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	<description>Geoff is multi-disciplinary artist who works with media that includes light, sound, photography and video and often shows his work as installations. He graduated from the University of Derby in 1997 with an Mphil that explores digital montage.</description>
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		<title>For the love of it</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 May 2010 11:26:07 +0000</pubDate>
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A new 3-screen audio-visual installation
Exhibited at The Public, West Bromwich: May 13th 2010 &#8211; July 12 2010
For more information including directions and opening times go to The Public
In Britain there is a rich ocean of what may be described as amateur groups, who bring together many different people, engaging in a seemingly endless range of [...]]]></description>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>A new 3-screen audio-visual installation</p>
<p>Exhibited at The Public, West Bromwich:</strong><strong> May 13th 2010 &#8211; July 12 2010</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;">For more information including directions and opening times go to <a href="http://www.thepublic.com">The Public</a></span></strong></p>
<p style="text-align: left;">In Britain there is a rich ocean of what may be described as amateur groups, who bring together many different people, engaging in a seemingly endless range of pursuits and interests. For this commission I was invited to spend 6 months with a tiny selection of the many groups from across the Sandwell area, in heart of the West Midlands conurbation, to make video portraits and audio recordings. The result is F<em>or the love of it</em>, a 3-screen installation where a pool of sequenced images and sounds converge to celebrate the creativity and passion of the many people I met and spend time with. One of the best definitions of the notion of amateur I have stumbled across is this: ‘any … human pursuit practiced for love of the pursuit rather than for any practical use or payoff’.</p>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">images of the installation by Geoff Broadway and Graham Peet </span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;">The individuals from each of the 11 groups I worked with reflect this love of it in their unique own way, but also share several qualities with each other. As the above definition implies the amateur groups takes no real material reward in financial terms, but the practical, social and emotional rewards are many. The very act of taking part in a particular activity with like minds and kindred spirits allows the individual to be both celebrated and appreciated through their own particular talent &#8211; and often the opportunity to lose themselves by contributing to a greater whole. A common thread that runs through all of these groups is the sense of &#8216;togetherness&#8217;, perhaps meeting one of our most important needs, as well as the sense of participating in an active and creative community.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">In a media dominated culture that tends to encourage spectatorship and passivity rather than participation and engagement, <em>For the love of it</em> is a testament to the need we all have to feel like we belong and to engage in activity that we can be passionate about and we can lose ourselves in &#8211; something that has little or nothing to do with the emphasis on material reward and personal gain of contemporary society, that may indeed function as some kind of antidote.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">You can read Caitlin Griffith&#8217;s short introduction to the project <a href="http://www.intentional.co.uk/caitlin-griffith/">here.</a></p>
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<p style="text-align: left;">You can preview the short films below.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><p><a href="http://www.intentional.co.uk/art-projects/for-the-love-of-it/"><em>Click here to view the embedded video.</em></a></p></p>
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		<title>Small Wonder</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The installation Small Wonder is based around the reflections of twelve participants who discuss the place of spirituality in their own lives. The participants are influenced by faiths and traditions that include Christianity, Buddhism, Taoism, Atheism, and Bahai.  The installation consists of nine resin-glass screens suspended as a grid onto which a sequence of [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The installation Small Wonder is based around the reflections of twelve participants who discuss the place of spirituality in their own lives. The participants are influenced by faiths and traditions that include Christianity, Buddhism, Taoism, Atheism, and Bahai.  The installation consists of nine resin-glass screens suspended as a grid onto which a sequence of multiple images are projected. Nine speakers with a red light attached are suspended around the space while four larger speakers are located in each corner.</p>
<p>Extracts taken from the participants form the basis of a twenty-six minute atmospheric surround-sound track that runs on a continuous loop. The visual centre of the installation is the multi-screen projections of evocative, elemental moving images of Inverness and the surrounding Highlands. The resin-glass screens are double sided, inviting the audience to move around the installation and explore it from different perspectives.</p>

