INCON with(20)…of 21, in 22…

Curated by Neil Ferguson & Fredrix Vermin

Doing Numbers…… part of the 21st Brockley Max Festival, June 2022.

Friday 3rd June, 5.30 – 8.00pm

Saturday 4th June, 2.30 – 6.00pm

Doing Numbers… acknowledges and invites previous collaborators to celebrate the twentieth In Conversation with… event, INCON(20), by providing work using, containing or about numbers.

What is our life in numbers?
Numbers direct our lives… confirm our existence, actuality, being, reality, fact, survival, continuance, living.
What do we choose to recognise through numbers?
Address, phone numbers, Insurance numbers, NHS numbers, dates of birth, passwords.
What numbers become important?

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INCON with (19)…Neil Ferguson & Clare French

Basically BAUHAUS

INCON with(18)…

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Neil Ferguson & Will Peck …unexpected occurrences.

… hidden features that suggest our digitized machines
 
Act like our thoughts yet operate on their own logic. 
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Minute details of ordinary life exist as programmed data in the software we use daily. When things appear differently, they are NOT wrong….
Tar har AA AA44N

ara ANA NNA4 AAA

24 djone n bjon

C. (Bit )

( 9 S. is

Meo y

S. 12 1

t t to

+ + T. T.

”The work followed a trail of interaction between humans and computers. By passing texts, sounds, and images into computational languages that the program designers didn’t plan, the software used threw out unexpected information.

The projected images are scans of linear drawings initially made in response to sounds generated by a score writer program.

Later the words produced by the Image > Text translator application were fed back into a score writer software, generating a new sound file.

Next, this file was converted from .mp3 to .doc format and back again.

Within the exhibition space, the digital equipment created randomized orders of images and sounds, creating a short-lived iteration of a potentially infinite chain of translations.”

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INCON with(17)…”Public Hanging”…

18^th & 19th June 2021

…an event featuring daily drawing exchanges between Neil Ferguson & Maciej Blazejewski since 14th October 2020

see. IN CONVERSATION page.

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INCON with(17)…”Public Hanging”

Neil Ferguson & Maciej Blazejewski

Friday 18th & Saturday 19th June 2021

You select… we put them on the wall.

… visual conversation..

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…474 black and white drawings…between 14/11/ 20 – 18/11/21

…daily exchanges…WhatsApp

…reflecting everyday changes in each others circumstances, moods, interests and hangovers.

…Random or selective? We cannot agree.

INCON with(16)…

Neil Ferguson & Jenni Hodgson

… conversation through painting.

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Friday 4th-6th September 2020    

It can be too easily ignored how much painters make reference to other paintings and painterly practices.

INCON with(16)…displayed16 circular paintings, painted in alternative stages without verbal or written communication between the collaborators.

INCON with(16)…arose as an attempt to highlight their interests in specific  paintings or painters.

INCON with(16)…was a collaboratively produced set of paintings exploring freedom and restrictions in an agreed painting system.

INCON with(16)…allowed each painting its independence through a directed system of production.

INCON with(16)…

Neil Ferguson & Jenni Hodgson… conversation through painting.

INCON with(16)…is…

a painterly collaboration exploring freedoms and restrictions in an agreed system.

Friday 4th September 2020     6.00 – 8.30pm

Saturday 5th September          2.30 – 6.00pm  

Sunday 6th September            2.30 – 6.00pm  

It can be too easily ignored how much painters make reference to other paintings and painterly practices.

INCON with(16)…displays16 circular paintings, painted in alternative stages without verbal or written communication between the collaborators.

INCON with(16)…arose as an attempt to highlight their interests in specific  paintings or painters.

INCON with(16)…is acollaboratively produced set of paintings exploring freedom and restrictions in an agreed painting system.

INCON with(16)…allowed each painting its independence through a directed system of production.

 

 

 

IN CON with(15)…Neil Ferguson & Amanda Francis 230 Steps Between

“that part of town you don’t have to go to…you are already there, you know it…”
Gerge Perec

Fact: for over 30 years Neil and Amanda have lived 230 steps apart …

230 steps between… is a collaborative project between Neil Ferguson and Amanda Francis formed out of a series of meetings, writings and agreed activities exploring differing senses and experiences of being local.
What observations do Neil and Amanda actually share? How might the presentation of their selected images, sounds and objects influence what others, notice, see or think?
Yes, observations keep being made, but is this what being local means?
What habits do neighbourhoods cultivate? What do we notice or ignore? What is worth recording? The collaboration offers modes of interaction to “place” or “situate” the visitor.

 

 

 

 

 

 

IN CON with(14)…TING FOR DOT Neil Ferguson & Calum Storrie

IN CON with(14)…Neil Ferguson & Calum Storrie, TING FOR DOT, June 7 & 8, 2019 Redacting texts,…applying thinglyness to “things”. Ferguson and Storrie have redacted a variety of publications from Beckett plays and short stories to free gallery handout sheets, cookbooks and detective novels. …TING FOR DOT is an interactive event where the audience will be asked to apply their own redacting systems to TING FOR DOT texts. Tools and text to redact will be supplied. …organizing meaninglessness in “things”?