HULL ART LAB, 53 HUMBER ST, HULL
PROGRAMME
JUNE
16
Bookville [Graeme Walker + Maggie Tran] arrives and starts making a mess.
17
P.I.Y [publish it yourself] workshop no.1 - A4 paper, thoughts and technical exercises for underground lo-fi publishers. 1-5pm. Bring your publishing ideas and problems to the surgery after the session is over. Drop in to the Publishathon or give us an email [info@bookville.co.uk or info@hullartlab.org] to get more info and sign up. 10 free places available.
18
Quiet Day. We're going to have sunday dinner.
19
Photocopier is here, scanners on their way! We're making messages in bottles. I wanted to make messages on helium balloons but it's too expensive [here's you chance to donate, you party people!]. I'm also making soap boxes for people to stand on and rant about things - catch those soon in Hull town centre...
20
PPP [play, publish, perform] workshop no.1 - A three day intensive workshop focusing on performance as publishing, culminating in performing and publishing directly to the public. It is recommended that participants attend all three days for the full effect. Drop in to the Publishathon or give us an email [info@bookville.co.uk or info@hullartlab.org] to get more info and sign up. 12 free places available.
21
PPP Workshop no.2
22
PPP Workshop no.3
23
Richard Hall, the 3rd member of Bookville is arriving to contribute to the chaos!
Zine Editorial, bring your ideas for a simultaneous web + paper zine publishing day on Friday the 30th June. We're going to sit round the table from 12pm onwards, drink coffee and decide what's going to happen.
24
P.I.Y workshop no.2 - Publishing, set up your own weblog, learn how to put different kinds of books together and how to put the pages in the right position. This is going to be quite a long day, starting at 10am, so we suggest bringing your own lunch.
Exploding Alphabets + Nothing Happens Here - An evening of freeform rants, improv, performance, noise, poetry, soundscapes and cups of tea. Get up and join in. No old work please. Lo/No-tech preferred... from 7pm.
25
Meet up with us at Hull Art Lab between 12 and 12:30 and come along to Ye Olde Black Boy pub for publishing, Interventions and nice, greasy food. If you ever thought a beermat was just there to put your glass on, turn up and be amazed... [probably]
26
Stencil making today I think. Bring in clothes and any spare spray paint you've got and we'll spend the afternoon pimping you up!
27
Adam Thomas and friends from Exploding Alphabets will descend upon us for an action packed event of spoken word, poetry and an almost inconceivable amount of etc in a night called ALL THE WAY! Time to be confirmed...
28
Rotterdam based project The Bart Store [http://bartstore.blogspot.com] have been gived a brief to come up with an art event to be broadcast over the world wide web. We're going to project their work live in the Publishathon space via Skype [free phone calls] and a webcam. Time to be confirmed...
29
An evening of artists film and video. Co-Curated with Slack Video. 9pm at The Lamp, Norfolk St.
30
The result of the editorial where the you will bring along the finished ideas for publishing. If you didn't make the Editorial check the weblog, keep in touch and come along anyway.
JULY
01
P.I.Y workshop no.3 - Binding, we're going to try perfect binding seeing as though we've got about 5 gallons of glue. I'm also going to show you how to sew books up in 3 or 4 different ways and talk about other kinds of binding and finishing. These workshops will culminate in the revealing of the secrets of the BOOKVILLE SPECIAL! Book your place now to avoid any feelings of being left out. From 10am.
Camping and BBQ in the space. Bring your tent along if you haven't already and spend the night eating burnt food and singing scout songs! From 6pm. Carnivores, omnivores and herbivores welcome to contribute their own ingredients. You can also make things, if you fancy it.
02
Massive publishing frenzy! + exhausted people drinking coffee and nursing their aching noggins.
As if all these events and workshops are not enough to get your creative juices flowing, other stuff includes; clothes- stencilling, tea-drinking, music- listening, idea-sharing, hanging-out, discussions and anything else we feel like at the time... especially making your own books and contributing them to The Marathon!
The Publishathon is open from 1pm unless otherwise stated. Please note that the programme will probably change [I think we will keep adding things]. All events are free. If you can, please donate any spare materials and shrapnel you have to the cause! In the time you've read this programme another publication has been made in Hull's biggest publishing marathon ever!
16.06.06
On the 16th there were still hundreds of speakers in the space from the last exhibition. We soon sorted it out, Bookville style into a beautiful work station.
17.06.06
Today [17th] was the first session of the PUBLISH IT YOURSELF workshop, which covered understanding paper qualities, in particular A4 paper. See the links to the right for both A4 paper and Publishing It Yourself.
18.06.06
Today was a quiet day. Last night I camped in the space, along with the spiders who took this photo. If anyone is coming and wants to bring a tent, feel free!
Hull Art Lab's Espen Jensen. With circular saw.
19.06.06
Bookville working late into the night!
20.06.06
Today was the first day of Maggie's Play, Perform and Publish workshop. See outline above.
