The Newspaper House

Life after the Newspaper House

2009-08-26T14:57:00.004+01:00

The Newspaper House documentary will be shown at
'Les Sommets de la Nuit'
Bormes Les Mimosas
France Provence Cote d'Azur
3 & 4 September 2009.

Three Newspaper House photographs exhibited at
'N'en Jetez Plus'
Cité de l'Architecture et du Patrimoine
Palais de Chaillot
1, Place du Trocadéro et du 11 Novembre
75116 Paris

Exhibition runs until 4 November 2009.

Liverpool Biennial & Independent exhibition

2008-09-17T22:06:00.020+01:00

The Newspaper House
installation by Sumer Erek
produced by Karen Janody

The Blackie Art centre
Great George Street
Liverpool L1 9EW
11am and 6pm daily (except Tues)

Photographs by Mark McNulty
Please, ask permission to use these photographs.
karen[@]creative-city.co.uk

Mark McNulty ©

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The Newspaper House continues its journey to Liverpool, the Cultural Capital of Europe 2008, during the 5th Liverpool Biennial of contemporary arts.

It was first created in London’s Gillett Square in March 2008, transforming over 85,000 used newspapers into a thought provoking artwork, attracting a wide range of people and press coverage internationally. It now counts over 100,000 newspapers.

The nature of the project is participatory. Liverpool artists, residents, visitors, community organisations, and schools have been invited to participate. A new community, whose members become engaged in a process of creation, forms temporarily. In past times, this was not out of the ordinary, today culturally,
it is no longer a shared experience.

The action of rolling the newspaper returns it to an almost natural state, close its natural origin. Newspapers are then placed in a prescriptive order to create the foundation of the “House”.

First Erek builds a shell-like structure. Metin Senerguc writes:
“If we re-read Walter Benjamin's aphorismatic warning: "The work is the mask of its conception", we may believe that Erek is trying to turn this process around in his Newspaper House project. He first builds the mask, then places the ideas within it. He fills it up from inside to make it visible.”

Inside the Newspaper House. Photography by Sumer Erek

To appreciate the complexity of this installation, one needs to understand the notion of 'house', which recurs in Erek's works. Metin Senerguc writes:
“This notion can perhaps be seen as his reaction to having lived more than half of his life away from the land of his birth. But to see the notion of 'house' as a nostalgic longing for the motherland would be misleading. Especially in the "Upside Down House" (2001), the 'house' is used not just as a location but also as an existential niche, home and a metaphor for identity and belonging. In the Newspaper House project, Erek takes 'house' a step further. He turns the 'Newspaper House' into both a shelter and a workshop, where he creates his art. At the same time it becomes a finished artwork and a 'gallery', which spectators walk into to see the artwork.”

Erek places the Newspaper House between the private and the public, the real and the imagined, the work of art and the gallery. It purposely remains in a constant ‘work in progress’ stage, as life is itself. The relationship with real life is the reason he says:
"One of my main aims with this project is to share it with participants who are not artists, and to embrace this process as natural as one lives his daily life."

Suzana Vaz points out in her writing to this particular aspect of Sumer Erek’s work:
“Erek's biography is marked by the early event of expatriation within the territory of Cyprus, divided as a result of the 70's Greek/Turkish dispute. From this founding experience would emanate Erek's main interrogations and deepest insights: ontology and ethics, identity and belonging, the body as an ultimate area of belonging, the creative sensitive vehicle that enacts meaning and through which the latter may be shared. Fulfilling such intuitions, the artwork is envisaged as the syncretic ground that enables the accomplishment of meaningful processes of life and of living experience.”

Sumer Erek unveiling the House.

Coinciding with the opening of the Biennial, Sumer Erek removed the shell to ‘reveal’ the final artwork. A fitting epitaph to Liverpool, Capital of Culture as 2008 draws to a close.

Produced by Karen Janody / Creative City

Karen Janody has a history of curating/ producing art shows, which do not leave their audiences indifferent. Henry Ughetto's striking 'Manequins Imputressibles' made a lasting impression on her, inspiring a life-long commitment to working in the arts and cultural sector. Now in London, working outside of the established gallery environment gives Karen a chance to open the lines of communication between the art or non-art public and between the artwork / the use of space.

Supported by

L1 Partnership,
Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation,
Liverpool City Council City North Neighbourhood,
Liverpool Environmental Department,
Plus Dane Group, LHT, NMS,
Merseytravel

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The Newspaper House was featured on page 3 of Liverpool's Daily Post

Read the whole story on the Liverpool Daily Post website

The Newspaper House was featured on BBC Northwest Tonight Monday 15th.

Sumer Erek and Karen Janody were interviewed by Claire Hamilton for Radio BBC Merseyside broadcasted Tuesday 16th at 6pm.

Sumer Erek was interviewed on Simon O'Brian's show on Radio City on Saturday 13th.

Sumer and Karen spent an evening with Margie Clarke on Saturday 20th for Radio City.

Karen Janody was interviewed by Neil Morrin for ARTINLIVERPOOLFM (Defnet Media).

Ruth Dillon wrote a great review for Nerve

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With very special thanks to Ashley Middleton for managing the Youth Engagement and volunteering programme.

Councillor Stephen Munby (Chair of L1 Partnership), Adrian Devers (City Council City and North Neighboorhood) and Maria Checkland (Merseytravel) for their unquantifiable support and help in getting the Liverpool project off the ground.

The project would have never been made possible without the support from our funders:
L1 Partnership, Liverpool City Council City and North Neighbourhood, Liverpool City Council Environment Department, Merseytravel, Plus Dane Group, LHT, NMS, and the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (Liverpool Biennial sponsor).

Special thanks to Maria Checkland of Merseytravel for inviting Holy Lodge and Maghull schools, who contributed massively.

Thank you Ricky Elliot for assisting Sumer Erek in building the installation, Ruth Dillon, Tammy Siebold for accompanying us along the way and many more, who quietly led us on the right path.

Thank you to Liverpool 08 volunteers, who include:
Joe Kelshaw, Shelagh, Margie, Sue and Margerita. Young people from Liverpool L1 and L8 include Ben Osu , Ellie Tedford, Gracie Coppell, Alice Kelley, Joshua, Robin Weymouth, Lauren, Antonia and Laurie, Sarah Forrest and John Fisher, Leo Chrysokhou, Anthony Cannon, Cesca Middleton, Tessa Bridges, Eilleen Heyes, Collette Rothine and Faze Al.

