKEIFqnLaHWbaMS7-XQcotSI0q83HrFu81IGonKAS7exaUOLVo3aXj5jhG7JNjmnrcCkUT3JquMNK7lUUFS1vVOLzxDNjXOMNNDBMfzfuSpk_VSM8G1Ir1sU1HC7Ef/s1600-h/hackney_gazette[1].gif"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5119304393179349442" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 342px; CURSOR: pointer; HEIGHT: 439px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCMK55NjpKEIFqnLaHWbaMS7-XQcotSI0q83HrFu81IGonKAS7exaUOLVo3aXj5jhG7JNjmnrcCkUT3JquMNK7lUUFS1vVOLzxDNjXOMNNDBMfzfuSpk_VSM8G1Ir1sU1HC7Ef/s400/hackney_gazette%5B1%5D.gif" border="0" /></a><img height="25" src="http://www.blogger.com/Images/e8/logo.jpg" width="89" /><br /><p><a href="http://dn.flavorpill.net/mailer/issue16/index.html">Flavorpill LONDON </a>12-18 June, 2007<br /><br />ART<br /></p><p style="FONT-STYLE: italic; FONT-FAMILY: arial">E8: The Heart of Hackney</p><p style="FONT-FAMILY: arial">Following on from 2004's E9: An Anatomy of an Area comes this additional tribute to an east London postcode. Eight London artists have been commissioned to offer their interpretations of the rapidly changing area through different media; the exhibition includes photographs of London Fields by Tom Hunter, an E8-dedicated edition of Laura Oldfield-Ford's fanzine Savage Messiah and Gary O'Connor's audio installation, which explores the experience of being trapped in a lift. An additional highlight for the meal-ready meanderer is walkwalkwalk's tour of the district's chip shops — sure to stock bespoke chip forks. (LCD)</p><br /><p class="style9 style2" style="COLOR: rgb(102,102,102);font-family:arial;" ><span class="style14"><strong>A Gallery Per Day</strong></span><br />. Sunday<br />. 24.6.07</p><p class="style2 style9" style="COLOR: rgb(102,102,102); FONT-FAMILY: arial"><strong>Transition Gallery, E8:The Heart of Hackney</strong></p><p class="style2 style9" style="COLOR: rgb(102,102,102); FONT-FAMILY: arial">Influenced by the Situationists, this exhibition is a plotting of Hackney, its residents, its seedy underbelly and the big changes that are taking place in the area. A range of artists are shown and the show is really well curated by Cathy Lomax. Works featured include a zine and post-ups of old-school cut-n-paste punk-ethic investigation into the gentrification of Hackney by Laura Oldfield Ford, walkwalkwalk have delved into the local area through their tour of chip shops and you can pick up a free map that outlines their trek, Tom Hunter's photograph of London Fields is amazing, as is Barbaresi & Round's architectonic sculptures and wall-based drawings about the place. Emily Cole has done a Hockey-style Hackney, with fluoro/pastel combination paintings of the nicer bits of E8. Alex from Transition gave a couple of us an amazing and impromptu talk about the show, which was invaluable and such a nice way to engage the audience without presuming their ignorance.</p><p class="style9 style2" style="COLOR: rgb(102,102,102); FONT-FAMILY: arial">If you want more information about this show and other aspects of civic engagement, I'll be interviewing curator Cathy Lomax soon and will post the podcast on <a href="http://sheseesred.blogspot.com/">she sees red</a>.</p><p class="style9 style2" style="COLOR: rgb(102,102,102)"><a style="FONT-FAMILY: arial" href="http://galleryperday.blogspot.com/2007/06/june-week-4.html"><strong>A Gallery Per Day</strong></a><span style="font-family:arial;"> 24.6.07</span></p><p class="style9 style2" style="COLOR: rgb(102,102,102)"><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Some other online reviews......</span>...<br /></span></p><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><a href="http://www.urbanjunkies.com/ln/07/0615-artpicks.html"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">URBAN JUNKIES</span></a><br />Wander a stone's throw North East of the 'Ditch up into Hackney-proper and a curious shift occurs. Some poor individuals find themselves on-guard, uncertain of their new surroundings, whilst for others this is the most comfortable corner of our fair city. Whether you love it or hate it, Transition is following on the heels of its insightful anatomy of E9 with this slip next door to challenge, poke, or entirely dismantle your preconceptions of the area. Whilst the various photographic, literary, acoustic, sculptural and even psychogeographical (your guess is as good as mine) representations and investigation of Hackney are all intriguing in their way, the highlight has to be walkwalkwalk's wonderful tour throw the 'hood, via those most artistic of establishments: the humble chippy. Expect limited edition chip forks and wrapping paper for your piece of cod. No, really.<br /><a href="http://www.londontown.com/LondonEvents/E8TheHeartofHackney/4759b/"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">London Town</span></a><br /></span>Hilary Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02728489107236499040noreply@blogger.com