Round and Round
There is a collection of interlinked images and text snippets. You can navigate your way through sequentially using the 'STEP' button, or jump all over the place following the inter-relations of the imagery and text using the 'SKIP' button.
In the first instance, you arrive at a random stage of the project, as you will when you return to the project.
Snoozyland
Snoozyland encourage and negotiate with disadvantaged groups to participate and experience the opportunities for education and the arts. The company use video, performance and multi media with the intention of enabling people who experience marginalisation to make documents which describe their lives.
Alan McLean of Snoozyland offered workshops to Roundabout in Sheffield. Roundabout is a direct access project for young homeless people providing accommodation in the form of bedsits and cluster houses.
The Lovebytes Hypertribes festival invited artist's to make public works using new technologies on Sheffield's streets.
When the group from roundabout agreed to participate it was poignant given the meaning Sheffield streets holds for them.
Unlike the artists in the festival, pages on the hypertribes website was to be the groups' space for public intervention.
However many of the concerns, no doubt present in the artists process were to be shared by the group at Roundabout. Both were using technologies marketed for the presentation of mainstream messages, both had to respond to this in a strategic way.
The outcome of the process at Roundabout was a dialogue about the relationship of image to text, and about how the act of writing is impacted by the use of sound recording equipment, printing and programming software.
Snoozyland was developed from the working process of Alan McLean and Tony Mustoe and Prison Audio Project with Nicholas Lowe. Mustoe and McLean have been running workshops with disability groups as part of education programme for Hypertribes.
Thank you to Hull Time Based Arts AvidLab.
Roundabout
They provide a supportive environment where young people can learn important skills and prepare themselves for independent living. Roundabout is a direct access project for young homeless people providing accommodation in the form of bedsits and cluster houses.
Education project - Alan McLean 0114 275 4412