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<p>a short extract that captures the video and sound used in the installation:</p>
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<p><a href="http://www.intentional.co.uk/smallwondercomments">view some audience comments</a></p>
<p>Small Wonder was produced during a three-month arts residency in Inverness, Scotland as part of The Other Side of AIR. The installation was first shown in Old High St Stephen&#8217;s Church Hall in Inverness during November 2007. Old High St Stephen&#8217;s were a key part of the residency who supported the project with both financial and practical support. The Other Side of AIR residency programme was also supported by The Lottery Fund through the Arts Council Scotland and Highland 2007.</p>
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		<title>It&#8217;s Like Love is&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Oct 2006 11:47:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This collaborative project with artist Bobby Bird is an interactive sound and light installation that explores the theme of love through the words of seven participants. The installation comprises of seven suspended orbs, each housing a hi-fidelity speaker, a blue light source and a proximity sensor that allows for audience interaction. The orbs are made [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This collaborative project with artist Bobby Bird is an interactive sound and light installation that explores the theme of love through the words of seven participants. The installation comprises of seven suspended orbs, each housing a hi-fidelity speaker, a blue light source and a proximity sensor that allows for audience interaction. The orbs are made from a special clear resin produced using a unique method developed as part of this project.</p>
<p>The project is based around extracts taken from seven people who talk openly about their own thoughts and experiences around love. The audience are invited to explore elements of these conversations by directly engaging with each orb. As the audience comes into relationship with each orb they begin reveal the words of the participants &#8211; the closer they move towards to the orb the clearer the words. Simultaneously the orb’s blue light begins to get brighter as the audience moves closer.</p>
<p>The seven orbs are linked together through a series of audio soundscapes that dynamically move across the space. As these sounds shift around the space they are subtly echoed by each of the orbs blue lights. When there is no audience interacting with the installation it still has a level of activity, randomly choosing to play different sound and light variations.</p>
<p>Images from the exhibition.</p>

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		<title>Where do I go from here?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Produced while artist-in-residence at Durham Cathedral 2000- 2001. 

Where do I go from here? is an installation comprising of 	    60 suspended speakers, each with a tiny blue light attached, surround three pools of water that are lined with broken slate. In the pools a video image, depicting elements of the social [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Produced while artist-in-residence at Durham Cathedral 2000- 2001. <em><br />
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<p><em>Where do I go from here?</em> is an installation comprising of 	    60 suspended speakers, each with a tiny blue light attached, surround three pools of water that are lined with broken slate. In the pools a video image, depicting elements of the social and urban landscape of northeast England, is intermittently projected, while the space itself fluctuates with the murmur of voices and sparse abstract sounds. The voices are those of refugees and asylum seekers, currently living in the UK, who share their thoughts and experience, and try to make sense of their life.</p>
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<p>The short movie below gives some sense of the installation.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.intentional.co.uk/art-projects/where-do-i-go-from-here/"><em>Click here to view the embedded video.</em></a></p>
<p><strong><br />
Exhibition Introduction by Mark Robinson</strong></p>
<p><em>&#8216;This, then, is all. It&#8217;s not enough, I know.<br />
At least I&#8217;m still alive, as you may see.<br />
I&#8217;m like the man who took a brick to show<br />
How beautiful his house used once to be.&#8217;</em><br />
Brecht (trans. John Willets)</p>