Photography by Sumer Erek, Karen Janody, Ruth Dillon, Sumer Erek, Tamasine Siebold. Animation by John Fisher.

People ::
Sumer Erek, artist 07957666097
sumererek[at]aol.com
www.sumererek.com

Karen Janody, producer 07989 954 414
karen[at]creative-city.co.uk
www.creative-city.co.uk

Ashley Middleton, Youth Engagement Officer 07 841 707 454
oishiiyo[at]gmail.com

Newspaper House Liverpool News & Video

2008-07-31T09:00:00.009+01:00

The Newspaper House is moving to Liverpool to continue the work in progress started in London Gillett Square this March.

This participatory project by Sumer Erek transforms discarded newspapers into a fascinating art installation.

The Newspaper House builds with the participation from the Liverpool public, inside a shell, installed from September 5th.

Creative City asks Liverpudlians to bring newspapers to the Blackie, Chinatown. Follow the folding instructions below, and bring your newspaper to be included within the design of the House.

The Newspaper House unveiling on September 19th at 2pm will reveal to the public Sumer Erek's thought-provoking artwork and the work of all who participated.

The Newspaper House will be exhibited until October 5th.

Opening hours
11am - 6pm
Closed Tuesdays

WATCH THE VIDEO!

The project is produced by Creative City

Supported & funded by

Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation

L1 Partnership

Liverpool City Council Environmental Department
Liverpool City Council City & North Neighbourhood
Plus Dane Group
MerseyTravel
The Blackie

The Newspaper House
@ The Blackie
Great George Street
Liverpool L1 5EW
tel: 0151 709 5109

Tuesday - Saturday
10am - 6pm
Sunday
10am - 4.30pm

Main contacts::

the artist Sumer Erek
sumererek@aol.com
07 957 666 097

the producer & press info
Karen Janody
karen@creative-city.co.uk
07 989 954 414

the youth engagement officer & public participation
Ashley Middleton
oishiiyo@googlemail.com
07 841 707 454

If you are based in Liverpool and around, start preparing yourself for the newspapers collection days to build the House with.

Help Sumer in his task to inspire the artwork from the Liverpool people and architectural landscape.

Newspaper House press

2008-04-07T12:28:00.017+01:00

Most recent!

Amazing BBC coverage...It was shown on the TV news on Sunday March 9th BBC News

The video podcasts are attached to the Guardian articles Guardian Society on 16 Jan 2008, Guardian Arts Diary of 27 Feb 2008 & Guardian Environment of 10 March 2008;

& on the Building Design article of 29 Feb 2008

Two times in the Metro on 5 March 08 and 10 March 08.

Time Out 'Critics' Choice' on 28 Feb 2008

A-N Magazine

Big Issue on 3 Mar 2008

Evening Standard on 31 Jan 08

The prestigious National Geographic online magazine posted this image with a short review.

The Newspaper House was featured twice in Hackney Today, once on 28 Jan, and 30 March 08

The Reuters article that sent the House on a worldwide tour on 29 Feb 2008

and Europe 1 France's n.1 radio broadcasted the Newspaper House on 3 March 2008

A feature in Planning Resource on 7 March 2008

Channel 4's Big Art Mob

A good article in Icon Eye is accompanied by a podcast of Sumer Erek explaining the artistic concept and reasons behind the Newspaper House.

The Telegraph's the Week in picture Week in Picture

London Lite on 24 Jan 2008

Newspaper House in France, on page 9 of Neo Planet in France

Newspaper House in Brazil, Revista V!

Newspaper House in China

Newspaper House in the USA

Newspaper House on Turkish Daily News 11 Feb 2008

Apparently, an article was published in Greece, so we expect many more worldwide that we cannot chase.

An article is Tree Hugger followed by comments

All in London

A write-up in Hold The Front Page

Photographs on This Is Local London

Art Now Online

& so many blogs, to name but a few, Archinect, Tree-Nation, PSFK, British Blogs, Superuse,Londonalive, Crooked Brains, & London Daily Photo scrawl down and The Paper Planet.

Cate Gillon / Getty Images tooks some photographs on a daily basis on Gillett Square. Here are two of her early ones at St Barnabas Cate Gillon's

Londonalive has quite a lot of shots too, some of which are interesting details of Sumer's work!

As you know, the Newspaper House was closely linked with Metronet Rail, who donated 2 tons of newspapers to the project and Project Freesheet, which donated 10,000 newspapers to the House, collected while demonstrating against the excess waste in London.

First House built, work in progress will continue

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You were over 1,000 to participate in the project over the course of the week!

Members of the public dropped by and ended up rolling sticks with our team in the afternoons, others dropped newspapers for us, youth groups and friends, made during the course of the project, stayed and helped us reach Sumer Erek's target.

The unveiling was very well attended. The House, a work in progress, is 2/3rd completed!

Next? Another location! Another settlement and more opportunities to engage and strengthen ties with people around issues that touch us all.

Congratulations to all for the Newspaper House was a success on all levels, and an amazing piece of work by Sumer Erek, Creative City and a dedicated team.

To find out how to get involved or receive our info / mailing list, send an to email:
Producer Karen Janody karen[@]creative-city.co.uk

Photographs to follow by Ruth Gardiner & George Torode. Do not use without permission.

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THE NEWSPAPER HOUSE VIDEO

2008-03-10T20:54:00.006Z

Click here to watch THE NEWSPAPER HOUSE VIDEO

a Guardian Media podcast.

Directed by Gillian McIver, assisted by Christina Zaris and Rozy Sarkis. Edited by Karen Janody & Gillian McIver. Narration by Aisling Leyne.

and ...

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the paper planet

a contemplation

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photo: Nazir Tanbouli

and it started with this...

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unvalued, unwanted, discarded without thought, not even recycled...

THE MOMENT OF TRUTH

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photo: Nazir Tanbouli

The Newspaper House revealed

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top: SUMER EREK AND THE NEWSPAPER HOUSE
Photos: Nazir Tanbouli

The Newspaper House - First View!

2008-03-08T12:35:00.006Z

photographs by George Torode

paper rolls
above, Jo Beechy, of the Newspaper House team and participatory workshop facilitator

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A work of art ...
made from your waste...
... a transformative process of revaluing

The House open to the public

photos Gillian McIver for Creative City

New Photos

2008-03-07T01:14:00.006Z

Sumer Erek, by George Torode

the shell, in the square. Work going on inside!

