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"Enclosure" By Daniel Eltringham and Bruno Roubicek
All Photos by Bruno Roubicek
Dan
Eltringham In
Little Parcels
“...little
minds to please” - John Clare
words, pioneer encroachers of
space, they were themselves rich & various, invariably imperative:
in-take
waste-breath i
mean, take-in waste
now assart the
selvedge, clear a space, increment by increment, a breck here or there, “naturalised by customary
usage”, i mean, can you ever remember a time when this wasn’t theirs? the elder can, but who’s going
to ask?
1.
It is perhaps possible to say therefore that enclosure enclosed – as in, like,
shut down, shut up - its own linguistic heterogeneity before it was called
enclosure
forget not tofts & crofts, nibbled increments around dwellings, chewing away like acid at the forest’s edge
well, it
all sounds so innocent & primal when you put it like that but what
about the ‘greater villain’?[1]
2.
The diversity of ways in which, between the 16th and 18th
centuries, it was possible to say ‘enclosure’, depending on where you were, who
you were, & what you were enclosing also implies struggle over the uses
& meanings of supposedly ‘common’ spaces that is neither new nor safely in
the past - Cf. Millennium Green,2013
which
was once Sydenham Common,
which was once Westwood,
which was once Great North Wood
[natural oak forest, unbroken], home to the vagrant & precarious, bandits,
smugglers bringing goods up from the coast thru
the green lanes of Peckham
1605. James I leases 500 acres of the Common to Henry
Newport for ‘improvement’.
“above
500 poore householders with wives and manye children greatly relieved by sayde
Common and would be utterly undone yf yt should be unjustly taken from them”
1614. Abraham Colfe & one hundred locals march to
petition the king at Tottenham Cross, while Syndenham residents take a more
direct route, tearing down fences & filling in ditches. The
brilliantly-named Innocent Lanier, Newport’s man, ordered servants to attack
women collecting wood.
1615. The Privy Council decides it all seems a bit too much
trouble, and declares the enclosure illegal. Anti-enclosure movement notable
for an alliance between the violent resistance of the destitute and local
bourgeois worried about where, if chucked off the Common, the squatters would go.
1754. “Persons claiming right of common” several times threw
down fences surrounding Coopers Wood asserting rights of access for estovers [gathering
fuel] & other customary rights.
1789. Other things happening elsewhere, but in South London
a cheese merchant, Samuel Atkinson, builds the Sydenham – Peckham road &
opens up the wood for houses. He starts with his own. He also shoots a local
man, Michael Bradley, in the leg for walking where his grandfather had, who
later dies when the wound goes bad.
1810. The Common is enclosed by act of parliament. In 1866
the Metropolitan Commons Act passed, which protected land with a demonstrable
common use in the past from further encroachment.
NEST by Nathalie Hauwelle 1st - 3rd May
"NEST" by Nathalie Hauwelle at the Little Ecological Arts Festival from bruno roubicek on Vimeo.
A nest fit for a human built by Nathalie Hauwelle and the visitors to LEAF
photos by Bruno Roubicek unless otherwise credited
photo Wickland-Sims Photography
photo Wickland-Sims Photography
Sunday 20 January 2013
LEAF - The Programme - 1st – 4th May 2013 London
For All Humans and Non-humans
Please see the end of the post for a full schedule of events and details of how to get to the venue.
“Enclosure” by Dan Eltringham
Installation
Dan needs more space for his things.
He’s staked a claim on part of the Green. He might lease it to you.
“Tree / Book” by Camilla Nelson – Interactive Installation
“Tree / Book” by Camilla Nelson – Interactive Installation
Materials for reading, writing and mark-making will be threaded into a web between the branches of two oaks on The Green, in order for readers and writers to use them to express their environment, verbally and non-verbally, using the pages provided. These pages will then be published as part of the physical web. This installation is designed to inspire a playful exploration of the materials local to the area, and to encourage an expanded understanding of writing practices and materials in relation to environment.
Installation
A walkable sculpture.
www.mariastrutz.co.uk
“The Keithettes: Divination” by Beetle and Bird
Performance
Performance
London based Performance Company, Beetle and Bird pay homage to their Irish heritage,
The Keithette's retell a traditional Irish Mayday folklore with the help of some snals.
www.beetleandbird.tumblr.comThe Keithette's retell a traditional Irish Mayday folklore with the help of some snals.
“After The Tempest” by Teatro Vivo – Theatre
The Spirits of Albion Island invite you to come and celebrate Independence Day!
The tyrannous Prospero has relinquished control and the Spirits will be celebrating by planting a
The tyrannous Prospero has relinquished control and the Spirits will be celebrating by planting a
memorial. Discover lovers and kings, monsters and men creating a storm in the undergrowth.
