THANKYOU & GOODBYE

CONTRIBUTORS: ARTISTS: AGGELIKI XYNOGALA AKIMA MCPHERSON ANASTASIA ZOI SOULIOTOU ANIKA CARPENTER ARABA OCRAN ARUNA GUHAN ASA JAMES GRIFFITS CARO HALFORD CHANTELLE PURCELL CHANYANUCH HONGSONGTHAM DIZZY THORNE EVA THEODORIDOU HUI HYE LIM JAMES BLACKBURN JAYI KIM JUN HO LEE KYUNG PARK LAUREN COOKE MINJOO CHO MINNA GEORGIEVA PANAYIOTIS PIERIS POLLY READ RAYWAT JUNGSURA RUXANDRA GUTU SAM WALKER SIMENG LIU STEPHANIE O CONNOR YONGSANG HONG TEXT: Charlotte Cullinan & Jeanine Richards COVER: Chanyanuch Hongsangthanm CREATIVE EDITORS: Chantelle Purcell Aruna Guhan © COPYRIGHT MA KINGSTON UNIVERSITY 2011

FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT CHANTELLE PURCELL OR ARUNA GUHAN chantelle_may@hotmail.co.uk / aruna_guhan@yahoo.com

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EDITORS NOTE: “Cultural hacking” does not only mean voicing criticism, putting up resistance or even exposing an opponent’s faults — it also signifies innovation” This publication accompanies the exhibition ‘Thankyou & Goodbye’. It comprises of a montage of text and images that have been appropriated from various sources of news and media. Taking its cue from the recent News of the World headline, the catalogue is an artist’s response to what is happening topically.

The publication deals with recycling of ideas, distortion, manipulation and corruption of the everyday, pulling together the questioning of realities and clichés of the scandalous that penetrate our minds.

The publication reveals the individual processes of each artist and how it transforms when opened up into the collaborative, thereby creating a dialogue between the audience and artist. ‘Thankyou & Goodbye’ becomes a staging that captures the fleeting, transient nature of an exhibition and the reconsideration of the artwork when documentation comes into play.

Yesterday’s news is tomorrow’s fish & chip paper.

Chantelle Purcell & Aruna Guhan

1. Schmidt, S. 2011, Hacking the City - Interventions in public and communicative spaces, [online] Available at:http://www.e-flux.com/shows/ view/9739

thankyou & goodbye The Italian/French legacy of the exodus, even if it no longer allows dreaming of a completely different outside, is not at all to be understood as harmless, individualist, or escapist-esoteric. “There is nothing more active than a flight!” as Gilles Deleuze and Claire Parnet wrote in the 1970s, and as Virno repeats almost literally in 2001: “Nothing is less passive than the act of fleeing, of exiting.” What this form of innovation-as-exit involves is a dangerous, positive form of defection, a fleeing that enables one to look for a weapon as one goes.

Instead of presupposing relationships of domination as an immovable horizon and yet still fighting against them, this flight changes the conditions under which the presupposition occurs. The exodus transforms the context in which a problem has emerged, instead of treating the problem by deciding between given alternatives. As joke and as innovative action, exodus—the nonpassive, nondialectical, nonindividualist form of defection—opens up a side road, uncharted on political maps, “to modify the very ‘grammar’ which determines the selection of all possible choices.”

Gerald Raunig ARTFORUM [extract] January 2008

When WE talk about an entrepreneurial attitude we are asking the students to think about making work that allows repetition, mistakes, false conclusions, mis-judgements, collapse, fake economies, jokes, types, doubles, copies, versions. In other words - innovation and creativity becomes displacement.

These ideas of displacement are finally actualized as leave-taking, as defection, as exodus at the end of the year.

‘Virno emphasizes that he sees exodus as a collective action, which hinges on the para-logistic principle of tertium datur: a third way beyond any dialectical movement, an asymmetrical third possibility ...........exodus is a nondialectical form of negation and resistance, or rather, of defecting and fleeing. Confronted

with the question of whether they would submit to the pharaoh or openly rebel against his rule, the Israelites invent another possibility that could not have been conceived before: They flee’.

Gerald Raunig ARTFORUM [extract] January 2008 THANKYOU & GOODBYE

with love from,

Charlotte Cullinan and Jeanine Richards Sept 2011

Yesterday’s news is tomorrow’s fish & chip paper

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Joseph Campbell, in The Power of Myth (1988), Ch. 2 : The Journey Inward

…The black moment is the moment when the real message of transformation is going to come. At the darkest moment comes the light.

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Kiss by the Hôtel de Ville:

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“pancommunication — everything and everybody conveying content and meaning in all possible combinations.”

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What are the rules about who gets a public statue?

A statue to Ronald Reagan has been unveiled outside the US embassy in London, begging the question: who decides what statues are commissioned for such public spaces.

