2006
street writings
For 6 weeks, visual artist Claudia Wegener ran a series of writing and audio workshops at Crisis/Skylight in the London’s East End, in collaboration with artists Valerie Vivancos, Alan Dunn & Jeff Young and Charles Hayward. Texts and sound works resulting from the project were presented across two radio shows on Resonace104.4fm on 22nd and 29th June, including live remixes by project participants and reflections on street writings by Guy Brett and drummer Charles Hayward. A WEED WORKS CD of edited mixes will be for sale at ARTWORDS bookshop in the Whitechapel Gallery (and via www.artwords.co.uk). The CD will be launched at the summer exhibition at Crisis/Skylight 27th-30th July, 66 Commercial Street, LONDON E1, and will also be on display in the new Whitechapel public library, 21st – 30th July 2006. street writings was funded by Arts Council England.

street writings CD, WEED WORKS 2006, limited edition of 100, audio CDR 60 minutes.
Edited extracts and mixes on this CD were prepared by Vivancos, Dunn & Young, Hayward and Wegener along with words, songs, whispers, stories and slogans by David Stark, Gillian Street, Thomas Piwnicki, Chris Gregory, Mark Anderson, Strongly Sean, Sean O'Neill, Antonio D'Silva, Anthony Coward, Denise Warren, Alex Smith, Ross Kinney, Peter, Rosko, Michael Edun, Simon Anderson, Philip, Kathy, Andrew, Olivier Vautour, Rob Gredy, Callum Miah, Cecilia Horrath and Ali Hussain. Sample in Dunn & Young's ‘arnold circus’ courtesy of Paul Ayers.

CD Price: £9.99. The sale of the CD will support the workshops run at Crisis/Skylight. Contact WEED WORKS: long_walk_abridged@yahoo.co.uk.

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Dunn & Young: arnold circus (16.36) MP3 file (15.6MB), produced 25 May and 1 June, with Dave S, Sean O'N and Kathy, in Spittalfields Market, Shoreditch Church and Arnold Circus.

Street Writing: (58.18) MP3 file (68.3MB), live mix of projects on ResonanceFM.

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