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

   
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
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

Framing Attraction, more revolving doors, more hula hoops... part of Dazed & Confused party at Glasgow Sculpture Studios

Push Button Across Push Button Down reorientation

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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