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A live immersive photographic and sculpture project exploring the shared association of youth and its passing, a mid 20s life crisis of sorts set out for the public to play with. A 3 day event offering the chance to capture imagined moments, to reinvent events, to reconnect with a home, to party for the camera and create instant nostalgia.

WORK-HOME-OUT is a Studiograbdown project based around their photographic catalogue of Selfies and past events which will form the bases for a series of large scale installations curated by artist Eleanor Davies. The fantastical meets the everyday through a range of zones WORK-HOME-OUT, all offering the participants the opportunity to recapture their own passing moments. The public are invited to photograph themselves with disposable cameras which are provided (or to use their own cameras), these pictures will form an archive of collected shared experience and hopefully provide an interesting pattern of common instincts.

WORK-HOME-OUT IS PRESENTED BY SLASHSTROKE AND THE MILL CO PROJECT IN ASSOCIATION WITH CREATE LONDON AND GO VISUAL LTD. 27-29 NOVEMBER @THE ROSE LIPMAN BUILDING, 43 DE BEAUVOIR ROAD, N1 5SQ.

Week 1 of R&D at Rose Lipman included working with puppeteer Chloe Purcell ….

We brushed up on our making skills with willow withy puppets, all steam ahead to building large scale puppets at Oxford House in 2014!

Running young people workshops… A6 flyers ready to go for drops around the De Beauvoire estate and final eye lashes and pink lips added to Rose, our puppet of the day.

Creative ideas fizzing we talked about a procession of material, inspiration from a giant centipede puppet made at Little Angel Theatre. 

Flying objects birds, fish prototypes images, giant bumblebees - cable ties wings, withy puppets.

We ran open drop in workshops at the Rose Lipman encouraging young people to create their own puppet with the helpful starting point of a prototype we initially devised and also went out and about the De Beauvoir estate meeting local families.

  ‘‘serious preparation has gone into that, absolutely serious’’

At Oxford House looking at the archives…

We were drawn to the different games children used to play within the building and the range of community and young people activities offered from local history projects to building puppets for the Notting Hill Carnival.

Play that Sound….

Thinking about sound we began to discuss a symphony of sound from objects that is live during a performance. Puppets making/leading the sound. Pre-recorded tracks of instruments and sound and replay. The puppets for Plastic Works will largely be made of recycled materials so we are keen to create a soundscape through the projects with instruments young people themselves can play.

Week 2 and 3 In the second week of our R&D we went back to  Oxford House to share the fruits of our work in development with their Saturday Young and Talented www.youngandtalented.co.uk group run by Suzann Mclean. We had a ready audience of some great young people, many of whom had not seen willow withy puppets quite like ours before!