<p>Two sample headlines from the front pages of the Daily Express during the last few days: &#8216;ASYLUM: WE ARE BEING INVADED&#8217;, and &#8216;REFUGEES: FLEE FOR YOUR LIVES&#8217;. I didn&#8217;t read any further, just caught a glimpse when picking up my Guardian, whilst passing early morning pleasantries with Mohammed who runs my local garage. They echoed through breakfast, as I listened to John Humphries and various politicians talk as if the country were under siege by people we must keep out at any financial or human costs, rather than struggling to cope with the aftershock of conflict and oppression.  Literally not a day has gone by whilst I have been writing this piece when the &#8216;problem&#8217;of asylum has not been on the news.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s clear that some people are engaged in a war. Far from creating art in a protected cloister at Durham Cathedral, Geoff Broadway has found himself reinventing the residency as something if not on the front line, then at least somewhere in the war zone, with himself a kind of the war artist or reporter gathering and manipulating stories and images. Stemming from his discovery of a 12th Century Knocker which could be used to request sanctuary for up to 40 days, (no one was refused, all had to give up their own clothes and stay within rooms at the Cathedral) he has looked outwards from the Durham Peninsula at one of the most pressing changes in local life since the closure of the pits: the dispersal to the North East of a growing number of asylum seekers and refugees from some of the many troubled parts of the world: Kurdistan, Afghanistan, Sudan, Iraq, Zimbabwe, Bosnia, Croatia. The week after an Iraqi Kurd had been murdered in Glasgow, and after reading those headlines, listening to a rough cut of the voices heard in this exhibition was a sobering, humbling and uncomfortable experience. I suspect it will be likewise for those visiting this exhibition.</p>
<p>&#8216;The individual concern thus becomes all the more necessary, indispensable, magnified, because a whole other story is vibrating within it&#8217;. In what sense is the statement always collective even when it seems to be emitted by a solitary singularity like that of the artist?&#8217;</p>
<p>Deleuze &amp; Guattari</p>
<p>The voices you hear are &#8216;deterritorialized&#8217; in a much more literal sense than that used by Deleuze &amp; Guattari. These are people whose land has been taken from them, and who are expressing themselves in a foreign tongue. Their comments thus become fascinatingly paradoxical: at once naïve in their expression, and thus &#8217;sincere&#8217;, the haltingness of the English adding extra layers of poignancy (perhaps unwanted layers), but also artificial and constructed in a way mother-tongue testimony might not be. Although the individuals here speak passionately, bitterness is only apparent in one or two: those whose English is most impressive. It is as if the control of language allows for this expression, this emotion; as if a more rudimentary facility somehow keeps those negative emotions in check, or merely from being expressed or heard. Of course, much of the testimony betrays the wordless fear and loss that night and silence bring. Broadway&#8217;s installation, poised on the cusp of dark and light, silence and confession or testimony, is an eloquent evocation of the hope and despair implicit in the double-edged concept of refuge.</p>
<p>The installation also freezes patterns of movement of the people whose voices we hear, but also of the water, clouds and sky they inhabit. It gives the illusion of a still point on a journey, the darkness and stillness providing almost a mythical quality. The night by a pool thinking of what has been left and what might await. It is a moment of both optimism and fear, the duality within the flight of the refugee. (Just as the truly unlucky people don&#8217;t reach a place of refuge, the truly despairing maybe don&#8217;t even try. The Afghans feared by Eurotunnel and the Government are both desperate and optimistic.) The title of the piece makes clear the reference to journeys. Read in one light it holds out an appearance of choice, almost an ironic echo of Microsoft&#8217;s slogan &#8216;Where do you want to go today&#8217;(capturing globalisation&#8217;s neat paradox perfectly, the surface freedom of choice in a world of plenty, the hidden monopoly and enforced purchases from the company shop). In another light there is the edge of trapped despair. (Interestingly, the viewer is very controlled in Where do I go from here – compelled to enter the work in a certain way, not given any freedom over what is heard or seen, in contrast to earlier, interactive work which the viewer could &#8217;steer&#8217;).</p>
<p>The title is the question the asylum seeker may ask before leaving their home, and the one they may ask themselves- or indeed the authorities &#8211; in the temporary homes assigned to them in this country.  It is a question which is impossible to answer, given the small amount of power and autonomy of the refugee. (Most viewers will give the same answer, smugly or guiltily, or both: home.) Those earlier &#8216;asylum seekers&#8217;who sought security at Durham Cathedral exchanged danger or persecution for confinement, one echoed by Broadway&#8217;s piece. Contemporary immigrant asylum seekers suffer a similar dilemma, dispersed according to government policy to precisely the places in Britain where they are often least able to settle- where they experience the kind of racist abuse described in the piece, inflamed by tabloid prejudice and politicians-siege mentality and careless language. (The exhibition opens in Sunderland, where the British National Party received worrying levels of support in the recent General Election, and where the BNP recently organised a march to protest against asylum seekers.)</p>
<p><em>&#8216;Walked through a wood, saw the birds in the trees;<br />
They had no politicians and sang at their ease:<br />
They weren&#8217;t the human race, my dear, they weren&#8217;t the human race.&#8217;</em><br />
W.H. Auden &#8216;Refugee Blues&#8217;</p>
