Plastiktonez

I contributed some work to this hugely exciting inter-disciplinary collaborative project. Online screenings and more details below…

Re-Make, Re-model: Plastiktonez’ incredible reinterpretations of cherished popular music landmarks defy the nostalgic response.

Plastiktonez is a series of experimental investigations in sound, image and text created by artist Justin Wiggan and designer James Ockelford.

The project centres on the dramatic re-imagining, both musically and visually, of nine significant pop cultural artefacts in the form of well-loved and critically acclaimed albums.

It’s a project that has allowed Wiggan - an exploratory performance artist working at the interface of film and sound - to examine the role that nostalgia, memory and influence play in our understanding and recollection of popular music.

Each of the musical pieces that make up the Plastiktonez series have been de-constructed by Wiggan to a point where familiar signifiers and markers are almost completely obliterated - scoured away until the resonating values of the work surface only occasionally, acting as anchors in a completely new audio re-telling.

These newly transmuted works were then presented to 18 creatives who were asked to reflect and respond instinctively to what they were listening to and produce new written or visual elements to accompany the soundscapes. The creative outcomes, which differed widely in style and scope, further helped to re-make and re-model these pop-cultural landmarks, pulling them yet further away from their usual orbits, into new galaxies of existence.

The completed films, which are the culmination of the Plastiktonez project, have been created by designer Refold (James Ockelford). Each a stunning assemblage of the sounds, texts and images created through the process, these nine unique and transfixing interpretations resist the passive nostalgic response that typifies the instant playback hit of popular music and deliver something that feels almost entirely... new.

Showings of the films will take place online in September and October 2021. Visit plastikwonez.com to sign up to attend.

https://www.plastiktonez.com/

Creative Writing Courses at Bucks Adult Learning

I’m teaching on a whole range of Creative Writing courses in Amersham and Chesham this coming term.

Come and get involved…

https://www.adultlearningbc.ac.uk/courses/creative-writing-for-improvers-f2ec113aamt12122/

https://www.adultlearningbc.ac.uk/courses/introduction-to-creative-writing-f2ec06aamt12122/

https://www.adultlearningbc.ac.uk/courses/creative-writing-for-beginners-f2ec116aamt12122/

https://www.adultlearningbc.ac.uk/courses/introduction-to-creative-writing-z4ec18aamt12122/

https://www.adultlearningbc.ac.uk/courses/creative-writing-for-beginners-part-1-z4ec19aamt12122/