seen any kegs lately?

Be afraid, all you keg snatchers out there...
Don't look a me!... I don't even drink

lead by example?

So these are the type of people who 'teach' me at the aa.
See?
It all becomes clear...

privacy wars

“...London wasn’t the first city I’d lived in, but it was certainly the largest. Anywhere else there is always the chance of seeing someone you know, or at the very least, a smiling face. Not here. Commuters crowd the trains, eager to outdo their fellow travellers in an escalating privacy war of paperbacks, headphones and newspapers….”
- Belle De Jour: Intimate Adventures of a London Call Girl

My weapon of choice has got to be the paperback. Better still paperback and headphones emitting inaudible music... and sunglasses (especially when it’s dark). Alternatively, may as well cover my head with a paper bag (might attract peculiar looks but, fortunately perhaps, I wouldn't notice)
So what’s yours?

Just occurred to me that if one wishes to spread propaganda, could do much worse than a tube ad... whenever I happen to make eye contact (which appears to be a heinous crime) with a fellow passenger in a carriage, our eyes involuntarily and immediately avert their gaze aloft to re-read that (most interesting) advertisement regarding travel insurance; yes, the one I’d just read six times in the preceding four minutes...

star*ucks? - phase two

'phase two'.... or what happens when the
rave comes to town ( more specifically;
when it sets up in your exhibition space)

starbucks or star*ucks?

(Recent installation exhibited in December at Event:space gallery, Bethnal Green.)

Mixed media installation; Analogue text, digital animation and video projection.

Coffee outlets provide a privileged space of 'home' away from home. It is the 'third space', homelike but not domicile, selective and branded, specific in style and function. This industry is dominated by Starbucks, who promotes itself as an extension of one's home, providing an environment of comfort and coffee for a social unit. But is its global proliferation and stronghold over the coffee industry posing a threat to the urbanscape, saturating cities with their brand, eliminating diversity and culture? Is their sprawling network of outlets cloning the high streets, diluting identity and commercializing heritage for the sake of economic gain?
We explore 'home' within the Starbucks outlet. Coffee retail is one of the UK's fastest growing industries, and London boasts the second highest density of Starbucks in the world. With their rapid growth for long term dominance, will we eventually find our 'home' and a latte on every street corner?

The design is derived from information in the form of data statistics, online research, interviews, case studies, individual judgments and opinions. Through this knowledge a critique is developed towards the proliferation of the Starbucks model. It is a study which highlights commercial globalization, advertisement propaganda, marketing campaigns and expression of thoughts and sentiments. The individual versus the collective. The people versus Starbucks.
The space becomes a changing region of information, a situation created to negotiate between personal feelings and reality. The walls become a dynamic surface through participation over time. The coffee table, the heart of the coffee lounge, is an object of intervention. It is the interface for which we can govern a virtual condition of the future volume of Starbucks. The installation expands with existing and new material, forming a collection of data from which one draws a personal conclusion.

Concieved and constructed by:
Pavandeep S. Panesar - Kevin Ling - Yumeng Chan
12.05

the setup...


myself pretending to be a disinterested subject...


Interactive coffee table before.
Interactive coffee table after.
The lads.
The aftermath.
Desire for individuality.