From Cowboys to Astronauts – Art exhibition from waste materials.

Posted on May 12, 2015 by Kasia

“I’ve often heard people say: ‘I wonder what it would feel like to be on board a spaceship,’ and the answer is very simple. What does it feel like? That’s all we have ever experienced. We are all astronauts on a little spaceship called Earth.” – R. Buckminster Fuller

I am taking part in an art exhibition in Exeter, entitled From Cowboys to Astronauts. It is a very special exhibition, because all of the work is made from waste materials.

Much Ado About How To Become A Famous Artist

Posted on October 16, 2013 by Kasia

“Much Ado About How to Become a Famous Artist” is my first animation movie. I wrote the whole script and produced the animation in collaboration with Nikolaus Cieslinski. The movie was made in cooperation with the VisionLore Group. They are a Polish animation company who designed the visual characters.

Living The Question – “Are You Worried About the Arctic Sea Ice?”

Posted on April 28, 2013 by Jim

Having bought a pair of tickets to this year’s TEDxExeter the day they went on sale I finally got around to working out what to expect there the day before the event. On opening their web site on April 11th I discovered that the theme for the 2013 event was “Living the Questions“, and the most recent blog post was entitled “If you could ask a stranger any question, what would it be?”, which suggested that:

TEDxExeter, Rilke, Schumann and Pirates.

Posted on April 14, 2013 by Kasia

A few months ago Jim enlightened me about TED. Since then I have watched every now and then TED talks – videos about our planet, our lives, our future, our possibilities etc. etc. They are stories from “ordinary” people with passions, vocations and courage to be different, to be unconventional.

The Mirror Crack’d From Side To Side

Posted on March 23, 2013 by Jim

Art inspired by the disintegration of the Arctic Ice Cap

The Mirror Crack'd From Side To Side – Jim Hunt – With apologies to Sidney Harold Meteyard

SINOPTICON exhibition in Plymouth

Posted on April 28, 2012 by Kasia

A friend of ours is studying art at the Plymouth College of Art. Recently she has been involved in making a film by Erika Tan, “Sensing Obscurity”, which was filmed at the National Trust’s Saltram House near Plymouth. This project is part of the SINOPTICON exhibition, which is in turn part of the “Trust New Art” Programme. The official opening took place yesterday, also at Saltram House. We were invited there to celebrate this event.

Saltram House

The title of the exhibition “Sinopticon” is a compound construction of two words‘ Sino’ meaning China and ‘ optics’, meaning ways of seeing.

Taking chinoiserie as a starting point this exhibition explores the relationship of Western Europe with China both historically and through contemporary eyes.‘Chinoiserie’, a French term meaning ‘Chinese-esque’, derived from the Seventeenth Century as an entirely European style that was influenced wholly from China and the East. The China that was being emulated was in fact fictitious and very few real images of life in China had reached the west. Instead a Utopian land was described and repeated through the use of decorative motifs and styles. The influence and desire for China, it’s trade and culture, ramified in to the 19th century, opium wars, trade and colonialism.

More about the historical background can be found on the Sinopticon website.

Contemporary Art in the Community #7

Posted on April 27, 2012 by Kasia

High Street, Exeter, Devon, South West England
Monday 12th December 2011

In which Kasia and Jim interrupt Chris’s sales of The Big Issue, and then discuss with him and Steve their view of contemporary art from the streets of Exeter:

British Telecom Explain October 3rd Broadband Problem

Posted on November 21, 2011 by Jim

Thanks to their high level escalation team I’ve now received an official explanation from British Telecom about the events that led up to our broadband outage on October 3rd. Here it is in full:

Contemporary Art in the Community #2/n

Posted on November 18, 2011 by Kasia

The second video of the Contemporary Art in the Community project.

Kasia’s Studio (My summer studio)
The Haldon Hills, Devon, South West England
Saturday 1st October 2011

An interview with Doreen, in which she recognises Hell when she sees it, and feels herself drowning in a really stormy, turbulent sea.

BT Improve Broadband Network, and Ensure Prompt Payment?

Posted on November 7, 2011 by Jim

My British Telecom Business Broadband Connection stopped working yet again this morning! The lights on our router would turn off as it made some loud clicking noises. The router would start itself up again and eventually reconnect us to the internet. We could browse the web for a minute or two then the whole process would repeat itself, apparently ad infinitum. On one of those brief browsing sessions the following message from BT appeared on my screen:

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