David Chalmers Alesworth

“The Age of Wonder” Lahore Literature Festival, February 2015

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David Alesworth has a long history of working in public spaces and collaborative practices. These began in the late 1980’s and throughout the 1990’s. Resulting in works such as “The Promised Lands” Frere Hall 1997, “Heart Mahal” 1996 and “Very Very Sweeet Madina” in 2000. For the Lahore Literature festival-2015 Alesworth will be facilitating a project based around the microscopic, inviting members of the public to view aspects of the everyday environment that are normally invisible to the unaided eye. These will be viewed and shared through both the optical microscope and video projections, moving from the infinitesimally small to the large format of the public display. Here musing upon the relationship between the individual and society and reflecting upon the Age of Wonder that has been a long standing feature of the artist’s research interests.
(text from LLF catalogue)

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Photographing Art Work

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Using the studio stand and two Speed-lights last night. D800E, Nikkor 50mm 1.2.

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Steel studio walls are great for magnetically pinning artwork up.

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Christmas Tree, perhaps.

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– a Raat-Ki-Rani Cestrum nocturnum adapted as a Christmas tree. Lahore 23rd December 2013

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Chris Jordan

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“Anatomy of a Garden” Quddus Mirza’s review: 27.2.11

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Febuary-March, Cantt. Lahore, Ganche, Baltistan

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Carrots in the washing basket, 13 March 2010
I’ve been thinking about inserting carrots into this plastic washing basket since i got it about two years ago.It seems made for them. Though I hadn’t counted on its flexibility nor their weight. Then there’s the lack of symmetry in an average Pakistani carrot. These black carrots are amazing, they seem another whole species from their bland orange cousins. The bigger picture is a putting together of the product of industry and the produce of nature. Both are interventions of a sort, neither are “natural”. This goes beyond my anthology of plastics.
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Black and red carrots, 13 March 2010

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Black Carrot juice, 26th March 2010, Lahore

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 Carrots in the clothes basket, 13th March 2010

 

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 Mixed carrots and plastic

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 Black carrots and orange plastic, 13th March 2010

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The shoot

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set-up with  Nikon D3

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Dyed eggs for Naurose,

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Appo Jaffar, at Khaplu Palace, Baltistan 23rd March 2010

 

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Khaplu village from above, 23rd March 2010

 

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Khaplu high plateau in search of lawn-grass, 23rd March 2010

 

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Panorama with Huna, Khaplu 23rd March 2010

 

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Black Peppercorn Haier top-loader, detergent free twin tub, 14th March 2010

 

R.A. Bazaar Bombings, Friday 12th March 2010
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Body parts, mobile phone advert, R.A. bazaar Bombings, Friday 12th March 2010

 

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Washing down R.A. Bazaar, bombings, 12th March 2010

 

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R.A. Bazaar bombings, 12th March 2010
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Just outside Skardu by road, 23rd March 2010

 

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Cabbage White’s eating all my Ruccola, 26th March 2010

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Sound Work, web-clip 6:31

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From “Automaton Love” Loft gallery, Mumbai
February-March 2010

A down-sampled clip from a larger sound work of 12 mins.

Images added from Bilal Gunj market, Lahore

-editioned sound work 1/3
built up from sampling at Bilal Gunj over the past three months.

(Desi Garam Unday = Local Hot Eggs)
Something for the winter in Lahore.
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“Desi Unday” Bilal Gunj

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I went back to “Bilal Gunj” Lahore’s massive used car part market for a second sound sampling, a few days ago. This time with Huma’s 4 channel Zoom recorder.

In over an hour of walking the lanes I got reasonably varied ambient sound from the breakers, welders, paint-sprayers and a great many gas and kerosene burners heating food and tea. On this trip I realized there was a tremendous culture of food going on here.

Fish, tea, sweet-potatoes, chena, monpelli, carrot juice, egg-fried rice, subzi and dal, roti’s of every description and finally hot, boiled desi-unday. I’d almost given up on the eggs. I kept asking where the sellers were, because it was their presence selling these beautiful subtle-hued, small precious des-unday (local-eggs/free-range eggs) in the context of these ancient and smashed oily wrecks of cars and trucks that had given rise to the egg and engine photographs.

Suddenly they were there running through the lanes, two sellers I’d never seen before. They both carried padded bags to keep the boiled eggs warm, their cry was garam-desi-unday and I realized this would give a somewhat different spin on the photographs. They’d be read as engine heated eggs, not what I’d intended.

I’d intended the teeming living eggs as nature amongst the toxic waste of the man-made, the guts of the engines.

I produced a 12 minute mixed edit of the garam-unday criers and the ambient sounds on my stroll through the richly varied soundscape in the lanes of this market. Hazrat Data Ganj Bakhsh‘s shrine minarets can be heard throughout the work, a constant accompaniment at Bilal Gunj. This shrine to the patron saint of Lahore, lies right in front of the car market.

“966th URS Shareef is on 3 Feb 2010 Inshallah”
966 Urs Mubarak Of Hazrat Data Ganj Bakhsh Ali Hajveri Will Held On 19 Safar al Muzaffar And 4 February 2010 (Approx) At Data Darbar , Near Bhatti Gate, Lahore. Pakistan
Days Remaining In URS Hazrat Data Ganj Bakhsh

His birthday is being celebrated today which a holiday in most of Punjab.

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Mochi Gate, Old City, Lahore 29th November 2009

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Over Bakra Eid in Lahore, November 2009, near Mochi Gate, Walled City.

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Skinning a sheep, near Mochi Gate
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Sheep

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Wiring and speakers

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BA English

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Nan Katai shop

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Nan Katai’s

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Carolyn Guertin

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Bazaar life

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Bazaar

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Cleaning Goats Heads

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Goats Heads

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Processing goat parts

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Dry Fruit Stall

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Carolyn Guertin

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Brain Computers

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Brain Computers

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Beautiful animals for Eid

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Remains

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Skins on a bike

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Skins at the roadside

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Modes of Enquiry

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Currently I am involved with:

Walking Lahore as psychogeographical derivé. Starting at the Ganda Nala on Zafar Ali Road, Gulberg.

Working with Lawrence Gardens, Bagh-e-Jinnah.
Had an initial walk through the park on an exceptionally drab smoggy day. Met with head mali Alam and his staff and borrowed plans of the park and other parks of Lahore.

The People’s Art and Historical Project.
A collaboration with Adnan Madani, Karachi/London.
We are working on several new versions of the People’s Art Historical Garden Centre Project, that was performed to good effect at the opening of Greynoise’s recent showing on 25th October 2009, entitled “Patrons of Oh My God, I can afford Art”.

Beginning work on my dissertation “The Post-Colonial Garden as a Palimpsest”.
Busy reading. Recently finished K. Helphand’s “Defiant Gardens”, much else to write up here.

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