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No Fixed Abode is the collaboration of Sheffield based artists Horatio Eastwood and Terry Slater.
This collaboration has arisen from a dual recognition of the importance of the union of their individual disciplines and a profound direction for the future, expanding upon the foundation laid by their individual practice of situating and locating their work within a social, cultural space. The most important aspect of their partnership which forms the basis and foundation of No Fixed Abode is the constant process of evaluation and critique through discourse. All decisions, communications and processes are borne from a dialogue between them which, as a result, puts in place a structure that is never beyond their constant scrutiny and assessment meaning that as a practice and project No Fixed Abode is fluid and open. They openly seek support and discourse from other artists. |
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March 2008: Swing that Art Bat, Access Space, Sheffield, UK. A series of four talks and presentations organised by No Fixed Abode, centred around using the metaphor of an Art Bat to reflect on the vicissitudes of artistic activity. The talkers were Ele Carpenter, Hewitt and Jordan (Freee Art Collective), Black Dogs, Penny Whitehead and Daniel Simpkins.
November 2007: Publication: a collection of writing and reflections on contemporary folk culture. Various sites. Completion and release of a publication compiled, edited, designed and distributed by No Fixed Abode.
April 2007: The Mobile Cinema Comes to Sheffield, Various sites across Sheffield, UK. Curation and screening of seven video works take around Sheffield in a mobile cinema.
January 2007: Buskers Concert, Sheffield City Centre, Sheffield, UK. Site specific public performance in collaboration with Sheffield’s busker community.
Aug 2006: No Fixed Abode presents Folk Film, Green Man Festival, Brecon Beacons, Wales. Curation and screening of short film’s aimed at enabling the term ‘Folk Film’.
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October 2007: PowerPointism, BLOC Space, Sheffield, UK. Participation in an evening of high-impact presentations and bite-sized artworks, using the software package of PowerPoint. The Modern Port of Whitby was created in response to this.
August 2007: Urban Space, FOTOPUB 2007, Slovenia. Exhibition of Buskers Concert photographs as part of FOTOPUB 2007 photographic biennial.
July 2007: Urban Space, Oi Futuro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. New Life Shop, Berlin, Germany. Exhibition of Buskers Concert photographs as part of FotoRio 2007 photographic biennial.
May 2007: Artists Can’t Ride Bikes!, Leeds City Centre and Hyde Park Picture House, Leeds, UK. Video and city-wide live performance for participant-led project for Situation Leeds 07.
April 2007: Modern Times II, BLOC Space, Sheffield, UK. Video work and mobile cinema as part of BLOC Assembly.
Oct 2006: Modern Times as part of Just For Fun, Organised and curated by Robin Close and Webster Gotts. Marble Court Karaoke Chinese Restaurant, Sheffield. Live art event showcasing Sheffield’s emerging and established performance artists.
Images at http://www.wavepeople.com/karaoke/
Oct 2006: Objects in Waiting, The End Gallery, Sheffield, UK. www.objectsinwaiting.co.uk
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art and activism in the public realm - Situation Leeds 07 |
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As part of Situation Leeds 07 No Fixed Abode teamed up with Leeds MAG to develop and execute a project.
Motorcycle Action Group, formed in 1973, is a voluntary organisation focused on defending rider's rights, and improving motorcycle safety and security.
To increase motorcycle awareness, Leeds MAG organised a procession of motorcycles to pass through Leeds city centre on Saturday 19th May. No Fixed Abode joined MAG to film the procession and explore, beyond the boundaries of the organisation itself, the love of, and passion for, motorcycling.
Footage of the procession, interviews and stills combined to create a documentary that looks beyond the biker stereotype, giving an insight into the heart and soul of motorcycling. The documentary was screened to the general public and representatives from local government, motorcycle organistions and art sectors on Saturday 26th May.
The project initially took the form of a series of meetings with Leeds MAG to share ideas on activism, politics and recreation in a collective that operates within multiple and varied networks. In working with a city activist group, No Fixed Abode offered itself as a vehicle for raising awareness of MAG's aims through public performance and, in doing so, disseminate and critique art and activism within the public realm through a process of agreed relational co-operation, between NFA and MAG.
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Cultural Enrichment - Sheffield |
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Sheffield based arts project No Fixed Abode, working in conjunction with Sheffield City Council's mobile library service, toured a mobile cinema around Sheffield for one day only.
The cinema, a converted 1970's Sprite caravan, traveled alongside the usual mobile library service screening a selection of short films at its various stops.
The caravan was on loan from an arts organization based in Newcastle and screened a variety of films from around the UK as well as international films from America, Canada, Belgium and France.
This project was developed in response to the various cultural strategies of Sheffield and the country as a whole. These aim at bringing empowerment for a city's Citizenry through established cultural institutions such as the city's libraries. The Mobile Cinema functions in a very similar way to a mobile library. It has the ability to travel to those areas not serviced by a cinema and bring the cultural enrichment that the contemporary city wishes for all.
The cinema called at:
10.50 - 11.30 - Busk Meadows
11.40 - 12.30 - Firshill Croft, Firshill
1.45 - 2.30 - Manor Park Centre, Manor Park
2.35 - 3.05 - Manor Park Close, Manor Park
3.15 - 4.00 - Benson Road, Wybourn |
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Artist talks and exhibition - Sheffield |
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A series of talks and workshops aimed at discussing cultural practitioners through the representation of the Art Bat metaphor.
What is an "Art Bat"? It is, put very simply, a representation of an artist's practice, allowing the usual language and vocabulary to be circumvented. It need not actually be a bat (nor any other kind of sports equipment for that matter!), it can be any object which represents an artist and their work.
Many factors may decide an artist's weight and impact upon their peers as well as a larger public. Some of these may be their success, ability and reputation, longevity, and renown. It can be argued that the greater the weight of these factors, the greater the sway of the artist. What if the artist could concentrate all these factors into one object, whose weight and size was directly proportional to them. What if you could see an artist's success, ability and reputation in one easy to carry object? What if all artists had art bats?
What if each practitioner wielded an art bat which was the metaphorical carrier of their cultural weight. They might use this to attack, defend, to speculate, induce or intimidate.
This metaphor offers the opportunity to reflect on the vicissitudes of artistic activity in a way that circumscribes the conventional vocabularies and language tools used to these same ends.
The project ran throughout March and included talks by the following speakers:
Saturday 1st March 14:00
Daniel Simpkins and Penny Whitehead present 'Beat Attack Thwack' An exploration of the power structures underpinning contemporary artistic practice. Visitors are invited to bring a bat representing an artist of their choice.
Saturday 8th March 14:00
Black Dogs present 'The Good Life' A presentation on the implications of DIY, punk and self organisation in art.
Saturday 15th March 14:00
Ele Carpenter presents 'The Elephant in the Room' Tensions between object and process in socially engaged new media art.
Saturday 29th March 14:00
Andy Hewitt and Mel Jordan (Freee art collective) present 'How to Bat; How the artists bat enables one to question the popular misconception of art being a universal or disinterested field of practice.'
The exhibition also exists as a BLOG and a collection of bats displayed at Access Space Sheffield.
www.swingthatartbat.org.uk |
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Sheffield Hallam University |
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