Lottie Child is the founder of Street Training www.streettraining.org an international network of people actively shaping their environments and behaviors with safety and joy. Recently Street Training has been at Tate Britain, Favela Morro dos Prazeres, Rio de Janeiro and The Cube, Manchester. Regular sessions take place in London and bespoke sessions can be provided. She Lectures at the University of the Arts London her research topics are in the field of situation based practice that engages with information exchange and explores the hierarchies, rituals and taboos of the streets through a combination or performance, audience participation and publications.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/malinkychild/∞
lottie@malinky.org
http://malinky.org∞
http://twenteenthcentury.com/lottie∞
Urban survival skills for the 21st century.
The ways in which we behave, the ability to negotiate the multiplicity of forces at play in city streets – by making, and refraining from, spontaneous urban interventions, may be the most effective personalised combination of artistic and political expression we possess. Through my work – by exploring the potential our considered and instinctive behaviours can have - I aim to make a contribution, in my own way, to furthering this conversation.
Exhibitions/Live Art/Residencies
07/2010 Whitstable Biennale Whitstable Street Training
12/2009 South London Gallery, Screening of Street Training documentary
01/2009-04/2009 British Council funded residency in Rio de Janiero, brazil making documentary and Street Training Manual
07/2009 Two Degrees Arts Admin performance WE ARE STARDUST WE ARE GOLDEN
http://www.artsadmin.co.uk/projects/event.php?id=568∞
06/2009 City as Gymnasium Cube gallery, Manchester video, map and performance
http://www.cube.org.uk/exhibitions/detail.asp?id=232∞
07/2008 South London Gallery,Games and Theory video installation and participatory performance
http://www.southlondongallery.org/docs/exh/exhibition.jsp?id=151&view=current∞
04/2008 Street Training commission for Roam a weekend of walking Radar Loughborough university
http://www.lboro.ac.uk/service/arts/radar/roam/artists.html∞
03/2008 Exemplar walk,commissioned by General Public Agency part of London Open City exhibition, somerset house
http://www.somersethouse.org.uk/visual_arts/london_open_city/564.asp∞
12/2007 Residency Camden Arts Centre, London
http://www.camdenartscentre.org/education/?id=100328∞
09/2007 Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria
http://www.aec.at/en/festival2007/program/project.asp?iProjectID=14105∞
05/2007 KunstRaum, Linz, Austria
http://www.kunstraum.at/article.php?ordner_id=4&id=154∞
http://www.flickr.com/photos/streettraininglinz/∞
09/2006 Residency Palais Pinakothek Der Moderne, Munich
http://www.outset.org.uk/project_details.asp?ProjectID=64∞
http://kunstarealmuenchen.blogspot.com/∞
07/2006 Art Transponder, Berlin.Guide to Risk in Berlin (solo show)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/malinkychild/page8/∞
http://www.arttransponder.net/index.php?id=78&L=1∞
http://www.arttransponder.net/78.0.html?&L=1%22%20onfocus%3D%22blurLink(this)%3B%22%20onfocus%3D%22blurLink(this)%3B∞
12/2005 The Momentary Seduction of Now, Scope Art Fair Miami
09/2005 Kiasma Helsinki Finland, First We Take Museums, urban climbing event and paper for world car free day.
http://www.welcomebb.org.uk/projects/realestate.html∞
08/2005 ICA, Real Estate, Guide to Risk, Urban Street Training video
http://www.ica.org.uk/index.cfm?articleid=14269∞
07/2005 Kassel, Germany B+B Collective Creativity, text.
http://www.fridericianum-kassel.de/∞
04/2005 W..Wir Wissen exhibition at Exner Gasse gallery Vienna Building an Alternate Reality out of Cardboard.
http://www.wuk.at/index.php/wuk/termin/1268563456/termin_archiv2005.html∞
11/2004 The Cube Cinema Bristol, Technique over Technology, Screening of Urban Street Training,.
10/2004 Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination, RampART London, climb and screening.
08/2004 Speak Easy Goldsmiths curating MA, The Whitechapel and Space, 6 weeks, artists lab.
08/2004 Space, Roman Road Revel, Bowlypics, Urban Street Training
04/2004 Creative Partnerships, THE pUBLIC Birmingham Residency,commission.