PLAY, PUBLISH, PERFORM OUTLINE
21.06.06
The second day of Maggie's PPP workshop is totally happening! Participants did video performances in my tent then got blindfolded and led out into town. They've not come back yet...
22.06.06
TODAY was the final day of Maggie's PPP workshop. In the end only two participants saw it through to the end. Derek read poems out as his performance and then I asked him the following questions:
- Why do you throw your poems to the floor when you've finished reading them?
- Why do you move so awkwardly when you read?
- Why did you read so many? [he read about 25+]
- Why do you not make eye contact with your listeners?
- Why do you smile when you are reading out a serious poem?
- What distracts you when you read?
- What moves you?
These questions came from observing him read. We had quite a long session on the microphone where he answered everything thoughtfully. I then gave him half an hour in solitude to reflect and then present us a single poem of his choosing. Which he did.
Jo is yet to do her performance, but spent much of the day making the props required to make it happen - cardboard hides. Hull awaits with anticipation...
Alexander
Some views of the space this evening - the Publication shelf is filling up nicely, the speaker's corner is totally pimped up and ready for Nothing Happens Here on Saturday and at the bottom - the table... awaiting the zine editorial tomorrow.
Publishing Jam
I will be making 6lbs of "Homemade" marmalade in the space. What I need from you is home made labels and jars. Please come and take it away and give it to your friends.
Last Night...
At first things were going normally...
Maggie was busy on the typewriter...
For a long, long time
and at 5:23 AM, she enthusiastically took this photo [below] of yours truly
so I took one back.
23.06.06
Zine editorial today. Jo also carried on with her hide making [see 22.06.06]. The sun came out so we basked and I made certificates for everyone who felt.
Ladies and gentlemen, Richard Hall has arrived!
Print it out NOW!
24.06.06
Day 2 of the P.I.Y workshop - making a 16 page A6 book [photocopied + stapled] from scratch.
R. Hall at work converting the entire warehouse door in a chalk piece.
Busy, busy people - the publishathon publication count is now at 52!!
Nothing Happens Here - we heard poems, performances + semi-improv music. Exploding Alphabets has moved to Tuesday when Adamski + friends is coming from E/A in Newcastle for All The Way!
25.06.06
We spent 8 hours in the pub today for the Pub-foodathon! We ate salty snacks and made hundreds of labels for the pub's bottle collection. We decorated the toilets with post-it notes and afterwards, we burnt all the leftovers.
The Publishathon Playlist
What we're listening to - thanx to da Pseudonics
Devo - I'm a potato, Wesley Willis - The chicken cow, John Dolce - Shaddap you face, Kevin Blechdom - Binaca, Clem Snide - Weird, Elbow - Independent woman 1, The Ukranians - Anarchy in the UK, Lilliput - Die mat rosen, YMO - Tighten up [japanese gentlemen stand up please], Peter Sellers - She loves you, Melanie - Brand new key, The Waitresses - I know what boys like, Captain Beefheart - I love you, you big dummy, Cookie Monster - Cookie song, Baba Yaaga - Back in the ussr, Josephine Baker - Don't you touch my tomatoes, Pipilotti Rist - I like tv, The s2 key verbeek fairground orchestra - All my lovin, Steve Harley & The Cockney Rebel - Mr soft, Joanie Sommers - Johnny get angry, Kiki & Herb - I'm not waiting, Kevin Ayers - Hat, Brain Eno - Driving me backwards, Fiona Apple - Waltz [Better than fire], The Foundations - Build me up buttercup.
26.06.06
We write Monday 26th June, 6:48pm and the rain has again started tapping on the Hull Art Lab asbestos roof. William Harris is singing his 'Bullfrog Blues' and I am quietly contemplating the last 9 days of Bookville mayhem - well, not so much mayhem as controlled frenzy. The days come and go way too quick - 5pm is when we shut our gates to the public. By then we've been open 5 hours solid, but it feels more like 20 minutes - that's how much fun this project is! We started last Saturday, and courtesy of some peeps from ARC across the road, we had a few glasses of wine to celebrate! Nice! As one of the organisers, I have mostly kept to the sidelines during the workshops, but at every (frequent) tea/coffee-break the vibe is one of enthusiastic excitement amongst all the participants, and the conversations invariably consist of; "This is sooo cool - I cannot believe I haven't been to HAL before!" and "The Publishathon is such a great idea! I've been wanting something like this to happen for years!" which makes me go all warm and fuzzy inside... We've had impromtu in-house-performances, bookmaking, street-performances, badge-making, stencilling, film-screenings, improv-music, and more besides which escapes my rattled brain presently... Yesterday we spent the best part of 8 hours in the Black Boy Pub, creating a cartoon about the liberated Sea Trout, labelling about 130 bottels of beer, eating pickled eggs/crisps/nuts and generally, inadvertently, entertaining the other patrons of the establishment - and we still got up bright and early this morning to come back to HAL.. I know what the rest of the Publishathon is supposed to consist of - I've seen the programme - but I am certain I will have many a beautiful surprise yet courtesy of the Bookville-crew. Tomorrow (Tuesday) it is time for Exploding Alphabets - an evening of performance-ness, and on Thursday we trundle off to the Lamp for an evening of artist's short-films and video, and I've heard talk of a sleep-over and barbeque in HAL on Saturday..! This just gets better by the minute! That's it for the time being - I'll bother you again tomorrow with more thoughts/ideas/stuff & stuff - Over And Out!
