Love, dinner, flowers, dances (money, work, deadlines, power)

 Collective and collaborative working involves experimentation, risk and discovery : the title Love, dinner, flowers and dances (money, work, deadlines and power) references the Milan Women Bookshop Collective’s commitment to working together on common projects as an act of creative resistance in response to unseen material oppression. This stereo sound recording and booklet (2020 ) brings together 14 brief, collaboratively authored sound pieces and their creators’ comments on the collaborative process. The project was shown in this form as part of the exhibition Unseen Labour at Newington Art Academy in March 2020 and continues to invite contributions on line (click for link).

Six Days Gone: 2’19”, Anne and Matt O’Driscoll
Rocket: 2’16”, Laura Parkin, Stu Donohoe and Idris Donohoe
Hanging a Picture but Really Playing Trivial Pursuits: 2’, Ana Escobar and Ben Smisson
Double Bass and Hand Pan Collaboration: 1’20”, Evie O’Driscoll and Rosie Bergonzi
Seven to Ninety-Seven: 2’25”, Michele Pouncey and Natalia Maximova
Why Don’t You Have a Voice Recorder?: 2’19”, Howard Walmsley and Angelica Cabezas
Roman Walks: 2’13”, Stefania Tufi and John Fyffe
Dinnerware Soda: 2’01”, Rosie O’Driscoll and Andrew Rickett
Death Mountain: 2’20”, Jojo Taylor and Jon Thurlow
The Theme is London – Why? 2’09”, Rivelino Lopes and Rebekah Ford
Not At My Age: 2’08”, Len and Ben Grant
The Bathers: 2’43”, Ruby Sherwood and Dominic Bilton
Change: 2’17”, Sabrina Fuller and Eddie Sherwood
No Alcohol ‘til It’s Finished: 2’30”, Anne Tucker and Alison Hamilton

Track Listing Six Days Gone: 2’19”, Anne and Matt O’Driscoll Rocket: 2’16”, Laura Parkin, Stu Donohoe and Idris Donohoe Hanging a Picture but Really Playing Trivial Pursuits: 2’, Ana Escobar and Ben Smisson Double Bass and Hand Pan Collaboration: 1’20”, Evie O’Driscoll and Rosie Bergonzi Seven to Ninety-Seven: 2’25”, Michele Pouncey and Natalia Maximova Why Don’t You Have a Voice Recorder?: 2’19”, Howard Walmsley and Angelica Cabezas Roman Walks: 2’13”, Stefania Tufi and John Fyffe Dinnerware Soda: 2’01”, Rosie O’Driscoll and Andrew Rickett Death Mountain: 2’20”, Jojo Taylor and Jon Thurlow The Theme is London – Why? 2’09”, Rivelino Lopes and Rebekah Ford Not At My Age: 2’08”, Len and Ben Grant The Bathers: 2’43”, Ruby Sherwood and Dominic Bilton Change: 2’17”, Sabrina Fuller and Eddie Sherwood No Alcohol ‘til It’s Finished: 2’30”, Anne Tucker and Alison Hamilton Fourteen people are invited to make a two minute sound piece in collaboration with someone else, and to write about their experience of the process. The sound piece will form part of an exhibition, 'Unseen Labour' at the Art Academy The Former Newington Library, 155 Walworth Road, London, SE17 1R, from 11th -15th March 2020, accompanied by a booklet documenting the process.