FLASHER by Linda Barck
MAGNUS BELLUM by Andro Semeiko
and the winner is! FLASHER
Tuesday, 30 June 2009
Puppet Wars - Round 1 - Flasher Vs Magnus Bellum
FLASHER by Linda Barck
MAGNUS BELLUM by Andro Semeiko
Monday, 22 June 2009
Tuesday, 9 June 2009
Wednesday, 3 June 2009
CHUTNEY 3 - THE VOICE OF CHUTNEY
CHUTNEY PRESERVES III – THE VOICE OF CHUTNEY
THIS TIME IT’S WAR!
Camberwell Green, SE5
Noon - sundown 28th June 2009
Free
Linda Barck, BoSs, Esther Blackman, Judith Brocklehurst, Naomi St Clair-Clarke, Ami Clarke, Andrew Cooper, C.O.T.H. (Cult of the Harvester), John Cussans, Nick Davies, Jo David, Sarah Doyle, Paul Dillon, Rebecca Feiner, Romain Forquy, Mark Hammond, Richard Heslop, Rachael House, Derek Jordan, Miyuki Kasahara, Calum F Kerr, Lady Lucy, Simon Neville, Jessica Marlowe, Vanessa Mitter, Anne Charlotte Morgenstein, Simão Palmeirim Costa, Raul Pina, Paul Sakoilsky, Andro Semeiko, Shape Shifters, Rose Smith, Sarah Sparkes, the return of cApStAn StRiNg, Geraldine Swayne, Marc Vaulbert de Chantilly, Julian Wakeling, Judy Watchman, Sinead Wheeler, Ben Woodeson, John Workman, a goat and many others
Curated by Sarah Sparkes & Marq Kearey
Disciples! Amongst the creaking and popping of emerging green stuff, you will hear the gargling voice of chutney, summoning you, the righteous and others, to assemble at the chosen place on the given day. In the beginning there was the word, and the word gave voice, and the voice is now calling, and it say’s “Chutney”.
This year we shall again congregate on Camberwell Green from noon till sundown, on the last day of Camberwell’s Arts Festival. Our event plans to explore the wild and varied appeal and repulsion of cults and to temporarily turn the green into Camp Chutney.
Logan’s Run, Big Brother, The Midwich Cuckoo’s - the popularity of other people’s weirdness and strange beliefs have kept many of us entertained for years, whether real of fictitious. We are fascinated by the groupings and clannish tendencies that develop under particular individuals. Rulers and governors desire to see their own obsessions spawning, mutating and corrupting the minds of others. Now it’s our turn.
Artists have been invited to orbit our large marquee. Of the responses we have had back, there is promise of chanting, sermonising, wearing religious robes, de-ciphering alien geometries, offering mind altering experiences, creating visual traps, playing with auditory manipulation, mixing seductive aromas and double dealing the general public. More than 40 artists have will be commissioned to create art works, interactive activities and performances for public consumption, all in the spirit of collaboration, exploration and exchange. In the tradition of the historic Camberwell fair, the event will culminate with a performance of fighting puppets made by Chutney artists.
We are the Chutney Preserves, and we welcome you into our fold
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PUPPET WARS AT CHUTNEY 3
Following in the tradition of the historic Camberwell fayre, Chutney 3 will culminate with a puppet show featuring fighting marionettes. 12 artists have been commissioned to make puppets of those abusing power: political, personal, sociological or symbolic . In a perverse twist of power dynamics, the puppet masters take control of their abusers, taking them into the ring to fight until their opponents come unstrung!
the PUPPET WARS posters
Thursday, 12 June 2008
CHUTNEY TWO - THE ROT SETS IN
Chutney Preserves - Two:
The Rot Sets In’
Sunday 22nd of June, 2008, on Camberwell Green, Camberwell – 2pm till 7pm
A juxtaposition of workplace with exhibition stage, or perhaps more coherently, experimental lab with ceremonial site, ‘The Rot Sets In’, is decorated like a fete with small gazebos and stalls, and a rotten twist. The fete is in effect, a one day public art work, which visitors to the green can interact with, or just observe if they choose. It will be a humorous and thought provoking display of a broad range of temporary art works and artists that will make reference and take resources from the fine borough of Camberwell.
Sarah Doyle will offer weeds, rescued from between the cracks of the paving stones of Camberwell’s’ streets, from her garden stall, whilst Naomi St Clair Clarke has made an effigy which you can ‘make clean’ with a wet sponge missile. Lady Lucy is a rotten portrait artist, offering to make rotten portraits of visitors to the green from her park bench, possibly beside Rachael House who shall be sharing edible dog poo from a dogs bottom. Ami Clarke will pluck small gifts from her bearded chin, Ben Woodeson will display a number of hand-printed t-shirts of Mayor Johnson, and Miriam Craik-Horan shall respond to Mendelssohn with a lawn mower engine on her face. Jo David proposes to create a cardboard obelisk and miss-information desk with rotten visitor information about Camberwell, Sarah Sparkes will send down messages from her nest in the hanging tree. Andrew Cooper has a composting Wicker Man lying on Camberwell’s lawn and Dean Kenning will ceremonially hoist a totem pole at sundown, made during the day, from collected bottles and cans. Rebecca Feiner will invite passers-by to rant about issues in ‘Ranter’s Corner’. As they do she will make a picture of them and display these, framed on a table. Julian Wakeling has taken a beautiful photograph of pears decomposing. He has made it into postcards and will write messages for visitors to take away. Libby Shearon has transferred images of hobby horses and other spirits from the land onto business men’s white shirts, and Marq P Kearey has a muddy pool with ambitions to facilitate low ebb’s, whilst Geraldine Swayne shall cheer us all with rotten ballads, channelling voices from folk singers who frequented the green in days gone by. Continuing the musical responses, The Lonesome Cowboys From Hell, Calum F Kerr, Tim Flitcroft, Jan Maat and Marc Vaulbert de Chantilly, parade as The Wild ‘Worst’ on Camberwell Green with a rotten western arena, complete with fake camp fire. cApStAn StRiNg a rebel rouser, will embody the spirit of Captain Swing, the long dead peasant agitator. Darren O’Brien has been trying to train worms to make paintings – visitors will be invited to pick a worm to make a muddy painting that they can take away. Be repulsed by Gavin Toye’s revolting paintings and then hit a rotten egg on Ben Newton’s dart board game and take home a jar of green chutney.