Images By photographer George Torode, with permission.
Please do not use these photos without express permission from the photographer or from Creative City

Today on the Square

2008-03-07T01:04:00.004Z

photo: Tuba Altunkaya

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The Newspaper House is being built INSIDE this shell

photos Gillian McIver

On the Square

2008-03-04T21:35:00.003Z

Today on the Square... Sumer receives newspapers from everyone!

And again, it's the teamwork that gets things done....

Metronet Delivers!

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London, 4 March 2008: Metronet Rail, responsible for maintaining and upgrading two-thirds of London’s Underground, today urged Tube passengers to take their newspapers home and recycle them.

Some 6,500 tonnes of litter is cleared by Metronet each year, most of it paper waste. Only half of this can be sent for hand-sorting and recycling although Metronet, under a new initiative, has been able to separate another 21 tonnes a week for recycling with a special clean-up operation at 22 stations around the network.
Now Metronet has delivered two tonnes of the Tube’s rubbish to a public art project that from today builds a house of newspapers in order to highlight the environmental impact of yesterday’s news.

The House has Arrived

2008-03-02T19:43:00.008Z

A beautiful morning [top pic]

Today the shell of Sumer Erek's Newspaper House was put up at Gillett Square.

Our staunch team of volunteers, including building design company Nature2Art were there. While Sumer Erek and his team assembled the structure, the rest continued to make "sticks" to act as bricks for the interior -- which will start tomorrow!

Although we were't technically "open yet, we started to get members of the public joining in the fun already
[bottom pic].

Collecting Newspapers for the Newspaper House

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The Newspaper House sent a collection team to join Project Freesheet's collection around London.

Altogether, Project Freesheet collected a remarkable pile of papers - in less than two hours, right (and that wasn't all of them). Each of these bags contains about 10K of papers.

Here's the team at one of London's best photo-opp spots - Tower Bridge!

Sumer Erek

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Sumer Erek was born in Cyprus and graduated from St. Martins School of Art in 1985 (BA and two years post graduate in Sculpture).

Sumer Erek is a multi-disciplinary artist working in a variety of different fields such as painting, sculpture, photography, installation, video and performance.
He is best known for his large-scale installations and multi-disciplinary participatory projects, notably ‘ Footnotes - 2000’, ‘Upside Down House - 2001’, ‘The Bath - 2002’, ‘Stitch - 2002’, ‘Ash Seeds - 2004’ and ‘The Raw Earth project - 2005-2007’

'The Newspaper House' 2008. Photograph by Gillian McIver

'Newspaper House, which develops at different time scale and space, requires also different structural and conceptual analysis. Such an analysis, in turn, requires understanding the notion of ‘house’ which keeps reappearing in Erek’s works. This notion can perhaps be seen as his reaction to having lived more than half of his life away from the land of his birth. But to see the notion of ‘house’ as a nostalgic longing for the motherland would be misleading. Especially in “Upside Down House” (2001), the ‘house’ is used not just as a location but also as an existential niche, home and a metaphor for identity and belonging.' Metin Senerguc

'Upside Down House', 2001. Photograph Sumer Erek

''Upside Down House' is a completely set, detailed and literally upside down house: as you enter the space a video system captures your image and an upside down TV set on the living room shows you on the space in real time, but upside down.

The perplexity caused by this discontinuity in perception, by the collision of perceptual expectations with the impediment of understanding one's own image shown upside down, conveys in an experimental way the difficulty of building up a coherent self image that matches with the space around.' Suzana Vaz

'Upside Down House', 2001. Photograph Sumer Erek

'Stairs to blue' Raw Earth Project. Sumer Erek

'The 'Raw Earth Project' addresses both in literal and symbolical ways the idea of dwelling, and its main icon is, yet again, a house. In a derelict country house in Cyprus, Erek installed a bathing pool, crossed by a wooden bridge.

The iconographic complexity of the project, still in progress, included a series of museological procedures, such as the labeling and recording of the material that resulted from the participation of the public. Invited to stand at the centre of the house, over the pool, using it as a 'centre of the world', the participant was given a small bag of clay to hold in the hand (a 'proof of the real') while engaged on the experience of being a conductor of telluric energy, available to sense the body/mind/environment continuum.

The ideas of cleansing and rebirth, and of a site conceived for the change of the mode of being, which Erek recurrently try out on previous pieces, gain on the 'Raw Earth Project' their full archaic meaning and potency, while the introduction of museological procedures states the autonomy of a dwelling-like artwork vis-à-vis the art establishment.' Suzana Vaz

'Pool' Raw Earth Project. Sumer Erek

'In the plastic and poetic contents of his work, Erek usually explores paradoxes and oppositions in order to reach an integrative sense for the several layers of meaning. Concerning the three basic topics of the Newspaper House Project - news, paper and house - Erek explains the intent of creatively confronting the private and the public, addressing an ethics that is experimentally tried out on an exchange between the immaterial non physicality and the material physical concreteness of both information and space.' Suzana Vaz

The Newspaper House', 2008. Photograph by Tuba Altunkaya

'In the Newspaper House project, Erek takes ‘house’ a step further. He turns the ‘Newspaper House’ into both a shelter and a workshop, where he creates his art. At the same time it becomes a finished artwork and a ‘gallery’, in which spectators see the artwork. Perhaps this is why, when he speaks about this project, Erek says: “One of my main aims with this project is to share it with participants who are not artists and to embrace this process as natural as one lives his daily life.” In this context, Newspaper House is conceptually positioned somewhere between the private and the public and the real and the fictitious.' Metin Senerguc

'The Newspaper House', 2008. Photograph by Tuba Altunkaya

'While we expect a treasure to come out of the shell, we are met by a world woven by newspapers. Does he want to show us a ‘treasure of knowledge’? In archaeological excavations, we get more information from the daily, mundane objects rather than those covered with precious jewels. It may be true that the news and pictures inside those tonnes of newspapers show us all we want to know about this society. But since we cannot read them all one by one, it is not easy to understand their meaning. Can the meaning that hides between the form and the content be found in the Newspaper House?'

In this age of information, newspapers inform as much as create disinformation. As such, the newspaper is amongst the most important tools of those in power. Erek’s rolled up newspapers, in a way, point to their paradoxical character. The information that newspapers contain is still there, but impossible to read anymore as they’ve transformed into building ‘bricks’.' Metin Senerguc

'The Newspaper House', 2008. Photograph by Emra Islek

Invitation to Gillett Square!

