I was not thinking of anything
I was creating a vision of the sounds of the streets
Skateboarders, discos, the far distant, rhythms of Buskers
And the rhythms of the moving London
Potent smells and acrid tastes
Soft touches and lightning movement
A two line poem I had previously composed
Found rhythm and shape
On these beats of London
John Sheehy
The Dellow Centre’s art group is producing a special commission for ten feet away internation. International Voices is an installation telling the stories of London’s internationalised homeless community. This is an excerpt, with Dellow Centre artist David Mills talking about arriving in London penniless. Click here to listen
Apologies - this one is late - was meant to be posted at easter! ++++++++++++
easter is a sad time but also a happy one, its sad the poety group break up, but joyfull when it return the circle continue with our fearless leader and his trusty asistanant who apear like batman and Robin
Yan a tall man with stricking look, a body that live in. his feature is his voice , a delight to listen to, Jenny his assistance another stricking personalty alway greet you with a smile and offer of a chese and onion sanwich
together they make the dymic duals . the poety group as you can see from the pictures is a fun place to be, evan if you’d never writen a word in your life the dynamic dual YAN AND JEN MAKE IT a unique exprence to enjoy your journey of discovery
Dentro me, profondo in me, lì lei vive.
Lontano dalla realtà? Direi di sì. Ma lì lei è.
La distanza è solo un varco mentale che si dissolve in ombre.
Mi chiedo, ha qualche sentimento? I suoi occhi possono vedere?
Fantasma, mio amato fantasma, continua a nutrire la mia mente malata.
Mantieni vivo il tormento, non divenire mai realtà,
continua ad essere fantasma.
Sì, lei è lì. Sta camminando per la strada, è quello il mio fantasma?
Sì, lei ora è un fantasma, non l’ho mai conosciuta.
No, felice vivo coi miei due fantasmi, sebbene mai si conosceranno.
Città di fantasmi,
Città di illusioni,
portami da qualche altra parte.
Strade che appartengono alla memoria, che svanisce così in fretta.
Rete di sentimenti, traffico di carne umana.
Domani, sì domani, mi sveglierò pensando a te.
Billy
Translated by Carmella
Our flight stops off at somewhere called Riga, and I’m sitting here thinking’ Riga, where the hell is Riga? When we did arrive at Riga we got lost looking for our Russian transfer, and the staff were shouting our names over the PA to get our arses there and we finally found where we were supposed to go. The plane to Russia was a 40 seater with two propellars. At the Airport, Arkady was there to meet us.
He took us for coffee at 2 am and then to a hostel that reminded me of a commune I was in when I was younger.
Ade introduced his language tool to people at the hostel, something I have named the Welsh Computer (Ade is Welsh). This is a piece of Welsh slate and a stick of chalk.
Wake up first day in Russia, Ade is photographing everything in the room. The place we stayed in has a bordello above it and you can watch cctv footage of whose going up and coming back down. St. Petersburg is a very beautiful city. It is very big and everything looks very old. We used the metro for the first time, the escalator goes down for ages and all the architecture in the station and the design of the trains is very classical. The concentration is on design rather than what is practical. Travelling round is very difficult as the Russian alphabet has 36 letters and half of them are completely alien to me (no English translation here) Walking around the centre we saw someone selling kittens in the street…
…and a couple of young lads doing acrobatics in front of cars in the road
Our first meal was in a traditional pancake shop.Ade ordered a couple of salads. He was telling me how nice they were and that I should try them myself. When I told him they had chicken in he seemed a bit surprised, and he suddenly got ill. He says meat makes him ill, I wonder if he would have been ill if I had never told him there was meat in it.
Hi everyone, hope you doing well… I was meant to create something about the circus performance but it’s not going to happen, no yet… In the mean time here is George, we always chat at his flat while having a coffee and taking pictures of his work. We are very good mates and respect each other. I really like his work and things fro him are getting very excited, not only in terms of making a living selling his work but the work itself is evolving in amazing ways… but let’s not get in the way, PLEASE DO CLICK HERE TO LISTEN GEORGE AND HIS JOURNEY THROUGH ARTS… comments as always are very welcome…
Billy
OSW brought three groups - from Madrid, Paris and Budapest - to visi TFA’s art workshop at Union Chapel in North London- we had a discussion of the festival - audio here. The conversation is between Csilla Horváth and Sebo from Fedel Nelkul and Jo and Ade from ten feet away.
Inside me, deep inside; that’s where she lives
Far from reality? I would say so. But there she is.
The distance is a mental gap that dissolves in shadows.
Does she have any feelings I wonder? Can her eyes see?
Ghost, my beloved ghost, keep feeding my seek mind
Keep the torment alive, never become a reality,
Keep being a ghost.
Yes, there she is; walking down the street, is that my ghost?
Yes, she has become a ghost as well, I never knew her.
No, I am happy to live with those two ghosts,
As far as they never meet.
City of ghosts, city of illusions, take me somewhere else.
Streets that belong to a memory that vanishes so fast.
Network of feelings, traffic of human flesh.
Tomorrow, yes tomorrow I will wake up thinking about you.
Billy
Hi everybody, these are the interviews i did with two squatters that can give us an idea of how squats can be place for art. To listen to Diego, click here. To listen to Val from former X-vortex click here and to listen to what people think about squats as place for art click here.
Hi everybody! i’m barti and i’ve been living in london in the last 6 months and these are some audio files that i made speaking a little about my experience until now. You can check. Click here to !
