The Less Bewildered

Here you’ll find links to people we’ve been working with, fascinated by or maybe have just considering stalking.

They’re wildly talented, blessed by skills, possess a fascinating mind, are damn lucky or happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. They come singly, in pairs and often as gangs (or groups, companies, institutions etc).

You’ll also find articles, media, videos and a scrapbook wordcloud mashup smorgasbord of stuff that’s caught our fancy, caught our eye or found itself a very secure foothold in our imagination.

We hope it helps you make it through the night.

Check back as we’re always adding, deleting and changing our minds.

PEOPLE
Jane McGonigle – we like her work, we really like her brain, we think its probably more effective where it is.
http://www.avantgame.com/bio.htm

Taylor Mac

Fearghus O’Conchuir
http://www.bodiesandbuildings.blogspot.com/

David Hoyle

Sue Gill and John Fox. Fundamental.
http://www.deadgoodguides.com/

Rafael Lozano-Hemmer’ work speaks for itself. Truly contemporary.
http://www.lozano-hemmer.com/index.html

Chris Snibbe’s projects are always watching, here’s a classic
http://cabspotting.org/

STUFF
Sandpit – more adults should play games. Simple. No debate.
http://sandpit.hideandseekfest.co.uk/events/

Quarantine – go see their work
http://www.qtine.com/

Mammalian Diving Reflex – read and marvel, how nice is that?
http://www.mammalian.ca/template.php?content=home

INTERESTINGFUNSTUFF
Links to follow

“Environmental Justice Eco-Art” bad title, good effort.
http://www.wsu.edu/~amerstu/ce/art.html


STUFF THAT HELPED US MAKE STUFF

ANGRY SCHOOL
We’re keen that you know what inspires us, and to acknowledge and celebrate those that get us excited. Here are some of the starting points for Angry School:

Mobile Academy – very clever, very inspiring, initiators of the SchwarzMarkt.
http://www.mobileacademy-berlin.com/

Improbable – wildly talented UK theatre company who created Devoted and Disgruntled – always worth seeing where they’re going
http://www.improbable.co.uk/show_example.asp?item_id=17

Foundry Theatre – loving this, especially the way they embrace equally all sorts of different ways of making theatre. Take a look at “Open House”. We were particularly interested by their forums – see Out Of The Global City
http://www.thefoundrytheatre.org/html/onstage.html

National Theatre of Wales and John Mc Grath – a fan (yup we had his poster on our wall next to MIA, Starwars and the cute kittens) we were curious what would happen when he moved to a NATIONAL platform. Fascinated when he started this. So what’s a national theatre? You decide. One of our favourite people:
http://nationaltheatrewales.org/forum/topics/theatre-and-debate

It’s not all about performance though. Sometimes you got to stay in and read. About a billion books have gone into Angry School, we’ll add more later but for now:

http://www.internationalfuturesforum.com/omnipedia.php

http://museumtwo.blogspot.com/2009/03/deliberately-unsustainable-business.html

You can learn a lot from World Of Warcraft -
http://innovation.freedomblogging.com/2008/04/04/11-innovation-lessons-from-creators-of-world-of-warcraft/

INCENDIARY -
We're starting work on something else, and while we're not exactly sure where its going we know the several starting points.

One is the Irish and now European "financial crisis" which is perhaps less of an economic blip than it is a fundamental shift in power and democracy. There are many places to read up on this and many, fascinatingly varied, opinions in the popular media. Here's a few;
"http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/dec/05/ireland-financial-collapse-bailout/

http://pippinghole.blogspot.com/2010/11/who-are-bond-holders-we-are-bailing-out.html?spref=fb/

We're interested in the way people pass on this information, "this crisis", the language used and the way that language is used, be it metaphor, instruction, even poetry. Here's a couple of choice examples;
Nina Edge
"http://vimeo.com/m/#/13741462/

Kate Tempest
""http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYMtmQ_H570&feature=related"target=/"/

And what starts to inform these voices, in particular a search back into myth and the collected memory of national narrative;
"http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2010/1204/1224284771356.html"/

What we're wondering is if we re-organise that language, creatively re-tell those myths, or adapt the texture and sound of the language in play, can we open up some new way of engaging with the crisis. Or at the very least have a laugh.

Maybe this is inspiration?
"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Il7TSA2G7Uk&feature=BF&list=MLGxdCwVVULXeq87HfRwL40x-FEOQJ-l_I&index=25">

At this point there's a lot to do. We get one go at this during Project Brand New Six, Project Arts Centre Dec 18th, which is a mere 12 days away. And we're not nearly there yet. Back to the grindstone time.