The Zen Bruiser

Staff from Leicester City Learning Services take on board Paul Conneally’s splacist edict to “hold formal meetings anywhere but the office”

WE ARE THE SPLACISTS

Architects talk about their time at the Splacist Training Camp at MADE in Birmingham Novemeber 2011.

Splacism is a contemporary mode of practice proposed by Paul Conneally. Hannah Nicklin and Nikki Pugh define a new set of ideologies taking forward Conneally”s vision of what splacism might and could be with the Splacist Manifesto.

Alison Hesketh from Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios talks about breaking the ice and her reaction to being asked to behave differently in public spaces:

Architects & Artists – Alison Hesketh from MADE on Vimeo.

Maddy Dring from Glancy Nicholls talks about how artists bring a freedom of thinking that can be useful for generating new ideas:

Architects & Artists – Maddy Dring from MADE on Vimeo.

Phil Howl of Howl Associates touches on changing clients perspectives of the value of bringing an artist onto a design team.

Architects & Artists – Phil Howl from MADE on Vimeo.

Dorthe Riis-Jones shares her experience of practising in Denmark where working alongside artists isstandard practice:

Architects & Artists – Dorthe Riis-Jones from MADE on Vimeo.
Julia Kashdan-Brown talks about the importance of working with artists as a part of everyday working practice:

Architects & Artists – Julia Kashdan-Brown from MADE on Vimeo.

If you would like to discus how the Splacist Group might work with your organisation to widen and explore your own ways of working through a splacist approach contact Love & Barley Assciates

Seed Grenades

she sings the song to be lost in the forest

Helter Skelter
Paul Conneally
1999

NO PURPOSE NO DESIGN
Paul Conneally

DOT - made during the first Splacist Training Camp Birmingham UK - when something - something visual - some sound - some emotion - rises above the attenuated everyday noise of the city - consider it but only briefly - and give it a mark - here a dot - 1 it’s good - 2 it’s bearable - 3 it’s too noisy.

Dorthe Riis-Jones - Jaqui Rogers - Paul Conneally
30th Nov 2011

“We will trace and leave traces” Splacist Manifesto 2.0

First Splacist Training Camp MADE Birmingham UK
Photographs Paul Conneally 30th Nov 2011

What Are The Splacists? The World’s First Splacist Training Camp
Conceived and led by splacist Nikki Pugh at MADE Birmingham November 30th 2011

A group of artists and architects make and use the camp as a base to interogate Splacist Manifesto 2.0 planning and then undertaking direct actions on the streets of Birmingham.

Later they meet with others on the rooftop of a multistorey carpark in Birmingham’s Jewelry Quarter to experience DUST a splacist work by Hannah Nicklin and Nikki Pugh.

splacist (splā sĭst)
A contemporary mode of practice proposed by Paul Conneally. A new set of ideologies defined by Hannah Nicklin and Nikki Pugh. A hop, skip and a jump away from phsychogeography and the works of the situationist international. Think space, place and splice.

INVIGILATOR : DIGBETH
Paul Conneally & Nikki Pugh

Wordsworth Country

Poem Signs from ‘Spoil Heap Harvest - Wordsworth Country’ by Paul Conneally for Transform Snibston.

The poem signs are made from deconstructions of Wordsworth poetry and poems written by Conneally and people from the communities of North West Leicestershire where William Wordsworth and his family lived and worked between 1806 and 1807 at Coleorton.

The signs form part of a curated tour / walk and interactive map based around places associated with William Wordsworth and his family in North West Leicestershire starting and ending at Snibston Discovery Museum, Coalville, Leicestershire.

”Welcome to North West Leicestershire - Wordsworth Country”
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items are from between 24 Feb 2011 & 10 May 2011.

“The splacist revolution has begun” - Paul Conneally

rite of passage

Seed Grenades

YOUPHOBIA
Guerrilla Gardening
F-Troop Leicester UK
Paul Conneally
19th May 2010

Blindfold Woman With String

Paul Conneally 2011

A teacher during a Splacist Workshop

exploring and promoting Learning Outside The Classroom

The workshop was led by artist Paul Conneally and Roberto Amoroso at Forest Lodge Education Centre, Leicester.

We will expose and re-see.
We recognise our observation affects the outcome unavoidably.
We will affect and be affected.
We will glory in the moment, the collage, the marking and then passing on.

Splacist Intervention - Leicester - November 1 2011