Tuesday, 1 March 2016

A start on an about text...

Attempt vijf, rima, five, funf, cinc, cinco, cinq.... or; how do you solve a problem like an advanced info text.....

Woahmanchester (A Road Movie of Intrepid Dimensions) is a new public image series by All the Cunning Stunts that is visible at various locations along Manchester Street in Ōtautahi/Christchurch, between the Physics Room and North Projects. 

Woahmanchester continues the Stunts' intrepid and glitter-inflected journey to locate a Leading Lxdy for their upcoming debut film. As the Stunts are not entirely sure whether this Lxdy already exists or is simply yet to be imagined, they are using their extensive media relations for the Woahmanchesterimage series to speculate on their Leading Lxdy's career, and search for this elusive celebrity’s multiple dimensions.

The diverse community uses and multiple queerstories of Manchester Street and the surrounding area have influenced much of the visual and textual development of the Woahmanchester series, which happens in the Stunts' behind-the-scenes digital studio. Interested passers-by and talent scouts alike can expect back stage passes, so stay tuned!

Coming Soon! Woahmanchester (A Road Movie of Intrepid Dimensions) will be partnered with an upcoming contribution to Girls Like Us magazine, titled F+ (A Family Genre Comedy).



All the Cunning Stunts is a collective comprising of artists Liz Allan, Clare Noonan, Rachel O’Neill and Marnie Slater, who have been working together since 2010. Their work uses humour, an invitational tone and plenty of innuendo to experiment with alternative ways to imagine attraction, relationships and positionality, as well as to address mainstream representations of queer desire in popular culture and other commercial contexts.


Attempt quatre, vier, four (HELP, 'cause I don't really know French numbers above 10):

Woahmanchester (A Road Movie of Intrepid Dimensions) is a new public image series by All the Cunning Stunts that is visible at various locations along Manchester Street in Ōtautahi/Christchurch, between the Physics Room and North Projects. 

Woahmanchester continues the Stunts' intrepid and glitter-inflected journey to locate a Leading Lxdy for their upcoming debut film. As the Stunts are not entirely sure whether this Lxdy already exists or is simply yet to be imagined, they are using their extensive media relations for the Woahmanchester image series to speculate on their Leading Lxdy's career, and search for this elusive celebrity’s multiple dimensions.

The diverse community uses and multiple queerstories of Manchester Street and the surrounding area have influenced much of the visual and textual development of the Woahmanchester series, and interested passers-by and talent scouts alike can check out the Stunts' behind-the-scenes digital studio here from 24 March 2016.

Coming Soon! Woahmanchester (A Road Movie of Intrepid Dimensions) will be partnered with an upcoming contribution to Girls Like Us magazine, titled F+ (A Family Genre Comedy).


All the Cunning Stunts is a collective comprising of artists Liz Allan, Clare Noonan, Rachel O’Neill and Marnie Slater, who have been working together since 2010. Their work uses humour, an invitational tone and plenty of innuendo to experiment with alternative ways to imagine attraction, relationships and positionality, as well as to address mainstream representations of queer desire in popular culture and other commercial contexts.


Attempt trois, drie, three:

Woahmanchester (A Road Movie of Intrepid Dimensions) is a new image series by All the Cunning Stunts that is visible at various locations along Manchester Street in Ōtautahi/Christchurch, between the Physics Room and North Projects. Woahmanchester continues the Stunts' long and glitter-inflected journey to locate a Leading Lxdy for their upcoming debut film. As the Stunts are not entirely sure whether this Lxdy already exists or perhaps is simply yet to be imagined, the Woahmanchester image series is a projection of their unknown Leading Lxdy's career, and a search for this elusive celebrity’s multiple dimensions via the Stunts' extensive media relations.

The diverse uses and multiple herstories of Manchester Street have influenced much of the visual and textual lingo for the Woahmanchester series, and interested passers-by and talent scouts alike can check out the Stunts' behind-the-scenes digital studio here from 24 March 2016.

Coming Soon! Woahmanchester (A Road Movie of Intrepid Dimensions) will be partnered with an upcoming contribution to Girls Like Us magazine, titled F+ (A Family Genre Comedy).

