THE BRIDGE is a diptych of two abstract paintings on paper from which a design for a mural was created for the bridge over St Johns Station in London, SE8. The work combines the current global crisis with a local historical event. On December 4, 1957, at 6:20 p.m., a train crash caused one of Britain's worst rail disasters. In formal terms, the work contrasts a concave, fragmented geometry with positive colors taken from the rainbow. During the COV19 pandemic, the rainbow was adopted as a symbol of love and support for the National Health Service (NHS) doctors and nurses. For obvious reasons The BRIDGE mural had to be postponed. The work should have already started by now during he warm, dry early summer days.  After completion, a colorful exhibition with documentation including video of the entire process was planned in addition to a workshop for the local community in Lewisham Arthouse Project Space, 5 min down the road from Goldsmiths College. Despite media news London is still in firm lockdown -


The Bridge

THE FABLE FILES | EPISODE ONE | A VISUAL CORRESPONDENCE

Do artists have insights to communicate in times of need? Can artists extract from the wealth of "advice" those parts that, when shared, can make tiny human connections over the wires?

The #thefablefiles project was launched in London on Instagram in early April 2020. The idea was to exchange, connect and correspond with artists around the world in these challenging times through their favourite proverbs. 
This correspondence led to images in which word, colour or photography was combined to create a visual collection that can be read as a collective text in the sense of the cut-up technique that was already used by the Dadaists in the 1920s 

THE FABLE FILES | EPISODE TWO | THE AUDIO CORRESPONDENCE 

We're now excited to embark on Episode Two of the project, using audio and collaborating with sound artist Alan Dunn on this project that raises questions around the gaps and asynchronisity between dialogue. Artists will call a UK landline number within very specific time windows, but nobody answers. The artists will leave messages with their proverbs and other sayings to be heard later.  If everyone is at home, is this delayed correspondence possible? Or is it a new period of 'blended' correspondence - a mixture of real time, analogue and digital.

The proposed #fablefiles collaborating artists – Alma Tischlerwood, London and Alan Dun, Liverpool – will then capture these answering machine recordings, layer and juxtapose them into a one-hour radio show, potentially with additional soundbed composition. We have worked regularly with writer and dictaphone experimentalist Rinus Van Alebeek and RADIO ON in Berlin to  broadcast sound art https://www.radio-on-berlin.com/?cat=821 and would suggest them as appropriate partners. 
THEME
In this context, we take the theme of correspondence to think specifically about the human voice, again a prime recorded subject for the Dadaists, and locale. Where are we when we correspondence? What are our accents and inflections? The form of audio gathering we are proposing – the answering machine – come from a time when it was possible to be unavailable: please leave a message. It comes from the assumption that we may have moments of disconnectedness from the grid. We are not at home, we cannot be reached at the moment, PLEASE leave a message …

in close collaboration:  
https://www.artconnect.com/profile/alan-dunn
https://www.artconnect.com/profile/alma-tischlerwood



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