Small gift actions, Liverpool

As part of the weekly meetings in Liverpool the participating artists have been offered various prompts and exercises to explore ideas of gift. Here are some of the resulting impromptu actions.

Street Sketch Gift, Church Street, central Liverpool:

Overtly recycled presents, Liverpool:



text: hope you like & enjoy these overtly recycled presents & feel free to RETURN them if not.

Street scene, London

POST Artists at Exchange Project Space, Hackney

Here's an image showing a collaborative performance to video, as installed at Exchange Project Space for the exhibition 'Broken Telephone', 1st September 2011.









Performance video by Katie Gilman, Helen Jacobs, Jenny Rolfe-Herbert and Natasha Vicars







Further information on POST Artists and the research visit with OgreAttend in Athens that lead to this work and the exhibition.

#dawnchorus - tweeting the dawn

#dawnchorus - tweeting the dawn - was performed at dawn on Sunday 16th October 2011 (approximately 5:35am to 8am UK time) on Twitter.

See all tweets here on Twitter

Participating writers are: Joanna Brown,Tiffany Charrington, Eddy Dreadnought, Sally Labern, Tamarin Norwood, Mary Paterson and Natasha Vicars.



#dawnchorus is conceived by Natasha Vicars and developed in collaboration with Mary Paterson and the writers, as part of the Live Art Development Agency's DIY8 programme. For more information, email Natasha Vicars or see us on Twitter.

Hackney Dawn Watching

Hackney Dawn Watching took place on 21 May at St Augustine's Tower, Hackney Central, Off Mare Street.

Photographs and research blog here

Longhouse Bursary project

Dawn Pilot

With Scott Farlow and the other bursary artists, David Boultbee, Laurence Payot, Theo Price, Elaine Speight at West Bromwich city centre and on the top floor of the West Bromwich Premier Inn, in December 2010.

I timed the event by the phases of dawn twilight, of which there are three:
Astronomical twilight, Nautical twilight, Civil twilight.

The times for these are shown on timeanddate.com


So we met at at 5:45am towards the beginning of Astronomical twilight and went for a walk around the central area of West Brom! It appeared completely dark, but this period is when it is first possible to measure a lightening of the sky, even it isn't really perceptible. This phase starts with the sun 18 degrees below the horizon.

The aim of the walk was to observe the town outside of our regular waking/working hours.

Longhouse Bursary project

Dawn Pilot

After a frosty walk around West Brom crossing paths with a few early workers, but mostly seeing the streets deserted, we returned to the Premier Inn and repaired to a warm room at the top corner of the building.

The high windows formed an L-shape giving a views over an 180 panorama, and looking down onto a main road into the town centre... and with Birmingham central on the eastern horizon. We tilted open the windows to be able to follow the changes outside better - to hear the outside, and feel the temperature of the air.

But as we settled in to watch from 6:20am through to an 8am sunrise we were glad not to be outside for the next two hours at temperatures not much above 0'C.