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

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Happening Here!

An interactive map of Buckland

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

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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.

A &#8216;pop-up&#8217; installation &amp; online collection that curates the things we buy today as the heritage of tomorrow.

Public Realm

Interdisciplinary

Participatory

Curation

MoCC shop-gallery in Exeter. Photography by Benjamin J Borley

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With retail driving the development of real-time big data processes, how and what we trade, exchange and consume and where we do it, is affecting both the worlds we live in, and those we dream of making – in ways that seem increasingly far beyond our knowledge or control.

The Museum of Contemporary Commodities (MoCC) is neither a building nor a permanent collection of stuff – it’s an invitation. To consider every shop, online store and warehouse full of stuff as if it were a museum, and all the things in it part of our collective future heritage. What do we mean by things or stuff? Everything that you can buy in today’s society. The full range of contemporary commodities available to consume.

Prototyping project activities at the MoCC Free Market, Furtherfield Gallery. Photos by Andrew Brand

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Presented as a series of lively and challenging digital activities in physically located and online spaces, MoCC creates conversations between people and things that encourage deeper investigation of the deep links between data, trade, place and values that shape our everyday lives. The project has been presented as a <a href="https://vimeo.com/71575554#at=3">Thinkering Day</a>, a <a href="https://vimeo.com/145505777">Free Market</a> event, an <a href="https://vimeo.com/144730492">exhibition</a> piece, a <a href="https://vimeo.com/176158122">shop-gallery &amp; micro festival,</a> and as a <a href="https://vimeo.com/244432027" target="_blank" rel="noopener">museum in its own right</a> on Exhibition Road, London.

MoCC Guide Mikayla the interactive doll on her throne of commodities

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Matt Burrows, Visual Arts Curator Exeter Phoenix

MoCC is an art-social science collaboration between <a href="http://www.blindditch.org/people/">Paula Crutchlow </a>from Blind Ditch and <a href="http://geography.exeter.ac.uk/staff/index.php?web_id=Ian_Cook">Ian Cook</a> from <a href="http://www.followthethings.com/">followthethings.com</a> and University of Exeter. The project was developed in partnership with <a href="http://www.furtherfield.org/">Furtherfield</a> and a growing number of artists, academics, technologists and members of the public.
With many thanks to MoCC collaborators: Artist &amp; Producer Alison Ballard, Furtherfield co-founder Ruth Catlow, Creative Technologists Gareth Foote &amp; Chris Hunt, Project Assistant and ethnographer Chiara Garbellotto, Designer Olga Massanet, Associate Professor in Media and Communications LSE Alison Powell, Community Artist Kerrie Seymour and Sound Designer Emmanuel Spinelli. With further assistance from MoCC Free Market Workshop leaders: Carlos Armendariz, Amelia Suchcicka and volunteers, MoCC Invigilators:  Charlie Coldfield, Jake Elwes, Joe Hancock, Becky Rich, Alexander Warn, MoCC Commodity Consultants: Alice Goodbrook, Jennifer Hart, Elizabeth Hobson, Gabrielle King, Daisy Livingstone.

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Made in partnership with Furtherfield. With further support from All Change Arts, MA Narrative Environments at Central Saint Martins, University of Westminster and Queen Mary University of London. MoCC in Exeter was run in partnership with Exeter Phoenix, Exeter Library and FabLab Devon with support from Art Week Exeter, Exeter CVS, Exeter City Council, Exeter Scrapstore, Exeter University Arts and Culture, Spacex, St Sidwells Centre. MoCC at the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) was supported by the RGS-IBG and the Victoria and Albert Museum.
Funded by Arts Council England, Islington Council, University of Exeter, Economic and Social Research Council and Exeter City Council.