SELECTED RESIDENCIES / INSTALLATIONS

2015

Black Light Open Studio at Tate Modern as part of the ‘Light and Dark Matters’ series Labern&Lloyd collaborated with scientists hosted by The Institute of Physics for the International Year of Light. Together the artists invited a large public audience to engage with practicing scientists in a day of Black Light and open critical dialogue and research. Framed by an installation drawn from the artists’ ongoing research into the hidden at this critical point in history, ultraviolet light revealed the disjuncture between extra-ordinary scientific explorations across the full spectrum of light and the endemic slow violence caused by human domestic light poverty across the world.

Labern&Lloyd chose the human labour and skill of hand cutting the paper stencils over a period of 12 hours, matching the year round daylight hours on the line of the equator experienced by many people living with the consequences of light poverty; exhibiting the three 5 metre x 1.5 metre prints, screened in the same UV used by the British Security Industry to track our movements, identity and money. The Public Typing Pool© with its antique manual typewriters fitted with invisible UV inked typewriter ribbons, welcomed the public to contribute to an ever growing installation of contemporary concerns, made from UV ink texts and drawings revealed only through the use of hand held Black Light torches.

2014 – 2015

Some[w]Here, Artists commission on Nine Elms estates, Wandsworth: an artist led project using diverse media including live art, film, object making and three symposia Some[w]HERE NOW and a zine publication, Manual for Possible Projects on the Horizon Autumn 2014 – Summer 2015 the drawing shed was commissioned by Wandsworth Arts Team, Enable and funded by ACE Grants for the Arts and Public Health in Nine Elms to run Some[w]Here across three housing estates, Working with residents, performance artists and ‘re-makers’, a series of small ‘useless’ mobile structures – drawing upon the history/culture of the Soap Box and Go-Cart – acted as platforms from and through which older people shared with young people the role of imagination in pre second world war street play and how this translated into survivability and the valuing of cultural difference within communities. Meaningful conversations across the estates, cultures and generations culminated in Some[w]Here Now – The Day of Small Conversations, at Pump House Gallery in Battersea Park on June 9, in which artists, local people, academics and interested others were invited to join the drawing shed for an open dialogue around how artists may work collaboratively with ‘local’ communities and in ‘public’ places, in the context of Now. This was preceded by three days of public SoapBox making in the gallery.

2014

Live art residency programmes, East London estates and Winns Gallery, E17
the drawing shed co-curated two projects with artist Jordan McKenzie and the Live Art Development Agency (LADA). Cara Courage (PHD) from Brighton University worked alongside projects as ‘thinker in residence’ informing a new book on place-making and artists:

LiveElse[W]here commissioned performance artists and invited local residents for short residencies using project space LockUpNumber11, spring/summer 2014.

IdeasFromElse[W]here, June/July 2014, was a month long ‘arts laboratory’ space in Winns Gallery, Lloyd Park E17 co-curating 51 artists work with Jordan McKenzie, also using the grounds of the park (close to the estates) as spaces to make new work, try things out and enjoy a culture of making, ‘not knowing’, experimentation and performance.

2014

Artificial Sunshine: Black Light installation, Bury Light night, Bury, Greater Manchester
Following on from the success of The Public Typing Pool©, Lloyd&Labern were commissioned to produce a light work for Bury Light Night, October 2014, which manifested in their Black Light artwork, Artificial Sunshine. Here the artists flooded the street and exterior of Bury Art Museum and Sculpture Centre with a ‘Smog of Black Light’ from 8 huge UV flood lights located behind metal barricades positioned in front of the Fusiliers’ Army Museum. Mirroring the spectacle of the world’s first 8 electric streetlights that marked the beginning of Blackpool Illuminations in 1879, and now in 2014, purposefully using the spectrum of light invisible to the human eye. From War to Art. The huge public audience activated the work, wearing their black festival wristbands printed with the artists’ devised texts holding extraordinary ideas in UV ink, or holding into the Black Light larger sheets of texts only readable when participants stood within and as a part of the work itself.

2014

Artists-in-residence: Text Festival, Bury Sculpture Centre, Bury Manchester

with The Public Typing Pool© and #civil_uncivil, sharing with artist Laurence Weiner the launch of the new Sculpture Centre. Using the donated manual typewriters, Lloyd&Labern worked with local participants unpicking Richard Sennett’s text: Together, to develop a ‘scored’ public performance on Twitter, exploring the civil and the uncivil and the importance of civil disobedience in troubling the construct of ‘Civility’. The artists also made new works across the four month residency.

2013

Irregular Bulletin residency – Arlington House homeless hostel London /Space Studios
A six month residency with Arlington residents, creating a community workshop atmosphere around the ideological concept of ‘The Irregular Bulletin’ – inspired by avant garde artists and drawing from popular culture and radical forms of poetry – leading to a public exhibition on site, taking the form of placards carrying screen printed image and text created with residents as both a personal and political take on the world, alongside a pop up café during the Private View in partnership with City Dining, and the more thoughtful and profoundly beautiful series of ‘lost prints’.

2013

Screens in the Wild residency – Twitter/Instagram live art project with Bartlett at UCL, exploring social media as a creative tool, holding complicated conversations around the issues of work, mental health and housing, inviting personal and network responses to questions of responsibility for homelessness. This was precursor to the drawing shed’s BasicSeven#7 platform events which took place in E17 in Waltham Forest as a series of critical and inclusive arts events / workshops /exhibitions and encounters on the theme of ‘homelessness, housing, mental health and work’, including support for a campaign to save the local soup kitchen February 2013 to January 2014.

2013-14

Peddler of Ideas, LUPA garden party, Bethnal Green estate, London E2, / E17 Garden Party Labern&Lloyd live art action using Instagram to engage the public in an exchange of impossible and imaginative ideas.

