Documentation of the R&D process for The Common Line project March-September 2018. A partnership project between Blind Ditch, Controlled Frenzy, and Geography at University of Exeter with support from Rural Recreation. Funded by AHRC-EPSRC this R&D was kindly supported by University of Cumbria.

The Common Line - AHRC-EPSRC R&D

The Common Line

The Common Line R&D process

A participatory arts project developed from crowd-sourced creative writings by bus passengers about their journies on the D bus in Exeter. Commissioned by University of Exeter, Arts and Culture 2018 in partnership with Stagecoach.

D-tour: thoughts looking sidewards

D-Tour: thoughts looking sidewards

D-Tour: thoughts looking sidewards – single channel video

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Colourful interactive map of Buckland estate in Newton Abbot

HappeningHere!Map

Happening Here!

An interactive map of Buckland

Culture & Review On Phonic Fm: August 2015: Culture Hour – O-B-A-F-G Special

O-B-A-F-G

Collaborative audio work and radio documentary

A short edit of This City's Centre, 3. Here Now, a performance incorporating live video streaming, staged between a third-floor office space in Princesshay, Exeter and the streets and homes of the city. This City's Centre was a digital triptych for Exeter. Developed by Blind Ditch in 2013 in partnership with Exeter Phoenix, RAMM, Exeter College and funded by Arts Council England, Exeter City Council and Arts and Culture at University of Exeter.

Performers in order of appearance: Phil Smith, Katy Villa, Jonny Rowden, Students from Exeter College, Jane Mason, Lizzy Humber. Music is from Consort of Fower Parts composed by Matthew Locke in Exeter 1660 ca. played by Cat Radford on accordian outside Exeter Cathedral. Camera by Philibert Patricot. Edit Volkhardt Müller.

This City's Centre 3. Here,Now

This City’s Centre

This City’s Centre 3. Here, Now – video trailer

Volkhardt Müller (Blind Ditch) and John Wylie (Cultural Geography, University of Exeter) discuss This City's Centre 1. Window

Private Views and Public Art

A long journey through the city centre shopping centre livens up the morning (August, 2008).

Global Player - the long play

Global Player

Global Player – the long play

A 24 minute documentary on the process and impact of the project including interviews with partners and collaborators. Filmed in 2007 in PAL!

VANLAND Documentary

VANLAND

VANLAND documentary about our working process 2004-07

Short video work using 'home movie' footage created to be used in the performance and installation 'Who Wants to be a Hero Now' in 2006. Edit Volkhardt Mueller, sound John Levack Drever, words Natalie Mcgrath performed by Cat Radford. Child Lena Mueller.

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Who Wants to be a Hero Now?

Divine – video used in the 2006 installation

Young graffiti artist Spike gives our caravan a face-lift. Too many people on country fairs have been suspecting we're selling caravans. No more of that from now on!

VANLAND Trailer 2006

VANLAND trailer 2006

A collection of documents and media produced over the course of 20+ years.


<p>A collaborative and distributed performance of <strong>the 1964 audio-theatre script by Ronald Duncan.</strong></p>


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Audio work

<p>The original 1964 version of O-B-A-F-G by Ronald Duncan took the form of a live ‘stereophonic’ performance with theatrical lighting. Beginning in darkness, the audience became surrounded by the disembodied voices of the actors heard through the audio system, in dialogue about the ‘birth’ of matter, tensions between scientific and spiritual beliefs, and our relationship with the earth.</p>


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<p>Just as Ronald Duncan experimented with new audio technologies in his original performances, this re-imagining of the play text used current digital technologies to expand the spaces in which the piece was performed and encountered. Sections of text were offered to different performers to record remotely in a place of their choice. Their voices were reassembled and live mixed for a small studio performance event, accompanied by a ‘found footage’ video montage projected on an assemblage of household objects. The piece was simultaneously broadcast live on Phonic.FM with a set of instructions on how to curate your listening environment, and an accompanying video stream for listeners to watch.</p>


<p>Listen to the radio documentary on Ronald Duncan and the working process, followed by the O-B-A-F-G audio work here:</p>


<p><strong>Performed at </strong>Exeter Phoenix with simultaneous broadcast on phonic FM as part of <a href="https://nose2015.wordpress.com/">NOSE 2015</a> 7pm 15 May 2015. The work was also broadcast on <a href="http://radiophrenia.scot/">Radiophrenia</a> Glasgow 1 September 2016.</p>
<p><strong>C</strong><strong>o-produced by </strong>Blind Ditch with the <a href="http://www.phonic.fm/culture">Culture &amp; Review on Phonic FM</a> team. Creative direction by Paula Crutchlow, video by Stuart Crewes &amp; Volkhardt Müller, radio documentary by Audaye Elesedy, sound edit by John Wigzell with Paula Crutchlow, stage manager Carla Hayes.</p>
<div class="content_boxes"><strong>Performers invited to participate</strong> from alumni and former staff of Dartingon College of Arts and University of Exeter where the piece was first performed. Many thanks to: Uta Baldauf, Belinda Dillon, Dugald Ferguson, Robert Gerzany, Eunjoo Han, Alice Human, Fin Irwin, Jason Kennedy, Felix Bear Lane, Johann Müller, Lena Müller, Volkhardt Müller, Helen Pritchard, Cat Radford, Phil Smith, Jem Treays, Ella Turk-Richards.</div>
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<div><strong>Find the Duncan archive</strong> at the University of Exeter, part of their Special Collections of South West based writers.</div>
