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The 2007 event received the following media coverage.
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MYSPACE: Arts Council 13.9.20007

SLEAFORD STANDARD 3.10.2007
Pupils create alternative guide books for Sleaford

THE TIMES 13.10.2007
The Knowledge : Top Five Events

LOUTH LEADER 15.10.2007
Beacon Art Project comes to Mablethorpe

MABLETHORPE LEADER 17.10.2007
Take a step into the wonderfully surreal Beacon Art Project

Interface.a-n.co.uk   20.10.2007
REVIEW:   Beacon Art Project ................................... READ

NEW WORK NETWORK - Events 19.10.2007  
Beacon Art Project 2007 ......................................... READ

LINCS FM - Calendar 21.10.2007

MABLETHORPE LEADER   24.10.2007  
Night of red hot talent on holiday camp stage ...........READ

FREE TRANSLATION: Blog archive   October 2007
Beacon Art Project comes to Mablethorpe

LINCOLNSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL WEBSITE: Lincolnshire Libraries, event details October 2007
Bringing Beacon Arts Project to your community

VISIT LINCOLNSHIRE WEBSITE   October 2007
Beacon Art Project - Mablethorpe

LINCOLNSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL - press release   October 2007
Corridor creations: Live Library Art in Mablethorpe

MABLETHORPE in Lincolnshire UK October 2007
Beacon Art Project

CULTURAL AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT EAST MIDLANDS   WEBSITE: News October 2007
Beacon Art Project 2007
'990: General History of Other Areas' ........................READ

ART MONTHLY December 2007
Performance Review by Dean Kenning ...................... READ

A-N MAGAZINE December 2007
Review by Niki Russell .............................................. READ

THE LINCOLNSHIRE JOURNAL January 2008
Meet the Post-Methodists! ....................................... READ

Radio Interviews for Beacon Art Project 2007 - total 1hr 12 mins

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PRESS RELEASE 1 st October 2007

ART, FOOTBALL and POLITICS

Sensing the citizens of Mablethorpe's disenfranchisement with national parliamentary politics, artists Mel Brimfield and Sally O'Reilly have devised a Football Parliament whereby matters of local policy making are kicked back into democratic play. Recognising the futility of endless debates and ambiguous rhetoric, they have invited three local Lincolnshire football teams to settle certain matters of urgency. The teams will be required to play a three-sided football match, temporarily adopting the identity of the Conservative, Labour and Liberal Democrat parties so that a clear outcome can be identified and the according policies implemented.

Football Parliament is scheduled to kick off at Sherwood Field, Mablethorpe, Lincolnshire, at 3pm, Sunday 21 October 2007 . It has been programmed as part of Beacon Art Project 2007 , an annual visual art festival in Lincolnshire. http://www.beaconartproject.com

The rules

The rules of three-sided football were first devised by Asger Jorn, an artist belonging to the Situationist movement in Europe in the 1950s and '60s.

The pitch is hexagonal, each team being assigned two opposite sides. The blank side is called the frontside. The side containing the goal is called the backside. Should the ball be kicked through a team's goal, the team has conceded a goal. A successful attack will generally imply co-operation with the third team. Bearing in mind that such a decision will not necessarily be immediate, a team may well find itself split between two alliances. Such a situation opens them up to the possibility of their enemies uniting, making maximum use of this confusion.

Three-sided football is a game of skill, persuasion and psychology. When the ball goes out of the play on the frontside, a throw-in is conceded. This is carried out by the team whose frontside it is, unless they had last touch. In that case the throw in is taken by the team whose goal is the nearest. When the ball goes out of the play at the backside, the defending team has a goal kick, unless they had the last touch, in which case a corner is taken by the team whose goal is nearest. The semicircle around the goal functions as a penalty area and it may be necessary to use it for some sort of offside rule, which has yet to be developed.

Press Release September 25 2007

Beacon Art Project 2007 - ‘990: General History of Other Areas’

Beacon Art Project is a contemporary visual art festival set in the rural
landscape and towns of Lincolnshire. This year’s project, entitled ‘990:
General History of Other Areas’ is curated by Sally O’Reilly and
concentrates on performance art and the moving image. From Friday 19 October until Sunday 21 October 2007, the coastal town of Mablethorpe will host the fourth Beacon Art Project.

The traditional seaside town of Mablethorpe will be transformed, for one
weekend, into a festival site. Its beach huts, amusement arcades, curiosity
shops and ice cream parlours will become a backdrop for newly commissioned
artworks throughout the town. The title of this year’s event ‘990: General
History of Other Areas’ takes its name from the Dewey Decimal System, used
by librarians to order the books on their shelves. Mablethorpe Library will
itself become a venue for performance, as will a fleet of mobile library
buses, churches, pubs and other public buildings.