03/2004 Monument public sculpture climbing Copenhagen
http://www.org-urb.dk/urban_stories/∞
10.2003 Camden Arts Centre, Gulbenkian Foundation research residency
07/2003 Whitechapel Art Gallery A day in the life
05/2003 Swiss Cottage Central Library Gallery with Camden Arts Centre Mirrors
Signal Manoeuvres video, blackboard drawing and co-authored maps
12/2002 Ongoing Hi5 a game for cyclists
http://nodel.org/projects.php?type=7#p_43∞
11/2002 Public Life , Paris, Input, urban letterboxing
06/2002 Limehouse Town Hall Twenteenth Century to Split, drawings
04/2002 Chisenhale Gallery Get Art! video
08/2001 Camden Arts Centre, New Contemporaries with Twenteenth Century
08/1999 Shoreditch Town Hall Open Day with Twenteeth Century
08/1998 Bank 34, Underwood Street House of Wax self portrait
06/200 Central St Martins Art of the Twenteenth Century
06/1998 Shoreditch Town Hall Open Day
Music Releases
10/2006 With Zafrica Brazil Open Sky "The city of london police, they love the way we move - let's ask them if they want to play"
http://malinky.org/files/01opensky.m4a∞
09/2006 Spiral System Featuring Lottie Child
http://www.saikosounds.com/english/display_release.asp?id=6068∞?
09/2006 The Fontanas featuring Lottie Child
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=80207703∞
Media
11/09 Disparity, diversity and the criminalisation of indolence by Vincenzo Ruggiero for the Journal 'City'
http://www.taylorandfrancisgroup.com/∞
08/09 The Robert Elms show BBC radio, live interview about Street Training
05/09 University of the Arts ezine http://intranet.arts.ac.uk/e_brief/archive/23_09_08.htm∞
10/08 Frieze Magazine, review Games and Theory
10/08 Art Review, review Games and Theory
09/08 Aesthetica Magazine, review Games and Theory
09/08 Art Monthly, review Games and Theory
09/2007 Rocketboom online TV http://www.rocketboom.com/vlog/rb_07_sep_12/de/flash∞ ars electronica
09/2007 Rebel tv online TV http://tv.rebell.tv/p2321.html∞
08/2007 Independent on Sunday, London in Six Easy Steps
08/2006 Telegraph, City Play, Street Training
06/2006 BBC TV, BBC London Live, British Library Geocaching project
06/2006 BBC Radio Four, Woman's Hour, Urban Street Training
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/womanshour/05/2006_24_tue.shtml∞
02/2005 TLS,Robin Blackburn ReadArticle
09/2005 Guardian Unlimited
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/features/story/0,11710,1560365,00.html∞
09/2005 metamute, review Real Estate
http://www.metamute.com/look/article.tpl?IdLanguage=1&IdPublication=1&NrIssue=24&NrSection=5&NrArticle=1527∞
08/2005 Independent on sunday, article Real Estate ICA
08/2005 Time Out, Real Estate preview.
02/2005 Chanel Four documentary, Three Minute Wonder- on Climbing Club
http://www.channel4.com/fourdocs/film/film-detail.jsp?id=23165∞
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXd4t-swiZA∞
11/2003 Resonance FM Stewart Lee interview live broadcast from urban climb in the City of London.
06/2003 Mute Magazine, Kate Rich, Child’s Play, Culture and Politics After the Net issue 26 page 130.
http://www.metamute.org/en/node/6293∞
Papers/Talks/Screenings
12/09 Central School of Speach and Drama talk and training sessions, reflective practitioner lecture
11/2009 Talk and teaching at Leeds Metropolitain University on the Fine Art BA
04/2009 talk and training session at the UNICENTRO university Guarapuava, Brazil on the art education Degree course
04/2008 Presentation Taxi to Praxi Goldsmiths University
12/2007 Illustration in the Drawbridge
http://www.thedrawbridge.org.uk/issue_7/∞
04/2007 Not Yet ... Situations Arnolfini Bristol - symposium archeology of the future
http://www.situations.org.uk/research_rr_links.html∞
http://www.situations.org.uk/∞
http://info.uwe.ac.uk/news/uwenews/article.asp?item=1026∞
02/2007 ICA gallery talk on the work of Tino Sehgal
07/2005 ICA event City Escape and Escapade http://www.londonconsortium.com/playtime/escape.htm∞
06/2004 Whitechapel Art Gallery - paper, Schools as Sites for Exchange
05/2004 Royal College of Art Stockholm, project space K1. Paper on the University of Openness and Self-institution.
03/2004 Monument Copenhagen, paper on self directed MA at the University of Openness.
http://www.mapbureau.com/usersites/lottie/copenhagen/∞
02/2004 Soft Logics conference on Gallery education, Stuttgart.
http://www.kuenstlerhaus.de/archiv/detail.php?id=599&offset=10∞
12/2003 Dorkbot London http://dorkbot.org/dorkbotlondon/20011205.html∞
10/2003 Central St Martin’s College of Art and Design Paper on particpatory practice.
