Here, for your viewing pleasure, are a series of idents which PEPOMO produced for the launch of PITV (Propeller Island Television), which took place at Supermarket 2011 Art Fair, Kulturhuset, Stockholm, Sweden, from 17 February to 20 February 2011.
Why is it that some people prefer to receive a shop-bought card to one actually made by the sender? Well, here you have the best of both worlds- ‘Dad’s Socks’ by Hannah Melin, courtesy of The Art Group, with later multi-legged additions from the PEPOMO stable of craftspersons, and a caption which makes up for late postage to boot! The Art Group are always on the lookout for new card designers, so why not send to them your drawings of kittens, wine bottles, flowers, yatchs, and golf clubs using their online form.
Shocking as it may seem, there are dog owners out there who electrocute their pets with remote controlled collars as part of a training process. Dog barks (BZZZZZZ!) Dog humps leg of elderly relative (BZZZZZ!) Dog urinates on rug (BZZZZZZZZ!)
Of course there is only so much electricity a dog can stand. Here, before the barriers and signs were put up, a passing canine was electrocuted by stray underground voltage. And this isn’t an isolated case. Just try Googling ‘dog electrocuted on morning walk’ and see for yourself.
No animal deserves to go through such an ordeal. Let this floral tribute – with a written eulogy far longer than most you’d see left at the roadside in rememberance of a deceased homosapian – act as a reminder to council officials everywhere that electric mains supplies should be checked on a regular basis.
Public Service Announcement: If you see a guy around town who looks like this then hold on tight to your mobile phone!
PEPOMO will be holding a mass ‘open to all’ reunion at Chutney Preserves 5: The School of Chutney. Read on for full details, and when you come along bring a friend and a bottle…
The Chutney Preserves Present:
Chutney 5 – The School of Chutney
U don’t need know edcation
19th June, 1pm -7 pm
On the playing fields of Camberwell Green
As part of the Camberwell arts Festival
Map here. http://tinyurl.com/3ve7bnt
Artwork by Sarah Doyle
Join us for fresh air and un-learning on Camberwell Green, where doors that are open to the wise are also open to the foolish. Performances, interactions and interventions dissecting the institutions of learning in a classroom without walls.
School, university, college – the happiest days of your life, or a recurring nightmare? ‘They’ made you go to school, you survived and now, post-compulsory education, you’re free to learn something that interests you, just as long as you can afford it.
The Chutney Preserves will remove any degree of knowledge, facilitating your unlearning and return you to a classless state of pre-educated happiness.
Register
Linda Barck
Jo David
Sarah Doyle
Rebecca Feiner
Charlie Fox
Rachael House
Miyuki Kasahara
Lonesome Cowboys from Hell – (Tim Flitcroft, Calum F. Kerr, and various miscreants)
Daniel Lehan
Joanna McCormick
Frog Morris and Mark Dean Quinn
PEPOMO
Ian Robinson & Vanessa Scully
Liam Scully
Jacqueline Utley
Sinead Wheeler
Join Linda Barck in a celebration of the naughty corner. Look and listen with Jo David as London’s lost underground language disappears before your eyes and ears. Learn how to brain fart with Sarah Doyle. Take your windy brain for a ‘mashup’ at Rebecca Feiner’s ‘Fictitious University of the Imagination’. Share incidents from your past and celebrate your freedom in tell-tale rhymes of (un)reason and preserved memory at Charlie Fox and the Urban Bear Research Centre’s School of (D) Holmes. Rachael House invites you to make art herstory and draw a feminist for Typical Girls, a feminist gallery. Never graduated, well now you can as Miyuku Kasahara invites all to be Chutney Graduates, complete with graduation certificate and photograph. Sign up for the school of plain livin’ and hard studyin’ where you can experience a program of unpardonable actions until sundown with the Lonesome Cowboys from Hell (Tim Flitcroft, Calum F. Kerr, and various miscreants).
Daniel Lehan will be teaching your grandmother to suck eggs. Realise the potential of your vocal powers with Joanna McCormick- are you an angel or a warthog. Prizes and accolades for every one in Frog Morris’ and Mark Dean Quinn’s’ ‘Unwrong Quizz’, the exam with no right or wrong answers. In secret hide outs and camouflaged in the vegetation of Camberwell Green, Ian Robinson and Vanessa Scullys ‘guerrilla gardening school is looking for new recruits to train in the art of seed bombing. PEPOMO invite ALL to the School re-union, creating an environment which facilitates the experience of a shared memory with a bunch of people you never knew. Jacqueline Utley with her ‘ Daily Report ‘ will collate drawings and thoughts on the theme of ‘rules for The Paper Museum at the School of Chutney’. Sinead Wheeler has done her home work on a banned book.
