Motif Radio: Show 12, The trials and tribulations of the transient art community.

I am now a Green Card holder. This means that I am now a legal resident of the United States. Due to the vast amount of time and physical/emotional effort that went into obtaining my Green Card I am going to take a week off Motif Radio's scheduled show on the 26th of July and return in August (9th) with a very special show. The trials and tribulations of the transient art community will be a show that discusses the international nature of art and the centralised hubs of artistic creation; cities that artists gravitate towards and congregate within. The show will tackle the transient nature of artists as a sector of society and the obstacles that they have to contend with as they travel to pursue opportunities and to facilitate their work.

This show will require a lot of time, research and discussion with artists and in order to consider and cover the issue fully. I need a further two weeks to collate this information.

See you then and thank you for listening.

Fiona MacNeill

Motif Radio: Show 11, Camberwell Arts Festival Special.

Check out Camberwell Arts Festival website: www.camberwellarts.org.uk

CAMBERWELL ARTS FESTIVAL was from 24 June-2 July 2006 and is Organised in partnership with Camberwell Arts, Camberwell College of Arts and South London Gallery.

Camberwell Arts Festival is an annual event that celebrates the thriving cultural scene in the SE5 (postal/zip code) area. Camberwell is located in the London borough of Southwark and is probably best known for its College of the Arts. The festival is a platform for work by both established and emerging artists and it boasts a packed programme of contemporary exhibitions, performances, talks, tours activities and film screenings.

Where is Camberwell?(look it up via this link)

The audio documentation of the Camberwell Arts Festival artworks on this week's show were collected and compiled by Sunshine Frere. Motif Radio would like to thank her for her diligent attention to detail and for enabling us to make a sound archive of the fantastic work that was on during the festival.

Motif Radio would also like to thank Ann Lawlor of Camberwell Arts, who contacted us with this fantastic opportunity and has inspired us with her enthusiasm.

Running Order:

1. Extended Play: Remixing Camberwell by Anita McKeown.

Live art piece exhibited on 24 June 2006. Started at Camberwell Green, 10am to 6pm.

Anita McKeown asked members of the public to recommend a place in Camberwell to visit where audio and video recordings were subsequently made. 33 sounds were a collected and recombined to create a 12 minute audio-visual psycho-geographic portrait of Camberwell. The piece was presented as part of Two Senses at the South London Gallery on Saturday, 1 July 2006.

Check out her Memphis project, Memphis 45s Here.

2. Repeater by Caroline Wright.

Live art piece exhibited on 25 June 2006 at St. Giles Church, Camberwell, 1 to 6pm.

A five-hour performance and sound installation based upon the Ten Commandments. Repeater formed a connection between the building's history as a place for reflection and the repeated observance of religious vows.

3. Fill my shelves, Transform my life by Lucy Panesar. Sound of bookcase being pushed and Panesar's later talk at the library.

Sound recording of a live interventionist performance starting on Camberwell Green, and public speech in Camberwell public library, June 29th 10am - 7pm

In this excerpt you'll hear the sound of Lucy pushing a bookcase along the streets of Camberwell, with the express wish that people of Camberwell would suggest books to fill it with; books that would enrich her life.

You will also hear some of Lucy's controversial speech, later performed at the Camberwell Public Library, about the history of Elevationary missions in the Southwark area. The talk explains how the improvement of the degraded white working classes was thought, by the wealthy to be achievable through the encouragement of self-transformation.

Click here to read the full version of Lucy Panesar's speech.

4. Continuity 2006. Excerpt: improvisation by all of the musicians listed below.

Sound event, Lecture Hall, Camberwell College of Arts. 30 June 7.30-10.30pm.

A consciously hybrid live music performance mix, devised and directed by Charles Hayward with Tymon Dogg, Lol Coxhill, Orphy Robinson, Hugh Hopper, Chris Cornetto, Nick Doyne-Ditmas, Ashleigh Marsh, Rob Mills, Peri Mackintosh and improvised projections by Rob Flint and Lucy Renton.

