Robb Mitchell: introductions, interactions & immersions
forthcoming / current / very recent things:
Stromness | A Winter Festival of Orkney Artists -some sketch proposals on display as part of the Pier Art Centre's open submission show - until 26th January 2008 |
London | Thursday Club: Cyranoids - interdisciplinary talk/event at Digital Design Studio, Goldsmiths College, December 13th 2007 |
Neuchatel | Arts & Connaissance, Psy-Art Seminar at Neuchatel University (Switzerland) December 11th 2007 |
Saint Andrews | OK, Okay: The Art of Communication - group show at St Andrews Museum, Fife, until 26th August 2007 |
Stromness | Cuppa Hoop @ Porteous Brae Gallery, Stromness - Saturday 7th July 2007 |
Stromness | Giant floor based drawing workshop involving c500m of wool and some personal questions ( for Pier Arts Centre ) |
Westray, Sanday, Papa Westray, Stronsay, Eday & North Ronaldsay airfields | Popping Pixels "Short & Fast" international moving image exhibit on Orkney's northern isles. www.poppingpixels.org |
Settling In |
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Revolving table encompassing full width and lengh of a room, to encourage circulation. To traverse room, visitors needed to enter cut-away pods in table surface and then...push, pull, or be pushed or be pulled.... Shown here as part of Settling In , 338 Great Western Street, Manchester | ||
other selected projects, loosely grouped under the headings of |
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art places... |
party spaces.... |
and other places |
Proposal for a Meeting Point (Blender) an icebreaking sculpture to mix up the seated and standing |
Spin It In It - hollow roundabout, viewers needed co-operation from another viewer in the centre of roundabout to push them |
Shared Giant - taking a skinny friend for a walk - "upside down puppetry" shared control of limbs across the streeets |
If You Get Too Nervous, Imagine What The Examiner Looks Like In Their Underwear - white cubes with "penetrating" projections onto viewers heads onto viewers heads |
Hooped Through Jumping a crowd at a busy gig were ambushed by the release of a suspended grid of hula hoops |
guests at a youth hostel were introduced to each other and invited to play a game. The aim of the game was to try and capture each other's image with cameras, without being photographed themselves |
Having No Friends Isn't Something You Can Talk About With A Friend - labyrinthian but cosy installation involving wheeled chairs, projections of advice onto a giant sheet lowering ceiling, bed, duvet, balloons and video |
No Splashing - a sea of paddles, below decks at Chateau Bateau |
have you insured your social life yet? here are a few attempts... (shown as part of Having No Friends... at Free Gallery) |
Counter Encounter (at Art.Fair, Koln) - counting new people met and counting how many of those new people could be introduced to one another |
Lycra Headspace - a meeting place for peoples heads, irrespective of their height, dress or body shape |
Fill Your Diary via these "Interpersonal Trainer" filofax inserts, distributed through clubs and bars and exhibited at The Changing Room and Collective Gallery |
Body Language Playing Cards Complete packs of playing cards incorporating a hierachy of body language poses |
Push Button Across Push Button Down reorientation |
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Social Whirls - revolving discs in floor, an icebreaker to encourage cooperative play, dance and minglingker to encourage cooperative play, dance and mingl |
POLAR an arch like balancing exercise performed, filmed, and then projected between two columns |
well, probably be quite good for other places too. |
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some less recent (previous18 months) things:
Dundee | Who Are These People? at Generator Projects Offsite / Six Cities Design Festival (collaboration with psychologists Brian O'Neill & Alex Gillespie) |
Glasgow / Dundee | The Upgrade! Scotland with guest speakers Christine Borland, Jacqueline Donachine, Alistair Gentry, Nigel Johnson, Niall Moody, Jim Hardie, Simon Fildes & Katrina McPherson, Aoife Ludlow, Hazel White, Sarah Kettley, Simon Biggs (for New Media Scotland) @ CCA & DCA |
Edinburgh | Robot Thought II - presented series of family dialogue events at National Museum of Scotland (a UWE / Edinburgh University Informatics Dept partnership for Edinburgh International Science Festival) |
Dundee | Click with Someone - guest lecture at University of Abertay |
Berlin | I Believe In Flowers - group show at MeinBlau |
Dundee | Feeling Sensory Boundaries - guest lecture at University of Abertay |
Glasgow | Heads Up of The Table - furniture featured in the showroom Che Camille |
Linz | Upgrade! International - brief presentation for New Media Scotland, Das Bruknerhaus, Ars Electronica |
other agreeable previous ways of passing time include Electron Club, The Chateau, Free Gallery, Machinista online show and Machinista Festival
EMAIL : mitchell 'at' chateaugateau.co.uk
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