Links to interactive/ relational artists

Paul Sermon and Andrea Zapp, 'A body of water' http://www.hgb-leipzig.de/~sermon/herten/

As noted on the website: 'A site-specific telematic installation linking the shower room of the Ewald/Schlaegel und Eisen mine in Herten with the Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum in Duisburg. The images of visitors in the shower room in Herten are mixed with images of the Museum visitors in Duisburg and appear on one side of a water screen. Historical film footage of miners showering are projected onto the other side of the water screen. Realised for the Connected Cities Exhibition, Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum Duisburg in Germany, June 20th to August 1st 1999 (catalogue printed).'

Andrea Zapp: http://www.azapp.de/

Andrea Zapp has a whole pile of interesting interactive work that you can check out. Of particular interest is the project Unheimlich an 'extraordinary performance installation for multiple users, linking and visually compositing audience members with live performers in the UK.' Check it out at: http://creativetechnology.salford.ac.uk/unheimlich/

Camille Utterback: http://www.camilleutterback.com/ There are a whole range of interesting projects on her site.

Some notes on Beltaine/ Celtic culture

Here are some things I've picked up... they might be used for stimulus...

From Tisdall, C. 1998, Joseph Beuys We Go This Way, Violette Editions, London.

(In reference to Joseph Beuys):

'On the great stone outside the tomb of the kings at New Grange in Math are the carved symbols (above) which indicated to Beuys that the ancient Celts had a sophisticated knowledge of physical and spiritual energies. The three energies are the spiral, organic or implosive form, the split cell and the diamond shaped crystalline or explosive form. Beuys interpreted this as an early example of the principles to which he referred in his Theory of Sculpture: the passage from warm, organic form (e.g., liquid fat) to cold, crystalline form.' (Tisdall, 1998, p. 72).

Spector, N. 2002, 'Pre-Cycle' from The Cremaster Cycle. Guggenheim Museum, New York.

'The ceremony enacted on this indoor druid mound recalls Beltane, the ancient Celtic festival that marked the beginning of summer. The ritual, which used to be accompanied by dancing and spirit workship, was customarily celebrated on May 1 (also the day of the maypole dance), and culminated in a sacrificial killing by fire. Since hubris always enacts a sacrifice in retribution, this glorificaiton of the Architect in the temple of his own making may just be his last stand. (Spector, 2002).

And this from: Maclean, M. (1998) The Literature of the Celts. United Kingdom, Senate.

The Wine of the Gauls is undoubtedly ancient, so ancient indeed, that Part II is regarded as a fragment of the song that accompanied the old Celctic sword-dance in honour of th sun. It runs thus -

Blood wine and glee
Sun to thee -
Blood wine and glee.
Fire! fire! steel, oh! steel!
Fire! fire! steel and fire.
Oak! Oak! earth and waves,
Waves, oak, earth and oak.

Glee of dance and song.
And battel throng.
Battle, dance and song
Fire! fire, etc.

Let the sword blades swing
In a ring,
Let the sword blades swing.
Fire! fire, etc. (cited in Maclean, 1998).

The design - in search of an aesthetic....

Site sharing

Some sites that may provide imput into strategies for creative process:

Florian Schneider: Collaboration - some thoughts concerning new ways of learning and working together
http://roundtable.kein.org/node/525

Project title: Durchblick/ (Entre)voir/ Land(e)scapes.
Work can be found at:
http://www.griffith.edu.au/school/art/research/research_keane.htm

Accented body:
http://www.accentedbody.com

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