Critical Camps 2016

01/09/2016

The first Critical Camp broadcast went out on Resonance FM yesterday. Robin Mackay tells of philosophers islands...

Bram Thomas Arnold presents a new series of six shows documenting and veering off from Paul Chaney’s Critical Camps at Kestle Barton Gallery on the Lizard in Cornwall. In this first episode philosopher Robin Mackey explores the philosophical notion of the island, Dom Allen performs some salvage tech...

10/07/2016

An idiosyncratic mixtape based on an impromptu listening seminar held at Labour Camp, part of Paul Chaney’s Critical Camps series at Kestle Barton, traces the relationship between work and eroticism through popular song. Starting with a bucolic idyll of self-suffiency where labour is not yet separat...

12/06/2016

Some of Fernanda Eugenio's photos from her workshop at CC2

12/06/2016

Critical Camp 2 at Kestle Barton. An intense investigation into cooperative thinking using Fernanda Eugenio's Modus Operandi AND – instigated by the Portuguese verb 'reparar': stop, stop again, notice, repair. Followed by Magdalena Tyżlik-Carver on Sheep, commons, and the share economy.

A productive and informative day, rounded off with Dom Bailey's baked smooth hound and pan fried chips, and acoustic improvised vibes from Appalachian three piece Lafayette.

02/06/2016

Critical Camp 2 Schedule 4th/5th June:

14:00
Introduction
14:15 – 15:00
Fernanda Eugenio – Presentation Modus Operandi AND
15:15 – 18:45
Fernanda Eugenio – Modus Operandi AND workshop
19:00 – 19:30
Presentation by Dr Magda Tyżlik-Carver – Sheep, Commons and Share Economy.
20:00
Dinner – by Dominic Bailey
21:00 – 23:00
Fireside chat and musical performance by Lafayette – Cajun and Appalachian three piece

02/06/2016

Still a few places left on Critical Camp 2 coming up this weekend. We will be eating Smooth Hound caught by line off the Lizard coast, with pan fried local potato wedges, fresh snap peas and home made tomato ketchup (tozzer kezzer in local dialect). All cooked by the culinary adept Dominic Bailey of CAST cafe.

30/05/2016

page of AND Lab research run by Fernanda Eugenio – who will be running the workshop at Critical Camp 2 this coming weekend at Kestle Barton

AND Lab | Centro de Investigação em Arte-Pensamento & Políticas da Convivência é uma plataforma de pesquisa praticada que se dedica ao desdobramento contínuo, à transmissão e partilha e à aplicação do Modo Operativo AND.

25/05/2016

Critical Camp 1 – an epic weekend of philosophy, food, circuit bending, and sound performance. You missed out.

12/04/2016

£15 per event (includes off-grid dinner cooked by pro chef Dom Bailey)
£5 per head camping (includes breakfast)

Call Ryya at Kestle Barton to book 01326 231811

12/04/2016

Throughout summer 2016 Paul Chaney will lead Critical Camps: a season of workshops and talks by artists, thinkers at Kestle Barton Rural Centre for the Contemporary Arts, located on the Lizard Peninsula in Cornwall.

Critical Camps will consider themes raised by Chaney’s ongoing research project Lizard Exit Plan – a speculative scenario in which an unspecified apocalyptic event cuts off the Lizard peninsula from the global economy. The camps will take place in the Encampment Supreme pavilion – a 775 sq.ft architectural fusion of post-consumer waste products and locally found natural elements, constructed by the artist and volunteers during public workshops in 2015.

At Critical Camps visitors will engage in workshops, attend lively presentations and readings before partaking in an evening meal made from locally grown and scavenged ingredients and prepared over a campfire by pro chef Dominic Bailey. Fireside discussions will continue into the evening, with events culminating in either live music from local musicians, or a car battery-powered ‘off-grid disco’. Guests will be invited to camp overnight in the pavilion itself or in their own tents, sharing a breakfast cooked over the fire the following morning.

Book through Kestle Barton 01326 231811

12/04/2016

May 21st/22nd – The Possibility of an Island

June 4th/5th – AND once more with feeling

July 2nd/3rd – Reclaiming Labour

July 23rd/24th – A Hunter’s Gathering

Sept 3rd/4th – Plotting a path: The utility of the romantic

Sept 24th/25th – The Limits of Anarchy

12/04/2016

May 21st/22nd – The Possibility of an Island

Contemporary apocalyptic fictions continue a long tradition in which a complete break with the past, and the prospect of an uncertain future, are used as a laboratory to think about the present.

From the flood to the desert island to the abandoned space station or depleted Earth, these controlled scenarios allow us to imagine starting again from nothing—or to imagine how the remnants of a destroyed civilization might be reinterpreted, rebuilt, and repurposed. They yield new perspectives on the apparently solid foundations of life and the possibility of change.
Starting from zero, making the best of what’s left…in this Critical Camp we explore the mythical, philosophical, literary, and political dimensions of these narratives, and do some salvaging of our own.

Speakers:
Robin Mackay – Philosopher, Director of UK publisher and arts organization Urbanomic and editor of the transdisciplinary journal Collapse.

Workshop:
Making potato based electrical power sources and circuit bent synthesisers for an off-grid electronic music performance with artist Dom Allen.