2013-14

PeopleLikeUs – series of contemporary co-authored projects using Twitter, Film, performance and writing, and exhibition with STRANGER : NEIGHBOUR– artists Labern&Lloyd in residence at Winns Gallery, a ‘scored’ live art writing Twitter Performance, The Public Typing Pool©, a writer, a spoken word poet, a three day writing workshop at William Morris Gallery and an inter-generational and culturally-diverse group of 16 Waltham Forest residents.

2010-2012

Created by the PeopleLikeUs Collective as screen-printed posters across estate signage as part of the E17 Arts Trail. For three years, Labern&Lloyd used the existing signage that looms large and loudly punctuates the two estates, creating screen-printed text/visual posters with participants, developing skills of local people to forge deeper connections with their neighbours. These temporary Twitter-based ‘conversations’ changed the tempo of the public spaces, shifting them into ‘common’ space with Labern&Lloyd as artists negotiating the content of the posters as they were made, and working with residents – children, teenagers and adults – ‘to drag the poetic through the every day’.

2011

Festival Here: a teenage girls-led intergenerational Festival, East London estates, led by the Young Women’s Estate-based Performance Project – the drawing shed’s project active since 2010 – with the support of Roisin Feeney, performance director from The Albany, and estate-based Friends’ group “…Ask Freda”. The festival centred around the girls’ new performative work that used film, Twitter and den-making, inspired by the girls’ use of the estate quad spaces to explore how teenage girls use ‘public’ spaces, how contested these spaces are (who owns them?), and how they can feel safer to use local spaces / streets – redefining and examining their rights to be more visible as young women within and across their own communities.

2011

Heart of Doha Qatar – consultancy / visiting artists: Labern&Lloyd set up an international residency structure for a Found Objects project from objects retrieved from homes and commercial spaces before the centre of the old city, last occupied by migrant workers, was demolished. The commission included a brief for Doha artists and architecture students on a mobile drawing / project space and artists’ residency programme.

2011

An Assembly of Opinions, The People’s Supermarket, London WC1; the drawing shed’s PrintBike work “An Assembly of Opinions” was shown throughout August across the window of the People’s Supermarket WC1. For the central window, Labern&Lloyd mono-printed images of food aid, barricades of white sacks, body bags, oil, as ‘one offs’ in repeat patterns on British newspapers carrying stories of world political crises. The use of mono-print acted as a contradiction to the continual occurrence of media reporting on the ‘natural disaster’ of man made world famine, creating a work that was eerily poetic – ghostly even – and drew the viewer in to read critical fragments of reportage juxtaposed with recurring world famine & so exposing / inviting the connections. Labern&Lloyd also workshopped with PrintBike as part of the Adhocracy Festival, August 6-7, 2011 @ Rich Mix, Bethnal Green, E1.

2011

DuckHouse for East London park – Labern&Lloyd ‘re roofed’ the Langthorne Park’s Duck House in mono-printed tiles to create a temporary work for the London Borough of Waltham Forest as a part of the Fellowship Festival, cleverly built to include the hidden underbelly of the park’s debris concealed under a hand drawn-off veil of gold acetate suspended tiles, designed to only reveal prints of guns, knives and used condoms when it rained and became transparent.

2010

Pentonville Prison / Southbank University: an immersive installation/workshop for Prisoners and Family day, on the theme of a Family Summer Picnic, drawn across the fully papered out Legal space and opposite, on each of the locked down repurposed ‘visitor’ tables.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2015 Black Light, Sunday in the Park with Ed, Display Gallery, London EC1A

2014 Neighbour : Stranger & The Public Typing Pool©, Bury Text Festival, Bury Sculpture Centre

2013 Stranger : Neighbour & The Lost Print, Winns Gallery, Lloyd Park, London E17

2011 An Assembly of Opinions: Adhocracy Festival commission, New Work Network, People’s Supermarket, London WC1

SELECTED CONFERENCE PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS

2016 “Breaks, Flows and Interruptions: Discovering new questions through collaborative research”, RGS_IBG Annual International Conference 2016, Royal Geographic Society, London

2016 “Acting upon, and being acted upon, I do not act alone: Affect and Social Media: Desiring a plurality of Community” – paper – Social Media and Affect Symposium, UEL

2016 Co-chair with Counterpoints Arts: Learning Lab, Hoxton, London, and responder in Migration Lab, Dublin with Counterpoints Arts and British Council

2014 LiveElse[W]here, speakers at Conference: ‘Living with the cuts: Policy, politics and everyday lives in the recession’, British Library, Euston Road, London NW1

2014 Presentation: Socially engaged practice, Conference hosted by UCL/Anchor & Magnet, London 2014-16 The work of artists and art in the community, and ‘Interrogating Thresholds’ Institute of Arts in Therapy and Education (IATE), London N1

2013 What is cultural well-being? – provocation, Wandsworth Arts Council, London SW11

2013 the drawing shed, presentation at: (Look At The E(s)tate We Are In), DIY summit meeting, Bethnal Green council estate, London E2

2013 City Methodologies, UCL installation and presentation, London E17

2012 The role of creative dialogue in fostering compassion within and across communities: paper for BAAT Conference: Compassion and the Image: Engagement with fear of affiliative emotions, The City Temple, Holborn Viaduct, London EC1

2012 the drawing shed, provocation as part of seminar: Creatively building resilient communities, with UEL, Creative Factory, Rotterdam

2011 the drawing shed presentation/workshop, The Bigger Picture, BAAT with LAHF, Claremont House, London N1

2010 the drawing shed presentation, Taking Part Conference, Goldsmiths College

PUBLICATIONS

2015 Some[w]Here, zine publication

2014 Stranger : Neighbour poetry Anthology, including poems by Labern&Lloyd, with Arvon