The results

After a beautiful, sunny weekend at our open studios event, 128 people voted over the fate of The Shirt.

We would like to thank everyone who came over the weekend it was great to see so many faces and we hope to welcome you back to any events we have in the future.

Our independent adjudicator Callum counted the votes at 5.30pm on Sunday 14th June and the votes came in as follows:

- Shirt wearer A – 77 votes

- Shirt wearer B – 51 votes

- 2 abstentions

“Thank you to everyone who voted for me. I promise to look after the shirt and look forward to wonderful times with it” (Shirt wearer A)

Did the Shirt enjoy itself?

Although we are going to hold lots of table tennis matches with the new bats, we are currently continuing a project that was started back in Jan 08 too – The Shirt Project (Did the shirt enjoy itself?).

This started when we found a shirt in a charity shop in Sherwood, we both wanted to buy it.  It was £2.99, we decided to go halves on the condition that we could share the shirt.  After it was purchased, we realised this would be difficult as Adam lived in Sleaford and Katie lived in Nottingham, plus we weren’t very good at sharing.  We devised our own competition to decide who should own the shirt for keeps.

To prove that we had individually shown the shirt a good time, we would need to take a poloroid photo to capture the moment of enjoyment.

This has resulted in two sets of poloroid photographs to base a decision over who should own the shirt.  To avoid any subjectivity, we will display these photos in our Finding Time exhibition during Sherwood Arts Week, where we will ask the public to vote upon the most enjoyable shirt experience.  The shirts fate and future enjoyment will then finally be decided.

Pub Table Tennis B (eer m) ats and the beginnings of a Table Tennis net too!

Instructions to follow!

beermats wanted

Some beermats we have already acquired!

Anyway the next step is to collect around 60(approx?!) beermats which we can hopefully do by going on a teetotal pubcrawl and crack on with experimenting by making the net and the bats before creating a build it yourself pub table tennis set

stand up comedians and writing sitcoms

Stewart Lee - Both witty & wise

We might get to work on some scripts.. we had a laugh thinking about subjects – like old housemate stories and things that have happened which in hindsight become hilarious.

Watching a lot of Stewart Lee standup has influenced us – we started thinking it would be so much better to become a comedy double act if we could ever pull it off.  He is so witty and wise.  We are a bit in love with him.

SAW – no not a big budget horror – a small budget local arts fest

Since both of us have been reading ‘Lipstick Traces’ we got talking about the great little rebellions which the book talks about.  We are both interested in making something fun and a bit out of the ordinary to intervene with the everyday.

We started talking about how we could create an intervention or event which  used places in Sherwood.

We had an idea last year for the Arena Festival in Leicester, but we would have only had a week to prepare it so we didn’t manage to make it happen.  It involved table tennis, the pub they were using for their opening night, a Boris Johnson mask and the Chinese girl – Yang Peiyi who had to sing for another girl at the Olympics last year as she was deemed to be too ‘ugly’.  We had wanted to develop our puppetry experience and make  Boris and Yang Peiyi play table tennis against each other in a faked championing of the little girl who was too ‘ugly’ to sing.

Hmm will the pub tables be long enough?

So for SAW we have decided to expand on this idea by creating an artwork for Sherwood’s public that could be utilised and played with!  A portable table tennis kit which we will hopefully get local pubs to allow us to set up across pub tables.  The kit will be created from beer mats and we would also like to leave instructions so it can be passed on and created again and again..

Internet Dongles

Dongles are probably the worst invention of this modern life and what a stupid name they have.