Certain Circuits

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Founded by artists, Certain Circuits Magazine publishes poetry, experimental prose, art, and new media. We are especially interested in documenting multimedia collaborative work between artists.

SallyAlly is made up of Alys North and Sarah Hudson, whom are both recent Dartington College of Art graduates of BA hons Choreography.

Alys previously studied at Northern Contemporary School of Dance and is currently completing her MA with mapdance company at Chichester. Sarah was the recent assistant choreographer for official mascot dance for London 2012 (working with William Todd-Jones, English National Ballet and Begoña Cao, Mcfly’s Tom Fletcher and Carrie Fletcher, Piccadilly Theatre and the Olympic Stadium) and the ballet choreographer for the UK school premier of Phantom of the Opera.

Strange Laws was devised and performed in June 2012 for the LivedArt festival at Tremough, University College Falmouth.

This dance-theatre piece is in collaboration with Beth Sbresni (also a recent BA hons Performance Writing graduate from Dartington College of Arts). Strange Laws explores the characteristics of social awkwardness in individuals and relationships with others.

Artistic statement:

“In our work we often find we are inspired by poking fun at ourselves (and others). We choose to see the idiosyncrasies in an otherwise ‘serious’ life. In some of our longer pieces we try to act out the multiplicity each human life is to an often comic effect. We investigate what it means to make a serious attempt at living a ‘serious’ life in this day and age. We believe that, when looking closely, often we find lurking amongst the crowd of serious faces a comic monster.”

Alys and Sarah met in Dartington in 2009. Indulging themselves into the college’s collaborative ethos, SallyAlly work with many artists creating interdisciplinary performance. Most commonly they work with Beth Sbresni, a writer and musician.

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ART JAMIE CAMPBELL—BRAMBLE For most of my life, I have been making art out of recycled and found materials. I am inspired by primitive artists who have culled art from the materials of their natural environment. Growing up on the shores of Lake Ontario there was an endless supply of flotsam, rusted metal, driftwood, and sea glass to inspire me as a young person. As an adult living in a city, my natural environment is filled with trash and decay, which I find new use for in my sculptures, collages and jewelry. VHS tape tangled in a chain link fence can take on many of the qualities of a small stream; flowing through mid air as it blows in the wind. As metal rusts, it regains a softer organic shape, like a skeletal leaf. You can find beauty in most everything if you are willing to look hard enough. Nothing is “useless.” Trash can be transformed into art, and art can transform ideas, spaces, and lives. Jamie Campbell will show work at iMPeRFeCT Gallery as part of an installation in the “Red Room.”  Runs April 6-30 at  imperfectgallery.com. High-res

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JAMIE CAMPBELL—BRAMBLE

For most of my life, I have been making art out of recycled and found materials. I am inspired by primitive artists who have culled art from the materials of their natural environment. Growing up on the shores of Lake Ontario there was an endless supply of flotsam, rusted metal, driftwood, and sea glass to inspire me as a young person. As an adult living in a city, my natural environment is filled with trash and decay, which I find new use for in my sculptures, collages and jewelry.

VHS tape tangled in a chain link fence can take on many of the qualities of a small stream; flowing through mid air as it blows in the wind. As metal rusts, it regains a softer organic shape, like a skeletal leaf. You can find beauty in most everything if you are willing to look hard enough. Nothing is “useless.” Trash can be transformed into art, and art can transform ideas, spaces, and lives.

Jamie Campbell will show work at iMPeRFeCT Gallery as part of an installation in the “Red Room.”  Runs April 6-30 at  imperfectgallery.com.

COLLABORATION Poet, author and playwright Terri ‘Nightowl’ Lyons dedicates her work through the echoes of history to educate, inspire and enlighten one person at a time.  Born in Philadelphia, PA, 2010 Black Essence Award Winner, Lyons has completed her first play, Kitchen Table Chat, capturing family and Philadelphia history. Tieshka Smith: I have been shooting exclusively in Germantown since I moved here in February and pending the approval of external funding, I hope to be launching a spinoff called “Hidden Voices of Germantown.”  These images (womenfolk of Germantown) will be an important part of that series.    A self-taught street photographer currently based in Philadelphia, I make images that challenge prevailing notions of otherness and explore the ways that marginalized people interact with one another and with shared but unsanctioned public spaces.  A Chicago native, I am a graduate of Northwestern University and Keller Graduate School of Management. Facebook:  facebook.com/PhotographyWithoutThePretense Photo Blog:  photographywithoutthepretense.com Flickr:  flickr.com/photos/genxtraordinary 500px:  500px.com/momofthreephotography For the full series, click here. High-res
COLLABORATION
Poet, author and playwright Terri ‘Nightowl’ Lyons dedicates her work through the echoes of history to educate, inspire and enlighten one person at a time.  Born in Philadelphia, PA, 2010 Black Essence Award Winner, Lyons has completed her first play, Kitchen Table Chat, capturing family and Philadelphia history.
Tieshka Smith: I have been shooting exclusively in Germantown since I moved here in February and pending the approval of external funding, I hope to be launching a spinoff called “Hidden Voices of Germantown.”  These images (womenfolk of Germantown) will be an important part of that series. 
 
