Can You Hear Me? I Can See You!
Our new exhibition - Can You Hear Me? I Can See You! - will open in the FACT Connects space in the foyer of the building on Light Night, May 17 2013. Exhibition at FACT - 17 May – 2 June 2013 + Artists talks 18 May, 2pm – 4pm, FACT Connects Space (Free) (Press Release Download: Re-Dock_PR_CYHMICSY ) Can You...
Swan Pedalo Broadcast – AGF
Going backwards in time a small bit: enjoy this poetry performance by AGF (aka Antye Greie) on Barrow Park Lake as part of the Full of Noises Festival 2011 (organised by Octopus Collective). (At just over 1 minute in some very startled and excited birds make an appearance – swan apocalypse!) See some a feature...
Interview with Alan Dunn
A very quick post to point to an interview conducted by The Aesthetic Trust with Alan Dunn about the installation “Constellation of Signs” which was one of several outcomes of our long-running collaborative work with Liverpool Biennial, which began with the “Canal &” research in North Liverpool. Alan is a greatly respected artist and recent...
SYNTAX: Coding for Writers
At the end of June Mercy will deliver a new iteration of “Syntax: Coding for Writers” in the form of a two-day intensive skills-based workshop, which will be presented as part of FACT’s Open Curate It programme. SYNTAX was originally devised in 2011 by John O’Shea and Nathan Jones as a framework for writers and...
Visiting Octopus in Cumbria
At the beginning of March I made a trip up to Barrow-in-Furness to meet with Glenn Boulter and the rest of the team at Octopus Collective in Barrow-in-Furness to discuss our shared challenges of running a small art organisation. Re-Dock worked with Octopus last August when they commissioned “Swan Pedalo Broadcasts” (a new collaboration between...
Swan Pedalo Broadcasts At FON
On Wednesday night I travelled from Liverpool to Barrow with John O’Shea and Dave Lynch to help set up and run a radio station on a pedalo. Our home became Lanternhouse in Ulverston and our base of operations was Barrow Park’s Piel House, which constantly buzzed with music and activity. We were joined by fellow Liverpool artists...
SYNTAX (Mark 1)
SYNTAX: A speculative 1-day workshop, looking to explore how poet/writers and coder/artists can bring their skills together to make new experimental work. or Coders and Poets Unite! This initiative was a collaboration between Re-Dock and Literary Arts Collective Mercy, prompted by conversations between John O’Shea and Nathan Jones about the potential for overlaps and interesting discourse...
Hull Residency
Wow! What a brilliant week! I spent all of last week in Hull taking part in the Digital Media Labs touchscreen residency along with 9 other artists it was excellent. This opportunity was mastermided by Benedict Philips who is lead artist for a new NHS health centre in Hull. There are so many positive things...
Message=Medium
Re-Dock supported a new manifestation of the MESSAGE=MEDIUM text-message archive project which took place as part of the UK School Games in Gateshead and Sunderland last weekend. For the unfamiliar – MESSAGE=MEDIUM presents the public with a pop-up kiosk offering a unique and unusual service: treasured mobile phone text messages can be transformed and preserved...
Foregrounding Context
Cultural Heritage Network workshop and presentation: The process of collectively mapping and modelling, memories and ideas forms a core strand of Re-Docks methodology, and, over the past few months we have been contributing to a series of discussions relating to landscapes, memories and cultural practices, co-ordinated by Liverpool University. A workshop in February aimed to...
Culture Lab, Newcastle
Between 27th and 29th of November we spent some time at Newcastle University’s Culture Lab, examining our four major projects from 2009 and undertaking a very rigorous end of year review. We took 3 strands of enquiry: 1. Collaboration and Collaborative Tools 2. Organisation, Organisations and Agendas 3. Art – Inspiration, Doing/Making/ (Re)presentation These 3...
A-Team Strategy
Wishing a Happy New Decade to all of the people Re-Dock have collaborated with during our first two years! We thought that it would be good to share a novel approach to project planning, management and evaluation: The A-Team. At the early stages of any significant creative project – whether it’s an event, performance, workshop,...
