Ground Level is the second Hayward Touring Curatorial Open exhibition and has been devised by writer and curator Kit Hammonds. The exhibition explores how mapping relates to contemporary visual art as an experiential process that requires a direct relationship with the landscape, geography and people. It features work by Maria Thereza Alves, The Atlas Group, Ricardo Basbaum, Heath Bunting with Kayle Brandon, Center For Land Use Interpretation, Simon Evans, Yolande Harris, Christian- Philipp Müller, Eyal Weizman and Stephen Willats.

Publication for exhibition

Dear parents

This is a book about alphabets, shapes, colours and patterns. Learning through documenting and creating, it is a way of involving children in actions which are educational. This book doesn’t prescribe. Treat this as a hand book for printing, a stamp collection and your very unique alphabet book. Please enjoy creating with your children using something as simple and natural as fruit and vegetable.

Dear children

Play

Demonstrated here by Lullatone of Japan.

2009 saw a revisit of Autoprogettazione at the AA, which included Mari-inspired furnitures by AA students and designers. The man himself even showed up for a lecture. One thing I particularly likes was this beautiful Lampada a Stelo by Kueng Caputoe, the instruction for it can be found in the AA catalogue.

I really wanted to make it but I knew I would have space for it. So I decided to make myself a inspired desk lamp version instead. This is the prototype of it, I was using some spare wood so the proportion is a bit off. Will fix that when I have time.

And is all contained within this folder…

Back in the days before the internet, people used to learn most of their skills from books and real people. Is interesting how many tutorials there are on the internet and how easy it is to acquire new skills, so what have you learn today? Log books for you to document the skills you have acquired (front cover letterpress printed, inner pages risograph printed), available to buy soon.

Some skills I have acquired…

Changing the tyre on my bike

Making an expresso (and I don’t even drink coffee)

Extracting the chip out of an oyster card

Each person has a unique perspective of the world that we live in. We all register different elements and react to them accordingly. Memories and experiences are specific to the individual. Decisions that we make and impressions that we have are not only the outcome of our personal interpretation, but are also effected by those around us, they are the result of a chain reaction. It is these different perspectives and the journey of transformation with which we are interested in. Through a series of writing and drawing experiments we want to explore this process seeing where and how information is altered, adapted and lost.

Broken pencil at CSM