tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25682217679359297352024-03-13T01:48:38.016+00:00The Newspaper HouseCreative City presents the Newspaper House, an art installation by Sumer Erek Supported and funded by: Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation , Arts Council UK , Hackney Council Cultural Team , L1 Partnership , Liverpool City Council Environmental Department , Liverpool City Council City and North Neighbourhood , LHT, Plus Dane Group, NMS , UnLtd , West Hackney Parish , and MerseyTravel.Creative Cityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04462685868344070636noreply@blogger.comBlogger29125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2568221767935929735.post-51736319182425975162009-08-26T14:57:00.004+01:002009-08-26T15:17:04.267+01:00Life after the Newspaper HouseThe Newspaper House documentary will be shown at <br />'<span style="font-weight:bold;">Les Sommets de la Nuit</span>'<br />Bormes Les Mimosas<br />France Provence Cote d'Azur <br />3 & 4 September 2009.<br /><br />Three Newspaper House photographs exhibited at <br />'<span style="font-weight:bold;">N'en Jetez Plus</span>'<br />Cité de l'Architecture et du Patrimoine<br />Palais de Chaillot<br />1, Place du Trocadéro et du 11 Novembre<br />75116 Paris<br /><br />Exhibition runs until 4 November 2009.Creative Cityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04462685868344070636noreply@blogger.com76tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2568221767935929735.post-54450398104044163232008-09-17T22:06:00.020+01:002008-10-04T19:32:43.585+01:00Liverpool Biennial & Independent exhibitionThe Newspaper House <br />installation by Sumer Erek <br />produced by Karen Janody <br /><br /><br />The Blackie Art centre<br />Great George Street<br />Liverpool L1 9EW<br />11am and 6pm daily (except Tues)<br /><br />Photographs by Mark McNulty <br />Please, ask permission to use these photographs. <br />karen[@]creative-city.co.uk<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_owKKGQh2St8/SNwQQyomehI/AAAAAAAAARo/byvpzZ6l-k0/s1600-h/Mark+McNulty+1.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_owKKGQh2St8/SNwQQyomehI/AAAAAAAAARo/byvpzZ6l-k0/s200/Mark+McNulty+1.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5250089146263173650" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_owKKGQh2St8/SNwQQ4mh67I/AAAAAAAAARw/2ZAEwzFeaIo/s1600-h/Mark+McNulty+2.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_owKKGQh2St8/SNwQQ4mh67I/AAAAAAAAARw/2ZAEwzFeaIo/s200/Mark+McNulty+2.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5250089147865099186" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_owKKGQh2St8/SNwQReD81PI/AAAAAAAAAR4/tqUXlDBQUZo/s1600-h/Mark+McNulty+3.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_owKKGQh2St8/SNwQReD81PI/AAAAAAAAAR4/tqUXlDBQUZo/s200/Mark+McNulty+3.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5250089157920609522" /></a><br />Mark McNulty ©<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">///</span><br /><br />The Newspaper House continues its journey to Liverpool, the Cultural Capital of Europe 2008, during the 5th Liverpool Biennial of contemporary arts. <br /><br />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.<br /><br />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, <br />it is no longer a shared experience. <br /><br />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”. <br /><br />First Erek builds a shell-like structure. Metin Senerguc writes: <br />“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.”<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_owKKGQh2St8/SNFzmjjtiiI/AAAAAAAAARQ/Qnu3fxaoqgU/s1600-h/NH+LB+150908+127press.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_owKKGQh2St8/SNFzmjjtiiI/AAAAAAAAARQ/Qnu3fxaoqgU/s200/NH+LB+150908+127press.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5247102147080587810" border="0"></a><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Inside the Newspaper House. Photography by Sumer Erek</span><br /><br />To appreciate the complexity of this installation, one needs to understand the notion of 'house', which recurs in Erek's works. Metin Senerguc writes:<br />“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.” <br /><br /><br />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:<br />"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." <br /><br />Suzana Vaz points out in her writing to this particular aspect of Sumer Erek’s work: <br />“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.”<br /><br /><br /><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dwcXGr-LxXlifn2vKDUFMwYljM09CLiqKF9fBYNYdTz6_l7Em6hL1m3RTJF34gKlg_fFpVJUvHf9yb8-7kCAg' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe><br />Sumer Erek unveiling the House. <br /><br /><br />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.<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Produced by Karen Janody / Creative City</span><br /><br />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.<br /><br /><br />Supported by <br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br />L1 Partnership, <br />Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, <br />Liverpool City Council City North Neighbourhood, <br />Liverpool Environmental Department, <br />Plus Dane Group, LHT, NMS, <br />Merseytravel</span> <br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"> /// Recent press ::</span><br /><br />The Newspaper House was featured on page 3 of <span style="font-weight: bold;">Liverpool's Daily Post</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_owKKGQh2St8/SNF0MR00OmI/AAAAAAAAARY/uUjWBxI9g2g/s1600-h/Picture+3.png"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_owKKGQh2St8/SNF0MR00OmI/AAAAAAAAARY/uUjWBxI9g2g/s200/Picture+3.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5247102795155520098" border="0"><br /><br />Read the whole story on the </a><a href="http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/liverpool-life-features/capital-of-culture/2008/09/17/newspaper-house-that-links-past-and-present-64375-21839808/">Liverpool Daily Post website</a> <br /><br />The Newspaper House was featured on <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/7617802.stm">BBC Northwest Tonight</a> Monday 15th.<br /><br />Sumer Erek and Karen Janody were interviewed by <span style="font-weight: bold;">Claire Hamilton</span> for Radio BBC Merseyside broadcasted Tuesday 16th at 6pm. <br /><br />Sumer Erek was interviewed on <span style="font-weight: bold;">Simon O'Brian's show</span> on Radio City on Saturday 13th.<br /><br />Sumer and Karen spent an evening with <span style="font-weight:bold;">Margie Clarke</span> on Saturday 20th for Radio City.<br /><br />Karen Janody was interviewed by Neil Morrin for <span style="font-weight: bold;">ARTINLIVERPOOLFM<span style="font-weight: bold;"></span></span> (Defnet Media).<br /><br />Ruth Dillon wrote a great review for <span style="font-weight:bold;"><a href="http://www.catalystmedia.org.uk/issues/misc/reviews/newspaper_house.php">Nerve</a></span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">///</span><br /><br /><br />With very special thanks to Ashley Middleton for managing the Youth Engagement and volunteering programme.<br /><br />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. <br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">The project would have never been made possible without the support from our funders: <br />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). </span><br /><br />Special thanks to Maria Checkland of Merseytravel for inviting Holy Lodge and Maghull schools, who contributed massively. <br /><br />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. <br /><br />Thank you to Liverpool 08 volunteers, who include: <br />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.<br /><br />Photography by Sumer Erek, Karen Janody, Ruth Dillon, Sumer Erek, Tamasine Siebold. Animation by John Fisher.<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_owKKGQh2St8/SNGGULaIibI/AAAAAAAAARg/fR5SMoOWSJs/s1600-h/logos.gif"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_owKKGQh2St8/SNGGULaIibI/AAAAAAAAARg/fR5SMoOWSJs/s200/logos.