10/2003 Mapping event, Chapter, Cardiff – performance and paper on applied mapping in participatory practice.
http://www.jenniesavage.co.uk/projecthome/maps/daylayout.html∞
08/2003 ICA – Foundation conference.
02/2003 Dorkbot London http://www.chris-king.org.uk/Photo/Dorkbot13/bigview.html∞
05/2003 Speed Salon at Blacks, Soho
http://www.jamesputnam.org.uk/inv_salon_05.html∞
Events/Projects
03/2009 Street Training Rio De Janeiro, Santa Teresa funded by the British Council Brazil Links program
10/2006 Placard Headphone festival singing with Alex Mclean and Cormac Heron
http://leplacard.org/2006/London%20placard/∞
07/2006 Accidental Holiday, A Wildish Guide to the Greenwich Peninsula, Independent Photography Commission
06/2006 Top 10 things to do in London during Architecture week, urban Street Training and City Psyching
http://www.architectureweek.org.uk/event.asp?eventURN=2872∞
02/2006 Secret Southwark At South London Gallery with historian Chris Jones
http://www.southlondongallery.org/docs/edu/event.jsp?id=123∞
09/2005 Building an Alternate reality out of card baord with children and their parents with A2RT in Birmingham
http://www.spacestudios.org.uk/projects/public_art_project.asp?id=522∞
07/2005 Building an Alternate reality in Bow East London
http://www.spacestudios.org.uk/projects/public_art_project.asp?id=522∞
06/2005 Anarchitecture Week Urban Climbing
http://rupture.co.uk/anarchitectureweek/calendar.asp∞
03/2004 Urban Climbing map of Copenhagen
http://www.mapbureau.com/usersites/lottie/copenhagen/∞
09/2003 Bristol Urban Olympics
With Twenteenth Century group of artists
12/2001 Nylon Gallery Twenteenth Century
06/2001 Camden Arts Centre/Sunderland Museum of Modern Art New Contemporaries
06/2001 ICA Be in Berlin
2000-06 Central St Martins Art of the Twenteenth Century
1998-06 Shoreditch Town Hall Open Day
Twenteenth Century Media
02/2002 Art Monthly: Cover image & review
12.2001 Art Review: Thick As Thieves
12/2001 Time Out, London: Preview of Twenteenth Century show at Nylon
Book Credits
09/2007 Goodbye Privacy the accompanying publication to Ars Elecronica Linz
09/2001“Art and Artefact, The Museum as Medium” by James Putnam published by Thames and Hudson 2001 Description of “System Addict” Twenteenth Century video 2000.
Academic papers published
07/2006 'How To' Bundesakademie Wolfenbuttel, germany
10/2010 Street training in Loughborough: on climbing, testing, penetrating, playing with, nurturing, building and/or pissing on boundaries - physical, mental and social - in the perpetual making of public space. Visual Studies special Walking and Ethnography, pub Taylor and Francis
Teaching/Gallery Education
02/2010 Lecturing and talking on the BA at Central School of Speach and Drama
11/2009 Lecturing on the BA Fine Art course at Leeds Metropolitan University
2003-present Wimbledon School of Art visiting lecturer fine art, foundation course.
06/2006 Camberwell arts and Cambridge House youth group, guide to risk in camberwell.
05/2006 Bow Arts Trust, risky guide to entangled tongues
04/2006 South London Gallery, Mysteries and Secrets of Burgess Park
2003-2005 Serpentine Gallery education
2000-2005 Chisenhale Gallery research project with film maker Anna Lucas
2000 - present ICA, gallery talks for public and seminars and workshops for sixth form and foundation.
09/2004-present British Library Public art and new technology research project
http://www.bllearning.co.uk/live/sound/geocaching/whl/∞
http://www.bllearning.co.uk/live/sound/geocaching/ega/∞
07/2004 Tate Modern Live Juice debate, art and politics
2002-2003 Camden Arts Centre research residency funded by Gulbenkian Foundation
06/2003 Central St Martin’s College of Art and Design visiting lecturer on the BA Fine Art
2002- The Whitechapel Art Gallery paper on “ Schools as Sites for Exchange ” and 4 month residency.
Academic Qualifications
2003 – Self directed studies at the University of Openness
1998-2000 BA (Hons) Fine Art Central St Martin’s 2:1
1997-1998 Foundation, Chelsea College of Art and Design
Employment
04/2006- Research Project British Library, learning department.
