Mongrel launch AROUNDHEAD and LUNGS

April 26, 2005

Type: discussion

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> From: "richard" <[email protected]>
> Date: April 26, 2005 8:03:13 PM EDT
> To: <Undisclosed-Recipient:;>
> Subject: Mongrel launch AROUNDHEAD and LUNGS - Sat May 7th, Southend
>
> Mongrel invites you to the launch of two new projects at the
> Jelliedeel Shed in Southend-on-Sea:
>
> "AROUNDHEAD" and "LUNGS"
>
> 18:00pm to 21:00pm
> Saturday May 7th, 2005.
> ———————————–
>
> "ARoundhead"
> Oliver Cromwell's head is passed around the telephone system of a
> Scottish
> mental hospital. A telephony installation first developed for the
> staff of
> the Royal Edinburgh psychiatric hospital, commissioned by Artlink for
> Functionsuite.
>
> "Lungs"
> A software poem memorial to the slave labour that worked in the
> ex-munitions
> factory in Karlsruhe during WWII. By computing the vital lung capacity
> of
> these forced workers, the program emits their last breath of air. First
> commissioned by ZKM, Karlsruhe for "Making Things Public".
> ___________________________
>
> The Jelliedeel Shed,
> Unit 38, Grainger Road Industrial Estate,
> Southend-on-Sea,
> Essex, SS2 5DD.
> T: 01702 460590
> http://www.jelliedeel.org
>
> Getting there:
> Trains from Liverpool Street to Southend Victoria. (15, 34 and 55
> minutes
> past the hour, journey time - one hour).
> Grainger Road estate is 5 mins walk away - turn left out of the
> station,
> across the B&Q car park and take the right fork at the corner shop into
> Milton Str. Grainger Road is first on the left.
> http://www.jelliedeel.org/images/jelliedeel-map.jpg
>
> RSVP to: [email protected]
>
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> Supported by Arts Council England.
>
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