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5247122722081245618" border="0"></a><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">People ::</span><br />Sumer Erek, artist 07957666097 <br />sumererek[at]aol.com <br />www.sumererek.com<br /><br />Karen Janody, producer 07989 954 414 <br />karen[at]creative-city.co.uk <br />www.creative-city.co.uk<br /><br />Ashley Middleton, Youth Engagement Officer 07 841 707 454<br />oishiiyo[at]gmail.comCreative Cityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04462685868344070636noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2568221767935929735.post-35338517978170774012008-07-31T09:00:00.009+01:002008-09-02T09:37:22.072+01:00Newspaper House Liverpool News & Video<span style="font-weight: bold;">The Newspaper House is moving to Liverpool</span> to continue the work in progress started in London Gillett Square this March. <br /><br />This participatory project by Sumer Erek transforms discarded newspapers into a fascinating art installation. <br /><br />The Newspaper House builds with the participation from the Liverpool public, inside a shell, installed from <span style="font-weight: bold;">September 5th</span>.<br /><br />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.<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_owKKGQh2St8/SK6q3cliQUI/AAAAAAAAAPo/vV2mxmBQQbo/s1600-h/Folding-instruction-web.gif"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_owKKGQh2St8/SK6q3cliQUI/AAAAAAAAAPo/vV2mxmBQQbo/s200/Folding-instruction-web.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5237311286221619522" border="0"></a><br /><br />The Newspaper House <span style="font-weight: bold;">unveiling on September 19th</span> at 2pm will reveal to the public Sumer Erek's thought-provoking artwork and the work of all who participated.<br /><br />The Newspaper House will be <span style="font-weight: bold;">exhibited until October 5th</span>.<br /><br />Opening hours<br />11am - 6pm<br />Closed Tuesdays<br /><br /><br />WATCH THE VIDEO!<br /><br /><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dy4HVrhy5Z0emxGpuJq8AyzU9ZJk-jF9ThYUk0DOFDmpUGKK1p8hxAPV5HQLMij1VvuWjinscNyhoxDEZaEHw' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe><br /><br /><br />The project is produced by Creative City <br /><br />Supported & funded by <br /><br />Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation<br /><br />L1 Partnership<br /><br />Liverpool City Council Environmental Department<br />Liverpool City Council City & North Neighbourhood<br />Plus Dane Group<br />MerseyTravel<br />The Blackie<br /><br /><br />The Newspaper House<br />@ The Blackie<br />Great George Street<br />Liverpool L1 5EW<br />tel: 0151 709 5109<br /><br />Tuesday - Saturday<br />10am - 6pm<br />Sunday<br />10am - 4.30pm<br /><br /><br />Main contacts::<br /><br />the artist Sumer Erek<br />sumererek@aol.com<br />07 957 666 097<br /><br />the producer & press info<br />Karen Janody<br />karen@creative-city.co.uk<br />07 989 954 414<br /><br />the youth engagement officer & public participation<br />Ashley Middleton<br />oishiiyo@googlemail.com<br />07 841 707 454<br /><br />If you are based in Liverpool and around, start preparing yourself for the newspapers collection days to build the House with.<br /><br />Help Sumer in his task to inspire the artwork from the Liverpool people and architectural landscape.Creative Cityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04462685868344070636noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2568221767935929735.post-48659037751147336982008-04-07T12:28:00.017+01:002008-06-06T12:51:18.051+01:00Newspaper House pressMost recent!<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_owKKGQh2St8/SEkhKB5gbuI/AAAAAAAAAO8/njDi5QQFQKo/s1600-h/Chinese-article.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_owKKGQh2St8/SEkhKB5gbuI/AAAAAAAAAO8/njDi5QQFQKo/s200/Chinese-article.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5208730900222734050" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_owKKGQh2St8/SEkjjEyhcoI/AAAAAAAAAPM/WPlJONNWSn0/s1600-h/USA-school-article.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_owKKGQh2St8/SEkjjEyhcoI/AAAAAAAAAPM/WPlJONNWSn0/s200/USA-school-article.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5208733529518731906" /></a><br /><br />Amazing <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/7285373.stm"><span style="font-weight:bold;">BBC</span></a> coverage...It was shown on the TV news on Sunday March 9th <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/mobile/bbc_news/alsointhenews/728/72853/story7285373.shtml?%25253Fcache_buster=20070724023032">BBC News</a><br /><br /><br />The video podcasts are attached to the <span style="font-weight:bold;">Guardian</span> articles <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2008/jan/16/recycling.freesheets">Guardian Society</a> on 16 Jan 2008, <a href="http://arts.guardian.co.uk/art/news/story/0,,2260207,00.html">Guardian Arts Diary</a> of 27 Feb 2008 & <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/video/2008/mar/10/recycling?gusrc=rss&feed=environment"> Guardian Environment</a> of 10 March 2008;<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_owKKGQh2St8/SELAbJvbo_I/AAAAAAAAAO0/YAYCz15Pu5M/s1600-h/Guardian-Society-Jan-16.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_owKKGQh2St8/SELAbJvbo_I/AAAAAAAAAO0/YAYCz15Pu5M/s200/Guardian-Society-Jan-16.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5206935691897578482" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_owKKGQh2St8/SELAa2DKJMI/AAAAAAAAAOs/yj59ts3txgA/s1600-h/Guardian-Arts-Diary.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_owKKGQh2St8/SELAa2DKJMI/AAAAAAAAAOs/yj59ts3txgA/s200/Guardian-Arts-Diary.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5206935686611608770" /></a><br /><br />& on the <a href="http://www.bdonline.co.uk/story.asp?storycode=3107446"><span style="font-weight:bold;">Building Design</span></a> article of 29 Feb 2008<br /><br />Two times in the <span style="font-weight:bold;">Metro</span> on 5 March 08 and 10 March 08.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_owKKGQh2St8/SEK72ujBv4I/AAAAAAAAAOM/paTuJ1USfG8/s1600-h/Metro+1.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_owKKGQh2St8/SEK72ujBv4I/AAAAAAAAAOM/paTuJ1USfG8/s200/Metro+1.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5206930668075990914" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_owKKGQh2St8/SEK72PcI_HI/AAAAAAAAAOE/wECjE7OsYUg/s1600-h/Metro+2+.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_owKKGQh2St8/SEK72PcI_HI/AAAAAAAAAOE/wECjE7OsYUg/s200/Metro+2+.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5206930659725606002" /></a><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Time Out</span> 'Critics' Choice' on 28 Feb 2008<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_owKKGQh2St8/R_4nGAsr5-I/AAAAAAAAANc/F1urP30npXI/s1600-h/Time-Out.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_owKKGQh2St8/R_4nGAsr5-I/AAAAAAAAANc/F1urP30npXI/s200/Time-Out.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5187626804997515234" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">A-N Magazine</span> <br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_owKKGQh2St8/SCNPSIoDiRI/AAAAAAAAAN8/ktcpkz0qLJc/s1600-h/A-N+Mag.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_owKKGQh2St8/SCNPSIoDiRI/AAAAAAAAAN8/ktcpkz0qLJc/s200/A-N+Mag.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5198085567887411474" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Big Issue</span> on 3 Mar 2008<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_owKKGQh2St8/R_4n-gsr5_I/AAAAAAAAANk/09R9PfYjerg/s1600-h/Big-Issue.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_owKKGQh2St8/R_4n-gsr5_I/AAAAAAAAANk/09R9PfYjerg/s200/Big-Issue.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5187627775660124146" /></a><br /><br />Evening Standard on 31 Jan 08<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_owKKGQh2St8/SEK72jz34YI/AAAAAAAAAOU/V9z2YmrRO_w/s1600-h/Evening-Standard-31-Jan-08-.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_owKKGQh2St8/SEK72jz34YI/AAAAAAAAAOU/V9z2YmrRO_w/s200/Evening-Standard-31-Jan-08-.