Looking for a unique last minute Christmas present for an art-inclined friend who has a tendency to get becalmed mid-project? Well look no further than Northampton Art Lab’s Ambagious Tactics cards.
Made in tribute to Eno & Schmidt’s Oblique Strategies, which turn 50 this year, the cards offer over 120 interventions, maxims, commands, suggestions & tall orders all designed to gently propel the momentarily tar pit stricken creative back along the magical path. Contributors include members of the Northampton Arts Lab such as Alan Moore, film director Jim Jarmusch, composer Anna Meredith, rave situationist Jimmy Cauty and plenty of friends of tQ.
The fiendish mind behind the cards, Alistair Fruish, is also a writer and his dastardly and dazzling work THE SENTENCE – a 47 thousand word single unpunctuated sentence, which is actually a novel, entirely made up of monosyllables – has been turned into an audio performance by Daniel Copland and Daisy Campbell, and will be premiered at 12 noon on Christmas Eve on Resonance FM and Resonance Extra. So that’s a monosyllabic Ho times three, rather than an unnecessarily flamboyant Joyeux Noël.
