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David Rooney – 28.09.2011 – recording online
12 September 2011Curator and historian David Rooney talked about the long-term experiment of Greenwich Mean Time. “On reaching the corner of Greenwich Park, a quiet suburban district, the police had found, amid a motley debris of trees, bushes and railings, the charred and shattered remains of a man.” Newspaper report, 1894. “Wait till they start on the…
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Andrew Kötting & Iain Sinclair – 07.09.2011
16 August 2011In the third of this summer’s Longplaying events artist and filmmaker Andrew Kötting and writer Iain Sinclair talked about their new collaborative work Swandown and the Long Pedal. “Kötting hauled a plastic swan, a lure, as we walked. We were accompanied by a pair of mature students from the art college where he taught: one…
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Longplaying – talks and events at Trinity Buoy Wharf: Paul Shepheard
15 July 2011Paul Shepheard continued the series of talks and events at Trinity Buoy Wharf on Thursday July 28th, following Richard Wilson’s opening talk and performance in June. Architect and writer Paul Shepheard presented a talk entitled The Bowl of the Horizon : Paul Shepheard’s relationship with Longplayer stretches back to the mid 1990′s when he was…
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Prince Charles – Longplayer Fan ?
20 June 2011Prince Charles recently visited Longplayer’s Trinity Buoy Wharf listening post. Here is a photograph of his reaction.
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Richard Wilson at Trinity Buoy Wharf
08 June 2011On Wednesday, 29th June Richard Wilson opened a series of talks and events at Trinity Buoy Wharf. Artist Richard Wilson spoke about and offered a performative response to his use of films in sculptures in a talk called The Butterfly Effect . Richard Wilson, born 1953, is one of Britain’s most renowned sculptors. He is internationally…