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5206930665193857410" /></a><br /><br />The prestigious <a href="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/03/photogalleries/wip-week72/photo6.html">National Geographic</a> online magazine posted this image with a short review.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_owKKGQh2St8/SCNKQYoDiQI/AAAAAAAAAN0/MUfrUW3Lhh4/s1600-h/6_newspaper_461.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_owKKGQh2St8/SCNKQYoDiQI/AAAAAAAAAN0/MUfrUW3Lhh4/s200/6_newspaper_461.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5198080040264501506" /></a><br /><br />The Newspaper House was featured twice in <span style="font-weight:bold;">Hackney Today</span>, once on 28 Jan, and 30 March 08 <br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_owKKGQh2St8/SEK9q4P4g0I/AAAAAAAAAOc/CqgBtCPeQHM/s1600-h/Hackney+Today+28+Jan+08+smll.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_owKKGQh2St8/SEK9q4P4g0I/AAAAAAAAAOc/CqgBtCPeQHM/s200/Hackney+Today+28+Jan+08+smll.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5206932663544873794" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_owKKGQh2St8/R_oF83SSL3I/AAAAAAAAANM/RKCFqGi39nE/s1600-h/Hackney-Today-30-Mar-08.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_owKKGQh2St8/R_oF83SSL3I/AAAAAAAAANM/RKCFqGi39nE/s200/Hackney-Today-30-Mar-08.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5186464464061476722" /></a><br /><br />The <a href="http://uk.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUKL2974931620080229">Reuters</a> article that sent the House on a worldwide tour on 29 Feb 2008<br /><br />and <a href="http://www.europe1.fr/informations/articles/809761/londres--une-maison-en-journaux-gratuits-pour-lutter-contr.html">Europe 1</a> France's n.1 radio broadcasted the Newspaper House on 3 March 2008<br /><br />A feature in <a href="http://www.planningresource.co.uk/resources/HowWeDidIt/788932/Newspaper-recycling-bid-pioneers-urban-art-form/">Planning Resource</a> on 7 March 2008<br /><br />Channel 4's <a href="http://www.bigartmob.com/view/2567/"><span style="font-weight:bold;">Big Art Mob</span></a><br /><br />A good article in <a href="http://www.iconeye.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2857"><span style="font-weight:bold;">Icon Eye</span></a> is accompanied by a podcast of Sumer Erek explaining the artistic concept and reasons behind the Newspaper House.<br /><br />The Telegraph's the Week in picture <a href="http://www.taringa.net/posts/imagenes/1127948/Daily-Telegraph---La-Semana-en-Fotos---8-al-15-de-marzo.html">Week in Picture</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.watchingthemedia.com/associated-newspapers-london-lite/">London Lite</a> on 24 Jan 2008<br /><br />Newspaper House in <span style="font-weight:bold;">France</span>, on page 9 of <span style="font-weight:bold;">Neo Planet</span> in France<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_owKKGQh2St8/R_ouMXSSL4I/AAAAAAAAANU/Dn3beJoVPeY/s1600-h/Neo-Planet.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_owKKGQh2St8/R_ouMXSSL4I/AAAAAAAAANU/Dn3beJoVPeY/s200/Neo-Planet.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5186508710814560130" /></a><br /><br />Newspaper House in <span style="font-weight:bold;">Brazil,</span> <span style="font-weight:bold;">Revista V</span>!<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_owKKGQh2St8/SAx6ix-juRI/AAAAAAAAANs/tLgCh-KKGKA/s1600-h/09---notas-bagageiro.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_owKKGQh2St8/SAx6ix-juRI/AAAAAAAAANs/tLgCh-KKGKA/s200/09---notas-bagageiro.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5191659208401205522" /></a><br /><br />Newspaper House in <span style="font-weight:bold;">China</span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_owKKGQh2St8/SEkhKB5gbuI/AAAAAAAAAO8/njDi5QQFQKo/s1600-h/Chinese-article.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_owKKGQh2St8/SEkhKB5gbuI/AAAAAAAAAO8/njDi5QQFQKo/s200/Chinese-article.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5208730900222734050" /></a><br /><br />Newspaper House in the <span style="font-weight:bold;">USA</span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_owKKGQh2St8/SEkjjEyhcoI/AAAAAAAAAPM/WPlJONNWSn0/s1600-h/USA-school-article.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_owKKGQh2St8/SEkjjEyhcoI/AAAAAAAAAPM/WPlJONNWSn0/s200/USA-school-article.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5208733529518731906" /></a><br /><br />Newspaper House on <a href="http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=96012">Turkish Daily News</a> 11 Feb 2008<br /><br />Apparently, an article was published in Greece, so we expect many more worldwide that we cannot chase.<br /><br /><br />An article is <a href="http://www.treehugger.com/files/2008/03/sumer_erkes_new.php"><span style="font-weight:bold;">Tree Hugger</span></a> followed by comments<br /><br /><a href="http://www.allinlondon.co.uk/whats-on.php?event=21665">All in London</a><br /><br />A write-up in <a href="http://www.holdthefrontpage.co.uk/news/080314briefs.shtml">Hold The Front Page</a><br /><br />Photographs on <a href="http://www.thisislocallondon.co.uk/galleries/newspaperhouse/">This Is Local London</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.artnowonline.com/Magazine/World/2008/Feb/World_Feb1208.html">Art Now Online</a><br /><br />& so many blogs, to name but a few, <a href="http://archinect.com/news/article.php?id=72008_0_24_0_C">Archinect</a>, <a href="http://www.tree-nation.com/community/econews_comments.php?news_id=287">Tree-Nation</a>, <a href="http://www.psfk.com/2008/02/the-newspaper-house-at-last-a-use-for-londons-freesheets.html">PSFK</a>, <a href="http://www.britishblogs.co.uk/categories/sumer-erek/">British Blogs</a>, <a href="http://www.superuse.org/story.php?title=Newspaper-House">Superuse</a>,<a href="http://londonalive.blogspot.com/">Londonalive</a>, <a href="http://www.crookedbrains.net/2008/03/creativity-with-newspaper.html">Crooked Brains</a>, & <a href="http://londondailyphoto.blogspot.com/">London Daily Photo</a> scrawl down and <a href="http://thepaperplanet.blogspot.com/">The Paper Planet</a>.<br /><br /><br />Cate Gillon / Getty Images tooks some photographs on a daily basis on Gillett Square. Here are two of her early ones at St Barnabas <a href="http://www.zimbio.com/pictures/Qz2NgQbDuAV/Artist+Constructs+House+Freesheet+Newspapers/mbmMLI3HfC7/Sumer+Erek">Cate Gillon's</a><br /><br /><a href="http://londonalive.blogspot.com/">Londonalive</a> has quite a lot of shots too, some of which are interesting details of Sumer's work!<br /><br />As you know, the Newspaper House was closely linked with Metronet Rail, who donated 2 tons of newspapers to the project and <a href="http://www.projectfreesheet.org/news.php">Project Freesheet</a>, which donated 10,000 newspapers to the House, collected while demonstrating against the excess waste in London.Creative Cityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04462685868344070636noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2568221767935929735.post-55054862091861135512008-03-13T14:52:00.007+00:002008-03-17T12:39:17.020+00:00First House built, work in progress will continue<span style="font-weight:bold;">You were over 1,000 to participate in the project over the course of the week!</span><br /><br />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.<br /><br />The unveiling was very well attended. The House, a work in progress, is 2/3rd completed! <br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Next? </span>Another location! Another settlement and more opportunities to engage and strengthen ties with people around issues that touch us all.<br /><br />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.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />To find out how to get involved or receive our info / mailing list, send an to email:<br />Producer Karen Janody karen[@]creative-city.co.uk<br /><br /><br />Photographs to follow by Ruth Gardiner & George Torode. Do not use without permission.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_owKKGQh2St8/R9lToGbOr4I/AAAAAAAAALk/6oXcsnizn8Q/s1600-h/RG.PH1.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_owKKGQh2St8/R9lToGbOr4I/AAAAAAAAALk/6oXcsnizn8Q/s200/RG.PH1.