Story of Moston Small Cinema
The Moston Small Cinema is the most ambitious expression yet, working with volunteers to create a permanent screening space in the heart of a community.
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...
Exhibition of Dreams installation
The Library of Dreams project in St Helens culminated on Saturday with the Exhibition of Dreams installation at the World of Glass. The intangible nature of dreams means that attempting to order them into some form of coherent presentation is tricky. The exhibit is split into two distinct parts: the relaxing and immersive Dreamers Bedroom, and the carefully...
Music For Sleeping
We recently staged a very special audiovisual event at St Helens Central Library as part of the ongoing Library of Dreams project. The show, entitled Music For Sleeping, featured animations, videos, sounds and spoken word recordings created by the public through a series of digital arts workshops at the library. The final presentation was a half hour long,...
L1 – the Map of the Films and the Film of the Map
2011 has been an incredibly busy year for Re-Dock, and we’re only just getting the chance to take stock and reflect on the work we’ve developed. One of the biggest projects we’ve ever undertaken was completed in September this year – the Mapping Memory project. I’m going to briefly talk about the two major outputs...
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...
Swan Songs
The Swan Pedalo has had a busy few weeks. On 16 April she was launched upon the Duke’s Dock, next to the A;bert Dock. She is being hosted by fellow Custodian of the Swan, Simon Derwent, who runs Wowballs. To celebratre this new home for the time being we decided to invite some musicians down...
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...
Canal & – Billboard Installation
Another interesting public manifestation of our ‘Canal &’ collaboration with artist Alan Dunn and Liverpool Biennial is the installation of this huge collage artwork at a billboard site – 227 Knowsley Road, Bootle. The billboard illustrates some of the many contrasting ideas and suggestions for the future of the Leeds & Liverpool Canal (put forward ...
Rotunda Cinema
On Monday we had the first ever Rotunda cinema at the Lee Jones centre in Kirkdale. Over 40 pensioners and guests came and enjoyed the screening, developed and hosted by the young people from Rotunda college. We had adverts for local places of interest, trailers for classic films such as ‘The Quiet Man’, the ABC...
The Loop
For ‘the Loop’ we worked with young people of Alt Valley in Liverpool, asking them to reexamine their relationship with the Loop Line cycle track, that runs above and through their area. We asked young people “If the Loop Line cycle track was a computer game, how would it play?” Here is a preview of...
A Small Cinema at View Two Gallery
On Thursday night, the View Two Gallery was taken over by A Small Cinema – a temporary cinema installation showing short films from local film-makers. The packed out audience were treated to popcorn, red velvet seats and courteous ushers and some great films by local film-makers. A Small Cinema is now being developed into a...