5.Guide to Risk in Camberwell by Lottie Child. Excerpt: The artist explains the project.

Live art piece exhibited on 1 July. Camberwell Green/Camberwell Church Street, 12 to 1pm & 3 to 4pm.

Using GPS systems and their own investigative powers participants were asked to find and follow cryptic clues that led to the footsteps and thoughts of young people who created this trail. Designed as a hybrid of urban orienteering and a treasure hunt. The trail took the participants through the streets of Camberwell towards deeper levels of meaning.

6. Two Senses by Iris Garrelfs, Music for One, Anita McKeown. Short excerpts of both featured.

Sound event exhibited at the South London Gallery 1 July 2006, 6.30 to 8.30pm.

Three artists explore relationships of sound and visual representations. Iris Garrelfs and Music For One filled the South London Gallery with very particular combinations of sounds and images in live performance, whilst Anita McKeon presented her work Extended Play, as an audio visual psycho-geographic portrait of Camberwell, created during Camberwell Arts Festival.

Iris Garrelfs used this project to explore sound and image, removed from its stereo/screen confines. Her durational, improvised 4-channel performance was accompanied by the abstract and structural moving images by Berlin based artist Alexander Selski.

Music For One's stark and simple guitar motifs that draw melodic inspiration from old acoustic blues and Erik Satie are part of a collaborative visual project with video artist Mari King and animator/artist Neng Yu. Combining animations, super 8 film, and digital video footage, they observe the textures in our surroundings. Emotive narratives surface when the sound and pictures meet, uncovering the extraordinary in ordinary places.

7. The National Gallery of South London: Art in the Age of Reagan by Fran Cottell. Excerpt: performance sounds, throwing objects out of a window.

Live art exhibited at Number 67 Peckham Road, next to the South London Gallery, Sat, 1 July, 5 to 7pm.

Fran Cottell performed as part of Sixty Seven, a series of artists projects in the derelict house adjoining the South London Gallery.

8. Voice Human Action by Caroline Wright and Andrew Lovett. Excerpt: live performance sound.

Live art exhibited at St Giles Church, Camberwell, 2 July, 3pm.

Exploring human communication and working with the natural resonance of the body in a performance that manipulates harmonics, resonance and reverberation. Voice Human Action was performed by the artist, Caroline Wright and composer Andrew Lovett who collaborated on the piece and the local community of Camberwell, using the church's architecture to describe and inform the piece.

9. There's More to Leisure then Pleasure by Marcia Farquhar. Excerpt: recording of live performance tour.

Live art. A walking talking tour of Camberwell Leisure Centre, 2 July, 12 to 5pm.

Marcia Farquhar led a psychological, anecdotal, accidental trip around the upsides and downsides of public playtime, for ladies and gentleman of leisure.

She was joined by The Leisurettes: Miss Denna Cartamkhoob; Miss Paloma Faith; Miss Ella Finer; Miss Charolette Duboc and Mr Jack Brennan.

All information and quotes from Camberwell Arts Festival Website and Ann Lawlor.

William Shatner quote of the week:

Shatner serenades George Lucas.

Elevator Music:

For Jon - Lullaby, soft. Keys, Acoustic guitar. Slow tempo. Glenn Emerson SOCAN

Images of Deborah Aschheim's finished installation entitled Episodic.

I am sorry that I'm not a great photographer, but here is the finished article. The opening was a great success, we had a great turn out.

Overview of the installation.

View of Deborah's accompanying drawing.

Close-up of one of the video sections of the installation. The green part of the sculpture represents Deborah's personal memories and her early childhood which she can't recall. The video shows her being bathed as a baby.

Please join us next week, same time, same place, for our Camberwell Arts Festival Special.

For an aditional fun photo linked to Deborah Aschheim's piece go to the Two-Artists website.

See you soon,

Fi