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5177261195023789954" /></a><br />Ruth Gardiner <br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_owKKGQh2St8/R9lTiWbOr1I/AAAAAAAAALM/mIxBS2nHxmM/s1600-h/RG.PH5.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_owKKGQh2St8/R9lTiWbOr1I/AAAAAAAAALM/mIxBS2nHxmM/s200/RG.PH5.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5177261096239542098" /></a><br />Ruth Gardiner<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_owKKGQh2St8/R9lSfGbOryI/AAAAAAAAAK0/0q2tKL-KGR0/s1600-h/RG.PH9.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_owKKGQh2St8/R9lSfGbOryI/AAAAAAAAAK0/0q2tKL-KGR0/s200/RG.PH9.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5177259940893339426" /></a><br />Ruth Gardiner<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_owKKGQh2St8/R9lTlmbOr2I/AAAAAAAAALU/NOq8WgGsn78/s1600-h/RG.PH12.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_owKKGQh2St8/R9lTlmbOr2I/AAAAAAAAALU/NOq8WgGsn78/s200/RG.PH12.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5177261152074116962" /></a><br />Ruth Gardiner<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_owKKGQh2St8/R9lTnGbOr3I/AAAAAAAAALc/tnFdOxv18Qw/s1600-h/RG.PH003.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_owKKGQh2St8/R9lTnGbOr3I/AAAAAAAAALc/tnFdOxv18Qw/s200/RG.PH003.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5177261177843920754" /></a><br />Ruth Gardiner<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_owKKGQh2St8/R9lThWbOr0I/AAAAAAAAALE/rtUa93fMLRA/s1600-h/RG.PH52.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_owKKGQh2St8/R9lThWbOr0I/AAAAAAAAALE/rtUa93fMLRA/s200/RG.PH52.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5177261079059672898" /></a><br />Ruth Gardiner<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_owKKGQh2St8/R9lSbGbOrvI/AAAAAAAAAKc/WL3MasdnidA/s1600-h/RG.PH002.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_owKKGQh2St8/R9lSbGbOrvI/AAAAAAAAAKc/WL3MasdnidA/s200/RG.PH002.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5177259872173862642" /></a><br />Ruth Gardiner<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_owKKGQh2St8/R95kGmbOr5I/AAAAAAAAALs/wm5y-_EbnCU/s1600-h/georgetorode.com+(3).JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_owKKGQh2St8/R95kGmbOr5I/AAAAAAAAALs/wm5y-_EbnCU/s200/georgetorode.com+(3).JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5178686686079397778" /></a><br />George Torode<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_owKKGQh2St8/R95kG2bOr6I/AAAAAAAAAL0/9D8etoh1Q-A/s1600-h/georgetorode.com+(12).JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_owKKGQh2St8/R95kG2bOr6I/AAAAAAAAAL0/9D8etoh1Q-A/s200/georgetorode.com+(12).JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5178686690374365090" /></a><br />George Torode<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_owKKGQh2St8/R95kHGbOr7I/AAAAAAAAAL8/_cNd4kPFYxo/s1600-h/georgetorode.com+(28).JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_owKKGQh2St8/R95kHGbOr7I/AAAAAAAAAL8/_cNd4kPFYxo/s200/georgetorode.com+(28).JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5178686694669332402" /></a><br />George Torode<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_owKKGQh2St8/R95kH2bOr8I/AAAAAAAAAME/Ly4HaSbrVUY/s1600-h/georgetorode.com+(33).JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_owKKGQh2St8/R95kH2bOr8I/AAAAAAAAAME/Ly4HaSbrVUY/s200/georgetorode.com+(33).JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5178686707554234306" /></a><br />George Torode<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_owKKGQh2St8/R95kIWbOr9I/AAAAAAAAAMM/QqiVw2Kh6P0/s1600-h/georgetorode.com+(39).JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_owKKGQh2St8/R95kIWbOr9I/AAAAAAAAAMM/QqiVw2Kh6P0/s200/georgetorode.com+(39).JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5178686716144168914" /></a><br />George Torode<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_owKKGQh2St8/R95lQ2bOr-I/AAAAAAAAAMU/WEpzXkwz4JQ/s1600-h/georgetorode.com+(60).JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_owKKGQh2St8/R95lQ2bOr-I/AAAAAAAAAMU/WEpzXkwz4JQ/s200/georgetorode.com+(60).JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5178687961684684770" /></a><br />George Torode<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_owKKGQh2St8/R95lRWbOr_I/AAAAAAAAAMc/tDwshiAXCgY/s1600-h/georgetorode.com+(55).JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_owKKGQh2St8/R95lRWbOr_I/AAAAAAAAAMc/tDwshiAXCgY/s200/georgetorode.com+(55).JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5178687970274619378" /></a><br />George Torode<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_owKKGQh2St8/R95lSGbOsAI/AAAAAAAAAMk/4YSYjT1BUQ0/s1600-h/georgetorode.com+(52).JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; 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cursor:hand;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_owKKGQh2St8/R95lm2bOsDI/AAAAAAAAAM8/_3g7D1VOZP4/s200/georgetorode.com+(43).JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5178688339641806898" /></a><br />George Torode<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_owKKGQh2St8/R95lnGbOsEI/AAAAAAAAANE/cDrcOe4LWws/s1600-h/georgetorode.com+(28).JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_owKKGQh2St8/R95lnGbOsEI/AAAAAAAAANE/cDrcOe4LWws/s200/georgetorode.com+(28).JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5178688343936774210" /></a><br />George TorodeCreative Cityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04462685868344070636noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2568221767935929735.post-12275840794637317312008-03-10T20:54:00.006+00:002008-03-13T14:46:51.333+00:00THE NEWSPAPER HOUSE VIDEO<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/video/2008/mar/10/recycling?gusrc=rss&feed=media">Click here to watch <span style="font-weight: bold;">THE NEWSPAPER HOUSE VIDEO</span></a><br /><br />a Guardian Media podcast.<br /><br />Directed by Gillian McIver, assisted by Christina Zaris and Rozy Sarkis. Edited by Karen Janody & Gillian McIver. Narration by Aisling Leyne.<br /><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/video/2008/mar/10/recycling?gusrc=rss&feed=media"></a>GillianMcIverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17918204584074545757noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2568221767935929735.post-31317440117127317932008-03-10T20:00:00.000+00:002008-03-10T20:01:23.599+00:00and ...<a href="http://thepaperplanet.blogspot.com/"> the paper planet</a>GillianMcIverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17918204584074545757noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2568221767935929735.post-3750854574187240472008-03-09T11:25:00.003+00:002008-03-09T17:21:32.863+00:00a contemplation<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_kfaWKEzhSKE/R9PJTV-AJTI/AAAAAAAAADw/hbhl8EwHOKc/s1600-h/shade.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_kfaWKEzhSKE/R9PJTV-AJTI/AAAAAAAAADw/hbhl8EwHOKc/s400/shade.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5175701730930730290" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >photo: <a href="http://www.nazirtanbouli.com">Nazir Tanbouli</a></span><br /></div>GillianMcIverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17918204584074545757noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2568221767935929735.post-21572575172303902182008-03-09T11:23:00.002+00:002008-03-09T11:25:11.835+00:00and it started with this...<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_kfaWKEzhSKE/R9PI-l-AJSI/AAAAAAAAADo/Q0jeLXnYyQo/s1600-h/waste2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_kfaWKEzhSKE/R9PI-l-AJSI/AAAAAAAAADo/Q0jeLXnYyQo/s400/waste2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5175701374448444706" border="0" /></a><br />unvalued, unwanted, discarded without thought, not even recycled...GillianMcIverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17918204584074545757noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2568221767935929735.post-52851985058564621132008-03-09T11:20:00.003+00:002008-03-09T11:23:15.893+00:00THE MOMENT OF TRUTH<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_kfaWKEzhSKE/R9PIWF-AJRI/AAAAAAAAADg/XKK_ZHHam9A/s1600-h/UNVEIL.