UP Projects international!

We waved goodbye to Curator Emma Underhill today, as she sets off to deliver a Portavilion programme all the way over in New Zealand!  Working alongside Auckland based artists Cut Collective; the Portavilion will host several exciting events as part of Splore Festival 2012. 

With the festival kicking off in just over a fortnight, we will be sure you keep you updated... as UP Projects officially goes Kiwi!

BRAND NEW ANIMATION MY ARTIST MARKUS VATER!

Our Secret Garden Project artist in residence - Markus Vater - has just created a brand new animation entitled 'The Secret Garden'. Click here to view.

During his six month residency, Markus is creating a series of drawings, animations and events that will keep the Secret Garden Project growing during the winter months. 

Don't forget to tell us what you think by emailing info@upprojects.com or writing on our Facebook wall. 

The Floating Cinema Documentary is available to view online now!

Click here to view.

Check out the new look film page on the Floating Cinema website too, for all the great films from the Summer.

Photo: Louise Joly 

New drawings created by artist Markus Vater on the website!

Click here to view.

Markus Vater is the second Secret Garden Project artist in residence for 2011- April 2012. Information about forthcoming events coming soon! 

Markus Vater is our new Secret Garden Artist in Residence!

We are delighted to announce that artist Markus Vater is our second Secret Garden Project Artist in Residence.

Watch out for his drawings and animations which will be published online, through our newsletters and website, as well as via printed postcards, posters and a book.

More info  http://www.upprojects.com/secretgarden/projects/markus-vater-ndash-the-secret-garden-project-artist-in-residence-/12

Image credit; Markus Vater, Red-Light District, 2011

UP Projects head to New Zealand !

Now that the nights are drawing in, its exciting to be thinking about our next Portavilion project which will be at the Splore Festival.....on a beach....in New Zealand!

http://www.splore.net/

New Images of Tania Kovats' floating garden HABITAT at City Road Basin, Islington....

Available to view online now....

http://www.upprojects.com/secretgarden/projects/tania-kovats--habitat-/8

LAID TO REST Finale Procession - This Sunday at 3pm

A horse drawn procession and ceremonial brick burial will mark the finale of Serena Korda's Laid to Rest project this Sunday 18th at 3pm and has been listed as one of London's top five things to do by the Telegraph! 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/europe/uk/london/8757039/London-top-five-things-to-do-this-week.html

Image: The Bricks Keepers Band 

The Floating Cinema has launched!

See more www.floatingcinema.info 

Winter Garden by Sarah Butler

Read Sarah Butler's final winter garden piece for the Secret Garden Project here.

The Floating Cinema website now live!

Visit www.floatingcinema.info for full details on the action packed Floating Cinema events, screenings and tours programmed by the Cinema’s resident artists Somewhere (Karen Guthrie and Nina Pope), as well as the artists’ blog documenting the Cinema’s journey so far.

The Floating Cinema ‘home movie mash-up:’a waterways themed film footage call-out.

Artist duo Somewhere want your watery film footage to splice together for Floating Cinema screenings throughout the summer. Send UP Projects your film material as QuickTime files by 8th of June to be part of our unique waterways cinematic celebrations...

Download further information about the call-out here.

UP Projects is delighted to announce that it has become a National Portfolio Organisation.

Dan Graham's Triangular Pavilion With Circular Cut-Out Variation H in Holland Park for Portavilion 2008

The Floating Cinema design revealed!

The first design for the Floating Cinema for Portavilion 2011 has been revealed. Check www.portavilion.com for forthcoming information about the events, tours and screenings planned for this summer.

The Floating Cinema by Studio Weave for Portavilion 2011.  

UP Projects visited the magnificent Crossness Pumping Station in South London to shoot Serena Korda's film 'Laid to Rest'...

The Crossness Pumping Station was built by Sir Joseph Bazalgette as part of Victorian London's urgently needed main sewerage system. It was officially opened by the Prince of Wales in April 1865.

Serena Korda's film 'Laid to Rest' will be on display at the Wellcome Collection's forthcoming exhibition 'DIRT' opening 24 March 2011.

http://www.wellcomecollection.org/whats-on/exhibitions/dirt.aspx

The Brick Keepers Dancers at Crossness, February 2011. Image: Tai Shani. 

'Rosy in the Mix' made by Chocolate Films available to watch now!

'Rosy in the Mix' charts a day in the life of 'Rosy the ballerina' - the inflatable bubble-like pavilion made by German architects raumlaborberlin for Portavilion 2010 - at the Mix Festival in Burgess Park. The film is commissioned by Tate Modern and follows the DIY instrument making workshops run by Juneau Projects and Tate Modern taking part inside. 

Watch it here.

Secret Garden Project artists London Fieldworks shortlisted for The Architects' Journal Small Projects 2011!