Espen
Check out Hull Daily Mail, who've written stuff on us today and Pick Me Up online magazine, which has covered us several times and is basically great.
Jo's hides [below] are finally ready to go out in to the town centre tomorrow - the culmination of her work for the PPP workshop & I made t-shirts also [bottom].
27.06.06
Jo takes her hide around town and observes the people of Hull.
Then later on this evening we had Adam and Rory down from Exploding Alphabets for ALL THE WAY. And boy did we go all the way! We weren't sure what was going to happen, but we ended up going to Espen's house to get some instruments and we jammed the night away until 3 in the morning, with intermittent performances and readings thrown in for good measure.
28.06.06
Today we connected with The Bart Store in Rotterdam via the internet. They presented us with two pieces of work - an animation and a performance to video. It was painfully techno-illogical, but wonderful when we got it to work. The Bart Store is run by Nina Boas and Hester van Spijk and you can visit their blog here.
Adam Thomas, below, at work and with his book.
I heart tapes
The Bookville Publishathon mixtape - featuring on side 1: Adam [keys], Rory [guit], Espen [ars], Graeme [hitting things] and Yol [shouting] and on side 2: Jez [machine, glock + tinkling] and Maggie [tinkling also]. We're doing a first edition inc. handmade flyer booklet, sticker, badge with tape in envelope. It goes up to 10 and you can get a free one by sending Hull Art Lab a SAE. If we run out, we'll keep making the tape only, so that's what you might get if you're slow!
29 & 30.06.06
It's been a quiet couple of days. People have been engaged in quiet activity, perhaps awaiting tomorrow's madness. Jo's been out with her hides again, this time on the pier. I made some more stencils. We had a film night last night. Some nice books were made. We haven't had anything nicked yet, but we have been waking up in the space to the merry sound of JCBs destroying the neighbourhood. Tomorrow is the big, calamitous culmination day. People are going to camp. I'm going to make marmalade. There's going to be a BBQ [!] and we'll all Kum ba Yah and Green Grow the Rushes. Join us, in this, the final weekend, before we're gone and Hull is but a distant memory!
PROGRAMME: Sunrise (1min) Graeme Walker, Driving Success (2mins) Keith Bianchi, Another Language I Can't Speak (6mins) Neil Ira Needleman, Microphone Transitions : Mic, Brick, Mirror (1min) Jason Dee, Paper Cuts (1min) Wayne Wolton, Library (3mins) Tim Main, For Sol (2mins) Jemma Hutchins, While You Are Waiting II - Brew (0mins) Gary McKeown & Andrew Quinn, Battleship Untouchable (5mins) Graeme Walker, Piano Short (1min) Bob Levene, Process Climax (3mins) Stefanie Wyke & Chris Gladwin, Terminator (2mins) Graeme Walker, My First Film Noire (7mins) Neil Ira Needleman, Microphone Transitions : Mic Spray Can (1min) Jason Dee, Spoilsbury Toast Boy -2 (5mins) David Firth, Trailer Truths (2mins) Erica Scourti, Strawba The Greek (1min) Ray White, Decay (3mins) Pete McPartlan, A Silent Epidemic (3mins) Vidar Evensen, Coffeeshop Hell (4mins) Matt Sandbrook, While You Are Waiting IV - Phonebox (0mins) Gary McKeown & Andrew Quinn, Pointless (1min) Wayne Wolton, Scrr Scrr Twang Ting Scrr (2mins) Jemma Hutchins, The One and The Many (4mins) Andre Silva, Death of an Orchestra (4mins) Snake Beings, Microphone Transitions : Mic Extension (2mins) Jason Dee. Going Dutch (27mins) Stefan Gray. Total 98mins approx. That's it. Thanks to Slack Video, HAL, JJP and Artpleasure.
01.07.06
Today was the final PIY workshop, which focussed on binding. I'm going to publish as many of the techniques I've described on the PIY weblogas I can. In the evening we had a campfire, sang songs, dressed up in twigs and burnt the England flag [I'll try to get the video of this for the BV website]. It was beautiful.
Panoramathon
Published & reclaimed
We reclaimed England last night by burning the St George Flag. It didn't really burn, but melted into a lump [pictured]. I also reclaimed St George's day from the fascists last April 29th in the form of a Mummer's play, performed in the woods in Rotterdam. The lump is goint to be put in a box, which people can look at.
Today is the last day! Thanx to everyone who did things here. People are still doing things as I write this and hopefully, people will still be doing things after we've gone.