<p>Broadway has a fascination with the base elements of life: salt, earth, sand, sky. Where Do I Go From Here? consists of three pools of water, with the recorded voices of asylum seekers now living in the North East played through a number of small speakers, each with a light attached to it, reflected in the water, which is edged with slate native to the North East. Upon this water plays a repeated film consisting of resonant images of those elements as found in the North East -the hard edged spring sky, the beach at South Shields with its own fugitive pleasure seekers passing by, the cold cold sea.</p>
<p>John Berger has spoken of the sky in the photographs of Sebastio Salgado, an artist whom Broadway admires enormously. Berger describes how its beauty is not simply a compositional element, but a constant reminder of the last resort of the poor, the migrants Salgado portrays. The sky, the heavens, will always accept the pleas, the appeals, the sleep, dreams and nightmares -though whether they reply is another question. Where do I go from here unites sky and earth, sand and water in a search for some court of appeal which will hear the truth from the refugees Broadway has met. The piece is very much concerned with elementals, including the pain described, making the highly wrought nature of his work, which is made possible only by the advanced technology of the western world, almost self-contradictory.</p>
<p><em>&#8216;But it makes an immigrant laugh to hear the fears of the nationalist, scared of infection, penetration, miscegenation, when this is small fry, peanuts, compared to what the immigrant fears -dissolution, disappearance.&#8217;</em><br />
Zadie Smith</p>
<p>Broadway says he is &#8216;only political with a small p&#8217;, though this is clearly not true in any sense than it is always true for an artist: this is work dealing with one of the most controversial and politicised issues in Britain today. (It is simplistic to think asylum is simply  a matter of compassion or otherwise. It is ruled by political and economic priorities. Why else would Canada accept, for instance, 82 % of applicants from Sri Lanka as refugees according to UN definitions, whilst Britain considers only 0.2% of applicants from Sri Lanka eligible.) Perhaps this is what he means by that: this is not a sloganeering work. There may be pity here, but it is within the viewer not the work. (Wilfred Owen&#8217;s -The Poetry is in the pity- applies but only so far.) This is not simplistic oppositional art, it has a belief in order and beauty, and in honesty in language. The work lets people speak through themselves in clarity and some atmosphere of tranquillity. Visitors to the installation must guess at the long hours of conversation and trust building involved in achieving the materials for this work. Like Owen, Broadway’s work breaks through the clichés of representation in order to freshen perceptions dulled by degraded language and imagery. It also seeks to preserve unofficial truths. For all the acres of newsprint, and the hours of tv and radio devoted to asylum, the stories of refugees, the very heart of each person&#8217;s journey &#8211; are seldom heard.</p>
<p>But if the refugees are preserved, what almost disappears in this work is the artist himself. However, although concerned with the stories of others, the work has a number of other resonances. Firstly, there are echoes of Broadway&#8217;s previous pieces The Salt Passages, which looked at contemporary voices from Teesside, exploring the virtual reality of multimedia montage, and The Glass, where his interest in global economics and representation of individuals and cultures within them came into sharp focus. There are also, however, echoes of Broadway&#8217;s own situation as an exile. He is currently without firm home base, and has over the last several years been resident in Derby, Middlesbrough, New Zealand and Durham, carrying out his practice in a variety of artist residency situations. Where do I go to from here? takes on another layer as a title when applied to the artist about to leave the Cathedral residency. This may be a second level reason why Broadway was attracted to the themes of exile and refuge. It is certainly the case that on his return to Britain in 2000, after a year in New Zealand he was struck by the rise in intolerance towards asylum seekers, the prominence of asylum as an issue, and the increased numbers of refugees in the North East. It was as if time had been compressed as in his installation and the changes and developing fault lines could be seen with new clarity. In a way this work attempts to reproduce some of that sensation for the viewer.</p>
<p>&#8216;You are impertinent, they said to me.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m not impertinent, I said; I&#8217;m lost.&#8217;</p>
<p>Brecht &#8216;Emigrant&#8217;s Lament&#8217;</p>
<p>Broadway is uneasy with the work being tagged as &#8216;oppositional&#8217;, although the longer I delayed writing this piece the political significance of a work dealing with this subject, containing this material, in the North East of England in Autumn 2001, has become greater and more urgently needed. He is concerned with composition and making and manipulating, and does not attempt to hide it. This is a highly wrought piece of work, despite the rawness of the tales which can be heard. It is concerned with the creation of beauty, with, therefore an aesthetic of pleasure and sensuality rather than a simplistically mimetic one of dislocation and anguish. This seeming contradiction bothers Broadway, makes him uneasy about exploiting people who are now his friends, but he is ultimately not prepared, as an artist, to give up striving for harmony within the experiences shared with him. He does this by putting aside straight realism or documentary for something more exploratory, juxtaposing words and images within a contemplative setting which demands both physical and emotional commitment from the audience.</p>
