students started a mammoth art performance today as they attempted to do 50000 prostrations to a large photograph of the new prime minister gordon brown outside camberwell college of arts in south london the event is due to last one week finishing on G day next wednesday 27th june the day that gordon brown takes up his new post as the leader of the country....more soon for details see below or call 07944533010
In a marathon art performance that will last one week, students from Camberwell College of the Arts are to prostrate themselves an incredible 50,000 times in front of a temporary shrine and giant photograph of the new Prime Minister Gordon Brown. Starting on Wednesday 20th June 2007 at 10am outside Camberwell College on Peckham Road the students will work in ten hour shifts in an attempt to reach their target.
They expect to finish on the day Gordon Brown officially takes up office on the 27th June 2007. The mammoth adoration has been organised by the students in an attempt to ask the Prime Minister to consider 2 policy changes as he takes up his new post. Number 1, end student debt and number 2, bring the troops home from Iraq and Afghanistan.
Ryan, a spokesman for the students says, "Its going to be tough, we have a strong team of students but one week of constant prostrating will be hard, we believe we can do 720 prostrations an hour, but a target of 50,000 is a lot. We all love Gordon and think he will make a fantastic Prime Minster and this is our way of expressing our love, adoration and belief in Gordon, we just want him to make these policy changes. Now we want him to believe in us and wipe out our student loans so we can start our lives after university debt free. And stop the wars. All hail our new leader, Gordon Brown, lets start a fresh." The shrine will be decorated with flowers and goodwill messages and hopefully people will come from far and wide bringing offerings to show their support for the new Prime Minister.
for more info ryan 07877376395 or 07944533010
This event is part of the Camberwell College of the Arts Degree show. Camberwell College Degree Show dates Tuesday 19 - Saturday 23 June 2007 Tuesday - Friday 9am - 8pm; Saturday 11am - 4pm
A student from Camberwell College of the Arts has created what is believed to be the world's largest hair sculpture, for her final degree show. Naomi St. Claire-Clarke, 34 of Camberwell in South London has built the 3 metre high by 2.5 metre by 2.7 metre baroque hair sculpture from millions of strands of human and artificial hair, which includes an assortment of both frizzy and straight hair, as well as braids, afro balls and kiss curls most of which has been brought from local Peckham hairdressers and shops. The sculpture contains the DNA of hundreds of people, it is literally the worlds largest wig, but it is unfortunately unwearable. So far it has taken 4 months to construct and the end is finally in sight!
Naomi says that the sculpture is not a homage to either Russell Brand or Amy Winehouse. Naomi comments, `My work was inspired by a recent trip with my family to Ghana, where I bought a vodoun doll, which I became completely attached too and I actually now sleep with It. My Dad is from Barbados where Ghanian slaves were transported too and I wanted to reference this fact, and to look at the way hair has played a vital role within culture and religion over the centuries and this still remains true today. I have called my giant hair sculpture `The Unconscious Significance of Hair'.
for more info call Naomi on 07762752576 or Matt Tillett on 02075147914 or go to http://camberwellcollegenews.blogspot.com/
Degree Show dates Tuesday 19 - Saturday 23 June 2007Tuesday - Friday 9am - 8pm; Saturday 11am - 4pm
Students from Camberwell College of the Arts are to take to the streets of North London and offer people the opportunity of a free taxi ride to go south. The event/performance is part of their ongoing research into the phenomenon of the North and South differences and is to take place on Thursday 31st May 2007 starting at 10am outside Charing Cross train station and is part of the students submission for their Degree Show. Apparently there are literally tens of thousands of North Londoners who for one reason or another have never been south of the river. They are spending their student savings on the rent of a black taxi which they have booked for one day to discover why it is people do not want to travel south. for more info call ryan 07877376395 or 07955433010
Degree Show dates Tuesday 19 - Saturday 23 June 2007 Tuesday - Friday 9am - 8pm; Saturday 11am - 4pm
I think this years Degree Show at Camberwell is going to be the best one ever, we are all looking forward to it enormously. Christopher Sharrock, Dean, Camberwell College of the Arts.
Students from Camberwell College of the Arts are to take to the streets of North London and offer people the opportunity of a free taxi ride to go south. The event/performance is part of their ongoing research into the phenomenon of the North and South differences and is to take place on Thursday 31st May 2007 starting at 10am outside Charing Cross train station and is part of the students submission for their Degree Show. Apparently there are literally tens of thousands of North Londoners who for one reason or another have never been south of the river. They are spending their student savings on the rent of a black taxi which they have booked for one day to discover why it is people do not want to travel south. for more info call ryan 07877376395 or 07955433010
Degree Show dates Tuesday 19 - Saturday 23 June 2007 Tuesday - Friday 9am - 8pm; Saturday 11am - 4pm
