honourable practice

Making an honourable practice possible

admin — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 13:11:37 +0000

Working with Freedom House Art puts an honourable practice not only in the 21st century, but also puts it into practice.
The print is connected to history of struggle and protest becuse it was the pre-digital form of interconnections. Its inherent multiplicity and cheap production form enabled the print widespread dissemination. The print was viral. Remove the paper, and the internet makes the image as viral as the woodcut print in the late middleages illustrating the feudal uprisings. Here, the artist took the peasant’s side against the church and nobility, because the print already sat on the margins of the underdog.

Freedom House Art is that Printer in the Sky of then and now, where the making of an image or a letterpress poster can be called up for a workshop through a web of socially engaged printbased artists. Freedom House Art offers prints, workshops, conferences and talks on freedom as well as educational creative material to institutions. There wil be shows and meetings between artists, scholars and students, but most of all, with people.

So the print walks out to the world- again. The print is not only my instrument for freedom- but now a tool for others to share.

Watch out- Amos might just come your way with some woodtype in hand!

Stole the voice and gave it a face- a TYPEFACE!

admin — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 15:59:41 +0000

Stolen Voices is now called typeFACE! This is the genius naming by Emily . who wrote in an e-mail: ( edited version )

‘ There are so many great aspects to this project. As I ask other artists to participate with a description of an image they can’t describe, I’m finding that this aspect of uniting artists and talking - at various stages of life, artistic development and working in myriad ways - is becoming a really exciting aspect of the project. Wouldn’t it be great to build of a great archive of these stumbling/articulate/uncertain/strident/humorus/intelligent statements with corresponding facial expressions and typeface? [AH! Maybe we can call it typeFACE …… Emily Candela 16 june 2010

Imagine linking the 500 year old technology of letterpress, shaping the spoken words by the artists in to posters, then projections of their silent, but talking heads next to the prints…As alway s I am not quite sure where this wil take us/ me- but it feels as if the project is opening up something to something greater- like a vista of play.

Amos Kennedy’s work inspires:

” the world is big- full of connections and
ideas to be made. ”

Don’t forget it!

Stolen Voices- Pale Voce: in action !

admin — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 16:30:54 +0000

For the full effect of the stolen voices - go to Emily’s blog; http://emilycandela.wordpress.com/2010/06/04/pale-voce/

- and check out our moving heads. In the end these will projected on to our posters ( what is seen here is a rudimentary start up version.