Introductions
My name is Becky, we may have met. I was introduced to Re-Dock through a two week internship during the Summer of 2011, organised through the University of Liverpool, where I am currently studying English. My passions can be surmised as; comics, children’s literature and folk tales, cross stitching cartoon characters, writing bad poetry and...
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...
Experiments in Time
At the last outing for a small cinema, there was a lovely selection of short films, one in particular Luminaris, got me thinking about trying some stop motion, which I’ve never really done seriously, just tinkered with. This film inspired me to look at it from the perspective of travelling light, so I’ve been waiting...
Liverpool Ships and Sailors
Although our Mapping and Memory project has close, we’ve kept in contact with some of the participants, particularly the group known as the ‘Retired Merchant Seafarers’. It turns out that the group used to run a website www.liverpoolsailorsandships.com where they had collected lots of stories and photographs and quite a large following. But, as happens,...
Let’s go fly a kite…
Its been over a year since we started work on the Mapping Memory project, investigating peoples' experiences of Liverpool in the 1950's 60's and 70's. We were given a new perspective on our work by John Quirk, a former electrical engineer and avid kite photographer.
What Shape Are Ideas?
I am working with Fact & a group of young people at Weatherhead high school, on a project exploring what our thoughts might look like if we could see them all around us. So far the group have investigated ways to make connections between words and shapes, and then created different breeds of shapes to...
Restrictions 1
Revisiting the Canal& Map. The idea that ‘Restrictions make us more Creative’ will probably ring true to anyone who has seen what George Lucas did with a budget of millions, once he was able to ‘fully realise’ his original vision for the Star Wars Saga. I’m not suggesting an absolute rule here, but this is...
Mutate and Re-Mix
“A Small Cinema” has grown beyond our control and, like all great 21st century ideas it has gone VIRAL! We really hoped this day would come (but we hadn’t realised that it would be quite so soon!). Tonight a small cinema opens in Oldham, operating out of an empty shop and showing a run of...
Hudds via Barnsely via Arsenal
As I entered my teens, my mum would often say to me “you don’t always need to go to Huddersfield via Barnsley”. She was doing this as a way of warning me about over-thinking things – often to do with girls, but also in relation to work. Whilst I haven’t literally been via Barnsley since...