A self-taught street photographer currently based in Philadelphia, I make images that challenge prevailing notions of otherness and explore the ways that marginalized people interact with one another and with shared but unsanctioned public spaces.  A Chicago native, I am a graduate of Northwestern University and Keller Graduate School of Management.

500px:  500px.com/momofthreephotography

For the full series, click here.

ART Kjersti Faret—“The Execution of Lady Jane Grey” Depicts the young head of Lady Jane Grey, the Nine Day Queen, after she was executed and the quote from her executioner as he displayed her head.  Kjersti Faret is currently a junior at SVA studying illustration. Her favorite mediums include etching, embroidery, gouache and ink. She is half Norwegian and half cat, both of which influence her work greatly. High-res

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Kjersti Faret—“The Execution of Lady Jane Grey”

Depicts the young head of Lady Jane Grey, the Nine Day Queen, after she was executed and the quote from her executioner as he displayed her head. 

Kjersti Faret is currently a junior at SVA studying illustration. Her favorite mediums include etching, embroidery, gouache and ink. She is half Norwegian and half cat, both of which influence her work greatly.

http://www.ghettosongbird.com
A horror genre’ story of internal demons at war with external monsters, as rock-n-roll singer/songwriter/guitarist GhettoSongBird character attempts to kill her fears with her passion! A Ghettosongbird Film directed by Sharvon P. Urbannavage.

North Philly Rock-n-roll singer/songwriter/guitar goddess GhettoSongBird has been landing upon rock venues such as CBGB’s & Whisky A Go-Go, giving stadium rising shows. Her music plays from the east, to the west, flying oversea’s protesting love, peace, & hardcore flower power! www.ghettosongbird.com

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ART: RACHEL BLYTHE UDELL

I am drawn to using soft, comforting, highly textured materials because of their capacity for suggesting forms that feel alive; I think of them as plant-like forms and spirit beings that secretly “know” what I can’t, though they’ve come from inside of me. The resulting organ-like structures are metaphors for a connectedness specifically related to how human beings exist in the world: that a human being is not a self-contained biological organism, but part of an interacting, breathing membrane, transmitting and receiving the stuff of life between social and psychological systems, ecosystems, solar and cosmic systems, etc. We are all made of the same stuff: we are distinct entities and yet we flow, physically and emotionally into our surroundings. My pieces are sentient extensions of myself, a delicate attempt to extinguish the unnaturalness of human isolation. In the face of unspeakable horrors and miraculous wonders, my art is both an attempt to create a channel through which I am able to come to terms with the often polarizing experience of existence, and the plane upon which I attempt to strike a balance between extremes.

racheludell.com

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Danielle Charette

Danielle Charette is a Contemporary Expressionist hailing from a shuffling between NYC and Pennsylvania. Her work is a form of modern story telling often with a dark skewed sense of humor, meant to convey and evoke emotion in the viewer. She paints tales of love, heartache, heart break, humor and loss, portraits and figures. Charette’s work spans from fine art original oil paintings to art of many mediums, custom made skateboards, murals and merchandise. Her Charette original oil paintings and art have been shown and hang in many galleries throughout the US and continue to sell both nationally and internationally. Thanks for looking.

www.charetteart.com

FILM

Colin Dardis—Swimming Around the Inkwell

Born at the tail end of the seventies in Northern Ireland, Colin Dardis is a poet, artist, and sometimes musician. He editsFourXFour, an online journal focusing on poetry from the North of Ireland. He is also the founder of Purely Poetry, an open mike poetry night in Belfast, and a member of the Voica Versa performance group.

Colin’s work has been previously published in numerous anthologies, journals and zines in Ireland, the UK and the USA. His poem ‘Perhaps’, won the EditRed.Com 2006 Writer’s Choice Award for Poetry. Notable appearances include the Belfast Book Festival, Sunflower Fest, and the Belly Laughs Comedy Festival.

Colin is a poet who displays hunger for understanding of himself and the world around him. His poetry and performances display an ever present sense of hope through times of love, sadness, death and joy, while sparkling with humour, honesty, modesty, and a touch of the absurd.

http://lowlightsforlowlifes.weebly.com/

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