I’ve finally bought a camera so I can take pictures of the things I’ve been making over the past few months. So I’ve added a page for Books and Multiples, which will house all the little zines, books and screen prints I’ve been doing.
The video above is just some images from my travels during the residency cut to the sound of me playing the beaten-up 5 stringed guitar that was in the residency accommodation.
I have a group show opening on the 9th of December at KINOKINO showing work from the Sandnes AiR scheme. I am showing my work Isostasy for the first time.
Some Norwegian publicity for you to decipher:
“Gjesteatelierordninger er i vinden som aldri før. Den 9. desember åpner KINOKINO Senter for kunst og film en utstilling med arbeider av fire av kunstnerne som har gjestet Artist in Residence Sandnes i 2008 og 2009. De har alle kommer fra USA, England, Tyskland og Korea til Sandnes.
Kunstnerne er:
Kevin H Jones (US)
Pete McPartlan (UK)
Per Olaf Schmidt (DE)
Hoyun Son (KR/USA)”
Collectif Jeune Cinema are screening my film Color Phase Adjustments at the 11ème Festival des Cinémas Différents de Paris on Wednesday the 9th December in their Textures argentiques / Matières numériques:Expériences paranormales screening.
Essaying Essays: An Assembling #1is now available for free PDF download at www.scribd.com/ESSAYINGESSAYS
featuring experiments in essaying from:
David Berridge; Rachel Lois Clapham; Emma Cocker; Alex Eisenberg; Fiona Fullam; Alex Hardy; Éilis Kirby; Jenny Lawson; Patricia Lyons; Pete McPartian; John Pinder.
Assembled by David Berridge as part of ESSAYING ESSAYS: A TEMPORARY COLLECTIVE OF READERS, one of seven projects by the FREE PRESS collective exploring economies of ideas and alternative modes of dissemination and exchange.
Proposals, provocations, projects, scores and ________ for the always to be emerging, shifting constellation(s) of future ASSEMBLING’s are welcome, inparticular proposals which come with their own form and method of distribution.
Contact David Berridge on essayingessays@gmail.com
I’m showing drawIslands() at REDgallery in Hull, 30th of September to 24th of October, open Wednesday-Saturday 12-4. Opening 25th of September at 6pm.
From the publicity:
“drawIslands() is a function that creates islands. A procedural performance that makes drawings of imaginary coastlines. The performance uses receipt paper as reels of film that are hand wound through a ‘projector’. During the performance islands are drawn before being fed underneath the camera, creating a ramshackle, pen and paper analog to a graphics programming demo that were put on cracked copies of computer games in the 80s and 90s. The resulting drawings are a meditation on randomness, computer-like repetition and an analogy between coginitive functions and natural processes: psychogeology. Originally performed and produced during a residency on the West coast of Finland, near the Finnish Archipelago.”
Please come along to the opening I’ll be performing/making the work (and there’ll be free wine…)
Map below:
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startrunning have invited me to perform a new piece as part of their collaboration with Futuresonic on May 17th, 6-10 at Sandbar in Manchester. Should be a good evening, I’m especially looking forward to Mikomikona who make interesting video/audio signal experiments with OHPs.
Flash Company A Handkerchief Show at Cecil Sharp House
Private view Wednesday 29th April 6pm
Continuing the visual arts programme under the curation of artist-in-residence Matthew Cowan, the English Folk Dance and Song Society is pleased to present Flash Company, A Handkerchief Show at Cecil Sharp House.
This exhibition is a group show of new work by a diverse range of contemporary artists from the UK, Portugal, Australia, New Zealand, U.S.A and Japan taking as a starting point a humble white handkerchief. Artists working in a wide range of media have been invited to take part, and all have been sent a single handkerchief with which to work. The resulting works will be hung at Cecil Sharp House, the home of the English Folk Dance and Song Society.
Looking beyond their prime role in the dancing kit of Morris dancers, handkerchiefs have a rich history in the framework of society. From high fashion to perfect manners and sexual politics, the handkerchief has played its part as an essential accessory. The show takes its name from the folk song of the same name, a jaunty tale of handkerchiefs and ruin.
Participating Artists Include:
* Adam Rompel
* Alan Kane
* Anna Maltz
* Billy Childish
* Bishi & Giles Pearson
* Catarina Lewis
* Catherine Bertola
* Cathy Lomax
* Clare Undy
* Clare Wilson
* David Beech
* David Foggo
* David McKeren
* David Owen
* Ele Carpenter
* Emma Cowan
* Erin O’connor
* Gail Burton
* Graeme Walker
* Hannah Maybank
* Hayley Lock
* Helen Smith
* Hyung Ji Park
* James Johnson Perkins
* John Lawrence
* John Stark
* Jon Garlic
* Katherine Johnson
* Keara Stewart
* Larence Abu-Hamdan
* Lee Hunter
* Maggie Tran
* Maiko Kobayashi
* Mami Fujita
* Marianne Shorten
* Matt Stokes
* Matthew Cowan
* Maurice Carlin
* Michael Davies
* Michal Pashtan & Matthew Green
* Michelle Bloom
* Mike Berners-Winters
* Nic Rawling
* Paul Hearn/Lustrous Chemistry
* Pete Locke
* Pete McPartlan
* Rachael Gorchov
* Rose Smith
* Sarah Foque
* Serena Korda
* Sonya Lacey
* Zuzana Lola Hruskova
The finished works will be hung in Cecil Sharp House throughout May and June, and entry to the show is free.
30 April – 28 June (Tues - Sat, 10am - 6pm)
Private View: 29 April, 6pm
Cecil Sharp House
2 Regents Park Road
LONDON
NW1 7AY
Facebook page for the event:
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/event.php?eid=73240228359&ref=mf
I’m very excited to be performing at Olsen this month at Hyde Park Picture House in Leeds. There’s tea, cake and avant-garde films. Starts 2 o’clock on the 1st of March.
This Thursday (the 18th of December) at 16:00 Bob Levene and I are going to be showing some work in progress at Titanik, Turku where we have been in residence since the start of November . I will be showing some of the hundreds of drawings I have been doing and will be drawing some more during the afternoon. Please come along, I think we will have tea and cakes…
Speakers as Instruments Workshop edit from Pete McPartlan on Vimeo.
This video is an edit from a very fun workshop last weekend here in Turku that Bob and I ran. We made some very primative musical instruments from a bunch of old speakers, batteries and random bits of metal, liquids and stuff. There’s an article in Turun Sanomat, the local paper, if you speak Finnish otherwise I highly recommend the google translation for its inclusion of the phrases: “Construction of musical teenagers is a snap” and “A pair of horses has worked with Arte Association’s fog-residency.” Thanks to Jenny for helping us organise it and all the students for the great dialogue and stunningly good work.
I am a week into a residency, shared with Bob Levene in Turku, Finland. The Sumu residency gives me a studio space, connected to Galleria Titanik, and accommodation for the November and December. I’ll be trying to post regular updates on my work here in Turku in the Work Blog section of this site.
The new site is still in progress a bit but it’s here. I finally switched over to wordpress and a bit of hacking around - hopefully all this means I’ll be a bit less lazy adding new stuff…