Nonsensus – A Journey Into Being Sung
17/05/2018 | Finding Maindee, New Paths, Arts
Over the past two months we have been developing the infrastructure and systems of Maindee Library. In the background work has continued with the artistic community of Newport to create pieces of work that interpret how people have been Finding Maindee.
In this blog article Rhian Hutchings explains how the findings from Steven Jones' Nonsensus work are being produced into a unique piece that can be sung. Rhian and Steven are pictured above with a copy of the Nonsensus.
Stuart Farnsworth - Maindee Nonsensus Q&A
08/03/2018 | Finding Maindee, New Paths, Arts
On Tuesday 27th February over 30 people squeezed into the Holbrook Studio on Chepstow Road to meet Stuart Farnsworth as he explained the story behind the 188 pages of raw data found in the 2017 Maindee Nonsensus.
According to his clipboard Stuart met 12.85% of the householders [and homeless] living within Maindee. Some of the responses to his 3 questions were short, but some people shared personal experiences about their lives and one lady recited poetry. At one property Stuart’s singing technique was tested. All of these words, including the ‘yeahs’, ‘ha has’ and ‘innits’ are faithfully recorded in the book.
This blog is account of the Q&A session. Although Stuart recorded the whole conversation - and could potentially type if out two-fingered as he did for the book - we have had to interpret and group together some of the conversations. If you want to get a copy of the book there will be some copies for sale at £10 in the Maindee Library and the pdf can be downloaded here.
New Paths Blog Posts
- Nonsensus – A Journey Into Being Sung - 17/05/2018
- Stuart Farnsworth - Maindee Nonsensus Q&A - 08/03/2018
- NONSENSUS - 09/02/2018
- NONSENSUS - 11/01/2018
- New Paths November 2017: Creative Ways of Making Money? - 23/11/2017
- Final New Paths Grant Awarded - 26/10/2017
- Update on Maindee Triangle at Livingstone Place - 19/09/2017
- Newport Photomarathon - Maindee Sat Oct 28th - 14/09/2017
- NONSENSUS - 13/08/2017
- New Paths Gathering - July 2017 retrospective - 09/08/2017
- NONSENSUS - 10/07/2017
- How Maindee's Community will shape Art & Architecture in the Library - 10/07/2017
- May New Paths - Focus on the Library - 14/05/2017
- March New Paths Gathering & Looking Forward to April - 01/04/2017
- Help MAP to save 'The Nylon' - 26/03/2017
- Sounds of Maindee - New Project - 23/03/2017
- Theatre for Change - one month in - 28/02/2017
- Second New Paths Gathering - 14/02/2017
- Introducing Theatre for Change - 10/02/2017
- Exploring activism through photography - 08/02/2017
- New Paths Gathering (Part 2) - 19/01/2017
- Successful First New Paths Gathering (Part 1) - 15/01/2017
- Photography and Activism - 04/01/2017
- Maindee Stories Opens this Friday, 21st 5-8.30pm - 18/10/2016
- Sounds Alive in Maindee Library - 10/10/2016
New Paths Application Form
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