Your Torch is Burning Brightly... (2008)

Your Torch is Burning Brightly... was a project by Emma Leach that I was involved in. It was part of a week of live art at the Chelsea Space called Temporary Agencies, curated by Sonya Dyer.

I played the role of inside informer in the college, recruting others and arranging spaces for meetings. This lead to a live event at which myself and the other students were both the gallery attendants, guarding the work, and the work itself. There was nothing else there. There's more about the project here and Emma's extended statement about it can be found here.

This was an odd and interesting experience. It seemed like it would be a fairly quiet affair until we started receiving abuse from recent Chelsea graduate and perfomance artist Ian Giles. At this point Oscar and I were forced to physically remove him from the space.

Snail Teen Snail High

Unfinished epic snail drama staring Fergus' giant African Land Snails.

Complex group relations are mutated and elevated to new and bizarre extreems when mind controlling parasites get involved....... But will love survive?

Thundercrack!

Poster we made for a screening of Curt McDowell's Thundercrack!

Oct 24th 09

Mulder and Scully Float on Warm Air

Commissioned drawings by Giles Oldershaw float on warm air when the heating comes on.

why are you weird?

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by Zach Shipko and Tucker Bennett

Curtis Jackson is studying performance art at one of the most prestigious art schools in the nation, yet he is still unable to live down the shame of his devastating past as a high school swimmer who was exposed as having webbed feet. In this heart warming, coming of age tale Curtis must overcome his insecurities and finally obtain the girl of his dreams all while still trying to explore his creative path and get a good grade at the end of the semester.
Why Are You Weird was shot in the year of our lord, 2009 utilizing state of the art VHS and 8mm video.

http://www.NextWave4u.info

Oscar, Hollie and i are in this (very briefly).

madness continued

screening 23rd of june

Online invitation

witness the mysterious mystical madness as the fiff converges with time, space and the seasons to bring you an extraordinary evening of increased solar flux.

fiff celebrates midsummer with fire, magic carpets*, and a double feature:

George Kuchar's epic technicolour teen drama
THE SUMMER OF NO RETURN
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We may also premier one or two very short films by joe campbell and oscar oldershaw made in San Francisco


* to be confirmed

Hope to see you there. Don’t forget to bring blankets, drinks and popcorn etc!

“Popcorn. Perfect for the movie”
– George Kuchar

beehive and polly mayday morning

fergus outside heathcote's house

james and michael appear in the directory of lost causes

Kristen Zellmer in Amok Teen

More to come later

performance

"going upstate while my flatmate turns the lights on and off in our apartment"


Dia Beacon, New York

At the time of writing this, I was lodging with Hayden Dunham (from the previous post) in the appartment in which a large part of the film 'Fatal Attraction' (directed by Adrian Lyne, 1987), was shot. The performance was an allusion to events of the film and explored ideas of simultaneity and layered histories / realities. It was also an attempt to explore the contrast between a specific site and one of some inditermancy.

Still from 'Fatal Attraction', 1987


My appartment, NYC, 2009

Fiddler's Island

A small patch of land on Fiddler's Island, Port Meadow, Oxford.