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Creative City invites you to the Newspaper House!

March 3rd - 9th on Gillett Square
Dalston (Hackney N16)
[Unveiling March 8th from 2pm]

The Newspaper House is a public art installation making use of YOUR (the public's) newspapers and erected in Dalston's Gillett Square (Hackney) from March 3 to 9th, 2008.

Sumer Erek, installation artist, will be building an art-house in just one week. Members of the public are invited to bring newspapers to the Square to add to grow the installation. Visitors will also be invited to insert their own news into the newspaper, before rolling it.

This is the first art in the public realm proposal to be introduced to Gillett Square and an ambitious public art piece by Creative City. www.creative-city.co.uk www.sumererek.com

Creative City would like to see more collaborations and inspire high quality art work of a collaborative and participatory nature. As the Newspaper House gains momentum, we are hoping to continue growing it and take it to new locations!

This exciting project was funded by Hackney Council's Cultural Team and Partnership Development Officer Sandra Collins has pushed for the Newspaper House to happen in Gillett Square. It includes partnership development with Hackney Council's Cultural team, Environment and Recycling Team, The Learning Trust and Hackney Cooperative Development's Gillett Squared project. Its R&D was funded by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Arts Council England and UnLt.

The success of this work would not have been possible without the considerable and amazing support from the local community and a dedicated team of volunteers and visionary people.

The Newspaper House hopes to see you, with your newspapers during the making, and at the unveiling. It will not be the same without your contribution.

Don't forget to come collecting newspapers on Wed 27th as part of Project Freesheet's Walk About! www.projectfreesheet.org

www.myspace.com/newspaperhouse
www.creative-city.co.uk
Newspaperhouse on Facebook

press[@]creative-city.co.uk for press
karen[@]creative-city.co.uk for info

Visits

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The Newspaper House is a piece of public art making use of YOUR newspapers in Gillett Square from March 3rd till March 9th.

Come once to bring newspapers that week, come again to see the finished piece on March 8th @ 2pm! Sumer Erek, the artist will unveil.

The project is produced by Creative City. It is a partnership with Hackney Council, Gillett Squared, and supported by UnLtd, Arts Council England, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation.

www.myspace.com/newspaperhouse
www.creative-city.co.uk
karen[@]creative-city.co.uk for info
press[@]creative-city.co.uk for press

Writing by Suzana Vaz, photo montage by Luiz Antonio Rocfta, for Creative City

All texts and images are copyright of the authors. Please do not use any of the images on this site without express permission. Please contact gillian[@]creative-city.co.uk if you would like to use any of the images.

"'Groovin' on a Sunday afternoon' was one of several appropriate and engaging songs that the radio played during our visit to the Newspaper House, to Sumer Erek and the team of volunteers working at Shacklewell Row. Nico came along, shot carefully around the space with his photo camera and made some fine composite images.

The wooden cast of the house was now painted white, ready to receive the subsequent coloured layers of paint. Inside the house a sector of structural parts and respective filling showed the adopted technological solution, and anticipated the rhythms and texture of the house's flesh. Sumer Erek was working on the windows, exploring different weavings to bring light and air inside.

The several tasks concerning the newspaper sticks occupy different teams of people. Taking the staples out and piling the opened newspapers; rolling different amounts of pages to produce sticks of different thickness; gluing and compressing the paper rolls into sticks in the Stixx's machines; covering coherently the structural wooden parts with sticks of different thickness... The tables with the Stixx's machines were now lined up on a narrow aisle of the Hall, while piles of sticks lay on the available space, side by side with the tall structural parts.

Dealing with the newspapers to prepare them to become sticks is the less specialised task for the volunteer, so I dived on the pile of different free newspapers from Feb 6, Amy Winehouse on the front page of each of them, the majority of the used newspapers opened and folded on the page with the news about her. Loose thoughts about mass media and ethics, drug addiction and creative gifts hovered my mind, and soon enough Jo, Paula, Andrew and I were exchanging points of view on the subject..."

Suzana Vaz, 10 February 2008

Launch photographs!

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Launched!

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The Newspaper House is a piece of public art making use of YOUR newspapers in Gillett Square from March 3rd till March 10th.

Come once to bring newspapers that week, come again to see the finished piece on March 8th @ 2pm! Sumer Erek, the artist will unveil.

The project is produced by Creative City. It is a partnership with Hackney Council, Gillett Squared, and supported by UnLtd, Arts Council England, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation.

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The Newspaper House launched!

So fantastic to see an idea taking shape. Amazing to see all the hard work being appreciated.

It was the opportunity to see an unfinished piece and understand how it will work on Gillett Square, and for us to gauge feedback.

Tez, a visitor, surprised us by calculating that if we aimed to use the 120,000 newspapers that we had originally calculated to make the house, we would need to work 47 hours a day to achieve it!! ...Is that all?...

The whole point of R&D and moving into production early was to assess and test the scale. Sumer concluded early enough that this was not realistic, and changed the method of construction.. slightly.. so not to be so under pressure.

Tez went back into the House to re-calculated on the new method basis, sat down pen and paper in hand and crafter away for a while before announcing that we now needed 30,000 newspapers rolled + 5,000 sticks. Thanks Tez, you made the night.

Joanne, Paola, Hannah and Pippa had the production line ready for visitors and had everyone rolling sticks, it was fun.

Creative City's Newspaper House documentary was playing in the background. Ramon took photographs. Rosie and Chris interviewed and filmed everyone as well as capturing the visitors rolling sticks. Photographs will be up soon.

If you too want to roll some sticks before March 3rd, call Karen 07 989 954 414 to come to St Barnabas Hall, E2 8EA. There is something very therapeutic about it and a lovely atmosphere in the Hall, thanks to our team.

Last night thanks:
Emma Jones (Gillett Squared), Jojo Beechey, Paola, Hannah, Pippa, Mehmet, Gillian Burton, Ramon, Chris, Rosie, Schu Khan, Gwen and Imogen Welch (The Paper Trail).

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Walk About with Project Freesheet

On Wed Feb 27th. Project Freesheet is looking to collect 10,000 newspapers.

The Newspaper House will gather a team of individuals to collect newspapers from 6.30 to 8pm. 100 newspapers each. You know as well as I do that it will not take long at all. We can then take them to City Hall and pile it all up! with photo.

These newspapers are coming to the Newspaper House afterwards, being counted, and added to the House of course to make it grow.