Come, come, come along to the great festival of Camberwell Green – ‘The Rot Sets In’.
Another event organised by Sarah Sparkes and Marq P Kearey.
chutneypreserves@hotmail.co.uk
The Rot Sets In’
Sunday 22nd of June, 2008, on Camberwell Green, Camberwell – 2pm till 7pm
A juxtaposition of workplace with exhibition stage, or perhaps more coherently, experimental lab with ceremonial site, ‘The Rot Sets In’, is decorated like a fete with small gazebos and stalls, and a rotten twist. The fete is in effect, a one day public art work, which visitors to the green can interact with, or just observe if they choose. It will be a humorous and thought provoking display of a broad range of temporary art works and artists that will make reference and take resources from the fine borough of Camberwell.
Sarah Doyle will offer weeds, rescued from between the cracks of the paving stones of Camberwell’s’ streets, from her garden stall, whilst Naomi St Clair Clarke has made an effigy which you can ‘make clean’ with a wet sponge missile. Lady Lucy is a rotten portrait artist, offering to make rotten portraits of visitors to the green from her park bench, possibly beside Rachael House who shall be sharing edible dog poo from a dogs bottom. Ami Clarke will pluck small gifts from her bearded chin, Ben Woodeson will display a number of hand-printed t-shirts of Mayor Johnson, and Miriam Craik-Horan shall respond to Mendelssohn with a lawn mower engine on her face. Jo David proposes to create a cardboard obelisk and miss-information desk with rotten visitor information about Camberwell, Sarah Sparkes will send down messages from her nest in the hanging tree. Andrew Cooper has a composting Wicker Man lying on Camberwell’s lawn and Dean Kenning will ceremonially hoist a totem pole at sundown, made during the day, from collected bottles and cans. Rebecca Feiner will invite passers-by to rant about issues in ‘Ranter’s Corner’. As they do she will make a picture of them and display these, framed on a table. Julian Wakeling has taken a beautiful photograph of pears decomposing. He has made it into postcards and will write messages for visitors to take away. Libby Shearon has transferred images of hobby horses and other spirits from the land onto business men’s white shirts, and Marq P Kearey has a muddy pool with ambitions to facilitate low ebb’s, whilst Geraldine Swayne shall cheer us all with rotten ballads, channelling voices from folk singers who frequented the green in days gone by. Continuing the musical responses, The Lonesome Cowboys From Hell, Calum F Kerr, Tim Flitcroft, Jan Maat and Marc Vaulbert de Chantilly, parade as The Wild ‘Worst’ on Camberwell Green with a rotten western arena, complete with fake camp fire. cApStAn StRiNg a rebel rouser, will embody the spirit of Captain Swing, the long dead peasant agitator. Darren O’Brien has been trying to train worms to make paintings – visitors will be invited to pick a worm to make a muddy painting that they can take away. Be repulsed by Gavin Toye’s revolting paintings and then hit a rotten egg on Ben Newton’s dart board game and take home a jar of green chutney.
Come, come, come along to the great festival of Camberwell Green – ‘The Rot Sets In’.
Another event organised by Sarah Sparkes and Marq P Kearey.
chutneypreserves@hotmail.co.uk
Scenes From Chutney 2 - The Rot Sets In
The Opening Ritual
Lonesome Cowboys from Hell and Dean Kenning making a beer can totem pole at sundown on the green
Sarah Sparkes aiming insults from a tree
Andrew Cooper preparing the composting man for the next victim
The next victim!
The hollow, composting man has eaten
Lady Lucy makig rotten portraits of passers by
Ben Newton's rotten egg dart baord
Watching Jo David's hive mind film from inside the hive
Dean Kenings Beer can totem pole - erection ceremony
Ami Clarke THE FIRST CHUTNEY PRESERVES
Lambeth Country Show, July 14th and 15th 2005
Curated by Sarah Sparkes and Marq Kearey
‘a day out in the countryside with some lovely friends’
sponsored by Lambeth Arts, Lambeth Country Show and ASC studios
Two days of artists displaying their chutneys, preserves, paintings, sculptures, installations, generating interactive dealings and performing for the public.
Guests: Harry Pye, Helen Barff, Ami Clarke, Mally Mallinson, John Workman, Françoise Dupré, Leila Miller, Leila Budde, Mark Hayward, Marq Kearey, Adrian R Shaw, Jenny Fagerstrom, Tomas Fazzini, Chris Hoban, Anita Wernstrom, Jennifer Merrell, Sarah Sparkes, Maddy Rosenberg, Miranda Cowper, Pete Mountford, Diana Percival, Jennifer Talbot, Bella Vernon, Louise Evans, Darren O’Brien, Libby Shearon, A Goat
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