TangentProjects was delighted to take part in the Critical Practice event, Parade: Public Modes of Assembly and Forms of Address as part of their Market of Ideas segment on Sunday 23 May 2010.

For the event, we used our recent work with Liminopia as the trajectory to host a series of informal discussions with invited guests from the art, design and architecture industries, as well as the Market of Ideas audience. The brief we gave was simple:

‘Liminopia’ is a fantasy cityscape in miniature, constructed from found materials by TangentProjects over a period of 5 months. More than a physical piece of work, Liminopia has become both a meditation on acts of collaboration between the three artists and an investigation into the nature of construction, planning and social inclusion and exclusion as experienced through the structures of our cities. 



Using a plan of the Liminopia cityscape as a focal point, TangentProjects would like to engage in an informal discussion with a panel of invited guests and members of the visiting public during today’s Market of Ideas event. The aim of this informal discussion is to explore various ideas generated from Liminopia’s creation rather than Liminopia itself. Possible topics to explore are the notion of publicness and how it influences our perception of the built environment, the idea of collaboration and how we interpret, are influenced by and navigate our own urban landscape. 



The discussions that ensue will be recorded as a part of the Liminopia project and all participants are invited to contribute to the discussion as little or as much as they see fit, as well as annotate or draw on the plan itself should they wish to.

The resulting discussions were filmed and will be uploaded in segments once the editing is done. Meanwhile, here's a taster, courtesy of &&& Creative and Helene Kazan as well as a bit of background on that clip:

Sunday, 23 May 2010, saw the Parade courtyard at Chelsea College of Art occupied by a large structure made entirely out of milk crates to house Market of Ideas, as part of the weekend long Parade event organised by Critical Practice. TangentProjects, one of the 'stalls holders', invited &&& Creative to join their day long discussion on notions of creative collaboration, the urban landscape and ideas of publicness. Helene Kazan interviewed Simon Brown, Shawn Davey and Lucas Krull individually about their own practices and collectively as &&& Creative.

About the event
Parade, held at The Rootstein Hopkins Parade Ground, Chelsea College of Art and Design, will explore the diverse, contested and vital conceptions of being in public. Set in a bespoke, temporary structure with a host of international contributors, Parade will challenge the lazy, institutionalised model of knowledge transfer. Our modes of assembly, our forms of address and the knowledge we share will be intimately bound.

Friday 21st May, 5pm - 7pm: Launch
Potluck snacks (bring and share) while Open Music Archive plays music from the commons

Saturday 22nd May, 10am - 6pm: A Day of Consecutive BarCamps 
These open, participatory workshop-events will explore publicness, past, present and future. Come and contribute.

Sunday 23rd May, 2pm - 6pm:The Market of Ideas
Markets are good at distributing resources. Based on the model of the ancient bazaar, Parade will convene a Market of Ideas in which 'stalls' staffed by artists, academics, urbanists, geographers, environmentalists, health workers, anthropologists, economists and others exchange their knowledge with the milling public.The Market of Ideas will explore the distribution of public knowledge, embody peer-2-peer exchange, and build communal resources.

About Critical Practice
Critical Practice is a cluster of artists, researchers and academics hosted by Chelsea College of Art and Design, a constituent college of the University of the Arts London. We have a longstanding interest in art, public goods, spaces, services and knowledge, and a track record of producing original, participatory events.