All the Cunning Stunts is a collective comprising of artists Liz Allan, Clare Noonan, Rachel O’Neill and Marnie Slater who have been working together since 2010. Their work uses humour, an invitational tone and plenty of innuendo to address mainstream assumptions about attraction, relationships and positionality, as well as the representation of queer desire in popular culture and other commercial contexts.


Attempt two:

Woahmanchester (A Road Movie of Intrepid Dimensions) is a new image series by All the Cunning Stunts that is visible at various locations along Manchester Street in Ōtautahi/Christchurch, between the Physics Room and North Projects. Woahmanchester continues the Stunts' long and glitter-inflected journey to locate a Leading Lxdy for their upcoming debut film. As the Stunts are not entirely sure if this Lxdy already exists or perhaps they are simply yet to be imagined, the Woahmanchester image series collapses the duration of their Leading Lxdy's career and uses the Stunts' extensive media relations to trace this elusive celebrity. The diverse uses and multiple herstories of Manchester Street have influenced much of the visual and textual lingo for the Woahmanchester series, and interested passers-by and talent scouts alike can check out the Stunts' digital studio here from 24 March 2016.

Coming Soon! Woahmanchester (A Road Movie of Intrepid Dimensions) will be partnered with an upcoming contribution to Girls Like Us magazine, titled F+ (A Family Genre Comedy).


All the Cunning Stunts is a collective comprising of artists Liz Allan, Clare Noonan, Rachel O’Neill and Marnie Slater who have been working together since 2010. Their work uses humour, an invitational tone and plenty of innuendo to address mainstream assumptions about attraction, relationships and positionality, as well as the representation of queer desire in popular culture and other commercial contexts. 

Attempt one:
Woahmanchester (A Road Movie of Intrepid Dimensions) is a new image series by All the Cunning Stunts visible at various locations along Manchester Street in Ōtautahi/Christchurch, between the Physics Room and North Projects. Woahmanchester continues the Stunts' long and glitter-inflected journey to locate a Leading Lxdy for their upcoming debut film. Not entirely sure if this Lxdy already exists or perhaps they are simply yet to be imagined, the Woahmanchester image series collapses the duration of their Leading Lxdy's career and uses the Stunts' extensive media relations to trace their elusive celebrity.
Coming Soon! Woahmanchester (A Road Movie of Intrepid Dimensions) will be partnered with an upcoming contribution to Girls Like Us magazine, titled F+ (A Family Genre Comedy).
All the Cunning Stunts is a collective comprising of artists Liz Allan, Clare Noonan, Rachel O’Neill and Marnie Slater who have been working together since 2010. Their work uses humour, an invitational tone and plenty of innuendo to address mainstream assumptions about attraction, relationships and subjectivity, as well as the representation of queer desire in popular culture and other commercial contexts. 


27 comments:

  1. This is just a start. I think it needs something in their about working with the location...

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  2. Oh, and woops, just in case it could be helpful, the bio section comes from the text Bruce wrote for us for the Te Tuhi project.

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  3. And I also think we should hyperlink the hell out'o'the text (for GLU, Facebook, etc.)

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  4. awesome at first glance MS, really great to see this in words, will feedback more l8r

    the/a ? Leading Lxdy
    Who's not entirely sure (also like the informality here...)
    love "extensive media relations"

    xx

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  5. Thanks LA! I have changed "the" for "a Leading Lxdy". Good idea. Looking forward to hearing more voices in the press text chamber.

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  6. One thing: I have been privately ruminating lately on the potential of the word "positionality" as a better term for "subjectivity," as it turns the fixed nature of the subject into something more contexual, discursive, directional and durational. Thoughts? Just in terms of the bio part of the text.

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  7. I think we've used the term subject positions before, positionality is great too! !: http://dissertationscholar.blogspot.nl/2013/04/what-is-positionality-in-practitioner.html

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  8. and as a final word, if asked whether positionality is possible, I would conditionally answer: yes and no

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  9. Can I use that on our Instagram?

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  10. Sounding great... Really likinh the accessible tone. Will take a closer look tonight.

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  11. Just added attempt number deux, twee, two.

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  12. Kewl. Marnie,can you extrapolate on what "collapses the duration of their Leading Lxdy's career " means? I'm thinking also: "speculates on the course of" (more road trip)... or "compresses the dimensions of" (more digital coordinates) or "snapshots the highlights of" (as in we are constructing an image of)... lettuce kno!

