http://samhopkins.org in the vicinity of public art Thu, 18 Sep 2008 18:26:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Having spent much of the past couple of years on the move, there are many close friends who I have not managed to spend enough time with. I began to wonder whether they could even remember what I looked like, or in fact what their mental image of me actually ... http://samhopkins.org/?p=69 In August 2007 I participated in the performance in public space festival 'Out of Site', in Dublin. Michelle Browne, the curator of the festival, asked me to develop a work for the site of Mountjoy Prison, which is soon to be relocated from the city centre to the suburbs. Working with ... http://samhopkins.org/?p=66 SLUM-TV is based in Mathare, a slum of 500,000 people in Nairobi. We produce and distribute local, grassroots audio-visual material. The form of the material ranges from documentary features produced by local citizen journalists, to drama and comedies produced by youth drama groups. The content however, is focussed on the ... http://samhopkins.org/?p=62 For four days in late November 2006 I loitered around the photo booth by Rosenthalerplatz in Berlin and asked people who were having their photo taken if they would take an extra strip of photos wearing my glasses. Why did I do this? There were a variety of issues that ... http://samhopkins.org/?p=57 My idea for this project was to explore the state of being stationary within a city that is in constant flux. From 06.09.06 until 11.09.06 for 6 hours a day I sat on a bench in Kuznicza Street in Wroclaw. I wanted to see whether, for that small section of ... http://samhopkins.org/?p=56 Having studied History before studying Visual Art I find the issue of a ‘legitimate’ history a compelling one. Spending 2006 studying in Weimar I was struck by the way in which one history was presented as more ‘right’ than another. Whilst Goethe and Schiller are seen as historical figures which ... http://samhopkins.org/?p=50 Together with Dusica Drazic A young woman stands by the side of the motorway. It has been raining, the woman is wet and the road is noisy. Off camera a voice addresses her: ‘Take three’. She leans forward seeming not really to hear but music starts playing and the woman starts ... http://samhopkins.org/?p=53 In the summer of 2006 I was studying in Weimar. The road that I walked to college along every day had been totally dug up, so it was a bit like walking through a building site with machinery, bricks and fluorescent plastic every where. As well as studying I was also ... http://samhopkins.org/?p=43 The initial idea for this came from an old photo I saw of Grand Central Station in New York. The photo is black and white and shows the huge atrium in the interior of the station. Shafts of light stream through large windows on the side of the building illuminating ... http://samhopkins.org/?p=39 This performance entailed me numbering the bricks of an exterior prison wall in Leuven for seven hours a day, over a period of 10 days. The bricks were numbered in chalk. I counted 15,776 bricks. The theoretical basis for the piece was the ambivalent nature of categorisation, which can be ... http://samhopkins.org/?p=33