Emine Saner guardian.co.uk, Monday 4 July 2011 The unveiling of the 10ft bronze statue, standing alongside Dwight Eisenhower and Franklin D Roosevelt in Grosvenor Square, for the next few months at least to the American embassy, is part of a number of events run by the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation � including other statues around the world � to mark the centenary of the 40th president's birth. Whatever your view on Reagan's politics, you can't deny it's a shame we couldn't have had the statue Budapest got last week.

Theirs is showbiz Reagan, looking like a rock star on a walkabout, with his autograph scrawled at his feet. We've got statesman Reagan: on a plinth, straight-backed, shoulders square, a faint smile playing across his face.

What are the rules about who gets a public statue?

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For Westminster, it is customary to wait until someone has been dead for 10 years decides what statues are commissioned for such public before a statue is created. "It's a guideline to make sure we are getting people whose spaces. legacies will endure," says a council spokesperson. Statues are privately funded and

landowners' permission has to be sought. "Someone will come up with a proposal and put it to us. Then the planning committee will make a decision on whether it's Emine suitableSaner for the area, good enough quality, and whether it's suitable for that person to guardian.co.uk, 4 July have a memorial Monday in that way.

If the2011 statue is human or animal, it has to be signed off by the Secretary of State [for Culture, Media and Sport], but not for abstract sculpture, that's one of the quirks."

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FIG. 29 The Hairs on Your Arms Distract Me

FIG. 30 First sketch to final study and book art

FIG. 31 Happy Now?

FIG. 32 15.04.11 05:00

FIG. 33 Untitled

FIG. 34 Lack of Being

FIG. 35 Fig. 1, Fig. 2 & Fig. 3

FIG. 36 Turkish Bath

FIG. 37 Lines of Flight

FIG. 38 ‘The crisis of today is the Joke of tomorrow’ Lacey, 18

FIG. 39 White Ice

FIG. 40 King Hopper

FIG. 41 Visual + Sound

FIG. 42 The Departure

FIG. 43 Jamie Oliver is like a shark. If he stops moving, he dies.

FIG. 44 The Supertour Campaign

FIG. 45 Untitled

FIG. 46 Catch of the day

FIG. 47 Flood Light Yellow

FIG. 48 Light

FIG. 49 Understanding

FIG. 50 Starry Sky

FIG. 51 Londo Stree

FIG. 52 Untitled (Skirting)

FIG. 53 Untitled

FIG. 54 A-MOLD (A matter of Life and Death)

FIG. 55 & 56 Why don’t we just put tape on our heads?

Fig. 1 MINJOO CHO | Evening Standard, 11 October 2010 Fig. 2 LAUREN COOKE | The Sun, Wednesday, 27 July 2011 Fig. 3 PANAYIOTIS PIERIS | The Cyprus Weekly, July 22-28 No.1641 Fig. 4 ANIKA CARPENTER | The Guardian, 16 July 2011 Fig. 5 RUXANDRA GUTU | New York Times, 7 March 2008 Fig. 6 RAYWAT JUNGSURA | The Science Museum, August 2011 Fig. 7 CHANTELLE PURCELL | The Jamaica Gleaner, 25 April 2011 Fig. 8 YONGSANG HONG | The Time 100, 2 May 2011 Fig. 9 ARUNA GUHAN | The Millwaukee Journal 28, December 1976 Fig.10 JUN HO LEE | Sally Gardner, Copyright Muybridge, 1878 Fig.11 EVA THEODORIDOU | Marianne, No 745, 30 July 2011 Fig.12 AGGELIKI XYNOGALA | The Journey Inward Ch2, 1988 Fig.13 HUI HYE LIM | The Evening Standard, 23 December 2010 Fig.14 STEPHANIE O CONNOR | The Washington Post, 15 June 2011 Fig.15 JAYI KIM | (online) http://userpages.umbc.edu/~ivy/selfportrait/ conclusion.html Fig.16 SIMENG LIU | An, Y. June & July 2011 Fig.17 MINNA GEORGIEVA | Routers, August 2011 Fig.18 CHANYANUCH HONGSONGTHAM | Found postcard, Robert Doisneau, Kiss by the Hotel de Ville, 1950 Fig.19 POLLY READ | Collection of Various newspapers Fig.20 AKIMA MCPHERSON | New York Times, 29 July 2011 Fig.21 CARO HALFORD | FT, The shrink & The Sage, 22 July 2011 Fig.22 ANASTASIA ZOI SOULIOTOU | Image and Vision Computing, (20) 2002 Fig.23 ARABA OCRAN | The Guardian, 4 July 2011 Fig.24 SAM WALKER | Hollywood Reporter, Novermber 2010 Fig.25 & 26 ASA JAMES GRIFFITS & JAMES BLACKBURN | Observer, weather pages, 31 July 2011 Fig.27 DIZZY THORNE | Source Unknown Fig.28 KYUNG PARK | Google News, 21 August 2011

