Freee
(UK)
Kate
Gray & Scottish Widows plc (Scotland)
Under Assured? (working title)
Dave
Sherry, Move On & Random Strangers (Scotland)
Buying objectives aka 50%
Spartacus
Chetwynd (UK)
The Call of the Wild
Ellen
Munro and Space 44 (Scotland)
Freedom is not something you are given,
but something you have to make aka March to Parlaiment & eat
cake!
Johanna
Billing (Sweden)
This is How We Walk On the Moon.
Mark
Neville and Move On (Scotland)
Glass, Lido
Kate
Gray (Scotland)
Research and development project 1.
N55
(Denmark)
N55
SERVICES
ISSUE
2 OF THE ONE MILE NEWSPAPER (SUMMER 2007) OUT NOW!
ISSUE 1 OF THE ONE MILE NEWSPAPER
(SUMMER 2006)
WEB LINKS FOR ARTISTS
AND ORGANISATIONS:
Johanna Billing www.makeithappen.org/johannabilling.html
Ellen Munro www.ellenmunro.co.uk
Spartacus Chetwynd www.studiovoltaire.org/exhib-walk.htm
www.nourbakhsch.de
www.heraldst.com
N55 www.n55.dk
Freee www.hewittandjordan.com
www.freee.org.uk
www.dave.beech.clara.net
The Ark Trust & Space
44 www.thearktrust.org
Cowgate Centre www.homeless-ecsh.org
Central Mosque www.discover-islam.com
4 Square www.foursquare.org.uk
COMMON
ROOM FILM CLUB 2008
FREE SCREENINGS @ COLLECTIVE GALLERY
TUESDAY EVENINGS 6-8pm
ALL WELCOME to film screenings selected
by artists involved in the One Mile Programme.
POPCORN AND MULLED CIDER AVAILABLE!
15th
January 08 - David Sherry selected:
Five Easy Pieces, 1970, Bob Rafelson. 96 mins.
Bob Rafelson was previously known only for creating 'The Monkees',
Here Robert Dupea (Jack Nicholson) has given up his promising
career as a concert pianist and is now working in oil fields.
Features a spontaneous freeway concert, but of course, the really
famous scene happens in the restaurant. |
22nd
January 08 - N55 selected:
La Grande Bouffe, 1973, Marco Ferreri. 130 mins.
If you want gross-out, this is the genuine article. La Grande Bouffe's
premise of death by overeating is set up to satirise Western society's
obsessive, self-abusive, consumption. So, it's grosse, and anarchic,
and discomforting. But it's also a brilliant tragicomic story about
four middle-aged friends who lock themselves away in a country
house with prostitutes and feast literally to death. Plus there's
an
unbeatable quartet of actors - Mastroianni, Piccoli, Noiret and
Tognazzi - playing roles with their own Christian names. |
29th
January 08 - Kate Gray selected:
The Century of the Self, Episode 3 'There is
a Policeman In All Our Heads: He Must Be Destroyed',
2002, Adam Curtis. 60 mins.
Adam Curtis' acclaimed series examines the rise of the all-consuming
self against the backdrop of the Freud dynasty. Sigmund Freud,
founder of psychoanalysis; Edward Bernays, who invented public
relations; Anna Freud, Sigmund's devoted daughter; and present-day
PR guru and Sigmund's great grandson, Matthew Freud.
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Das Blaue Licht / The Blue Light, 1934, Leni Riefenstahl. 70 mins.
This film was both directed by and stars Leni Riefenstahl, the woman who would
later become known for being responsible for some of
the most notorious propaganda films. It remains known for its operatic tone and
imagery and for the brilliant mountain climbing.
A "fable of the post-machine world and of the nature of love." Robert
Aickman.
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5th
February 08 - Freee; art collective selected:
Brazil, 1985, Terry Gilliam. 132 mins
Brazil evokes the melancholy, dreamlike quality of its theme song,
an English translation of a 1939 Brazilian song, "Aquarela
do Brasil,"
featured in Disney's Saludos Amigos (1942). In that escapist film,
Brazil is represented as a romantic, fantasy location that is the
opposite
of gloomy, northern countries. Gilliam was inspired by this song
to create the fictional totalitarian government and the overall
dystopian
mood of the film. The film centers on Sam Lowry, a young man trying
to find a woman who appears in his dreams while he is working in
a mind-numbing job and living a life in a small apartment, set
in a dystopian world in which there is an over-reliance on poorly
maintained (and rather whimsical) machines. |
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5 April - 17 May 2008
How to be Hospitable
Freee Art Collective will present their exhibition 'How to be Hospitable'
at Collective from 5 April to 17 May. Freee have been working
with One Mile for the past year; investigating the newly immigrated
Polish Community in Edinburgh. They will create 3 billboard
pieces, a public feedback session, a Polish Deli Evening and a
symposium.