<p>Much of our reaction to the &#8216;problem&#8217; of asylum seekers stems from an ignorance which this work may do a little to combat. Its chances of doing that rest, I think, not on the testimony of the voices you will hear, affecting as that is, but on your willingness to kneel or crouch low enough to let stories be whispered into your ear in the dark, and to look at the sea and the sand and the sky projected upon the water, and your ability to imagine that this is both a mirror (refocus: you can see yourself, and the night sky of exile behind you) and a wishing well. This contemplation is your only place of refuge, of appeal. This is not a sensationalist work, or a liberal work appealing for special treatment, it is essentially a tool of compassion, of feeling with, made for feeling with. This is the sense in which Broadway&#8217;s nervousness about his own political agenda is resolved, and what makes this a truly suitable work to emerge from a residency at Durham Cathedral. If the World Heritage Site of which the Cathedral is the centre means anything it must surely include a link back to the traditions of shelter, succour and compassion which Broadway identified in the Cathedral&#8217;s Sanctuary Knocker. The North East must, whether it relishes the prospect or not, find ways in which to continue this tradition in the 21st century, rather than similarly ancient strains of ignorant intolerance.</p>
<p>Mark Robinson</p>
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		<title>Behind Thought the Light Shines Bright</title>
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The audience are invited to enter a darkened space that contains 60 empty light sockets suspended in the air. In the space a surround-sound audio track plays atmospheric sounds combined with a person talking.
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<p><strong>The Installation</strong></p>
<p>The audience are invited to enter a darkened space that contains 60 empty light sockets suspended in the air. In the space a surround-sound audio track plays atmospheric sounds combined with a person talking.</p>
<p>The audience is invited to participate by choosing a bulb from a box and make their own inscription on its surface using a permanent marker. The bulb is then inserted into an empty light socket, illuminating the personal message. As the audience engages with this work so the space is slowly filled with illuminated bulbs and messages.</p>

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<p><strong>The Gallery of Learning</strong></p>
<p>This project was first shown as part of the Gallery of Learning exhibition at the Lighthouse Media Centre, Wolverhampton on November 10th 2005.</p>
<p>This exhibition marked the culmination of a 9-month process where 6 artist-researchers worked in 6 high schools across the Black Country. Each artist aimed to explore, through their own chosen art form, the many kinds of learning that takes place in Creative Partnership projects developed between teachers, artists and pupils. The exhibition encouraged the active participation of the audience, and intended to actively share with them some of the learning and realisations that had taken place in each of the projects.</p>
<p>The Gallery of Learning developed out of an idea by Noel Dunne, who both led and supported each stage of this ambitious project up to its completion. The other artists taking part were Sandra Hall (performance), Roz Goddard (poetry, installation), Julie O’Neill (performance), Vicki Stinchcombe (installation), Rebecca Hardy (video). The exhibition was actively supported by members of Birmingham’s Creative Alliance, many of whom help both install each artists work and document the proceeding. It was also supported and funded by Creative Partnerships.</p>
<p><strong>Background to Behind Thought the Light Shines Bright</strong></p>
<p>For the Gallery of Learning I worked with St Thomas Moore High School in Walsall, and the journey of English teacher Rebecca Adey. Through several recorded conversations Rebecca reflects upon her changing perceptions of creativity and experimentation as she worked with several artists.</p>
<p>The idea for this light-based participatory project arose from the popular image of new ideas and understanding as being like &#8216;lights going on&#8217; &#8211; something that happened often during this project. The title was taken from one of the messages inscribed on the light bulbs. For me this message captured the essence of what I feel is one of the foundations of the Gallery of Learning: creativity is not to be found in the sole domain of artists but is right at the heart of life, sitting behind all ideas and thoughts like a clear light.</p>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Oct 2006 11:52:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I strongly have this feeling that our everyday life is at one and the same time banal, platitudinous, over familiar, and yet mysterious, extraordinary. I have even more strongly the feeling that facing death leads one to search for some sense of meaning in ones existence.
