Third Angel Alex Kelly art talk

He talked about the relationship between art and science.
At this talk I met Paul Digby - Hybrid Co-worker and Alex Kelly Co - Worker of Third Angel.
Alex Kelly works with Rachel who is the other co - worker of Third Angel and they work together within a small network of people with different talents. Alex and Rachel nearly always work together and have a selection of people that they work with a rotate depending on what project they are working on. Alex sees his practice as a multi stranded practice where each section of it intertwines with each other.

Alex Kelly is obsessed with the Voyager Satellite program from the 1990's. He loves how samples from earth have been sent into space from our civilisation to hopefully show other forms of life how we live. The satellite contains 53 languages that we speak on earth and contains a drawing of a circle.

Book about this mission - 'Members of Earth' Reference only

In 1999 Dry Vulcan (a German company) collaborated with Third angel.

Show - Hang Up - He uses telephone boxes in this show as it fascinates him when sometimes you see someone in a phone box but when you walk by another time there could be no-one in it.

In 2001 Alex was invited by Tarisa Brayshaw to do a show with her students called "Of course it's a journey" For this show they all read a passage about the Voyager Satellite.

Book- Faster by James Gleick there's a section Alex calls the hurry sickness section

Alex Kelly and Rachel worked with scientists (Institute of Work Psychology Sheffield) to do a show called Keroshi. Alex said that artists and scientists get on well.
Alex said "We make shows the way they make experiments."
Keroshi means 'Death from over work' in Japanese.

In 2005 Third Angel aimed to slow a space down in Sheffield. The show was called standing alone standing together. A group of people wearing similar clothes occupying a space. It consisted of 3 1hr cycles.

To see there work visit thirdangel.co.uk

In 2006 he did a show called Presumption for this project the worked with Chris Thorpe and Rachel.

Book - 'Clock of the long now' It's a bout a clock built in the Arizona Desert that only ticks once a year.

He's also worked with Chris Hall film maker.

Alex said,
"I describe myself as a serial collaborator".

Group called Forced Entertainment video group.

The talk was very informative about the work and people he has been involved with. I learnt that it is better to work within a small community rather than by your self as then you can use different people talents depending on the project. The only downfall for me was he didn't mention how he got funding for these projects. I would have like to know that as i could have brought that information into my own practice. Overall a very interesting talk.