We are very excited to see that London Fieldworks has been shortlisted for this prestigious award. London Fieldworks created the stunning sculptural installation, Spontaneous City in the Tree of Heaven, for UP Projects' Secret Garden Project in Duncan Terrace Gardens, Islington, and Chelsea's Cremone Gardens last summer.

The project that won them the Architects' Journal shortlisting is 'Outlandia,' a fantastical structure in the wilds of Glan Nevis, Scotland.

Follow this link to find out more.

Watch a short film clip of one of the "Dustercise" classes that happened in Somers Town this weekend....

Click here to watch.

Dustercise is a unique excerise technique developed by Serena Korda for her project 'Laid to Rest' for the Wellcome Trust. Dustercise combined working out and cleaning up leaving you with a healthy body and a tidy house!

Serena Korda in today's Guardian: "Dust a must as artist Serena Korda creates bricks for exhibition of dirt"

Click here to read the article.

Image: Artist Serena Korda, making bricks with dust she has collected from households and organisations. Photograph: Graham Turner for the Guardian

From dust to "Dustercise" : pop in on Serena at 24 Chalton Street!

Serena Korda is taking over a Pop-up shop at 24 Chalton Street, NW1 1JH. She'll be in  the space from Wednesday 12th - Sunday 16th January, meeting people, collecting dust samples and running "Dustercise" sessions.

Find out about Serena's Pop-up shop events.

LAID TO REST: The "Dustercise" Pop-up shop is coming to Camden soon...

Check back in the New Year for news of free "Dustercise" classes and talks with artist Serena Korda about her project 'Laid to Rest' for the Wellcome Trust.

Watch Serena Korda collecting dust for her project here.

Sarah Butler needs your help! Answer the question: 'What would feature in your perfect Winter Garden?' and watch the 'Winter Garden' grow...

Sarah Butler, Secret Garden Project writer-in-residence, will be tending a 'Winter Garden' of words this winter. Contribute to the garden and watch it grow by clicking here.

Image: Ivy Dawned

SERENA KORDA: ASK THE DUST. Where Art You feature on Serena Korda and her project Laid to Rest...

Click here to read.










Thomson's Parish Map of 1801 showing the brick fields. Courtesy of Camden Local Studies and Archives Centre

WE NEED YOUR DUST!

WE NEED YOUR DUST!

Serena Korda is now looking for samples of dust from YOU! Email donateyoudust@upprojects.com to recieve an envelope, package up your dust and send it back to us. Your dust will be transformed into a brick and become part of a time capsule of 500 commemorative bricks. Get involved!

Turn to Dust: Check out Serena Korda's blog and follow the development of her new project

http://donateyourdust.blogspot.com/

Laid to Rest has been commissioned by the Wellcome Trust in association with UP Projects 

UP Projects was at Light Up festival in Langthorne Park last Saturday for the last stop on the Contemporary Art at Festivals tour.

Click here to see more images

Check out the new literary work by Secret Garden Project's writer in residence....

Click here to see the work on Word Garden - the Secret Garden Project blog by Sarah Butler

SECRET GARDEN PROJECT FILM

To watch a film about the series of commissions we have produced for Secret Garden Project this year please click here

Portavilion 2010: Check out new images of ROSY from her journey across London's parks and green spaces this Summer.

Click here to see ROSY'S JOURNEY.

Britain's Park Story with Dan Cruickshank on BB4

Click here to watch a great documentary on Britian's parks and green spaces.

Portavilion: ROSY set to be in Regent's Park over three days next week.

For three days from Monday 2 - Wednesday 4 August, ROSY the bubble will host workshops for young people in The Regents Park - led by the Roundhouse. Come down and get involved!

Rosy will be located near to the Cow & Coffee Bean Cafe nearest to Chester Road in the centre of the park.

London fieldworks installation now up and running in Duncan Terrace and cremorne gardens.

Design Week Article: http://www.designweek.co.uk/3015758.article?cmpid=DWE04&cmptype=newsletter

Portavilion: Inside/Outside Cinema this Saturday!

Inside / Outisde Cinema, Gillett Square, Saturday 17 July 4-11pm

For one evening only in Gillett Square, Raumlaborberlin's Bubble pavilion Rosy the Ballerina will be transformed into a temporary cinema presenting short films from Hackney Archives and Dalston’s Rio Cinema; artists’ animations brought to the programme by the Drawing Room; a film about the first British feminist and Hackney resident Mary Wollstonecraft by Hackney based Fragments& Monuments Film and Performance Company, and a dance-film exploring Dalston’s public spaces, made by local residents and East London Dance. The bubble will also come alive with experimental projections on its surface by VJ Fat Butcher and Fragments & Monuments.

During the day, the Portavilion bubble will play host to a Hackney Museum workshop and a variety of musical performances by local groups.

For the full programme please see the website.

ROSY the bubble had a fantastic outing in the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern last Friday...

ROSY hosted a talk at Tate Modern about architecture as part of the London Festival of Architecture.

For more information about the event click here.