Brian Magee


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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="font-size: small;"><em>I strongly have this feeling that our everyday life is at one and the same time banal, platitudinous, over familiar, and yet mysterious, extraordinary. I have even more strongly the feeling that facing death leads one to search for some sense of meaning in ones existence.</em><br />
Brian Magee</span></p>
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<p>Elders is a light and sounds installation produced over a period of 12 months whilst I was resident artist at Jubilee Arts, in West Bromwich, England in 2002-03.</p>
<p>18 participants from the local area who were all over the age of 60 recorded conversations with me about their own perspective on life and what they felt that they had learnt as they moved into their later years. Motivated by an interest in the mixed and often negative perceptions of older people in western culture, Elders shares elements of wisdom and experience of the 18 participants  in the form a dynamic light and sound installation.</p>
<p>The installation comprises of 18 purpose-built speakers that stand in a semi-circle. Attached to the rear of each speaker is blue halogen light that directly responds to the sounds that pass through that particular speaker through the means of a sound to light unit. The installation is an 18 channel system controlled by Logic Audio, allowing extracts of the recorded conversations and other audio move across the installation.</p>
<p>The participants also collaborated in the making of a series of portrait images of key aspects of their lives and the surrounding area in which they live. These have been shown along the project as an audio-visual slide show.</p>
<p>This movie gives a sense of what the installation looks and sounds like, along with some examples of the portrait images that were made.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.intentional.co.uk/art-projects/elders/"><em>Click here to view the embedded video.</em></a></p>
<p>Writer and artist Brendan Jackson and cultural theorist Giles Peaker have written introductions to the project.</p>
<p>Brendan Jackson: <a href="http://www.intentional.co.uk/brendanjackson/">Words from the End of Time<br />
</a> Giles Peaker: <a href="http://www.intentional.co.uk/gilespeaker/">Between Hearing and Listening</a></p>
<p>This project was supported by artist Cath Tarbuck who undertook several of the recorded conversations and the portrait photographs. Artist Bobby Bird made a significant contribution to the building of the installation.</p>
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		<title>Perfect World</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Oct 2005 12:35:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Everyday can become potentially extra-ordinary – not by eclipsing the everyday, or imagining that we can leap beyond it to some higher level of cognition of action but by fully appreciating and activating the possibilities that lie hidden, and typically repressed within it.&#8221;
John O’Neil

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>Everyday can become potentially extra-ordinary – not by eclipsing the everyday, or imagining that we can leap beyond it to some higher level of cognition of action but by fully appreciating and activating the possibilities that lie hidden, and typically repressed within it.&#8221;</em><br />
John O’Neil</p>
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<p>Perfect World is a project that explores diverse perspectives around themes that are central to social life &#8211; globalisation, war, love and perfection. Participants from different backgrounds were invited to reflect aspects of our complex society through recorded conversations. In the film featured here I worked with Angela Hind to invite passersby in West Bromwich to respond to questions such as: &#8216;Is it possible for us to transform the world into a better place? What about love and human nature?  Are you happy?&#8217;</p>
<p>Perfect World was commissioned as part of Bit Parts that showcased a range of digital media projects, and funded by ACE WM</p>
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		<title>The GlassHouse</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Oct 2005 14:05:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kindle Theatre directed this site-specific show to explore modes of multidisciplinary performance, visual and fine arts, and design and architecture with site-specific research.