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_kfaWKEzhSKE/R9PIWF-AJRI/AAAAAAAAADg/XKK_ZHHam9A/s400/UNVEIL.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5175700678663742738" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >photo: Nazir Tanbouli</span>GillianMcIverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17918204584074545757noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2568221767935929735.post-4790473368083720752008-03-09T11:04:00.005+00:002008-03-09T17:22:37.250+00:00The Newspaper House revealed<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_kfaWKEzhSKE/R9PHll-AJQI/AAAAAAAAADY/sHS0BiPXrxg/s1600-h/smsumerportrait.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_kfaWKEzhSKE/R9PHll-AJQI/AAAAAAAAADY/sHS0BiPXrxg/s400/smsumerportrait.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5175699845440087298" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_kfaWKEzhSKE/R9PEhF-AJPI/AAAAAAAAADQ/HB-tV0ozORM/s1600-h/sm-sumer-w-house.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_kfaWKEzhSKE/R9PEhF-AJPI/AAAAAAAAADQ/HB-tV0ozORM/s400/sm-sumer-w-house.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5175696469595792626" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">top: SUMER EREK AND THE NEWSPAPER HOUSE<br />Photos: <a href="http://www.nazirtanbouli.com">Nazir Tanbouli</a></span></span>GillianMcIverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17918204584074545757noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2568221767935929735.post-61785085097913614932008-03-08T12:35:00.006+00:002008-03-13T15:08:41.886+00:00The Newspaper House - First View!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_kfaWKEzhSKE/R9lCYV-AJbI/AAAAAAAAAEw/DcGr3YsQVYA/s1600-h/gt3.jpg">photographs by </a><a href="http://www.georgetorode.com/" target="blank">George Torode</a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_kfaWKEzhSKE/R9lCYV-AJbI/AAAAAAAAAEw/DcGr3YsQVYA/s1600-h/gt3.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_kfaWKEzhSKE/R9lCYV-AJbI/AAAAAAAAAEw/DcGr3YsQVYA/s400/gt3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5177242232620590514" border="0" /></a>paper rolls<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_kfaWKEzhSKE/R9lCKl-AJZI/AAAAAAAAAEg/Zo3n3eqooLc/s1600-h/jo.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_kfaWKEzhSKE/R9lCKl-AJZI/AAAAAAAAAEg/Zo3n3eqooLc/s400/jo.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5177241996397389202" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;">above, Jo Beechy, of the Newspaper House team and participatory workshop facilitator</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_kfaWKEzhSKE/R9lCBF-AJYI/AAAAAAAAAEY/eqc_Pih9R0o/s1600-h/gt2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_kfaWKEzhSKE/R9lCBF-AJYI/AAAAAAAAAEY/eqc_Pih9R0o/s400/gt2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5177241833188631938" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">---------------------------------------------------------------------------<br /><br /></span></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_kfaWKEzhSKE/R9KJq1-AJOI/AAAAAAAAADI/78D9SiTV5rw/s1600-h/5.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_kfaWKEzhSKE/R9KJq1-AJOI/AAAAAAAAADI/78D9SiTV5rw/s400/5.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5175350290936767714" border="0" /></a>A work of art ...<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_kfaWKEzhSKE/R9KJgF-AJNI/AAAAAAAAADA/41fXjJPNZZM/s1600-h/1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_kfaWKEzhSKE/R9KJgF-AJNI/AAAAAAAAADA/41fXjJPNZZM/s400/1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5175350106253173970" border="0" /></a>made from your waste...<br />... a transformative process of revaluing<br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_kfaWKEzhSKE/R9KJMF-AJMI/AAAAAAAAAC4/pTrN6nkhIf4/s1600-h/6.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_kfaWKEzhSKE/R9KJMF-AJMI/AAAAAAAAAC4/pTrN6nkhIf4/s400/6.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5175349762655790274" border="0" /></a><br /></div><br />The House open to the public<br /><br /><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-size:78%;" >photos Gillian McIver for Creative City</span>GillianMcIverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17918204584074545757noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2568221767935929735.post-6259304769173156252008-03-07T01:14:00.006+00:002008-03-07T01:23:40.583+00:00New Photos<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_kfaWKEzhSKE/R9CY2uPbwlI/AAAAAAAAACw/XXEAdZ8SjWo/s1600-h/gt1.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_kfaWKEzhSKE/R9CY2uPbwlI/AAAAAAAAACw/XXEAdZ8SjWo/s400/gt1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5174804037741822546" border="0" /></a><br />Sumer Erek, by George Torode<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_kfaWKEzhSKE/R9CYwePbwkI/AAAAAAAAACo/Ur0q8T9QPas/s1600-h/gt2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_kfaWKEzhSKE/R9CYwePbwkI/AAAAAAAAACo/Ur0q8T9QPas/s400/gt2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5174803930367640130" border="0" /></a><br />the shell, in the square. Work going on inside!<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_kfaWKEzhSKE/R9CYVuPbwjI/AAAAAAAAACg/VdiHZ7yWoW0/s1600-h/gt3.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_kfaWKEzhSKE/R9CYVuPbwjI/AAAAAAAAACg/VdiHZ7yWoW0/s400/gt3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5174803470806139442" border="0" /></a><br />Images By photographer George Torode, with permission.<br /><span style="font-size:85%;">Please do not use these photos without express permission from the photographer or from Creative City</span>GillianMcIverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17918204584074545757noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2568221767935929735.post-8075804594838003162008-03-07T01:04:00.004+00:002008-03-11T20:47:24.591+00:00Today on the Square<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_kfaWKEzhSKE/R9bvjV-AJWI/AAAAAAAAAEI/Sa2BwIJEBlo/s1600-h/hands.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_kfaWKEzhSKE/R9bvjV-AJWI/AAAAAAAAAEI/Sa2BwIJEBlo/s400/hands.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5176588212180624738" border="0" /></a><br />photo: Tuba Altunkaya<br /><div style="text-align: center;">--------------------------------------------------<br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_kfaWKEzhSKE/R9CWfOPbwgI/AAAAAAAAACI/Hn8I6_a-MWI/s1600-h/61.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_kfaWKEzhSKE/R9CWfOPbwgI/AAAAAAAAACI/Hn8I6_a-MWI/s400/61.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5174801434991641090" border="0" /></a><br /><br />The Newspaper House is being built INSIDE this shell<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_kfaWKEzhSKE/R9CWr-PbwhI/AAAAAAAAACQ/9MsfyzaXdyA/s1600-h/group.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_kfaWKEzhSKE/R9CWr-PbwhI/AAAAAAAAACQ/9MsfyzaXdyA/s400/group.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5174801654034973202" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;">photos Gillian McIver<br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /><br /><br /></div>GillianMcIverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17918204584074545757noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2568221767935929735.post-6352750422684242802008-03-04T21:35:00.003+00:002008-03-04T21:38:55.599+00:00On the Square<a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_kfaWKEzhSKE/R83BLuPbwfI/AAAAAAAAACA/jFshr-13Djg/s1600-h/sumer.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5174003954054054386" style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_kfaWKEzhSKE/R83BLuPbwfI/AAAAAAAAACA/jFshr-13Djg/s400/sumer.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div><a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_kfaWKEzhSKE/R83A2ePbweI/AAAAAAAAAB4/GxC_UJb3rHA/s1600-h/receiving2.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5174003588981834210" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_kfaWKEzhSKE/R83A2ePbweI/AAAAAAAAAB4/GxC_UJb3rHA/s400/receiving2.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /></div><br /><div><a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_kfaWKEzhSKE/R83AvuPbwdI/AAAAAAAAABw/KGN9tRslOaM/s1600-h/teamwork.