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  13. or...As the Stunts are not entirely sure whether this Lxdy already exists or perhaps is simply yet to be imagined, the Woahmanchester image series is a projection of their unknown Leading Lxdy's career, and a search for this elusive celebrity’s multiple dimensions via the Stunts' extensive media relations.

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  14. back-end digital studio
    http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/us/definition/american_english/back-end?q=+back+end

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  15. Thanks for your input LA. See updated text in post, with highlighted sections. I have made some changes, and in the end I am trying behind-the-scenes (more movie vibes). What do all think?

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  16. Oh and PS, I totally forgot to make a note at the beginning about the inclusion of the blog. I realise that this is still a question for us (public or not public?), so this is really just there if that's what we decide to go for. It would be good to get that resolved asap, along with the text. RO and CN, your thoughts are pending!

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  17. Just read the latest version closely.... This version is great and good to go for me with the suggestion of changing "diverse use" for "diverse usage".
    Also agree the blog gives an important part for "those passser-bys interested" and would be happy for it to go live .... Would be great to have a conversation next skype about the how and when details to make that happen.

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  18. Just read the latest version closely.... This version is great and good to go for me with the suggestion of changing "diverse use" for "diverse usage".
    Also agree the blog gives an important part for "those passser-bys interested" and would be happy for it to go live .... Would be great to have a conversation next skype about the how and when details to make that happen.

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  19. Hey all. This is as far as I want to go solo on this text. I am happy with it and also about the blog going live. Chao.

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  20. Hey all. This is as far as I want to go solo on this text. I am happy with it and also about the blog going live. Chao.

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  21. Thanks for your input LA and CN. Let's work towards sign off!?

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  22. Dear Marnie and all,

    The text is really brilliant and nice articulation of site, intent and future/contextual possibilities. Heart!

    A few thoughts:

    in-situ image series - what about saying 'public image series' - am making a heavy-handed link to public art in the city and discourse...

    'whether this Lxdy already exists or perhaps is simply yet to be imagined' - the 'perhaps is simply' is a little awkward for me - though this is also a stylistic accent - my alt suggestion is to say 'or is yet to be imagined' but open on this.

    'The diverse usages and multiple queerstories'... can we slip 'community' in there, so 'The diverse community usages and multiple queerstories'. I prefer the word 'uses' to usages, though this is the Press Release conservative in me speaking....

    Those are my thoughts on this shining text - thanks so much Marnie and all for your efforts on this! xxxR

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  23. Thanks RO! Version 4 has been updated with all of your changes. Can you quickly confirm if you are not-happy/happy for the blog to go public? xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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  24. Hi stunts, for me there are two options regarding behind-the-scenes process access for the public to the project, which is to link to this blog or link to a curated selection of image and text excerpts selected from the blog and posted on Instagram. I still like the idea of a behind the scenes access rather than none at all, even though I think our images for woahmanchest have a very strong transparency to the local context and stand on their own well.

    My concern with the blog is that it links multiple projects that are to various extents connected and disconnected - so woahmanchest, glitter handshake, handshake documentation and GLU - we could easily acknowledge this in a contextual statement on the blog if we went public with it. I guess, from the outside though it might be a bit confusing, and also there are threads to the conversations that are still ongoing for us - for example, it would be great for us all to discuss the post/colonial aspects of the New World bag in the glitter handshake performance, the connection between Aotearoa and Rotterdam - and also what different resonances the New World bag might have if we show documentation in NZ as well. Anyway, I will follow up on this soon.

    There is an honesty to the process on the blog but I wonder if it might be more beneficial to the public to select, say 20 highlights from the blog and repost or reposition them on Instagram? In terms of the additional workload this would add I would be happy to coordinate this process - or we could each present 5-7 top posts, images or text/discussions that we each want to see publicly represent the project/s so far.

    What do you all think about the Instagram option? - I'm really keen to know what you think will give the best contextual atmosphere to the manchester and GLU works in particular.

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  25. My preference would be to make the blog public, and to simply move the glitter handshake stuff to the other blog -- where in retrospect it maybe should have been in the first place! What I like the most about making a process pubic is that all the extra things, like the four versions of the promo text, and this discussion, become public! For me, in this respect, it would not make any sense to edit the posts to a top selection, when the non-selection is what makes it a significant gesture.

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