I participated in this project with seven other commissioned artists to work in the ares of photography, film, light installation, willow sculpture, electro-acoustic sound, built structures and performance poetry to create a vibrant [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Kindle Theatre directed this site-specific show to explore modes of multidisciplinary performance, visual and fine arts, and design and architecture with site-specific research.</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-144" title="theset" src="http://www.intentional.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/theset.jpg" alt="theset" width="417" height="297" /></p>
<p>I participated in this project with seven other commissioned artists to work in the ares of photography, film, light installation, willow sculpture, electro-acoustic sound, built structures and performance poetry to create a vibrant and dynamic context for the performance. The other artists included Iris Bertz, Lynette Clee, Jerome Harrington, Annie Mahtani, Kimberly Trusty and Keir Williams</p>
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<p>The project was based upon the legacy of the historic glass factory which had far reaching consequences for both the local area and the development of glass for the industrial age.  Kindle explain:</p>
<p>‘Chance Brothers Ltd was a major manufacturer of sheet, optical and decorative glass and achieved global success spanning two centuries from 1824 &#8211; 1967. Examples of Chance glass can be found on the faces of Big Ben, the walls of The Crystal Palace in Hyde Park and in decorative windows in the White House. Research into Chance history will take you around the world; their lighthouses can be found on the shores of India, Singapore and Zanzibar.’</p>

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<p>My contribution to this project was to incorporate archival and personal images and words from former Chance’s employees into a suspended light installation. The installation was a combination of 30 bare light bulbs and 30 images that were printed onto fabric and hung around another 30 bulbs. Each of the images were layered with words taken from recorded conversations with over 20 people.</p>
<p>Thanks to Kate Hadley for help in the manufacture of the cotton prints.</p>
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		<title>The Glass</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Oct 2004 17:20:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Using reworked found images and sounds, aspects of the complex relationship between the west and the &#8216;developing&#8217; world &#8211; political, social and economic- are explored. Developed as both an interactive CD-ROM and an exhibition. Produced as part of Mphil project at the University of Derby.
A shockwave version that combines images and sounds is available here.
Introduction [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Using reworked found images and sounds, aspects of the complex relationship between the west and the &#8216;developing&#8217; world &#8211; political, social and economic- are explored. Developed as both an interactive CD-ROM and an exhibition. Produced as part of Mphil project at the University of Derby.</p>

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<p>A shockwave version that combines images and sounds is available here.</p>
<p><strong>Introduction to The Glass<br />
by Giles Peaker</strong></p>
<p>It might come as a surprise if I call Geoff Broadway&#8217;s work realist. Realism as an idea has not had a good time lately, or indeed for the last forty years or more. It is now a commonplace that any image is a re-presentation, that seeing is not believing. We look suspiciously at any claims to tell us &#8216;how things really are&#8217;, and the &#8216;realistic&#8217; is a style that we recognise and recognise as a style. But these works that I would claim to be realist are hardly &#8216;documentary&#8217;. They are the very height of artifice, fragments of found images brought together in the pixellated space of a computer screen, texts sewn together from a multitude of sources; and they do not hide their construction, even as they form one image.</p>
<p>What kind of realism is it in which commercial graphics, advertising images, stills of TV footage, historical objects, passages from novels, official statistics and so on, are placed together?</p>
<p>In some ways, this work calls upon the history of photomontage and looks to the cut up photographs of 1920s Berlin Dada and the anti-nazi magazine covers of John Heartfield in the 1930s. Those works came from a recognition that, as Bertold Brecht observed, a photograph of a factory can tell you nothing about its reality, the relationships that make up its workings. Reality cannot be shown in a &#8216;documentary&#8217; photograph, because reality is not just things. Things are only the traces of reality.</p>
<p>However, the techniques of photomontage are themselves now a commonplace, surrounding us on advertising hoardings and television. From the start, photomontage workers recognised that the image was becoming a large part of everyday experience. Now that tendency has saturated every part of our lives with images which demand our attention. The surprising juxtaposition is as good a means as any.</p>