Kate Gray is working
with Scottish widows staff based in the Basil Spence building on
Dalkeith Rd, Edinburgh. They are watching films set in offices
and planning to make their own film with an animal theme.
David Sherry and Move On are working
together with an interest in social interaction. They have been
creating and documenting situations in which they can offer assistance
to shoppers
in Edinburgh.
This work will be compiled into a publication to be distributed
in January 2008.
Spartacus was invited to spend September 2006 in Edinburgh to develop
a new work. She studied pattern cutting, was inspired by monkeys
and films including ‘Les
Maitres Fous’ (The mad Masters, an antropological film by Jean Rouch, 1955), ‘Picnic
at hanging rock” and “Walkabout”. She made a film which
juxtaposes the wilderness of Lewis (Western Iles) with urban Edinburgh cast with
a variety of people met in the mile radius.
Space 44 completed a research and development
phase with Kate Gray and through this chose to work on a project
with Ellen Munro. They collaborated to make a marching banner which
makes a public statement out of personal imagery.
The banner was the focal point of a march to parliment where there were addresses
and a tea party on the lawn on the 29th May 2007.
The banner will now tour to the Womens libraries in London and Glasgow and the
Pankhurst centre in Manchester before being permenantly housed at Space 44 and
used in the 16days of violence against women marches in Edinburgh from 6th December
2007.
After a long research period Johanna was invited
to spend October 2006 in Edinburgh. She made a film on a boat in
the Firth of Forth with musicians who had no previous experience
of sailing. She then carried this collaboration on into a music
score for the film. The work is showing in the gallery June 2007.
WE CAN NOW CONFIRM THAT ‘THIS IS HOW WE WALK ON THE MOON’ HAS
BEEN SELECTED TO BE INCLUDED IN DOCUMENTA 12.
Move On chose to create a series of high-speed film works with
Mark Neville after being introduced to his work through a One Mile
programme artists talk. They are capturing moments including swimming
scenes at one of the last Lidos in Scotland as well as arguing.
The first One Mile project was a programme of discussions, workshops
events and talks for nine different organisations based with a One
mile radius of the Collective Gallery over a period of a year.
Groups involved included DOSTI Muslim women’s group, Working
Together school refusers, Move on peer education on homelessness,
The Ark homeless drop in, Cowgate Centre homeless hostel, Women’s
circle from the Central Mosque and Space 44 Women’s drop in
centre. Outcomes incorporated ‘if…’ a video, ‘Through
the Veil’ an installation at the central mosque, photographs,
T-shirts and vegetable portraiture. The intention of these projects
was to develop a vocabulary for further involvement in the project.
Three of these organisations elected to collaborate with an artist
of their choice.
N55 are working to construct a new system called:
N55 SERVICES which will be placed in Edinburgh in October 2007.
N55 SERVICES will work with public space and local communities
in central Edinburgh and try to provide a faculty for innovations
in the culture of swaps. N55 will be holding a workshop at Central
Library on 4th October and there will be a further event on 5th
October in a off site location with specially customised N55 SERVICES!
Get in touch for further details of locations and events!
BETWEEN THE LINES OF MAPS:WONDERS, DRAGONS AND THE PHILOSOPHY
OF ONE MILE Ruth Barker discusses the projects in progress.
THIS IS HOW WE WALK ON THE MOON Documentation and credits for Johanna Billings
new commission which is also selected for Documenta 12.
PUBLIC SPACE, PUBLIC REALM, PUBLIC SPHERE Freee art collective define the differences.
MARCH TO PARLIMENT AND EAT CAKE! Documentation of Ellen Munro and Space 44’s
cake driven lobbying.
IN SEARCH OF PUBLIC SPACE
Debating the role of public galleries.
HOME and AWAY Looking at different models of relational
practice.
AN EPIC TALE OF MYTH AND LEGEND Investigating ollaborative
practice.
MOVE ON In conversation with One Mile participants.
 
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