UP Projects SPACE and Islington Council present Open Studios and Garden Party as part of Secret Garden Project

UP Projects SPACE and Islington Council present Open Studios and Garden Party to celebrate the opening of Peabody Yard Studios, an evening of open studios, performance and workshops.

The dance performance will take place in and around the ironwork ruins of the former Tibberton baths at Tibby Palace, a small green space on Greenman Street. Choreographed by Cheryl McChesney Jones for The Hanging Garlands of Tibby Place project by artist Shane Waltener, an ongoing participatory weaving project.

Throughout July Waltener will transform the Victorian metal framework of the former Tibberton baths into a hanging garden with a series of performances and participatory workshops open to the public and local community groups. The project has been commissioned by Islington Council and curated/produced by UP Projects as part of the Secret Garden Project.

Join Waltener in the workshop to create new sections for the woven hanging garden.

Refreshments will be available.

UP Projects at Glastonbury 2010!

UP Projects are making their way to Glastonbury Festival this week to install five contemporary art commissions for the Shangri-La area.

To find out more about the artists click here.

Image: The Hub at Night, Shangri-La, Glastonbury Festival 2009

Next stop for raumlabor's ROSY is at the Walthamstow Green Fair: Sunday 27 June!

At the Green Fair, ROSY will host a variety of music perforamnces by local acts.

ROSY the bubble will be coming to Tottenham Carnival this Saturday 19 June!

ROSY the bubble will be coming to Bruce Castle Park as part of Tottenham Carnival this Saturday from 12-6pm.

Fevered Sleep will be performing in the Bubble commissioned by Sadler's Wells and Siobhan Davies Dance for Big Dance.

To find out more about ROSY's tour go to the website: www.portavilion.com

The Smallest Cinema in the World is at Tatton Park Biennial 2010!

Annika Eriksson's 'Smallest Cinema in the World' is at Tatton Park Biennial 2010. Originally commissioned for Portavilion 2008, the mini 6 seater cinema will be showing brand new site-specific films in the beautiful grounds of Tatton Park in Cheshire until 26 September.

The Dancer's Bubble: Saturday 5 June 2-10pm

The Dancer's Bubble lands in Allen Gardens off Brick Lane this Saturday! ROSY will be taken over by East London Dance to host a Dance Debate in the day, followed by an open mic dance jam called Mixed Movement from 7-10pm in the evening.

Come and soak up the sun and dance!
Drinks provided by Vibe Bar and food by Mama's Jerk Station.

See www.portavilion.com for more information

Secret Garden Project launches this Saturday!

with The Mobile Picnic Pavilion by Francis Thorburn, which will tour the streets of Islington powered by a human hamster wheel and a band of merry gardeners!
To join the Mobile Picnic Pavilion procession through the streets, assemble at 11am at St Luke’s Community Centre, 90 Central St. EC1V 8AJ.
The performance will stop off outside Islington Central Library, Holloway Road N5 from 12 – 2pm where it will unfold to become a picnic area for members of the public to enjoy their lunch and interact with the artwork.
Bring your walking shoes and your sandwiches and have a picnic!

Go to www.secretgardenproject.co.uk for more information

Portavilion 2010 now live!

ROSY the bubble landed in Potters Fields Park yesterday for the launch of Portavilion 2010 and the start of 13 different events over the Summer.

See the events page on www.portavilion.com for details of the ROSY's next outing!

Portavilion 2010 to launch on 20 May in Potters Fields Park!

Portavilion is one of the most ambitious contemporary art projects to take place in London's public realm. Curated by Emma Underhill of up projects, it launched in 2008 with four temporary pavilions by internationally renowned artists in some of London’s most popular parks.

For Portavilion 2010 we have commissioned raumlaborberlin to create ROSY (the ballerina), a mobile bubble pavilion for London's parks.

See the brand new Portavilion website for more information

Secret Garden Project launches 29 May!

A programme of high quality, temporary commissions and pop-up arts events for ten ‘secret’ gardens, parks and lesser known green spaces across London, including City Road Basin and Union Square in Islington, Cremorne Gardens in Kensington & Chelsea and Tooting Common in Wandsworth.

 For more information see the Secret Garden Project website.

ART IN BURGESS PARK

Having written the Art in Burgess Park Strategy last year that supports the integration of high quality contemporary art across the forthcoming Revitalisation of Burgess Park in Southwark, we are delighted to have won the contract to deliver the strategy during the First Phase of the Revitalisation Project on the behalf of Southwark Council.  We will be working closely with environmental designers LDA Design who have been appointed to carry out the revitalisation of the park, indentifying opportunities for art within the infrastructure of the park as well as an ongoing art programme

ARTLANDS

We have completed the strategy for  Artlands North Kent; a programme of quality art in the public realm commissions that aims to frame North Kent’s identity and respond to the unique qualities of the area.  Artlands is led by Greening the Gateway Kent & Medway, Kent County Council, Arts Council England and CABE.