This will be a work in progress showing inspired by Shakespeare’s The Tempest.
www.teatrovivo.co.uk
“Insect Hotel” by the International Collective of Ecological Actors
Performance Installation
“I Surrender” by Rachael Henley
“Gleaning, Leaning and the Lean” by
Natalie Joelle
Workshop
This will be a work in progress showing inspired by Shakespeare’s The Tempest.
www.teatrovivo.co.uk
“Nest” by Nathalie Hauwelle – Performance
A nest fit for a human is
built from wood found on The Green
“Insect Hotel” by the International Collective of Ecological Actors
Performance Installation
You are trying to check in but the
receptionist is busy building bed-space for some exceptional guests.
“I Surrender” by Rachael Henley
Performance Installation
“Linus Slug” by Mendoza
Poetry
Witches! Familiars! Descent / dissent! A history of Northumberland Entomologically retold.
Witches! Familiars! Descent / dissent! A history of Northumberland Entomologically retold.
Workshop
What does it
mean to glean and what are the ecological implications of its gestures?
“The Last Cuppa” by Elaine Pantling
Performance
Performance
There is
comfort in a cup of solitude but there is much more pleasure in sharing a pot
of tea with friends.
Every cup, every sip stirs up a story and invokes a memory never to be forgotten…
Every cup, every sip stirs up a story and invokes a memory never to be forgotten…
“Where Do We Go From Here?” by the
International Collective of Ecological Actors
Interactive Installation
Reveal the path to the future
“Danae” by Melissa Budasz
Open House Gallery
Steeped in myth, history and the natural world Melissa Budasz explores her physical and emotional relationship with these themes, placing herself at the centre as both subject and voyeur.
Steeped in myth, history and the natural world Melissa Budasz explores her physical and emotional relationship with these themes, placing herself at the centre as both subject and voyeur.
“Sprites In Shorts” by Simon and
Phil
Performance
The festival finishes with Crystal
Palace’s finest. Famous for their “Blessing of The Pond” on Albion Millennium
Green
FULL SCHEDULE BELOW
WHO? | WHAT? | Wednesday 1st May | Thursday 2nd May | Friday 3rd May | Saturday 4th May |
OPENING CEREMONY | 1.45pm | ||||
Camilla Nelson | Tree/Book | 2pm-8pm | 2pm-8pm | 2pm-8pm | 2pm-8pm |
Dan Eltringham | Enclosure | 2pm-8pm | 2pm-8pm | 2pm-8pm | 2pm-8pm |
Maria Strutz | Labyrinth | 2pm-8pm | 2pm-8pm | ||
Beetle and Bird | Divination | 2pm-3pm | 2pm-3pm | 2pm-3pm | 2pm - 3pm |
Nathalie Hauwelle | Nest | 5pm-8pm | 2pm-8pm | 2pm-8pm | |
International Collective of Ecological Actors | Insect Hotel | 2pm-8pm | 2pm-8pm | 2pm-6pm | |
International Collective of Ecological Actors | Where Do We Go From Here? | 2pm-8pm | 2pm-8pm | 2pm-8pm | |
Teatro Vivo | After The Tempest | 7pm-8pm | 7pm-8pm | ||
Rachael Henley | I Surrender | 2pm-8pm | 2pm-7pm | ||
Natalie Joelle | Gleaning | 4pm-5pm | |||
Elaine Pantling | The Last Cuppa | 4pm-8pm | 4pm-8pm | ||
Mendoza | Insect Poetry | 6pm-7pm | 6pm-7pm | ||
Melissa Budasz | Danae Open House | 2pm - 8pm | |||
Simon and Phil | Sprites in Shorts | 6pm-8pm |
Main Image photo by David Eberts design by Simon Foster
Map showing the 7 minute walk from Forest Hill Rail Station:
Map showing the 7 minute walk from Forest Hill Rail Station:
Getting To Albion
Millennium
Green:
Two entrances:
1. Via Clyde Vale and railway path. (Fastest from the station)
2. At the end of Albion Villas Road. SE26 4DB.
Forest Hill Rail Station
Overground: trains from Highbury and Islington, Crystal Palace, West
Croydon
Network Rail: trains from London Bridge, East Croydon, Victoria
Buses 122,176,197. Stop: Thorpewood Avenue.
Limited Free Parking
on surrounding streets. No parking on
Albion Villas Road, (single lane road)
Please Note: This is an open air
venue, with some rough terrain. Please bring a coat and outdoor shoes.
TOILETS: at
Forest Hill Pools, (2mins walk via railway path).
click here for info on: Albion Millennium Green
Pupils from Holy Trinity School Plant English Oak in Albion Millennium Green. Photo by Bruno Roubicek
Above Image by Beth Stikeman: "Barking"
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