PARK[ing] Day Brighton 2009 – coming up Friday 18th September

 

The GRAND SEED BALL – launch of Park[ing] Day 2009 & The Green Felt

Architectural space, movement & installation workshop – part 1: Blank Space

As part of their current research project Creative Transformation of Space, students and teachers from Filsham Valley School attended a day of workshops at Blank Studios & Gallery in Portslade, Brighton.

My workshop session began with an intensive, hands-on introduction to my working process, focussing on the creation of large-scale installations. The students then took on the empty gallery to create instant space compositions and movement improvisations.

The project continues …

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In collaboration with Johanna Berger and Joseph Young, lead artists for this Creative Partnerships project at Filsham Valley School.

BLANK DAYS – click here to download the BLANK DAYS PDF brochure

talk to the watering can

 

Fresh from this year’s Festival of Architecture, the Woman with Watering Can [that's me] continues her playful investigations of the private choreography of public space, urban planning & creative space, and of course, reclining in public …

Coming up: talk to the watering can, a chance to air your views about green space in spontaneous mini-interviews conducted by the Woman with Watering Can, and recorded directly into her – you guessed it – watering can. Is there enough green space in your neighbourhood? Could you adopt a lonely green space to look after? How much green space do you really need? – these are just some of the questions she will be keen to investigate.

 

These field recordings will be collected and fed into my new installation entitled The Green Felt, opening in September, and leading up to PARK[ing] Day Brighton 2009. More details to follow soon …

Makeshift Body & Park[ing] Day Brighton 2009 – “New Townhouses coming here soon”

 

 

 

Funny how things link up over time …

Today I re-visited a derelict space in the centre of Brighton as part of the Festival of Architecture 2009 and my on-going project, Woman with Watering Can - Planning Permission Reclined!.

 

I danced this very same space back in 2001, again as part of another long-term project entitled Makeshift Body, when the site was just a dusty, plant-less rubble field after the demolition of some large buildings. It served as a temporary parking space back then, and a nursery for the occasional juvenile seagull.

 

       

     

 

The now rather substantial site fencing had not been put up at that point, but then as now, a sign on the site reads: “New Townhouses coming here soon”.

 

 

That was over 8 years ago, and since then plants have taken over and transformed the site into a secret garden – inspiration for the up-coming Park[ing] Day here in Brighton in September 2009 …

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

More about my plans for Park[ing] Day Brighton 2009 here, or visit http://my.parkingday.org/group/parkingbrighton .

 

Woman with Watering Can: Planning Permission reclined! – permissions 30 – 33

Woman with Watering Can - planning permission 30. CiCi Blumstein 2009. Photo: CHJ

Woman with Watering Can - planning permission 31. CiCi Blumstein 2009. Photo: CHJ

Woman with Watering Can - planning permission 32. CiCi Blumstein 2009. Photo: CHJ

Woman with Watering Can - planning permission 33. CiCi Blumstein 2009. Photo: CHJ

Woman with Watering Can: Planning Permission reclined! – permissions 30 – 33:

Location: London to Brighton Bike Ride, Brighton, U.K.

Planning permission granted by: CHJ, A.S., 5 unknown passers-by

Passers-by are being asked for planning permission as the Woman with Watering Can attempts to recline in urban & rural spaces. The on-going project explores public space and how we use it, and is currently part of the South East Festival of Architecture.

Woman with Watering Can: Planning Permission reclined! – permission 29

Woman with Watering Can - planning permission 29. CiCi Blumstein 2009. Photo: CHJ

Woman with Watering Can: Planning Permission reclined! – permission 29:

Location: Lewes Road Community Garden, Brighton, U.K.

Planning permission granted by: CHJ, 1 unknown passer-by

Passers-by are being asked for planning permission as the Woman with Watering Can attempts to recline in urban & rural spaces. The on-going project explores public space and how we use it, and is currently part of the South East Festival of Architecture.

Woman with Watering Can: Planning Permission reclined! – permissions 24 – 28

Woman with Watering Can - planning permission 24. CiCi Blumstein 2009. Photo: Johanna Berger

Woman with Watering Can - planning permission 25. CiCi Blumstein 2009. Photo: Rosy Martin

Woman with Watering Can - planning permission 26. CiCi Blumstein 2009. Photo: Rosy Martin

Woman with Watering Can - planning permission 27. CiCi Blumstein 2009. Photo: Rosy Martin

Woman with Watering Can - planning permission 28. CiCi Blumstein 2009. Photo: Rosy Martin

Woman with Watering Can: Planning Permission reclined! – permissions 24 – 28:

Location: Portslade, U.K.

Planning permission granted by: J.B., E.W., M.v.H., R.M., 2 unknown passers-by

Passers-by are being asked for planning permission as the Woman with Watering Can attempts to recline in urban & rural spaces. The on-going project explores public space and how we use it, and is currently part of the South East Festival of Architecture.

Woman with Watering Can caught guerilla gardening in own backyard

Woman with Watering Can - guerilla gardening. CiCi Blumstein 2009. Photo: C.B.

The pots are prepared …

Woman with Watering Can: Planning Permission reclined! – permissions 21 – 23

Woman with Watering Can - planning permission 21. CiCi Blumstein 2009. Photo: E.G.

Woman with Watering Can - planning permission 22. CiCi Blumstein 2009. Photo: A.S.

Woman with Watering Can - planning permission 23. CiCi Blumstein 2009. Photo: A.S.

Woman with Watering Can: Planning Permission reclined! – permissions 21 – 23:

Location: Bad Rothenfelde Saline Spa, Germany

Planning permission granted by: A.S., E.G., R.S., G.S., 5 unknown passers-by

Passers-by are being asked for planning permission as the Woman with Watering Can attempts to recline in urban & rural spaces. The on-going project explores public space and how we use it, and is currently part of the South East Festival of Architecture.