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5174003473017717202" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_kfaWKEzhSKE/R83AvuPbwdI/AAAAAAAAABw/KGN9tRslOaM/s400/teamwork.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><div>Today on the Square... Sumer receives newspapers from everyone!</div><br /><div></div><br /><div>And again, it's the teamwork that gets things done....<br /></div></div><br /><p></p><br /><p></p><br /><p></p><br /><div><br /></div><br /><p></p>GillianMcIverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17918204584074545757noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2568221767935929735.post-48012663679661317552008-03-04T21:08:00.004+00:002008-03-04T21:35:08.028+00:00Metronet Delivers!<a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_kfaWKEzhSKE/R83AM-PbwcI/AAAAAAAAABo/Sdj6LEqSMng/s1600-h/receiving.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5174002876017263042" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_kfaWKEzhSKE/R83AM-PbwcI/AAAAAAAAABo/Sdj6LEqSMng/s400/receiving.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div><a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_kfaWKEzhSKE/R83AAOPbwbI/AAAAAAAAABg/SQP6P0obS2A/s1600-h/metrodelivers2.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5174002656973930930" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_kfaWKEzhSKE/R83AAOPbwbI/AAAAAAAAABg/SQP6P0obS2A/s400/metrodelivers2.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><div><a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_kfaWKEzhSKE/R82_6uPbwaI/AAAAAAAAABY/qOFMakVNq-k/s1600-h/metrodelivers1.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5174002562484650402" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_kfaWKEzhSKE/R82_6uPbwaI/AAAAAAAAABY/qOFMakVNq-k/s400/metrodelivers1.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><div><br /><em>London, 4 March 2008:</em> 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. </div><br /><br /><div></div><br /><div>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.<br />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.</div></div></div>GillianMcIverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17918204584074545757noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2568221767935929735.post-87306354958814502382008-03-02T19:43:00.008+00:002008-03-02T19:55:42.020+00:00The House has Arrived<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_kfaWKEzhSKE/R8sF8qZgfSI/AAAAAAAAABQ/momZSS6Pt2g/s1600-h/gs4.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_kfaWKEzhSKE/R8sF8qZgfSI/AAAAAAAAABQ/momZSS6Pt2g/s400/gs4.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5173235136696712482" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_kfaWKEzhSKE/R8sFBKZgfRI/AAAAAAAAABI/zVuLXkpM8Mg/s1600-h/gs2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_kfaWKEzhSKE/R8sFBKZgfRI/AAAAAAAAABI/zVuLXkpM8Mg/s400/gs2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5173234114494496018" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">A beautiful morning</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">[top pic]</span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_kfaWKEzhSKE/R8sE46ZgfQI/AAAAAAAAABA/Iafek5UHuT4/s1600-h/gs1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_kfaWKEzhSKE/R8sE46ZgfQI/AAAAAAAAABA/Iafek5UHuT4/s400/gs1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5173233972760575234" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_kfaWKEzhSKE/R8sEvaZgfPI/AAAAAAAAAA4/WUAwIMS04lU/s1600-h/gs3.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_kfaWKEzhSKE/R8sEvaZgfPI/AAAAAAAAAA4/WUAwIMS04lU/s400/gs3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5173233809551817970" border="0" /></a>Today the shell of Sumer Erek's Newspaper House was put up at Gillett Square.<br /><br />Our staunch team of volunteers, including building design company <a href="http://nature2art.co.uk/">Nature2Art</a> 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!<br /><br /><br /><br />Although we were't technically "open yet, we started to get members of the public joining in the fun already<br /><span style="font-style: italic;">[bottom pic].</span>GillianMcIverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17918204584074545757noreply@blogger.com252tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2568221767935929735.post-56163973563371596162008-02-28T19:26:00.003+00:002008-02-28T19:34:23.028+00:00Collecting Newspapers for the Newspaper House<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_kfaWKEzhSKE/R8cMWzx1l6I/AAAAAAAAAAw/GefrmWfXdEk/s1600-h/freesheet.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_kfaWKEzhSKE/R8cMWzx1l6I/AAAAAAAAAAw/GefrmWfXdEk/s400/freesheet.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5172116283054200738" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_kfaWKEzhSKE/R8cLHzx1l5I/AAAAAAAAAAo/7SEGLzBnNRQ/s1600-h/nhcollection.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_kfaWKEzhSKE/R8cLHzx1l5I/AAAAAAAAAAo/7SEGLzBnNRQ/s400/nhcollection.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5172114925844535186" border="0" /></a><br />The Newspaper House sent a collection team to join Project Freesheet's collection around London.<br /><br /><br /><br />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.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Here's the team at one of London's best photo-opp spots - Tower Bridge!GillianMcIverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17918204584074545757noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2568221767935929735.post-35720310586202028532008-02-28T01:04:00.014+00:002008-02-28T03:18:04.139+00:00Sumer Erek<span style="font-weight:bold;"><br />Sumer Erek was born in Cyprus and graduated from St. Martins School of Art in 1985 (BA and two years post graduate in Sculpture). <br /><br />Sumer Erek is a multi-disciplinary artist working in a variety of different fields such as painting, sculpture, photography, installation, video and performance. <br />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’ </span><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_owKKGQh2St8/R8YmY3INMDI/AAAAAAAAAKA/-8KxEybFv5Y/s1600-h/RIMG0193.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_owKKGQh2St8/R8YmY3INMDI/AAAAAAAAAKA/-8KxEybFv5Y/s200/RIMG0193.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5171863430638678066" /></a><br />'The Newspaper House' 2008. Photograph by Gillian McIver<br /><br /><br />'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.' <span style="font-weight:bold;">Metin Senerguc </span><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_owKKGQh2St8/R8YcFHINL-I/AAAAAAAAAJY/ePBBNSYhKL0/s1600-h/udh3.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_owKKGQh2St8/R8YcFHINL-I/AAAAAAAAAJY/ePBBNSYhKL0/s200/udh3.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5171852096219983842" /></a><br />'Upside Down House', 2001. Photograph Sumer Erek<br /><br /><br />''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. <br /><br />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.' <span style="font-weight:bold;">Suzana Vaz</span><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_owKKGQh2St8/R8YcAXINL9I/AAAAAAAAAJQ/Kxt1hZ9aRPA/s1600-h/udh1.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_owKKGQh2St8/R8YcAXINL9I/AAAAAAAAAJQ/Kxt1hZ9aRPA/s200/udh1.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5171852014615605202" /></a><br />'Upside Down House', 2001. Photograph Sumer Erek<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_owKKGQh2St8/R8YKSXINL8I/AAAAAAAAAJI/6KLuQ09fx1Y/s1600-h/stairs+to+blue.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_owKKGQh2St8/R8YKSXINL8I/AAAAAAAAAJI/6KLuQ09fx1Y/s200/stairs+to+blue.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5171832532643950530" /></a><br />'Stairs to blue' Raw Earth Project. Sumer Erek<br /><br /><br />'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. <br /><br />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. <br /><br />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<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_owKKGQh2St8/R8YKAXINL7I/AAAAAAAAAJA/Sl8mR-AYZ8w/s1600-h/pool.