Ideas for a better understanding of someone else

Old hoodies and young mobility buggies: a game where the elderly switch places with the young. Instructions: wear a hood, hang around and talk with your friends.

When working on the ageing population project a friend mentioned wearing clothing that restricts movement. Get a 'young person' to try texting with restricted movement gloves on.

Scenario: kid gets on bus with mobile phone slide speaker blaring. Everyone else on the bus starts to dance to the music/ sing along/ play their own music back.

Front room projects - bringing back the idea of the front room, people pop over for a pint and a chat, go round to other people's houses, spread this over a couple of months. Cheaper than the pub.

Or... switch front rooms with someone, understand more about how they live.

104 opens tonight

www.104.fr

Handkerchief

I wanted to write about an image that popped into my mind.
A young woman waves her parting beloved off to war.
I wanted this image to exist, outside of my head, perhaps online. So I tapped in etching and goodbye, specified image but, just as when you take a pencil and put it to paper, it never comes out the way you wanted it, so I did not find my dream image.

Instead, I found a book that you can read for free, with the most beautiful images illustrating it. I greedily scrolled through the sheets, but didn't read. Hopped, skipped, jumped, searching for my image. How would that person who wrote that feel? Me, sifting through with my sieve, searching for imaginary nuggets.

An Onlooker in France 1917-1919, by William Orpen

Next, handkerchief and wave - a load of handkerchiefs and their various purposes came back. I have seen them used for many things: washing a child's face before church, as a flirtation tool in a dance, on old men's heads to shield the sun, with a knot tied to remember something to someone.
And then, for magic.

Camille - Ta Douleur

a good friend recommended her to me.

The Deptford Ballroom, by Linda Florence

film by Linda Florence, guest starring Kirsty and Ed


Calling all Fred and Gingers!
Linda Florence invites you to sashay South East, to discover her latest creation. The ‘Deptford Ballroom’ is a shed on stilts: a private dance-floor. Wrapped in a new Florence design, this intimate shelter is transformed into a ballroom just for two. Enter, pull a cord and start up the band, then follow the instructions marked on the wooden parquet flooring, steps one, two, three. Soon you will be whirling in your own old-time movie, spun up in golden wallpaper. Above you a series of specially designed lampshades complete with authentic vintage ribbons and trimmings scavenged from nearby Deptford Market dangle daintily.
From the outside, on-lookers can see your feet, making some snappy moves and your dance’s shadows. Fred and Ginger doppelgangers welcomed warmly, for the less extravagant, a bijou-ballroom awaits you.

The Deptford Project Gaffs
With three other local artists, Florence was commissioned by Raw Nerve to reinterpret a ‘gaff’, a wooden shed on long legs, recently used as part of the London Festival of Architecture.
These provide shelter for visitors to the recently opened Deptford Project - a converted railway carriage café designed by Morag Myerscough and run by Rebecca Molina.

The Deptford Project Gaffs is curated by Raw Nerve and funded by City Growth.

http://www.thedeptfordprojectgaffs.co.uk
121-123 Deptford High Street
London
Free entrance
Press release by Caf Fean