Chutney Preserves is supported by Space Station Sixty-five and Camberwell Arts
http://www.spacestationsixtyfive.com/
http://www.camberwellarts.org.uk/
http://www.chutneypreserves.blogspot.com/
And one last thing to think about before home time:
Do you agree with the following statement – The classroom is a mirror, reflecting a society where the majority submits to the perceived superiority of the individual, institution and ultimately the Government.
Discuss…
PEPOMO are working as part of artist initiative Propeller Island on Propeller Island 8: ‘The Sandwich Islands’. The Sandwich Islands is the eighth chapter of the novel, and for the event we have invited artists to contribute to an evening of film, performance and music.
‘But the more the quartet penetrated into the secrets of this archipelago, the ore their illusions fell, fell like the leaves at the end of autumn. They pretended to have been mystified when they should have accused themselves of inviting this mystification.’
Featuring:
Fanny Aboulker, Ildiko Buckley, Zoe Darling, Anita Delaney + Eoghan Kidney, Jamie Dyson, Melville Mitchell, Jarrod Sanderson, Thea Stallwood, Jonathan Trayner, Louise Ward, Sarah Cameron, Brian Dawn Chalkley, Fiona Chambers, Michael Grime + Katharine Tolladay, Rita Evans, Callum F Kerr, Martin Lofty, Lady Lucy, Jessica Marlow, Scott Massey, Takahashi & Smith, Phil Wilson Perkin, Pea Sea, The Garden City Project, The Headlines
Event: Propeller Island 8: ‘The Sandwich Islands’
When: Friday 29th April 2011, 19:00 – late
Where: The Victory, 281 Kingsland Road, London. E2 8AS
Presented by Propeller Island: www.propellerisland.co.uk
Patrick Galway, Jellied Pegface (2010). Oil on canvas.
Artist Patrick Galway is exhibiting work as part of The MARMITE PRIZE FOR PAINTING; a biennial painting prize and touring exhibition. The exhibition is currently on at Lanchester Gallery Projects, Coventry until 2nd April 2011 and will tour to The Nunnery, London from 8th April to 1st May 2011. This exhibition of paintings by 48 artists is a real mixed bag with a little something for everyone.
Also featuring works by:
Jeremy Akerman, Georgina Amos, Iain Andrews, Matthew John Atkinson, Karl Bielik, Max Cahn, Amir Chasson, Julie Cockburn, Melanie Comber, Hugh Davies, Louisa Durose, Karl England, David Fletcher, Alice Forward, Patrick Galway, Steph Goodger, David Hancock, Siân Hislop, Tina Jenkins, Kate Knight, Hannah Knox, Matthew Krishanu, Kate Lyddon, Nadine Mahoney, Amy Moffat, Sophie Oates, Tom Ormond, Bernadette O’Toole, Yvonne Parr, Jemimah Patterson, Michael Pybus, Kes Richardson, James Quin, Daniela Sarigu, Paul Savage, Robin Seir, Benjamin Senior, David Small, Soheila Sokhanvari, William Stein, Ryuta Suzuki, David Sweet, Mia Taylor, Mimei Thompson, Ben Walker, Sean Williams, Sarah Kate Wilson, Doreen Wittenbols.
Event: The MARMITE PRIZE FOR PAINTING
When: 8th April to 1st May 2011 (Opening Reception and Prize Giving 7th April 2011 from 6:30pm to 9pm)
Where: The Nunnery, 181 Bow Road, London. E3 2SJ
Presented by: www.marmiteprize.org
Here are some behind the scenes photos of PITV, PEPOMO Studio – London. This installation was the testing-ground for our work at SUPERMARKET 2011 Art Fair, and is also where we filmed many PITV idents.
The ‘Kitchen Set’ for cookery programmes and for meal breaks.
The ‘Changable-Backdrop-Set’, here all set up for Father Christmas.
The ‘News Desk’ with PITV logo behind- designed by PEPOMO, made up of the letters P,I,T,V and rendered on cardboard.
In February 2011 PEPOMO visited Sweden to launch Propeller Island Television at SUPERMARKET 2011 Art Fair. Pictured is the Kulturhuset (The House of Culture), Stockholm, where the Art Fair took place from 17 February to 20 February 2011.
Here is the welcome note we found upon arriving in the exhibition space. ‘Propeller Island London’. NOT to be confused with ‘Propeller Island Berlin’.
Ah! The blank canvas! Well, empty Art Fair booth then. Full of potential, and the smell of paint.
The installation process in full swing.
The Kulturhuset (The House of Culture) really is quite swish. Here are some fancy digital displays promoting SUPERMARKET 2011.
The SUPERMARKET 2011 logo in decal form. No shopping trolleys or other such literal reference to supermarkets here. Instead, the letters are joined together a bit.
