Michael Shaw - Prepared Travelcards #031, The Museum of the People, 2009

Michael Shaw
Prepared Travelcards #031, 2009
Travelcards, Bell & Howell Language Master, Busking Amp, Tape, Hat
Dimensions variable

For this Loop I collected travel cards and train tickets from the visitors to the gallery starting at the private view and built up the loop threw out the duration of the exhibition. Photo from private view.

Photo from:
The Museum of the People
Utrophia Project Space
17th July 2009- 31st July 2009

Press release:
The inaugural exhibition of the Museum of the People is a group show and will feature elements of the Museum's current collection along with an electronic music symposium DJ Tendraw and performance from Coco Banks on the opening.

"History is who we are and why we are the way we are" David C. McCullough....

The Museum of the People is a museum collection made by ordinary people and artists for the people. The museum collection will allow spectators to access historical and contemporary events through visual art, sculpture, performance, and audio recordings.

This unique museum relates directly to peoples' own history and experience offering personal, independent and idiosyncratic aspects of the history of our world.

"All history is contemporary history" - Benedetto Croce....

Essentially the Museum of the People exists to explore hidden histories, challenge notions of objectivity and re-interpret historical events from a contemporary perspective.

For the museum's first exhibition the themes explored will include: 'The People and the Law,' 'The People and the Land,' 'The People on Your Street'.

The Museum of the People invites spectators to participate in the creation of contemporary legacies and contribute their own record of contemporary events for posterity.....

Curator: Evie Manning

Featured artists (the People): Jono Allen, Stephen Molyneux, Ruth Fettis, Christina Mitrentse, Garry Cook, Michelle Wren, Emma Grant, Thom Shaw, Ryan Ormonde, Ben Cummins, Michael Shaw, Eva Datta, Rachel Johnston, Matt Smith, Rob Bidder, Andrew Kerr, Karin Van Der Plass, Naomi Smyth, Jason Beech, Amy Ferguson, Astrid Sarkissian, Amy Clarkson, Giuliana Sommantico, Katarzyna Perlak, Sam Pullin, Coco Banks, Kate Guscott and Yvie Mason.

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• DJ Tendraw
• Utrophia
• Dada
• Michael Shaw
• The Gluerooms
• Experimental
• Sound
• Art
• Sound Art
• Kinetic
• Sculpture
• Improv
• Action
• Performance
• Modified Instruments
• DIY
• Circuit Bending
• Bending
• Bent
• Mod
• Hack
• Repurposed
• Recycled
• Audio Tape
• Ferric Oxide
• Loop
• Travelcards
• Bell & Howell
• Language Master
• Busking
• Amp
• Tape
• Hat

[grahamdunning]

Great stuff. I'd actually been collecting train tickets found on the street with the idea of doing this recently!