pop up

The pop up concept, moveable locations for shops, bars, clubs etc could be used to create zones of non consumption. All these closed down shops could become a visual, aural, physical respite.. Meanwhile Space are working out how to use these places more easily.

an empty cinema

Went to see a one off showing of Fish Tank at the local Odeon. Such an alternative film that they didn't bother to put any adverts on before the film. I was the only one in there. Beautiful

places of non consumption

What places might be considered to be zones of non consumption?

• credit crunched closed down shops
• places of worship
• libraries
• park benches any public seating
• parks

What characteristics to they have?

• empty, quiet, still, light, not crowded?
  
• for reflection, contemplation, peace and quiet?

rodchenko workers club 1925

Libraries are another location of non consumption. Quiet but social. Rodchenko's 1925 design for a Workers Club, a restroom for Workers,reconstructed at the Tate exhibition this year. 

rejecting consumption

i am reminded of Michael Landy and his systematic destruction of all his possessions

as an ongoing performance Break Down deliberately located in the centre of consumption  a recently vacated C&A store in Oxford St,London.

24 hour world

we're discussing the potential of i-technology, on-line profiles and similar that mean that we can access the world in our pocket. how much are we in the present moment or able to experience parallel existences concurrently? They are explaining the situationist notion of society of the spectacle and realising that we are now able to weave our own individual spectacles..... constantly and ultimately able to be in touch and update and be updated in real time.. do we need a mode of escape? A magnetic field shield? do we need to create terrains of  non-consumption? 

zones of non consumption

How do we cope with the world around us?

i am interested in finding lateral,playful and explorative solutions to contemporary dilemmas: 

too much choice, too much information, too much signage, over regulation and excess. 

Do we need zones of non-consumption? Do we need prostheses to survive everyday life? 

24 hour living

Recently Willliam Leith has identified the risks of the apparent convenience of 24 living. More evidence to support my hypothesis. Do we need some way to protect ourselves from this over-stimulation? Time out?