Brentford Biopsy - Mapping project with Christian Nold

During April 2008, investigatory, locative media artist Christian Nold will be out and about Brentford, West London locating stories and recording emotions of local residents and visitors in attempt to create a new type of Brentford map. This is great opportunity to take part in truly locative media arts project and explore creative methodologies and specially developed mapping technologies Nold examines in his work. Everyone - young, old and in-between is welcome to take part!

Instead of taking tissue samples as one would from a human subject we will be using range of cultural probes to investigate the local social body and its particular issues. Like eastern medicine we will be taking a holistic view of Brentford that looks for interconnections between problems and challenges to get a sense of the whole. The project acts as both creative art project as well as hard nosed consultation with invited stakeholder groups.

First public workshop April 5, 2008 1pm - 5pm FREE! Bring your local newspaper, favourite story, images and anything you want to put on the Brentford map !

Other dates:
Saturday April 12 1-5pm
Wednesday April 23 6-9pm
Saturday May 10 1-5pm
Wednesday May 14 6-9pm

Or to register your interest for participation in one of the other workshops please call 0208 232 1010 or e-mail: ilze@watermans.org.uk.

Upload your contribution here: http://www.publicbiopsy.net