SYNTAX: Coding for Writers
At the end of June a new iteration of “Syntax: Coding for Writers” will be presented by Mercy in the form of a two-day intensive skills-based workshop. The sessions, led by Tom Schofield, will take place at FACT and will introduce the ‘Processing‘ programming environment to experienced writers and poets who may never have worked...
As swan journey ends, another begins
Manchester Meetup Tuesday 22nd of May 2012 (6pm-8pm) Mad Lab 36-40 Edge Street, M4 1HN Manchester United Kingdom Please register here: http://swandeliers.eventbrite.co.uk/ On March 18th, Grace completed an extraordinary feat, pedalling the 127 miles of the Leeds – Liverpool canal. It was a massive achievement for Grace, and of course for the BBC Radio Leeds...
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,...
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...
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...
Project Triangle
In September 2009, 12 young Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender people from Merseyside took part in a five-day cultural exchange trip to Auschwitz and Warsaw working with a group of young Polish LGB & T people from the Campaign Against Homophobia (KPH).
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...
Pier Head Time Warp
The Pier Head Time Warp was an interactive video event by Re-Dock at the Museum of Liverpool on Saturday the 15th Oct. We were asked by the Museum of Liverpool to run an activity that would get people working creatively with archive video, so we invented a time machine. This time machine was in reality,...
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.
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...
Are You Putting Eyeshadow On That Swan?
Grace the swan was moved from her home in the Albert Dock to Static Gallery on Tuesday where she was washed down and repainted in preparation for her journey to Barrow. I can now proudly add ‘hand painted a pedalo’ to my CV. We also designed and created a hundred (limited edition!) Swandelier badges, which...