So this the structure of our new web site. What is new: it will be trilingual, each project will be documented in a specific page, the background is a fully functional google map which will change according to where we are currently working. There’s still a lot of stuff to take care of, posts to be updated, project pages to be filled in, texts to be translated etc. So please be patient, we’ll get it ready as fast as we can.
From the 7th to the 25th of June the exhibition collecting the works produced by the participants in the first Perceptive Safari was on show at the amazing Purfleet Heritage Centre 
, which we visited during the Safari in March. We were given a nice space next to the Dracula-section. We would like to thank Alan and Susan Gosling and all the other members of the Centre for welcoming the exhibition so warmly.
Before that, on the 10th of May we returned to the places of the Safari with our friends Ana and Matthias for a revisitation.
We are currently organising a 5 day workshop in the mountains for a group of students of the Faculty of Design and Art of Bozen. In collaboration with Designistan , Tabea Glahs and Julia Maltry.
The exhibition collecting the works created by the participants of the first Safari in response to the landscape along the Thames in Essex will be on in the Hockney Gallery at the RCA from the 5th to the 8th of May as part of the Design Without Labels exhibition.
In the frame of the Design Without Labels exhibition we organised The Skills Workshop. Sharing skills of any kind is better than keeping them for yourself!
During our trip to Morocco in the Easter break we went to Ceuta, one of the two small Spanish enclaves in the North of the country in order to make a video about that part of the controversial southern boarder of the EU. The initial idea was to walk along the 9 Km long fence that separates Europe from Africa, but because of some problems we had with the Spanish boarder guard, for us it was only possible to film the fence in Benzù .
This should be the final cut:
We are currently taking part in the MAP/making (Music Art Performance) project, a collaboration between the RCA and the Guildhall School of Music. With a group of visual artists and musicians we are working towards a series of three collective audio-visual performances that will take place in Bath in the context of the Bath Music Festival at the beginning of June. Together with the cellists Tara Franks and Heather Truesdall and with the electronic musician Jo Willis we came up with a live piece on the theme of trauma, as the overall topic of the event is the mistreatment of children.
This Saturday, from 2 to 6 pm a part of 14.995 will be screened in the context of the Office of Real Time Activity , an experimental institution, which exists for the duration of the exhibition Friends of the Divided Mind , curated by 2nd year MA students in Curating Contemporary Art at the RCA. The Office of Real Time Activity is organised by Sepake Angiama, Harriet Godwin, Pamela Prado and Lisa Schmidt.
4 hours of Palestine-time-synchronised video and sound + some humus, falafel, pita bread and mint tea for those who will visit us.
Photos by Pamela Prado and Sepake Angiama
On the 14th and 15th of March 2009, our first Perceptive Safari took place. With a group of 22 people we walked from Rainham to Grays, along the Thames in Essex, on the outskirts of London. At the end of the first day’s walk we visited the Purfleet Heritage Center , administered and curated by a group of passionate amateurs. We spent the evening and the night in the village’s Royal Hotel. From there, the next morning we set out for the second half of the excursion. We walked towards Grays on a narrow path between the Thames and the industrialized land owned by different companies.
During the excursion people reflected on the landscape, exchanged ideas with each other and later produced works in response to the walk for an exhibition in May.
The idea behind the project is that the only way to understand a landscape and grasp its aura it to physically walk through it.
Perceptive Safari should evolve into is a series of four collective explorations of the layered landscapes on the outskirts of London. Each time the boarder formed by the M25 should be crossed from inside to outside.
We would like to thank
Adrien Parlange,
Alessandro Sambini,
Alexandre Bettler,
Anaïs Tondeur,
Anne Haaning,
Annie Callaghan,
Britt Hatzius,
Chris Paul Daniels,
Dolores Schlegel,
Ed Ilewellyn,
Eiko Azuma,
Gabriel Grandry,
Geetika Alok,
Joana Monteiro,
Kate Morrell,
Lara Garcia,
Leah Fusco,
Luke Moody,
Michael Powell,
Monica Naranjo Uribe,
Samantha Davey
and Tim Petch for joining the project.
Images: Monica Naranjo Uribe / Kate Morrell / BNA
See more images on the shared flickr account
The book containing different sampled texts and images related to the places we visited during the walk, which was given to our fellow explorers before the trip.
With the Design Without Labels group we spent a day building stuff at the Energy Cafe, a project-space run by Amy Plant and Ella Gibbs.
