'The power of 8' is being exhibited at the Watermans Gallery from 26th July and the private view of the show will be on the 22nd of September. MzTEK is organising a group visit to the exhibition on the 27th of September. For more details on this visit http://www.mztek.org/http:/www.mztek.org/mztek-and-the-power-of-8/
To go on your own: Watermans 40 High Street Brentford TW8 0DS ABOUT THE PROJECT http://powerof8.org.uk In ‘The Power of 8’, I would like to meet the voices of concern and the faces of gloom head on, and offer counter points by engaging directly with people through a more participative and reflective process. By critically examining and re-examining the normal drifts of the current landscape, this project aims to give some of our personal hopes and optimism, a public voice. I will work directly with 7 participants: a mix of ‘experts’, perhaps a scientist or a policy planner, alongside individuals from the ‘public’, for instance my neighbour two doors down, who may be a businessperson or a charity worker. With the passing of time, emotional attachments to temporal and spatial boundaries become blurry, and pragmatic everyday concerns give way to fantasy. In my conversations with the participants, my emphasis will be to keep these boundaries grounded in realism and imagine scenarios in the near future, which can be understood by a wider audience. Through this project, I am interested in exploring the aspirations of people, and would like to counter current paradigms by thinking of alternative possibilities. Most importantly, I am interested in using this project as a starting point in generating powerful community responses towards the way our collective futures are constructed. To participate, or know more email us: [email protected] The outcomes of our collaborations will be exhibited at the Watermans Gallery from 26th July, and the private view of the show will be 2nd of September. During this period, we will invite experts and members of the public to participate in open debates in the gallery space. After October, the work will discursively enter the public domain, and each collaborator will be able to have equal ownership over the material and disseminate it in a way that suits him/her best. -- Olga P Massanet ·························· www.ungravitational.net virtualfirefly.wordpress.com www.vimeo.com/ungravitational _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