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_owKKGQh2St8/R8YKAXINL7I/AAAAAAAAAJA/Sl8mR-AYZ8w/s200/pool.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5171832223406305202" /></a><br />'Pool' Raw Earth Project. Sumer Erek<br /><br /><br />'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.' <span style="font-weight:bold;">Suzana Vaz</span><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_owKKGQh2St8/R8YlaHINMCI/AAAAAAAAAJ4/aeWMAdPGKHA/s1600-h/DSC_1646.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_owKKGQh2St8/R8YlaHINMCI/AAAAAAAAAJ4/aeWMAdPGKHA/s200/DSC_1646.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5171862352601886754" /></a><br />The Newspaper House', 2008. Photograph by Tuba Altunkaya<br /><br /><br />'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.' <span style="font-weight:bold;">Metin Senerguc</span><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_owKKGQh2St8/R8Ykg3INMBI/AAAAAAAAAJw/pi1aAghwXzM/s1600-h/DSC_1632.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_owKKGQh2St8/R8Ykg3INMBI/AAAAAAAAAJw/pi1aAghwXzM/s200/DSC_1632.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5171861369054375954" /></a><br />'The Newspaper House', 2008. Photograph by Tuba Altunkaya<br /><br /><br />'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?'<br /><br /><br />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’.' <span style="font-weight:bold;">Metin Senerguc </span><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_owKKGQh2St8/R8YkPnINMAI/AAAAAAAAAJo/P78NqUYV1r4/s1600-h/DSC_0179.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_owKKGQh2St8/R8YkPnINMAI/AAAAAAAAAJo/P78NqUYV1r4/s200/DSC_0179.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5171861072701632514" /></a><br />'The Newspaper House', 2008. Photograph by Emra IslekCreative Cityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04462685868344070636noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2568221767935929735.post-26879531003092174652008-02-21T14:44:00.010+00:002008-02-26T12:24:05.761+00:00Invitation to Gillett Square!<span style="font-weight:bold;"><br />Creative City invites you to the Newspaper House!</span><br /><br />March 3rd - 9th on Gillett Square<br />Dalston (Hackney N16)<br />[Unveiling March 8th from 2pm]<br /><br /><br />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.<br /><br /><br />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.<br /><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_owKKGQh2St8/R72SC3INL5I/AAAAAAAAAIk/B-qnxghcdKE/s1600-h/Flyer+front.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_owKKGQh2St8/R72SC3INL5I/AAAAAAAAAIk/B-qnxghcdKE/s200/Flyer+front.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5169448525146959762" /></a><br /><br /><br />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<br /><br />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!<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_owKKGQh2St8/R72SLXINL6I/AAAAAAAAAIs/cNgU850yag4/s1600-h/Flyer+back.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_owKKGQh2St8/R72SLXINL6I/AAAAAAAAAIs/cNgU850yag4/s200/Flyer+back.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5169448671175847842" /></a><br /><br /><br />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.<br /><br /><br />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.<br /><br />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.<br /><br /><br />Don't forget to come collecting newspapers on Wed 27th as part of Project Freesheet's Walk About! www.projectfreesheet.org<br /><br />www.myspace.com/newspaperhouse<br />www.creative-city.co.uk<br />Newspaperhouse on Facebook<br /><br /><br />press[@]creative-city.co.uk for press<br />karen[@]creative-city.co.uk for infoCreative Cityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04462685868344070636noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2568221767935929735.post-12727019520864849292008-02-14T11:18:00.006+00:002008-02-14T14:43:06.209+00:00Visits<span style="font-weight:bold;">The Newspaper House</span> is a piece of public art making use of YOUR newspapers in Gillett Square from <span style="font-weight:bold;">March </span><span style="font-weight:bold;">3rd till March 9th</span>.<br /><br />Come once to bring newspapers that week, come again to see the finished piece on March 8th @ 2pm! Sumer Erek, the artist will unveil.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_owKKGQh2St8/R7Qp8HINL4I/AAAAAAAAAIc/640kOim17M4/s1600-h/GSq+Location+Map+copy.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_owKKGQh2St8/R7Qp8HINL4I/AAAAAAAAAIc/640kOim17M4/s200/GSq+Location+Map+copy.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5166800785183158146" /></a><br /><br />The project is produced by <span style="font-weight:bold;">Creative City</span>. It is a partnership with Hackney Council, Gillett Squared, and supported by UnLtd, Arts Council England, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation.<br /><br />www.myspace.com/newspaperhouse<br />www.creative-city.co.uk<br />karen[@]creative-city.co.uk for info<br />press[@]creative-city.co.uk for press<br /><br />Writing by Suzana Vaz, photo montage by Luiz Antonio Rocfta, for Creative City<br /><br />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.<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_owKKGQh2St8/R7QpH3INL3I/AAAAAAAAAIU/yECWrO4bAF0/s1600-h/pano1+copy.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_owKKGQh2St8/R7QpH3INL3I/AAAAAAAAAIU/yECWrO4bAF0/s200/pano1+copy.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5166799887534993266" /></a><br /><br /><br />"'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. <br /><br />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. <br /><br />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.<br /><br />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..."<br /><br />Suzana Vaz, 10 February 2008<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_owKKGQh2St8/R7Qo2XINL2I/AAAAAAAAAIM/ueHzuf13wH0/s1600-h/Pano+3.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_owKKGQh2St8/R7Qo2XINL2I/AAAAAAAAAIM/ueHzuf13wH0/s200/Pano+3.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5166799586887282530" /></a>Creative Cityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04462685868344070636noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2568221767935929735.post-19242314798593140822008-02-12T11:33:00.001+00:002008-02-13T12:31:09.250+00:00Launch photographs!The Newspaper House is a piece of public art making use of YOUR newspapers in Gillett Square from March 3rd till March 10th.<br /><br />Come once to bring newspapers that week, come again to see the finished piece on March 8th @ 2pm! Sumer Erek, the artist will unveil.<br /><br />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.<br /><br />www.myspace.com/newspaperhouse<br />www.creative-city.co.uk<br /><br />Photographs by Ramon Andarias for Creative City<br /><br />All text and images are copyright of the author. 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. <br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_owKKGQh2St8/R7GRXXINL0I/AAAAAAAAAH8/CcOtpnJLjS8/s1600-h/_MG_2081+copy.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_owKKGQh2St8/R7GRXXINL0I/AAAAAAAAAH8/CcOtpnJLjS8/s200/_MG_2081+copy.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5166070078102122306" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_owKKGQh2St8/R7GRPXINLzI/AAAAAAAAAH0/dEf2gZC3H6s/s1600-h/_MG_2122+copy.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_owKKGQh2St8/R7GRPXINLzI/AAAAAAAAAH0/dEf2gZC3H6s/s200/_MG_2122+copy.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5166069940663168818" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_owKKGQh2St8/R7GQ8HINLyI/AAAAAAAAAHs/NHUuN5TEwVk/s1600-h/_MG_2138+copy.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; 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cursor:hand;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_owKKGQh2St8/R7GN5XINLUI/AAAAAAAAAD8/nmU0kl8_iRY/s200/_MG_2081+copy.