27 June 2007
BLOCspace, Sheffield
Curated by BLOCassembly

Dear Bloc,

As our contribution to the Bloc Assembly held last week, we would like you to go back in time and install the following works for us.

Thanks,

Ana, Dave, Stuart, and Neil
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a.a.s.

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a.a.s. Time Piece #1

Chapter VI of Guy Debord’s The Society of the Spectacle, ‘Spectacular Time’, should be photocopied and pasted on the gallery wall.

A bar of dark chocolate (at least 70% cocoa) should be placed on a plain plate on top of a plinth.

At the start of the night, a halogen floodlight on a stand should be switched on an pointed at the chocolate at a distance of approximately 30cm

During the course of the evening the chocolate should melt and release a strong scent of chocolate.

NB: This piece is a sideways Nod to Henri Bergson’s dissolving sugar lump

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a.a.s. Time Piece #2

A second halogen floodlight on a stand should be set up pointing at a sundial so that it reads as the time of the start of the Assembly for the whole duration of the event.

Red Line Group project as part of New Generation Arts Festival and Festival of Extreme Building; Moor Street Queensway and City Centre, Birmingham

Red Line Surveillance is an international research team set up by The Red Line Group to explore and develop a range of surveillance and monitoring systems or processes and to distribute their research outcomes in the public realm. The team pursued their individual research aims and methodologies with the intention of discovering what are the most effective techniques based on a range of criteria including demographics, geography, culture, and surveillance intentions.

Red Line Group