Register your interest at
karen[@]projectfreesheet.com

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The Newspaper House was featured in three Turkish newspapers! One of which in Cyprus, where Sumer Erek is from.

Londra Gazete - 7 Feb

Pages 4 & 18: Sűmer Erek’ten kamu sanatı projesi – a Turkish-Cypriot artist launches the Newspaper House, constructed out of used free newspapers, is to be displayed in March in Gillett Square, a joint project between Creative City, Hackney Council, The Learning Trust, the Arts Council, and Gulbenkian Foundation.

Toplum Postası - 7 Feb

Page 1: Sűmer Erek başaşağı evden sonra şimdi gazeteden ev yapacak! - a Turkish-Cypriot artist launches the Newspaper House, constructed out of used free newspapers, is to be displayed in March in Gillett Square, a joint project between Creative City, Hackney Council, The Learning Trust, the Arts Council, and Gulbenkian Foundation.

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Press info Gillian :: press[@]creative-city.co.uk 07 921 956 164
Project info Karen :: karen[@]creative-city.co.uk 07 989 954 414

Preview invitation Thursday 7 Feb // 4 - 9pm Meet Sumer Erek, understand his challenge

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The Newspaper House is a piece of public art making use of YOUR discarded newspapers! It will grow on Gillett Square from March 3 to 9th, 2008. 10am to 10pm

In the week, passers-by and visitors can bring their newspapers to the Square, where installation artist Sumer Erek, who created the piece, will build a house (with them).

The Newspaper House
March 3 - 9 2008
Gillett Square
Dalston N16

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It is not easy planning and delivery a piece of public art that will grow on a public square! Er... Who said it was? Well, definitely not us because the challenge is what motivates us!

¬ First, we have to make sure we understand the technical hurdles and evaluate the time it takes to get round them

¬ Second it is a case of finding a team that can deliver

¬ Third, it has to work to plan

¬ Fourth, we have to make enough noise to make sure YOU know about it and bring your newspapers to Gillett Square so that the piece achieves its aims!

Part of this process we are showing on Thursday 7 Feb 4 - 9pm
@ St Barnasbas Hall
Shacklewell Row
London E8 2EA

If you read this, then please come along.

Sumer will be there explaining the highs and lows, the techniques, the findings, the intricacies of his masterpiece.

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Interest on the project is growing! and we have had 2 more very valuable articles this week!

Hackney Today Jan 28th

Evening Standard Jan 31st

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We would also like to thank Paola, Emily Gray, Jo Beechey, Hannah for helping us through all this!

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Sunday just gone, Sumer had a visit from Suzana Vaz, who has been writing about the development and his work within the Newspaper House. Her text will be published in the next post on Thursday. For now, here are her comments on her first visit to Barnabas Hall::

" At Shackelwell Row, easy access alighting from Dalston Kingsland Station or Dalston Junction by bus.

I had my first viewing of the Newspaper House at St Barnabas Hall. Ariane Feijó came along and, as we arrived, Nicola had just finished interviewing Sumer Erek.

At the entrance of the Hall the scent of wood anticipated the vision of the cast of the newspaper house, an imposing structure made of wood and plywood, which took almost completely the central space of the Hall. A playful reminiscence of childhood, when we made barracks out of big size cardboard boxes, enacted the rooted image: a house inside the house.

There were several collaborators working with the newspapers, folding and rolling them on the Stix's machines, producing sticks at a regular pace, for the aim of the day was to estimate a rate of daily production.

Sumer Erek got us into the wooden cast through one of the two opposing central entrances and guided us to one corner where the filling of the cast was being tried out. He showed us the several technical solutions to bundle different sizes, lengths, and different amounts of newspaper sticks, which will serve as structural components and as filling material. Once the actual technological solutions are established the volunteers can be trained to work. This should be decided until the 7th Feb, so that the main filling of the cast is completed for the outside event on the very beginning of March.

We were then trained to process the newspaper into sticks. Sumer, Karen and Hanna showed us how to fold the newspaper sheets, roll them, and afterwards glue them and roll them on the hand moved Stix machine (an invention of Darcy Turner). Ari, Nicola and I naturally got into a focused working pace, to understand the engaging, therapeutic power of manual work and to enjoy the feeling of transforming, compressing, a numbly soft flat raw material into a thick fine generic reed-like shape. Lightness."

We're IN

2008-01-25T18:57:00.000Z

This is it. The shell that will move to Gillett Square on March 3rd is being built by our fantastic team, under the tight supervision of Sumer Erek. Calculations, drawing, wood cuttings. The coming week is going to very intense!

The wood supply was provided by Castle Timber, part of the St.Gobain group of companies, which is a supporter of schemes that ensure all its timber products are sourced from recognised sustainable sources. Castle Timber is proud to support the Newspaper House initiative as it is aware of the impact building materials have on the environment. The Newspaper House supply is Chain of Custody. It is possible to trace back each piece of timber to the forest it originally came from, and ensure that forest is re-planted, so it can be used and enjoyed by not only this generation, but many generations to come.

We are calling on volunteers to help priming and painting. Your presence will make the space a livable, welcoming and cosy hub for all taking part.

The 27th Feb, WALK ABOUT newspaper collection day by Project Freesheet is confirmed!

Register your interest in participating in the collection by emailing karen@projectfreesheet.org

We will meet at 3pm and collect newspapers till 8pm, where will we meet for a photo at Ken's Town Hall!

Over and out. More news next week!

Production phase, starting now!

2008-01-11T11:54:00.000Z

The Newspaper House is a multi-layered project, imagined by Creative City ltd, created by Sumer Erek (UpsideDown House, 2001).

It has received unbelievable support all around. UNltd, Arts Council England, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation funded the R&D. Hackney Council Cultural Team have funded and Sandra Collins been extremely pro-active in getting it off the ground raising the profile amazingly and making the project a reality for all of us.

The Hackney installation will be erected in Gillett Square, hosted by Gillett Squared Partnership.

March 3rd - 9th
Gillett Square
Dalston
London N16 8JH

So far so good, information about the project is starting to show:
Wednesday Jan 16th in the Guardian Society supplement
Wednesday Feb 29th in Building Design Solutions section
+ Newsletters

& look out for more!

Detailed information about the Newspaper House surrounding activities can be found at the bottom of this post.

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Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation have just announced their support to research moving the Newspaper House to 3 other locations after Hackney! giving a real boost to the long-term value of our work.

Locations, cities, suggestions welcome!

