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
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
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
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
Touring Territories
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
