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Swandown on Channel 4 “Random acts” tonight 16/04/2012 at midnight (more precisely tomorrow 17/04/12 at 00:00)

Swandown will be the subject of Channel 4′s Random acts no. 112 (click to go to the webpage).

Andrew Kötting

Artefact 1 Swandown

Andrew Kötting and Iain Sinclair took a swan shaped pedalo from Hastings to Hackney along the inland waterways. They met various characters along the way, including Dinos Chapman.

Random Acts is a brand [...]

work-in-progress of Swandown

Since I wasn’t able to attend this event and I didn’t even have time to announce it, I am using these notes from the “Some landscapes”blog hoping the blogger Plinius won’t mind me quoting him:

“From the industrial sublime to the faintly ridiculous: Saturday evening saw a work-in-progress presentation of Swandown, in which Andrew Kötting and Iain Sinclair ‘pursue [...]

SWANLOG DIARY, Tuesday, 27 September 2011, Rye.

Tuesday, 27 September 2011, Rye.

Now I’m in the hut, watching the rain, on the far side of the Atlantic, wondering if the sea will allow us out on the lobster boat. Did the swan thing really happen? The mother of all swan pedalos (a legendary 12-seater) is to be found on a pond in [...]

Friday, 23 September 2011. Winchelsea Beach to Rye.

Friday, 23 September 2011. Winchelsea Beach to Rye.

 

We hadn’t been out at sea more than a couple of hours when rumours started to drift after us from Hastings: our swan theft had launched a cult. Call it, as the boys did, chewing at their miserly roll-ups with salted lips, ‘morphic resonance’. You can [...]

Thursday, 22 September 2011. Hastings Old Town to Winchelsea Beach

Thursday, 22 September 2011. Hastings Old Town to Winchelsea Beach

 

Once upon a time, on the south coast of Britain, a naked man enveloped in a quilt of swan feathers haunted the pebbled shore, nursing a bottle of fine wine, purchased early each morning at a minimart catering for a loose association of cheerful [...]