BACKGROUND
Here are some backgrounding links and there are others once you go to them
THE WEBSITE
VIDEO
IMAGES
ONLINE PUBLICATION
WHY PONRABBEL?
STRATEGIC PLAN
THIS IS NOT WHAT 'UGLY' LOOKS LIKE A LITTLE 'WILD' PERHAPS BUT NOT UGLY
Some might be telling us it is but it's NOT. This is PONRABBELrow and there are so so many LAUNCESTONstories invested here in 'this place'. Maybe, a TIDYup here and there and some more old boats tied up again to reinvest 'this place' with its stories might be 'good for tourism' BUT do not buy the story that this is "ugly', it is not, even if it's not earning developers and their mates a quid!
THIS PLACE IS PRECIOUS AS ARE ITS STORIES!
CONTEXT
While for many 'FLUXUS' is arts genre that past its use-by-date that assessment discounts the fact it is not a ''movement' located in the past. Rather, FLUXUS is an 'attitude' and one with continuing 'street cred' with international networks actively in conversation with each other. Joseph Beuys' now famous quote "everybody is an artist" resonates loudly still and especially so on the streets when activism relevant to this or that is in play.
The fact that Beuys was a cofounder of the German GREENS is not well understood and his SOCIALsculpture and or the concept of 'gesamtkunstwerk' for which he claimed a creative, participatory role in shaping society and politics. His career was characterised by open public debates on a very wide range of subjects including political, environmental, social and long term cultural trends. He is widely regarded as one of the most influential artists of the second half of the 20th century.
Now with this as a background, and 'the Ponrabbel' in mind, I believe that it is possible to initiate
a 'socially dynamic' project that enables people to be not only 'an audience' but also allow/encourage/entice them to become 'players/performers/makers/activists'.
So the PONRABBEL is at rest on 'Ponrabbel Row' waiting to be awakened along with her story telling that she she has attacked to her. She was a dredge and she's yet be so again albeit of a different kind. Then again, she may well be a 'stage and/or station' or even an 'instrument' – indeed a myriad of 'things'.
What she might become is open to endless probabilities and possibilities but conceivably something tempered by the 'aesthetics of the beauraucracy'.
That need not be an inhibition, rather it could be a driving force. Moreover it might even generate more possibilities than it sets out to inhibit.
Any advice that says "give up and walk away you wont win" should tell us that we will not if we do. Anyway, embarking upon a 'placemaking/placemarking' project such as this might be has little to nothing whatsoever to do with 'winning'.
So the PONRABBEL is at rest on 'Ponrabbel Row' waiting to be awakened along with her story telling that she she has attacked to her. She was a dredge and she's yet be so again albeit of a different kind. Then again, she may well be a 'stage and/or station' or even an 'instrument' – indeed a myriad of 'things'.
What she might become is open to endless probabilities and possibilities but conceivably something tempered by the 'aesthetics of the beauraucracy'.
That need not be an inhibition, rather it could be a driving force. Moreover it might even generate more possibilities than it sets out to inhibit.
Any advice that says "give up and walk away you wont win" should tell us that we will not if we do. Anyway, embarking upon a 'placemaking/placemarking' project such as this might be has little to nothing whatsoever to do with 'winning'.