04/2005 Consultant artist for General Public Agency, provision of public play space on the Kings Cross Development
http://www.generalpublicagency.com/port_cont_urban_02.html∞
2001-2002 Assistant to artists Adam Chodzko and Anne Tallentire
2000-2002 Admin assistant Central St Martin’s College of Art and Design
1998-2000 Call centre agent World Telecom
Limehouse Town Hall
Part of Limehouse Town Hall Consortium working to preserve the building and developing a programme of residencies and events.
http://twenteenthcentury.com/lth/∞
Boxing Club
An agency that organises and facilitates workshops and events in such varied fields as computing, film and video making, journalism, education, curating and public history, with a strong educational ethos.
http://www.bclub.org.uk/∞
Climbing Club
Since 2002 Climbing Club has been exploring multiple modes of creative engagement with the built environment of the City of London.. in other words we climb buildings. On the last Sunday of every month
University of Openness
Developing and studying at this peer initiated self institution.
http://twenteenthcentury.com/uo/∞
Twenteenth Century
Co founded Twenteenth Century, group of artists in 1998.
http://twenteenthcentury.com∞
images and details here
http://www.solarassociates.net∞
Street Training
I understand Street Training as a potentially emergent 21st century Martial Art, and I treat its ideas and my engagement with a comparable level of discipline and respect. It requires commitment and sustained practice, and encompasses the physical, mental and spiritual aspects of being. It rewards the Street Trainer with incremental changes in their ability to defend themselves against the bombardment of city life, and shape their environment positively.
In Lottie’s work I liked the word ‘bravery’, I think this is brave work because I would be very nervous to attempt any of the sort of moves that we saw at the end, as she described, ‘eloquent moves’, just amazing stuff. But it is also possible to think in her work of the body as a drawing tool, as a way of recording space but also intervening and critiquing space, as a critical tool. I thought this was really refreshing and really exciting in the way that she is working. Very gentle in a way but also potentially really, really challenging.
Jane Rendell summing up at Not yet.... Art and Archeology in the Context of Urban Renewal, Arnolfini April 2007, organised by Situations
http://www.situations.org.uk/projects_materialcity_symposium.htm∞
Artist Lottie Child is currently recruiting for the street training team, people interested in direct action, play, the politics of public space, or martial arts please get in touch. She also devises urban explorations in order to collectively produce guides for active engagement with urban places. She invites specific people to share their expertise and subjective responses to the notions of freedom of movement and anti social behaviour in increasingly sanitized and controlled urban places. Exploration involves research and intervention. Research is wandering, talking, thinking and intervention might include climbing, penetrating, playing with, nurturing, and/or pissing on boundaries; physical, mental and social that we encounter. Locations have recently included Berlin’s Mitte and Wedding areas and the Greenwich Peninsula, London. Outcomes of these participatory performances are transformed into guidebooks in order to, in turn, activate another layer of engagement with the chosen location.
I am an artist based in London, I show regularly both in London and in Europe. I began a self directed MA at the University Of Openess in 2002 with the intention of constituting the UO by studying at it . The UO invites people to use it in any way they find useful. It is constantly evolving in the interactions and imaginations of its users and online in the form of a wiki, an editable website. Much of my research is collective with the aim of making meaning collaboratively. I have been researching learning and teaching methodologies as I practically apply them. My research takes multiple forms, themes include: The body in and the politics of the urban built environment. Learning styles especially kinaesthetic intelligence, play and integrating intellectual with physical intelligence. Frameworks for self education and playful and critical uses of new technologies. Risk in multiple senses including risk taking as a means of self-education. Play – collective, non-goal oriented, engagements allowing all users to dictate the agenda and direction of activities As a frame work for research I founded Climbing Club, a group activity which takes place monthly to investigate the built environment of the City of London. Through it I proposed multiple ways to engage with- moving around, above and through-rigid structures, thus expanding possible modes of thinking and behaving, beyond those prescribed by the city’s constant process of transforming all human activity into capital. I produced Guide to Risk in the City which showed in London in Six Easy Steps at the ICA, London an outcome of my research with Climbing Club
Projects include
Guerrilla gardening- Investigations into the politics of green spaces in hyper urban places through trying to nurture vegetables.
Risk Conference- A recorded conference call that took place on May 1st 2005. The agenda, which was texted to deligates before hand equated financial risk with physical risk, some deligates were climbing on financial institutions in the City of London whilst talking on their mobile phones with hands free devices during the conference.