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5166066264171162946" /></a>Creative Cityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04462685868344070636noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2568221767935929735.post-31735759713444742812008-02-08T11:46:00.002+00:002008-03-13T14:51:26.090+00:00Launched!The Newspaper House is a piece of public art making use of YOUR newspapers in Gillett Square from March 3rd till March 10th. <br /><br />Come once to bring newspapers that week, come again to see the finished piece on March 8th @ 2pm! Sumer Erek, the artist will unveil.<br /><br />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.<br /><br /><br />///<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">The Newspaper House launched</span>!<br /><br />So fantastic to see an idea taking shape. Amazing to see all the hard work being appreciated.<br /><br />It was the opportunity to see an unfinished piece and understand how it will work on Gillett Square, and for us to gauge feedback.<br /><br /><br />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?...<br /><br />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.<br /><br />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.<br /><br /><br />Joanne, Paola, Hannah and Pippa had the production line ready for visitors and had everyone rolling sticks, it was fun.<br /><br />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.<br /><br /><br />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.<br /><br />Last night thanks:<br />Emma Jones (Gillett Squared), Jojo Beechey, Paola, Hannah, Pippa, Mehmet, Gillian Burton, Ramon, Chris, Rosie, Schu Khan, Gwen and Imogen Welch (The Paper Trail).<br /><br /><br />///<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Walk About with Project Freesheet</span><br /><br />On <span style="font-weight:bold;">Wed Feb 27th</span>. Project Freesheet is looking to collect 10,000 newspapers. <br /><br />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.<br /><br />These newspapers are coming to the Newspaper House afterwards, being counted, and added to the House of course to make it grow.<br /><br />Register your interest at<br />karen[@]projectfreesheet.com<br /><br /><br />///<br /><br /><br />The Newspaper House was featured in three Turkish newspapers! One of which in Cyprus, where Sumer Erek is from.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Londra Gazete - 7 Feb </span><br /><br />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.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Toplum Postası - 7 Feb</span><br /><br />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.<br /><br />///<br /><br />Press info Gillian :: press[@]creative-city.co.uk 07 921 956 164<br />Project info Karen :: karen[@]creative-city.co.uk 07 989 954 414Creative Cityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04462685868344070636noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2568221767935929735.post-78831977062884680972008-02-04T22:17:00.000+00:002008-02-05T12:04:33.286+00:00Preview invitation Thursday 7 Feb // 4 - 9pm Meet Sumer Erek, understand his challengeThe 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 <br /><br />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).<br /><br />The Newspaper House<br />March 3 - 9 2008<br />Gillett Square<br />Dalston N16<br /><br /><br />///<br /><br /><br />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!<br /><br />¬ First, we have to make sure we understand the technical hurdles and evaluate the time it takes to get round them<br /><br />¬ Second it is a case of finding a team that can deliver <br /><br />¬ Third, it has to work to plan<br /><br />¬ 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!<br /><br /><br />Part of this process we are showing on <span style="font-weight:bold;">Thursday 7 Feb 4 - 9pm</span> <br />@ St Barnasbas Hall<br />Shacklewell Row<br />London E8 2EA <br /><br />If you read this, then please come along.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Sumer will be there explaining the highs and lows, the techniques, the findings, the intricacies of his masterpiece.</span> <br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_owKKGQh2St8/R6g9--K5AeI/AAAAAAAAADc/QDt2bIUFcoo/s1600-h/launch-inv.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_owKKGQh2St8/R6g9--K5AeI/AAAAAAAAADc/QDt2bIUFcoo/s200/launch-inv.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5163445124830134754" /></a><br /><br /><http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=Shacklewell+Row,+Hackney,+London+E8,+United+Kingdom&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=44.658568,73.652344&ie=UTF8&cd=1&geocode=0,51.552773,-0.071501&z=16&iwloc=addr&om=0><br /><br /><br />//<br /><br /><br />Interest on the project is growing! and we have had 2 more very valuable articles this week!<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Hackney Today Jan 28th</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_owKKGQh2St8/R6g-bOK5AgI/AAAAAAAAADs/okG7hMXZ2cc/s1600-h/Hackney+Today+28+Jan+08+smll.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_owKKGQh2St8/R6g-bOK5AgI/AAAAAAAAADs/okG7hMXZ2cc/s200/Hackney+Today+28+Jan+08+smll.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5163445610161439234" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Evening Standard Jan 31st</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_owKKGQh2St8/R6g-PuK5AfI/AAAAAAAAADk/dD7qfNd7QK0/s1600-h/Evening-Standard-31-Jan-08-.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_owKKGQh2St8/R6g-PuK5AfI/AAAAAAAAADk/dD7qfNd7QK0/s200/Evening-Standard-31-Jan-08-.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5163445412592943602" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br />//<br /><br /><br />We would also like to thank Paola, Emily Gray, Jo Beechey, Hannah for helping us through all this! <br /><br /><br />//<br /><br /><br />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::<br /><br />" At Shackelwell Row, easy access alighting from Dalston Kingsland Station or Dalston Junction by bus.<br /><br />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. <br /><br />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.<br /><br />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.<br /><br />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.<br /><br />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."Creative Cityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04462685868344070636noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2568221767935929735.post-35806185879439989482008-01-25T18:57:00.000+00:002008-02-04T22:17:27.118+00:00We're IN<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_owKKGQh2St8/R5o0juK5AcI/AAAAAAAAADM/mcy_ctdHIAM/s1600-h/newspaperhouse-drowning%2Blogo.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_owKKGQh2St8/R5o0juK5AcI/AAAAAAAAADM/mcy_ctdHIAM/s200/newspaperhouse-drowning%2Blogo.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5159494111400100290" /></a><br /><br />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!<br /><br /><br />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. <br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_owKKGQh2St8/R5o0suK5AdI/AAAAAAAAADU/W44OaL4Uqac/s1600-h/logo.gif"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_owKKGQh2St8/R5o0suK5AdI/AAAAAAAAADU/W44OaL4Uqac/s200/logo.gif" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5159494266018922962" /></a><br /><br />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.<br /><br /><br />The 27th Feb, <span style="font-weight:bold;">WALK ABOUT</span> newspaper collection day by<span style="font-weight:bold;"> Project Freesheet</span> is confirmed! <br /><br />Register your interest in participating in the collection by emailing karen@projectfreesheet.org<br /><br />We will meet at 3pm and collect newspapers till 8pm, where will we meet for a photo at Ken's Town Hall!<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_owKKGQh2St8/R5ozM-K5AbI/AAAAAAAAADE/7YURXdTWzyI/s1600-h/Walk+About.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_owKKGQh2St8/R5ozM-K5AbI/AAAAAAAAADE/7YURXdTWzyI/s200/Walk+About.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5159492621046448562" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br />Over and out. More news next week!Creative Cityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04462685868344070636noreply@blogger.com0