Format Festival 13- FACTORY

 

Format 13 Festival Derby
centred on the theme FACTORY and mass production here is a few of my snaps from the international festival which featured exhibitions and shows all over Derby City.

Chocolate Factory

MobFORMAT was a mobile phone picture exhbition which anyone could contribute towards, there was a large printer and stools with all the people's contributions.

my contribution was images which included circles which I then placed around the bin.  

Over 30 artists exhibited within the Chocolate Factory here are some more highlights. 

 from the workshops within the Chocolate Factory

 

  Out of all the pictures I was drawn to this image the kids makeup is amazing!

 

These are images from around Derby

 

The Developer, was a multi-artist residency responding to the Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage Site at John Smedley for FORMAT13. This was the Grand Finale which showed the results from their collaboration everyone brought some food for the show which was hosted at the Chocolate Factory.

QUAD Gallery

Album Beauty

 

These are all lucky charm boxes

Thaís Medina Brazilian Packaged Miracles

Medina documents Brazilian esoteric products designed to give good fortune, popular with people of various religions and creeds in Brazil.

 I love the idea of luck and prosperity becoming a commodity which can become mass produced.
My friend looking adorable with the picture mat.

  

 Posing with the boys 

St. Werburgh's Chapel, Atsushi Fujiwara 10 editions of Asphalt and related photobooks

Published in Japan between 2008 & 2012 Asphalt magazine managed to become a point of reference, even in the Western hemisphere due to its platforms of emergent photographers and its anti-mainstream attitude

 

 Market hall, Stood Still in Time  and Burton College 

Derby Museum and Art Gallery

Curated by Timothy Prus and Ed Jones.

Andreas Meichsner

TUV... to the acid test Paul Hill

FORMAT EXPOSURE Award Meichsner documents employees of TUV (the German Association for technical inspections) in their daily business of certifying the safety, performance and quality of equipment and goods.

Archive of Modern Conflict

Notes Home This exhibition celebrates the dying art of the picture postcard, exploring the holiday time of the working class and factory workers, featuring postcards sent from English holiday resorts.

Wordle your words!

 

My partner found a fun website www.wordle.net where the site generates an interesting artworks from your blogs words!

Here is a couple of randoms enjoy :)

Speed of Light!

NVA’s Speed of Light, a night time event that took place for the first time in England, from Thursday 21, Friday 22 and Saturday 23 March 2013 from 8pm-9pm apparently nearly 750 volunteers were involved throughout the course of the event and had trained for over a month to prepare for the hour long jog. Each night the runners were dressed in LED lighting suits and ran around the public spaces around The Lowry, IWM North (part of Imperial War Museums) and MediaCityUK, home of the University of Salford and BBC North, with punctured choreographed patterns with a specially commissioned audio accompaniment setting the scene.

It was freezing! But totally worth it, everyone created a futurist walk around the Quays that really animated the local architecture and made me feel like I was in Tron. It must have taken some considerable prep and commitment from the volunteers. The activity itself is a great case for health and arts working together to provide a fun and exciting experience for audience which created by local community involvement.

 

 

The project itself has previously been staged as part of the Edinburgh International Festival 2012 and on the docklands of Yokohama in Japan. There was a lot of press using long exposure techniques to great beautiful images, I just have a camera phone but I managed to get similar results with the night time setting and giving my camera a little shak- loads cheaper!  Follow this link though to see how it truly should be viewed!

Here is a couple of clips from the event itself