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Right now, Sumer Erek is primarily focusing on making the best possible public art piece in Dalston. Sumer is working very hard and long hours with the material, techniques.

From Jan 21st, we are moving into our production location.
St Barnabas Hall, Shackelwell Row, E8 2EA (courtesy of the West Hackney Parish) There, we will assemble the structure, test the construction method, present the outer shell that will be moved to Gillett Square on March 3.
We will shortly publicise an Open-House day and evening on Feb 7th in st Barnabas Hall. More soon.

In the mean time, we looking for committed individuals to give support on

¬ Production (Painting the panels of the house, preparing materials for the House (Stixx machine)) + Carpentry (skilled)
¬ Skilled people to move & build the structure Jan 21st - Feb 5th + Sun March 2nd and dismantle March 9th (eve)
¬ Participation & helping on the Open House Thursday 7th Feb
¬ Newspapers collection days (date March 27th TBC)
¬ 1 committed head volunteer to organise the rotas

Production space: St Barnabas Hall, Shackelwell Row, London E8 2EA
Thurs to Mondays from Thurs Jan 31st to Thurs Feb 28th.

It will be a fantastic opportunity to participate to one of the largest project of the year in Dalston and the first Public Art piece in Gillett Square.

From next week, it's all GO! It will be busy and it will be fun!

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¬ Open House Thurs Feb 7th 6 - 9pm ¬ to present the project and make the platform visible to the public.

We would like to see members of the public, artists, educators, critics, architects, engineers, environmentalists, thinkers to come and join and contribute their thoughts

Come and make St Barnabas a hive of activities, with happenings and events every weekends. Be in touch

¬ Drop-in sessions for young people at the Geffrye Museum, Kingsland Road, E2 Wed 20th. Thurs 21st and Friday 22nd of Feb - 2 - 4pm. Roll sticks with the Stixx machine. www.geffrye-museum.org.uk

More workshops will be advertised soon as the Newspaper House will develop a school programme with ASpace and EcoActive, in coolaboration with the Learning Trust.

¬ Walk About Wed Feb 27th in collaboration with Project Freesheet ¬ to collect newspapers across London. www.projectfreesheet.org

The Newspaper House is YOUR project, make it happen

www.myspace.com/newspaperhouse
www.creative-city.co.uk

Creative City ltd is a new organisation that creates projects that engage artists with audiences, and take the arts into different territories. “We believe that Art can be utilised as a tool to raise awareness and to engage people on issues. The emphasis of our work is on creating high quality public art projects that are both participatory and viable as a work of art in themselves".

Creative City ltd
Karen Janody
Karen[@]creative-city.co.uk
07 989 954 414

Press info Gillian Burton
press[@]creative-city.co.uk

Gillian McIver
gillian[@]creative-city.co.uk

/// PRESS RELEASE ///

London has a growing problem with the large quantities of free newspapers that clutter our streets and public transport. Tube passengers alone discard approximately nine-and-a-half tonnes of freesheet newspapers a day.

Sculptor and installation artist Sumer Erek will construct a (5 m3) ‘House’ in Gillett Square, out of newspapers brought by the members of the public over the course of 1 week. Erek will ask visitors will insert their own observations, secrets, etc into the newspapers and add them to the structure. In this way, the public will connect with the Newspaper House; their action becomes a contribution to the building of a public project.

The notion of ‘House’ is recurring throughout Erek’s work. It is a repository for memory and imagination, carrying a metaphor for identity and belonging. Erek questions the boundaries between local and global, nationhood and universality, private and public. “My ‘houses’ are temporary shelters, that suits my nomadic existence.” By creating a house, Erek does not only dwell upon his existence in it, he also builds a ‘home’ for art.

UNltd described The Newspaper House as an ‘innovative and imaginative response to a local environmental issue’. Newspaper House artists-led workshops for young people will take place at the Geffrye Museum and in schools with the Learning Trust, ASpace and EcoActive to reach out to the wide audience and make this a truly inclusive project.

Gillett Squared Partnership, the creative management team producing arts and enterprise events for Dalston’s new public space, is hosting the installation.

Hackney Council Cultural Team has played a key role in getting it off the ground. Its involvement demonstrates Hackney's aspirations to increase access to, and participation in the arts for all its communities. Kim Wright, Council Corporate Director, Community Services says: "Hackney is the home of a dynamic and prolific visual arts sector and we are proud to support its continued development. Hackney's Culture Team is delighted to be a partner in the Newspaper House. This innovative project will be the first temporary art installation in the public realm in Gillett Square. Its strong environmental message will engage Hackney's communities in the 'reduce-reuse-recycle' debate”.

Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation is funding the current R&D phase of the project. Andrew Barnett, Director of the Gulbenkian Foundation says: "The Newspaper House presents an innovative, and involving, way of meeting not one but two of Gulbenkian's current funding priorities - raising environmental awareness and art in public spaces. I am confident the project will be a big hit with the public and hope it will be then able to tour the UK, involving the public and making a contribution to environmental awareness in a truly adventurous way. We all need to do our bit for the environment and this gives us an opportunity to do so in a way that's close to home."

Additional information, please contact Gillian Burton
press[@]creative-city.co.uk

Collecting growing exciting

2007-12-13T15:10:00.000Z

The Newspaper House is an interactive public installation making use of the free discarded newspapers found scattered in and around London.

Artist Sumer Erek will build a “house” of newspapers. The public will be encouraged to collect newspapers they find lying around on the tube, bus, streets, public spaces, in their homes and bring them on location. Sumer Erek will lead the public to follow his instructions: including their personal news within the newspaper, rolling and adding it to the structure, hence contributing to building the house.

/// Newspaper House, Gillett Square, London Dalston
March 3 – 10, 2008

The Newspaper House will move into St Barnabas Hall on Jan 20th to start storing and compiling materials to build the installation on Gillett Square.

On March 3, 2008, the Newspaper House will move to Gillett Square, where everyday added newspapers will grow the installation.

The final piece will be unveiled on 8 March 2008 and will remain untouched till 9 March 2008. What will happen to the House will depend on how many people, members of the public, travelers, companies came to Gillett Square with newspapers.

We need 120,000 newspapers !!!

Thus far, the Newspaper House has received tremendous positive feedback, being described as an ‘innovative and imaginative response to a local environmental issue’. The Newspaper House is a project developed by Creative City in collaboration with Hackney Council and Gillett Squared. Hackney Council's Culture Team has played a key role in getting the project off the ground. Its involvement demonstrates Hackney's aspirations to increase access to, and participation of the arts for all its communities. The project has received funding from Hackney Council,Arts Council England & UNltd.

