'My Dads Strip Club'

Last Thursday I went along to a presentation on the performance group, 'My Dads Strip Club'.
The group is based in England and focuses on how we as people move and live within our current society.
'My Dads Strip Club', especially looks at the severeness of capitalism and creates art as a protest towards our consumerist society.
Alot of the performances by 'My Dads Strip Club' are played out as public interventions, which encourage passers by to be a part of the performance as well as bringing awareness to their political message!
Ange Taggart, one of the two who founded 'My Dads Strip Club', is currently in Dundee and looking for people in the community who would like to go and reclaim space and explore our environment in different and new ways!
There is going to be many interventions happening all over Dundee in the next few months, one of them using the amazing 'tag tool', which allows people to make live animations and project them onto buildings!
This whole project is all about using space in ways which we normally don't think or feel we can do and takes away the barriers and expecations of normal and everyday life, allowing us to be more aware and open within our environments!
I am definatly looking forward to the future expiditions and exploring Dundee and it's social spaces through performance & Interventions :)
Look out for the Spacemakers!

SPACEMAKERS@ The Hannah Mclure Centre, Dundee.
http://www.mydadsstripclub.com/

The Human Projector...

Experamenting with 'Box Head' images...The Human projector!

'VISUALYSE'- Doj's 1st Collective Art Night!

'Visualyse', has been an ongoing project since the beginning of December and was formed by both me and Chris , another 2ndyear art student at DOJCAD! We came together after being approached by the Student Union, who were looking for students to create events! We both felt that there was not a night that was aimed for art students, and so came up with the concept and worked togther to create DoJ's first collective art night! This gave the opportunity to all students at DoJ to exhibit their work and to collaborate with other students!
As well as showcasing the talent at the art school, we also felt it was important to bring both elements of musical talent as well as visual! This is where we formed the idea of 'exhibition meets the underground night scene', alllowing both accoustic acts & DJ's to play within an exhibition atmosphere, which would be held in a club environment. It was an exciting idea because it had never been done before and gave us to the chance to try it out!
Other ideas we came up with was to have a film tent at one side of the space, opposite the dance floor and have an area where you could wander into, like a magical world full of comfy seats and a live screening of student films, video works & animations!
Its been an exciting process, from coming up with the concept of the night, to enagaging people with the concept, getting them involved and along the way meeting lots of new friends!
Today we had our final meeting with all the artists :) We all went to look at the space that will be used for the night and began to work out where works will be placed as well as how they will be lit, hung and overall exhibited!
I hope that this turns out to be a succesful night!It has taken alot of time, energy and people to make it happen, but I feel that it is definalty a great opportunity and could be the beggining to a new way of exhibting!

ITS NEXT WEDNESDAY!!! Floor 5, The Union.

My Plant.

Performance workshop with Richard Layzell...

Performance Piece: Planting for new beginnings...
(Tuesday 16th March, 2010)

The Plants journey before it was planted...

The journey of the plant before I planted it...

Kill Your Timid Notion!

This festival was really the most wonderful experience! I got the chance to explore performance not only as part of the audience, but also through investigating the boundaries of performance and public interaction within the investigation week! It was amazing getting to know all the artists, being a part of the performances and becoming part of a community with the most wonderful and inspirational people I've met in a long time!