Fig.29 ANIKA CARPENTER | The Hairs on Your Arms Distract Me Fig.30 HUI HYE LIM | First sketch to final study and book art Fig.31 CHANYANUCH HONGSONGTHAM | Happy Now? Fig.32 MINJOO CHO | 15.04.11 05:00 Fig.33 KYUNG PARK | Untitled Fig.34 JAYI KIM | Lack of Being Fig.35 SAM WALKER | Fig. 1, Fig. 2 & Fig. 3 Fig.36 STEPHANIE O CONNOR | Turkish Bath Fig.37 EVA THEODORIDOU | Lines of Flight Fig.38 LAUREN COOKE | ‘The crisis of today is the Joke of tomorrow’ Lacey, 18 Fig.39 CHANTELLE PURCELL | White Ice Fig.40 ARABA OCRAN | King Hopper Fig.41 JUN HO LEE | Visual + Sound Fig.42 RAYWAT JUNGSURA | The Departure Fig.43 ARUNA GUHAN | Jamie Oliver is like a shark. If he stops moving, he dies.

Fig.44 PANAYIOTIS PIERIS | The Supertour Campaign Fig.45 DIZZY THORNE | Untitled Fig.46 MINNA GEORGIEVA | Catch of the day Fig.47 POLLY READ | Flood Light Yellow Fig.48 AGGELIKI XYNOGXIA | Light Fig.49 YONGSANG HONG | Understanding Fig.50 SIMENG LIU | Starry Night Fig.51 ANASTASIA ZOI SOULIOTOU | Londo Stree Fig.52 CARO HALFORD | Untitled (skirting) Fig.53 AKIMA MCPHERSON | Untitled Fig.54 RUXANDRA GUTU | A-MOLD (A matter of Life and Death) Fig.55 & 56 ASA JAMES GRIFFITS & JAMES BLACKBURN | Why don’t we just put tape on our heads?

AGGELIKI XYNOGALA aggeliki.xynogala@gmail.com AKIMA MCPHERSON kima_mc@yahoo.com +592 613 7050 (GUYANA) ANASTASIA ZOI SOULIOTOU anazsol@hotmail.com 075 1786 3262 0030 - 6932201422 http://anastasiazoisouliotou. wordpress.com/

EVA THEODORIDOU eva.theodoridou@gmail.com www.evaweb.gr 07572131162 HUI-HYE iknowisee377@hotmail.com 07804636114 JAMES BLACKBURN things@gandb.net 0 79 30 17 86 86

ANIKA CARPENTER anikacarpenter@inbox.com 07855 874 655

JAYI KIM jayi2406@gmail.com 07554664420 http://www.wix.com/jayi2406/jayi-kim

ARABA OCRAN arabaocran@gmail.com 07977496218

JUN HO LEE fotolee78@gmail.com +44 782 732 5033(UK)

ARUNA GUHAN aruna_guhan@yahoo.com 07901968880 (UK) +91 89398 73039 (India)

KYUNG PARK email: nanpikaso@gmail.com blog: http:www.anyworld-anyworld.blogspot. com 07403290197 82 (0) 10 9064 5437

ASA JAMES GRIFFITS things@gandb.net 0 77 66 88 33 53 CARO HALFORD cahalford@blueyonder.co.uk 07932 309506 CHANTELLE PURCELL chantelle_may@hotmail.co.uk 07766937677 http://chantellemay.tumblr.com/ CHANYANUCH HONGSONGTHAM chanyanuch_h@hotmail.com 07792770303 DIZZY THORNE 07740725752 dizzy@dizzydollface.com www.dizzydollface.co.uk

LAUREN COOKE lozenge223@hotmail.com 07403240345 URL lollypopblogs.blogspot.com MINJOO CHO joonuri@gmail.com 07400839411 MINNA GEORGIEVA minna@solartis.co.uk 07950249465 PANAYIOTIS PIERIS panayiotis.pieris@gmail.com 07522266039 POLLY READ polly_read@yahoo.co.uk

RAYWAT JUNGSURA birzeray@gmail.com +44 7720 322734 (UK) +66 8180 90964 (TH) RUXANDRA GUTU Ruxandra.gutu@gmail.com 007704 360 293 +40752021001 (Romania) SAM WALKER samwalker71@hotmail.com 07977101260 www.samwalkerart.com SIMENG LIU dreamdog.love@yahoo.com.cn Phone:07570054834 STEPHANIE O CONNOR stephanie@stephanieoconnor.com (usa) 001 703 343 7556 (uk) +44 (0)7930844177 YONGSANG HONG lonelypoems@gmail.com +44 7528101148 (UK)