ARTISTS TALKING

# 41 [14 October 2011]

Following our visit to the Radar Museum, I feel inundated by a rather large amount of new information. All flashing and pulsating lights and turning, whirring machines. We are barely scratching the surface of what is out there in terms of UFO-sighting investigation, or X-Raids or Ghost Planes in East Anglia.  There has been a lot and now, focussed on it, I keep hearing of more and more. Can it really be the expansivity of the skies and the historic proliferation of air fields? 

I'm not sure where to start with blog posting of pictures and the like, so here is the quite subdued diagram of the (Charlie?) ghost plane trajectory. Also, I've been staring at different designs for the Touring Territories poster all day and have alien overload.

Dominique Rey

# 42 [15 October 2011]

Posting

One of the real joys of this project is our being able to work with both the virtual (internet research and this blog) and the physical (visiting places and sending things to Aid and Abet for display).

The radar museum badge was posted to Aid and Abet today in a rather interesting envelope I found on my shelf.

Nicola Naismith

# 43 [16 October 2011]

Re: Operation Charlie

William Kent's encounter with 'Charlie' over East Anglia continued for 20  minutes as the ground controller supplied instructions and the navigator tried to capture the object on the Mosquito's radar.

Postcard sent to Aid & Abet.

Information by Dr David Clarke from www.uk-ufo.org/condign/histcharlie and http:www.project1947.com

The site continues: A Mosquito of No. 23 Sqdn scrambled at 2327 hrs with pilot F/L Kent.  An attempt was made to close when contact was made at 18,000 feet but ‘the observer was unable to hold it as the target was jerking violently’. Further contacts were obtained as the target fell rapidly to 2,000 feet, when both the blip and the mosquito disappeared below radar coverage.

Dominique Rey

# 44 [17 October 2011]

Designed the Rendlesham Forest research poster over the weekend. Approved the proof today. Hopefully they'll arrive on Friday. They're on flimsy paper again to give a slight newsprint feel, but not as thin as the forest traces posters from last week. The plan is to take a load of them to Aid & Abet on Saturday, when we do our talk, and pile them on the floor near the Satellite research show-and-tell table. The budget only stretched to 250 - so it is a limited edition by virtue of cost - the question is  - will the pile look 'pile-like' enough? Perhaps we can find a wooden pallet nearby and place them ontop?

Dominique Rey

# 45 [17 October 2011]

Sending things in

Further my last post, i requested an image from CJ at Aid and Abet to see how the objects we were sending in looked in the project space. As we havent been to the gallery since the project started everything has been posted or emailed in. The image shows a frame from the video made for the opening night of Space Exchange. Dominique and I will be at Aid and Abet on Saturday and look forward to seeing all our objects again, although actually they are not ours as we are gathering this research on behalf of Dave. Hope he likes them.

Nicola Naismith

# 46 [19 October 2011]

Postcard sent to Aid & Abet:

Flying Officer Sewart spent 6 days at RAF Neatishead on a mission to investigate "the unidentified high flying aircraft that have been plotted in recent months".  The report was completed on 27th January 1947, but is missing from the Public Record Office, listed as an attachment to the station logbook.

Information from www.uk-ufo.org

Dominique Rey

# 47 [19 October 2011]

Liverpool

We are taking a turn towards Liverpool for the next part of our project with Aid and Abet's Space Exchange project. As we are acting as research assistants for Dave Evans an artist from The Royal Standard in Liverppol, Dominique and I have taken an opportunity to consider Liverpool as rich territory for an artist talk.

The talk we will give will be focused on our own practice interests and consider the internet as a primary research source, as we both have only been to Liverppol once before. Dominique will be discussing sea forts and historical tours and i will be looking at factories and cycle clubs. We hope to travel to Liverpool to deliver the UFO materials to Dave and also perhaps take tours ourselves of the Liverpool area, revise our talk (if appropriate) and deliver it again to a Liverpool audience. But for now, we will give a talk about Liverpool in Cambridge this saturday, please come along.

Liverpool: An Inexpert View: Nicola Naismith & Dominique Rey

Artist talk at Aid and Abet, Stataion Road, Cambridge.

Saturday 22nd October 2011 @ 4pm

Free event

Nicola Naismith

# 48 [20 October 2011]

The focus has shifted mid-UFO-investigation to all things Liverpool, as we research aspects of that city for our talk this Saturday. All internet and from afar research, quite a contrast from our hands and feet-on forays into the two East Anglian UFO sites.

My Liverpool research has  taken me from Celia Fiennes and Daniel Defoe - both of whom highly praised Liverpool -  to images of the Liverpool Exchange buildings and World War Two Army Sea Forts. Quits a breadth, but all connected by way of my own thought processes. Sort of round-about and meandering.

Dominique Rey

# 49 [21 October 2011]

Editing my talk for the gallery tomorrow, I seem to have somehow broken iphoto. My head is full of Army Seafort specifications. I think I need some fresh air......

Dominique Rey

# 50 [23 October 2011]

Struggling with technology again today, trying to get some sound recordings from my p.c-only digital recorder onto the mac so that I can edit some radar footage to send in.  The devices and technologies are out of synch. What I need are some high-tech zap rays or some-such. I'll try again tomorrow evening.

Dominique Rey