"Hackney is the home of a dynamic and prolific visual arts sector and we are proud to support its continued development. Hackney's Culture Team is delighted to be a partner in the Newspaper House. This innovative project will be the first temporary art installation in the public realm in Gillett Square. It's strong environmental message will engage Hackney's communities in the 'reduce-reuse-recycle' debate."
Kim Wright, Council Corporate Director, Community Services.

The partnerships developed by and around the project make the art, public art, education and the community culminate into what aims to be a reference first class collaborative installation. A combination of the public and the private, environmentally lead Art and public art with a social conscience, implementing change in resources and habits.

/// The concept

NewsPaperHouse concept breaks down into:: News / Paper / House.

News ::
In entering the 21st century, we have moved further away from the “paper” era and further into a pan-global digital age, where news is not local any longer but available within seconds across the world. This results in an apocalyptic urgency that readers feel alarmed by, but totally disconnected from.
± Members of the public who attend will subvert “the news” by inserting their own personal, private news (observations, secrets, questions, thoughts and so on) into the newspaper before adding it to the structure. The public symbolically regains some connection with the newspaper. The action becomes theirs, the installation contains their contribution, the message acts as a carrier for the added sense of citizenship.

Paper ::
We all believed that moving into the digital era would diminish the use of paper. On the contrary, there seems to be a resurgence of printed material and newspapers, much of it free and everywhere - yet we don't think much about where paper comes from and where it goes after we've used it..
± Paper is a typically domestic and commercial waste material. The piece returns paper to its origin: wood. The newspaper rolls into a lock, which takes the shape of a branch and trunk. News items become the thread of life and grains of the wood.

House ::
Newspapers pile up in our houses, lie on the streets and on public transport. The issue is not likely to disappear ; we must find creative ways to deal with it. We are urged to consume without thinking about how to discard. The first step is inviting people to think about and value the material itself, and to consider the issue of “waste”. Too much discussion of waste and environment is delivered in apocalyptic terms, which alienates people and does not engage them creatively. Bringing it back “home” to the familiarity of “the house” and the idea that “the city is your home” should inject some fun into the issue and at the same time unleash public creativity.
± the house will fill from within, filling up with newspapers (rolled-up) to create an installation. The more newspapers the public brings, the more it fills and shapes the house, the less personal space is available inside.

/// The future is bright!

The Newspaper House aims to travel across London, the UK and internationally.... tbcontinued

/// Contacts

Info, partnerships & booking, contact ::

Karen Janody karen[at]creative-city.co.uk

Press & PR, contact::

Gillian Burton press[at]creative-city.co.uk

Corporate & creative opportunities, contact ::

Sarah Allen sarah[at]commissioner.org.uk

Documentary, contact ::

Gillian McIver gillian[at]creative-city.co.uk

The Newspaper House is building ahead

2007-08-07T15:53:00.001+01:00

Project details ::

The Newspaper House is an interactive public installation making use of the free newspapers found scattered in and around London. The house will be sited and erected in Gillett Square, Hackney’s new, urban public space, to provide wide access to the public in an area which does not have significant visual art provision.

Concept ::

The theme of the project is “the city is our home” and the project encourages people to think about how to keep our “house” clean, attractive and liveable. The topic is a current news item as London has problems with the large quantities of free newspapers that clutter and dirty our streets and public transport. Thinking about the way we live is not a trend for the privileged, it is essential that every member of the public starts looking after their own house, their environment, the world they are creating for their children.

This will open the “reduce-reuse-recycle” debate as well as make our voices heard about making the city – our city - clean and liveable.

Artistic Team ::

Sumer Erek is the lead artist and has extensive experience of producing large-scale public art works. Karen Janody will be leading on the artistic project management and has produced visual arts projects extensively in Liverpool and London. Curator Gillian McIver, who is the founder of international art collective Luna-Nera, has been critical to the concept development.

Gillett Square ::

The artists will be collaborating with the Gillett Squared team who hold the public entertainment license for the square. The director of Hackney Co-operative Developments Adam Hart will direct this activity as the named license holder. The production management will be led by Emma Jones, who specialises in delivering large-scale outdoor art installations and participatory projects. Hackney Cultural Partnerships Officer Sandra Collins is strongly backing the project now adding to the determination of making this happen in March 2008.

Participation ::

The house can’t be built without local people gathering newspaper and white paper waste to make the blocks of the building, furniture and decorations. Sumer and the team in collaboration with paper manufacturing experts The Paper Trail will facilitate a series of workshops in primary and secondary schools as well as in key cultural venues such as the Geoffrye and Hackney Museums.

Further outreach will also be conducted with organisations such as Age Concern who Gillett Squared have involved previously in projects on the square, and via the extensive network of local organisations who are all regularly consulted about the use of the square for the benefit of local people and businesses. During the week of the installation there will also be further opportunities for people to make objects on site.

Demographic breakdown ::

We expect our predicted audience to attend for two hours on average:
. 60% local inhabitants 40% visitors
. A mixed audience, 2,000 individuals, giving the whole experience a community feel
. Across socio-cultural backgrounds and ethnicities
. Across generations
. Culturally active and inactive
. Museum goers, travelers, young people, families
. Recycling conscious groups and individuals
. Living and visiting London and highly likely to be shopping in Dalston, Hackney and East London.

Partners ::

· Gillett Squared Partnership = Hackney Co-operative Developments, Vortex Jazz Club, East London Design Show (GSP)http://www.hced.co.uk/
· UNltd http://www.unltd.org.uk/
· The Paper Trail http://www.thepapertrail.org.uk/
· Hackney Cultural Team
· Learning Trust (Hackney)

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Media Plan ::

· Press pack to local, regional, national, general & specialised press
· Communication of the project via partner organisations’ newsletters
· Website and presence on all important online social networks
· A 4 page full colour A5 brochure distributed at the house, containing information on the events programme, raise awareness of partners & the environmental cause (no street distribution, to avoid un-necessary litter!)
· Word of mouth with the help of communication partners
· A Viral email campaign & competition of photographic or video evidence of the best recycling efforts. The best evidence will be shown on a screen in the house.
· A competition to win a trip to The Paper Trail to the school and business that brought the most recyclable paper
· Hackney Recycling, North London Recycling and Tower Hamlet Recycling to publicise to London schools and youth groups.
· Local schools to include the Newspaper House in their curriculum
· Amanda Birch of Building Design has committed to a feature in the February or March edition.