In a weekend of contrasts visitors can encounter artworks quietly in an
intimate space, presented grandly on stage with a sense of drama or by
chance in bars and shops. Many of the artworks adapt or subvert the usual
functions of their venues. There will be, for example, a talent contest for
those with unusual abilities in a glitzy bar, a public address in the
Methodist church that differs from the usual Sunday sermon and a three-sided
football match at the football ground; a local pub will screen videos that
stretch sporting genres, a church hall will host an artists’ craft fair and
in the community centre the audience can participate in a Kafka-esque
interrogation scene.

Beacon Art Project is now in its fourth year, and Arts Council East Midlands
have been major funders of the project since it's inception in 2004.
Additional funding this year has come from Lincolnshire Creative Solutions
initiative, East Lindsey district Council and Kesteven & Sleaford High
School. Project directors John Plowman and Nicola Streeten live in
Lincolnshire and are dedicated to bringing art into the region and enabling
audiences to travel to see it.

Participating Artists:

Jennifer Allora & Guillermo Calzadilla
Sean Ashton
Tim Bailey
Mel Brimfield & Sally O’Reilly
Matt Calderwood
Alan Currall
Lucy Harrison
Julie Henry
Seth Kriebel & Zoe Bouras
Cees Krijnen & Greta Blok with Julian Maynard Smith
Rosalind Nashashibi
Simon Pope
John Smith
Sue Tompkins
Jessica Voorsanger

Press Release Wednesday, September 12, 2007

SLEAFORD STUDENTS PUBLISH ART FOR THE ROAD

A set of booklets has been  published for the Beacon Art project 2007 by students at Kesteven & Sleaford High School with artist Lucy Harrison

A group of Year 8 and 9 students worked with artist Lucy Harrison to make a set of alternative guide books to the town of Sleaford, using invented histories, anecdotes and overheard conversations.
 
Initiated by walks around the town which proposed new ways of looking at familiar places, the students then produced photographs, writing and drawing which they put together using professional design software. Having been introduced to various artists' publications the students engaged with unconventional page designs and uses of typography.
 
The booklets will be available to be viewed in library buses during the Beacon Project 2007 which takes place from Friday October 19 to Sunday October 22 in Mablethorpe, Lincolnshire. Beacon Art Project 2007 is entitled '990: General History of Other Areas'
 
Lucy Harrison is an artist whose work examines the subjective nature of descriptions of places, and who regularly publishes books as part of her practice.
 
6 booklets have been produced:
 
A User's Guide to Sleaford Tesco's
Lost Objects of Sleaford
The Graffiti of Sleaford
The True Story of the Bass Maltings
Sleaford Backwards
Signs and Conversations in Sleaford
 

Press Release: 29 August 2007

MABLETHORPE TO HOST INTERNATIONAL ART PROJECT

 
Beacon Art Project is an annual art exhibition situated in the rural landscape and towns of Lincolnshire. This year’s project, entitled ‘990: General History of Other Areas’, is concentrating on performance art and will take place throughout the weekend of Friday 19th – Sunday 21st October in the seaside town of Mablethorpe, Lincolnshire.

 
‘990: General History of Other Areas’ takes its name from a category of knowledge in the Dewey Decimal System, used by libraries to order the books on their shelves. The library in Mablethorpe, as well as the countywide fleet of mobile libraries, will become temporary exhibition spaces for some of the newly commissioned works, while other artworks can be seen around the town in pubs and clubs, on the football pitch, in the curiosity shop, a Methodist church – and a large, walk-in shower in a community centre will become a police-interrogation room.

 
With stage-based plays, film and video screenings, participatory events, a talent contest, a craft fair and oddities, such as a three-sided football match, to be encountered in public areas around the town, this year’s Beacon Art Project fills an entire weekend with performances that range from the intimate to the brazen by internationally renowned artists. One participating artist, Cees Krijnen, exhibited photographs of his mother alongside paintings by Rembrandt, of his mother, at the Stedelijk Museum de Lakenhal Leiden, The Netherlands, last year; and Sue Tompkins was in last year’s Becks Futures at the Institute of Contemporary Art, London.

 
Beacon is supported by regional and national arts funding bodies. Project directors John Plowman and Nicola Streeten live locally and work around the year to organise Beacon so that the local community is aware of and included in events during the exhibition. Although visitors come from beyond the region, due to the standard and reputation of artists involved, it is important to the organisers that the art is seen by the people of Lincolnshire in places that they might take for granted in day-to-day life.