Climbing club – Regular group outings in the City of London engaging with street furniture and architectural features. Creating a sense of multiple possible modes of engagement with the built environment. Climbing Club is also platform for analysis, discussion and investigation into group dynamics and modes of interaction with the built environment.
Urban Climbing for Higher Education- skewing higher educational hierarchies by suggesting experimental teaching and learning methodologies.
Building an alternate reality out of cardboard - with artists and children in a European free universities context. – Active research into collaboration between participants with wildly differing degrees of power and skill.
HI5 - Game for cyclist, played out on the streets and online. – Occasional fleeting interactions between cyclists and people hailing cabs, users of City Street inhabiting differing realities.
Critical mapping-Spatialising institutional micro politics.
Urban street training-How to play on the streets for adults who have forgotten. Your personal trainer Callum introduces you to manoevers such as the Wall Wedgie, the Swinging T and the Pig's Tail. watch video
http://www.perpetualartmachine.com/index.php?option=com_gallery2&Itemid=50&g2_view=core.ShowItem&g2_itemId=12775∞
TannoyHijacking-Taking control of public announcement systems in supermarkets, train and underground stations. singing "what the world needs now is love sweet love" or saying "ladies and gentlemen today everything in sainsburys is free"
Terrimap - Map of the emotional territory of Central Foundation School for Girls in Bow East London
http://www.mapbureau.com/usersites/lottie/terrimap/∞
Contexts of Collaboration
The University of Openness
The uo is a framework in which individuals and organisations can pursue their shared interest in emerging forms of cultural production and critical reflection such as UNIX, cartography, physical and collaborative research.
Any member may start a faculty to socialise their research with the Uo. For more information, see http://twenteenthcentury.com/uo∞?
Twenteenth Century’s
Set up in 1998 as a self-supporting system and publicity machine, Twenteenth Century also produce group work that is fundamentally different in approach from any of the individual practices of it's 12 members, with an emphasis on event-based projects. Projects include Translation Karaoke and Translation Cake for Be in Berlin London 01 at the ICA in 2002. A 20 foot cardboard squirrel on Wheels and series of photos of the 12 members in a variety of situations including floating face down in a swimming pool, dressed inn 1940's clothes on the steps of Limehouse Town Hall, with all the women Pregnant and all the men smoking pipes for the exhibition Twenteenth Century at Nylon Gallery 2001.
The Urban Olympics in Bristol summer 2003 organised by Heath Bunting, Kate Rich and Kale Brandon. Was a meeting of collectives from all over Europe, participants challenged each other to events including skating in the supermarket and building stone throwing devices.
2006 Performing improvised sound with Slub live coding beats - hard to listen to and sometimes beautiful
2005 Performing cheesy, loungy, lovely Brazilian Bosa Nova with Raphael Ravenscroft, Kiko Perrone, Kleyton Vithau and Otto Nascarella.
2005Song writing with Kiko Perronne, Kleyton Vithau, Raphael Ravenscroft, Julian Litman, Spiral Music and Sam Sutton
I like:
TakingaNap
Abbie Hoffman – levitating the Pentagon
The Cube Cinema Bristol – Artist run Cinema
Platform London
Bees
A2RT
The Bureau of Inverse Technology www.bureauit.org
Kate Rich’s Radio Whitechapel 20p
The Space Hijackers www.spacehijackers.com
The Situationists
Summer Hill -A.S Neil’s school experiment
The Copenhagen Free University
Limehouse Town Hall and Boxing Club
Rotor
My Dad’s Strip Club
Cordao De Ouro – Capoeira group London
Fitzrovia Youth in Action – window box scheme
Jack Ass
Antz
Bureau D’Etude
Anna Lucas’s – film View
Flaxman Lodge
Wiki Software
Talking to strangers
unselfconscious dancing
beetroot
SIPER - Heath Bunting and Kale Brandon
Sex Majik
UpsideDownReading
SituationistRestage
looking at flowers
Cobra Mansa
NathanCashDavidson
Mute Magazine
Permaculture Magazine
Bio-Tech Hobbyist Natalie Jeremejenko and Heath Bunting
Gelatin B-Thing
Inventory
The Financial Times (world events in terms of the market directly, where the other papers reflect this through a few more layers of contrived outrage/sympathy.)
for past projects see
http://twenteenthcentury.com/projects.php?action=display&proj_id=172&context=projects&mem_id=4∞
http://malinky.org/files/∞
photo Urban Nappinng Sao Paulo, 2007