SUPERMARKET 2011 Art Fair proved to be very popular, with queues of eager art fans snaking out along the concourse of Kulturhuset (The House of Culture).
SUPERMARKET 2011 T-shirts for sale at only SEK 150 each.
A SUPERMARKET 2011 floor plan showing the whereabouts of the Propeller Island booth.
The Propeller Island Television Studio, SUPERMARKET 2011, Kulturhuset, Stockholm, Sweden, in all it’s glory.
Decorated DVD case covers and a poster by artists involved with the launch of Propeller Island Television.
Propeller Island Television Ustream address and promotional stickers.
Propeller Island Television, Supermarket 2011, Stockholm T-shirts at SEK 150 each.
Crowd at the launch of Propeller Island Television at SUPERMARKET 2011, Kulturhuset, Stockholm, Sweden.
Another crowd at the launch of Propeller Island Television at SUPERMARKET 2011, Kulturhuset, Stockholm, Sweden.
Laptop?
Check!
Video camera?
Check!
ACTION!
“You’re watching PITV. Coming at you live from SUPERMARKET 2011!”
Jonathan Trayner performs ‘Tales of the Woodland Folk – Ignorance or Terror’.
Artists Warren McLachlan and Phil Wilson-Perkin join Propeller Island Television to help ‘check the levels’ etc.
A reading from Jules Verne’s ‘Propeller Island’ (the novel artist initiative Propeller Island are named after) of Chapter 6 ‘The Invitation’ (inspiration for the project Propeller Island Television at SUPERMARKET 2011).
Bloke with googly eyes and odd hair looks on as fella without tie acts the giddy goat.
We met lots of artist initiatives whilst at SUPERMARKET 2011 Art Fair, and here a review of business cards received is taking place.
“Thank you for watching Propeller Island Television, live at SUPERMARKET 2011. See you next time. Same channel, different country!”
In February 2011 PEPOMO travelled out to Stockholm, Sweden, to take part in Supermarket 2011 Art Fair. Upon arrival Abba met us with open arms at Arlanda Airport – so too many other Swedish luminaries – as part of a ‘Welcome to our hometown’ campaign.
Ah! That’s better! This reasurring anchor-based logo emblazened on the airport toilets we took as a portent of good things to come.
And nothing says Sweden more than a Swedish flag flying from the top of a very clean building. Now if you combine the toilet anchor with the Swedish flag you get something a little bit like…
THIS! The Propeller Island Television logo which PEPOMO designed for SUPERMARKET 2011 Art Fair. More from the Art Fair to follow. But first, let’s explore Stockholm!
A sculpture entitled ‘Sobaten’ by Christian Berg, surrounded by snow, on a cold Evert Taubes Terrace, Riddarholmen, Stockholm, Sweden, February 2011. Brrrr!
Ducks, ducks, ducks, ducks, ducks, and some swans.
In the Old Town, Stockholm we found narrow buildings in bright colours. Pretty in the light of the snow.
In the Old Town, Stockholm we found bikes in bright colours. Pretty in the light of the snow.
So, to the shops of Stockholm. Which famous actor does the befezzed one remind you of? Answers not on a postcard but rather in the ‘Comments’ box please.
So, for anyone who doesn’t have a grasp of animal names in Japanese, ‘Neko’ is the word for cat. We’ll pass thanks.
What has made Hello Kitty so very chubby? Let’s take a look inside this emporium of sweet treats and find out!
Ah, of course, chocolates! Kitty has been eating chocolates. Aren’t things becoming very Americanized (including the spelling of Americanised) nowadays?
Imagine the confectionary company board meeting:
Boss: “So then Sven. The name for our new chocolate bar. Hit us with it!”
Sven: “Japp!”
Boss: “You’re taking the pee!”
Sven: “It’s funny you should say that…”
You see, you can make any word palatable just by doubling the last letter. But we guess that the ‘Plopp’ here still probably tastes like shitt.
Trompe l’oeil gift boxes floating around a svelte bear headed beauty dressed in a natty grey suit. Marcel Dzama eat your knob off!
Stare at the toy ship in the window, stare at the toy ship in the window, stare at the toy ship in the window. Now wish for it to become a real full sized ship.
Wow! It worked! Stockholm truly is ‘magical’ at night.
No smutty innuendos here.
Instead a visit to Marten Trotzigs Grande.
And the chance to squeeze oneself down Stockholms tightest passage.
An oasis at the end of a long day trekking around Stockholm. The giant tub of never-ending pasta at City Backpackers Hostel. The fuel for our work ahead with Propeller Island Television at Supermarket Art Fair 2011, Kulturhuset, Stockholm, Sweden!
