Unglued unfixed collages a moveable feast

The idea of unfixed unglued collages began when I was at the artists village Cholomandal south of Chennai in Tamil Nadu.......I collected posters from the streets and began to reassemble them on the floor in the studio....a moveable construction....it spread and spread .......I have recently resurrected the idea in my studios in Portugal and the UK....building layers of images at random then Freezing them in the camera ....I like the idea of this ongoing story telling involving collisions and juxtapositions.....chance meetings like the umbrella and the sewing machine......impermanence is important just like posters in the streets that are subject to the elements or in India goats licking the glue......it is short lived information more information is added on a regular basis ...often old information is still visible....the walls have a history .......I am recreating this chance process using posters from both India and Portugal......I am hoping to exhibit some at Kochi Bookshop in Cochin in Kerala.... In 2015....

A wacki video.....      https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=upoT2ZkOXFI&feature=player_embedded

Cochin India....2013......some memories

The start of the adventure manchester airport

We're off!

Coffee, croissants and moustaches @ MAN!

A visual diary 2013

indian collages......chennai 2009 and kerala 2013

on our last trip to india in 2009 we spent 10 days at the artists village in cholomandal south of chennai........i had almost no kit....except the posters that i tore from the walls along the main road into chennai......some collages were made in my sketchbook.......plus some bigger unglued collages on the floor of the studio......when we left the village i left quite a lot of clothes behind so i could bring back many of the posters.......in feb 2013 we are off to kochi in kerala....to visit the biennale....and to make a few collages along the way.....also collecting some more indian tunes and maybe some vinyl......

watch this space for more unglued stuff

a wacki video

in the studio....cholomandal

a possible book.......random images and text...october 2012

book equals..........

book/bo͝ok/

 

Nou

A written or printed work consisting of pages glued or sewn together along one side and bound in covers. book n. Abbr. b., B., bk.1. A volume made up of written or printed pages fastened along one side and encased between protective covers.2. Any written or printed literary work. 3. A bound volume of blank or ruled pages. 4. Plural. Volumes that are mysterious, filled with wisdom and wonders just waiting to be read. "In a book the artist controls the combinations and ordering of different bits of information." David J. Henry what is A booK?  The  definition ConTinUES 2 bLuR......... i have been playing around  with ideas that  started with my Random viSual PoEms series........

i am now experimenting with ideas in my sketchbook and in the studio...at the moment the images are on the page which is hinged....they are sequential......i have cut windows in some pages to reveal a part of another page....i am now thinking about a more interactive set of images ....on paper but not hinged....the reader can put them in any order......they might tell a different story......here is my sketchbook book......so far.....

charlie @ vinyl exchange ....manchester

Free for Arts 2012

Charlie Holt @  Vinyl Exchange...Oldham Street......Manchester....

show runs from october 19......shop opening times......

"Possible record sleeves"

Independent record shops have been in sharp decline from their heydays in the 60s and 70s......they where places to hang out...listen to the latest music.....I went the "Spinning Disc" in Rochdale.......gone.....the top ten was important...then bang the arrival of the www.....downloads....high rents etc....have all played there part.....these shops are more than shops....they are watering holes for music addicts....you met your mates......the big chains never had this......if we want to keep these oases of music culture then we must support them....." the last shop standing".....a recent publication by Graham Jones....which is now a film...that traces the rise and fall of these much cherished bits of English culture......they are emporiums of musical treasure....Jones efforts are truly homemade...hand built from start to finish....written with affection.....

This small exhibition @ Vinyl Exchange  is my small contribution In helping their survival......the works on show are entitled..." Possible record sleeves".....altered images......recycled covers given a new lease of life.....
Please visit these shops....watch the video.......buy the book.....more important buy a record or CD.......if you don't then we lose them forever....

Have a look............lastshopstanding.com

at this point duncan had no idea that he featured on the sleeve

duncan hangs himself....not literally

russ joins in the hanging

ch loading a sleeve......notice the empty space on the wall....duncans space

this is an ongoing series.....russ gave me another pile of empty sleeves