Action Plan::

· Stage 1: Planning the house
· Stage 2: Planning the participation
· Stage 3: Making the world aware
· Stage 4: Building the house // full video & photography documentation
· Stage 5: Evaluation & planning further

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The London Environment ::

London only recycles 20% of its waste in comparison with the rest of the UK, which averages at 25%. Recycling has improved 50% since 2003, and 145% since 2000, which shows a real sense of awareness of the need to deal with waste and litter.

In 2005-06, paper made 25% of all household and commercial waste!

We expect this figure to have dramatically changed with the recent arrival of London’s free newspapers [London Paper & the Lite]. In the couple months, Westminster Council has made several attempts to tackle the waste chaos caused by these publications. To avoid a total ban, the newspapers were imposed to collect their prints within 100m of their distribution. Yet, the streets are still covered with newspapers. Travelers find themselves walking on newspaper on the bus, tube and on the trains. Newspapers fly in the wind, out of bins, and clutter the streets.

The Newspaper House proposes to tackle the extra waste with a fun, witty non-moralistic alternative to a growingly serious social issue.

We aim to tackle the extra waste via newspapers in an imaginative way while setting up the essential procedure to recycling this extra waste = turn it into a by-product.
As this is a subject so close to people, TFL and councils alike, we are expecting it to be a press magnet in the art, architecture and construction press and packed!

Dates ::

March 3rd – 10th Gillett Square, Hackney
April - May 2008 Trafalgar Square, Westminster (TBC)

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Your support would ::

· Help grow to a stylish, topical, fun and ethically good project
. Contribute to developing the cultural fabric of Dalston, East London & London,
. Help suggest ways to make quick and significant impacts on social behaviours as regards to waste & litter management and a more conscious of their living environment.

Company Endorsements ::

· Highly visible brand name or logo stylistically incorporated within the design of the external and internal walls of the installation (main cash sponsor)
· Name mention at the Newspaper House speech
· Name mention in the press & related articles
We expect the project to be a press magnet, and trackable in the local, regional, national specialist and general media
· Logo on promotional material (brochure, website, press releases, marketing pack)
· Name and logo on newsletters sent via all partner organisations
· Name and logo on the personal invitation send to all the movers and shakers of the public arts, participation and environment worlds.
A brochure will contain information of events in & around the House, future plans, information on sponsors and partners, basic facts and easy ways to make a difference.

It is a huge challenge building a house and inviting the public to participate, however, it is exactly this type of work which makes London the very special place it is, rich in diverse cultures and ideas.

Newspaper House, outline

2007-05-22T21:04:00.000+01:00

The Newspaper House is an interactive public installation making use of the free newspapers found scattered in and around London. The house will be erected in a public square of London to provide wide access to the public.

Members of the public will bring the newspapers they find lying around on the tube, bus, streets, public spaces, and in their homes to add to the structure, building the house.

The more newspapers the public bring, the higher, the bigger the “house”, and the more features it could have.

The house i s scheduled to be built in Hackney's Gillett Square from October 8th to 14th, and is currently looking for partners and supporters.

The house could (to be negotiated) include other recyclable collectables: i.e. plastic bottles that are used in housing material. We will also use the project to introduce discussion of the uses of this discarded material, e.g. noting that paper and newspaper is an excellent insulation materials for walls.

The House will be a centre of activity, from public interaction to live performances by different artists who would perform in the house.

The topic is a current news item as Westminster Council is looking for ways to deal with the large quantities of free newspapers that clutter and dirty our streets and public transport. The large amount at the end of each day raises the issue of recycling as well as littering, and our project aims to bring the public to realise the simplicity of turning a thought into action.

Thinking about the way we live is not a trend for the privileged, it is essential that every member of the public starts looking after their own house, environment, the world they are creating for their children. Good habits are a learned behaviour.

The theme of the project is “the city is our home” and we will “clean” the city and organise our “house” into something attractive and livable.

The project is interactive, large scale, playful, informative, educational, conceptual, exciting, and receiving interest every time it is mentioned.

Seeing the large crowds that manifested themselves around the coming of the Sultan's Elephant to Westminster in May 2006, or Olafur Eliasson's Sun in the Tate Modern in 2004, we expect that a public-art project that combines art with social interaction and social community, backed by a strong concept, a tight press campaign and the support of selected partners, will spark instant positive response.

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The Newspaper House will reach out to

• Travellers on London public transport
• Families
• School children
• People of all ages and backgrounds
• Professionals at all levels
• London inhabitants
• Passers-by and tourists
• Artists, art students, students

The project aims to last a few days and grow daily, bringing more and more people as the word passes. We would welcome any number from 1,000 people to 100,000 to come and take photographs, and/or participate, and benefit from the project itself.

Depending on the project location, the amount of guaranteed audience will vary.

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News paper house concept, creation & realisation: Sumer Erek, artist

Sumer Erek is a conceptual creator of high artistic integrity. He has extensive experience in interactive public art installation from previous projects, the likes of 'UpSide Down House' that was exhibited in London, Liverpool and Glasgow. The 'UpSide Down' House is an ongoing project, which aims to travel to the Republic of Cyprus, with a view to take it to destinations worldwide including the Istanbul Biennial.

Sumer Erek both is simultaneously developing the ‘Raw Earth Project’. Information can be found on
www.rawearthproject.com
www.sumererek.com

Conceptual realisation & documentation: Gillian McIver

Gillian McIver is a curator, writer and documenter of site specific art. She is frequently invited to talk at events and conferences on site specific art, from Oxford University to Canada and Russia. She is the founder of the international art collective Luna-Nera. As an academic teacher, writer and practising artist and curator, Gillian McIver will help the
Newspaper House become a meaningful project. She will also supervise the comprehensive documentation of the project.
www.luna-nera.com
www.artsite.org.uk

Project management & elaboration: Karen Janody

Karen Janody is the soul of sleepless nights when she gets her teeth stuck in a project she likes. The Newspaper house is one of them! Coordinating a film festival, and numerous exhibitions, events and artists brought Karen from Liverpool to London where she has been freelance working on the management team of an internationally renowned music act, and cultural projects.

All individuals have worked with each other and together in the past, and the three will make an excellent team to take this project to the heights it deserves.

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Contact Karen Janody on 07 989 954 414 kjanody@gmail.com for information