<p>Montage is a part of the world we experience, the array of images and information that passes through us &#8211; images of fantasy, distance, desire and banality. But in these constructions, montage works to make us aware of those images as traces of reality &#8211; a reality which can&#8217;t be &#8216;pictured&#8217; but can be thought. There are certain techniques used to move us beyond the images. Similarities between things, which we are used to seeing separately, remove the familiarity with which we view them and cast them in a new light: An ancient culture&#8217;s sacrifices to a terrible and demanding god echo in their descendent&#8217;s servitude to a distant and mysterious market in financial futures; a tribal necklace half turns into the symbol of a multinational corporation which lays waste the homelands from which it came. In other places, images which are incompatible or contradictory, yet are of the same thing, are placed together. The dream-like Sheik of Araby gallops through a 19th century study of motion &#8211; the traces of a western fantasy of erotic mystery that is present in T.E. Lawrence as well as Valentino. Rudely burning into this reverie are the well head fires of Kuwait and the brutality of regimes whose role is to keep the oil flowing through the gulf. Both of these versions of the arab are laid over a 12th century timepiece, a reminder of the history of a complex civilisation that is still visible through the images that try to cover it. Familiar dreams and immediate images reveal their contradictions and open onto something else.</p>
<p>Technique is not all &#8211; the same ways of constructing images sell us cars &#8211; but these works rely on our ease of reading montage in order to undermine it. The parts are brought together but do not form a single whole, we cannot forget where they come from and their easy meaning, even while that meaning is changed by their combination. Between the charming 18th century fan and the cosy exoticism of the Brooke Bond tea picker lies a history, marked by the barbed mouths of the leaves, which stretches from the East India Company to the present.</p>
<p>Geoff Broadway&#8217;s realism is a realism of the world we live in everyday. But it is not just a picture of that world. The shifting images, which are things, are only the trace of reality. In their juxtapositions and sometimes unnerving transformations, these constructions open up the reality which left these traces &#8211; a complex one, but one that can still be thought. A reality which is not just here, now, but has been and is being made. In the end, these are not just pictures, they want to be part of that reality.</p>
<p>Giles Peaker 1997</p>
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		<title>Guillermo Gómez-Peña</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Oct 2004 15:22:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Master Class and Salon Performance
In May/June 2004 I participated in a week-long Master Class and Salon Performance led by the international artist Guillermo Gómez-Peña and supported by Emiko Lewis.


The master class explored contemporary issues of representation using some of the many experimental techniques and concepts developed by the San Francisco based &#8216;trans-disciplinary arts organization&#8217;Pocha Nostra. [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Master Class and Salon Performance</p>
<p>In May/June 2004 I participated in a week-long Master Class and Salon Performance led by the international artist Guillermo Gómez-Peña and supported by Emiko Lewis.</p>
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<p>The master class explored contemporary issues of representation using some of the many experimental techniques and concepts developed by the San Francisco based &#8216;trans-disciplinary arts organization&#8217;Pocha Nostra. One of the central elements of this master class was the continuous re-making of three-dimensional static images that dramatically juxtaposed familiar cultural references to create complex and highly charged layers of meaning.</p>
<p>The Salon Performance took place at The Commercial X-Ray Factory in Birmingham (3rd June 2004) and was attended by around 200 people.</p>
<p>During the performance the usually clear line between audience, participant and performer became increasingly blurred as potent images were continually formed and dissipated through the almost magical guidance of Guillermo Gómez-Peña. Against a powerful and eclectic soundtrack that added to the intense atmosphere, artist Sandra Hall provided a shifting vocal layer that interpreted some of the scenes as they evolved.</p>
<p>For the performance I played Homage to the Dead Soldier which was directly inspired by the tragic events unfolding in Iraq.Taking part in the Salon event were Grace Niridtu, Julie O´Neil, Carolyn Morton, Priya Mistry, Jiva Parthipar, Sandra Hall, Lee Griffiths, Jade Maravala, Emma Wolukau-Wanambwa, Simon Walker and Eleanor Hoad.</p>

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<p>Photo Credits</p>
<p>Brendan Jackson &amp; Bob Bird</p>
<p>This project was commissioned by The Public as the part of Weekend Break Festival of Live Art 2004</p>
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