Scaremongering.net Reboot Weekend
As a conclusion to our discussion meetings and a sort of cut off point for the new path we chose to take we decided to have a solid weekend live-in together in the YCA seminar house in Buskett woods.
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The heavy veil that had settled upon us by the end of Memento Mori did not dissipate of its own accord as we had hoped it would. This was much more than a mere tired out period after a big project. What we were facing here was a very delicate phase in which scaremongering.net could have truly died out for good. We were all conscious that there was nothing left for us to do because we had all reached our current limits and capabilities within the framework we operated in. The only option was to either repeat ourselves, which would have been nothing but the start of a short road towards utter mediocrity, or stop, take a good look in the mirror, and reinvent ourselves. Since going beyond and embracing change is something none of us are afraid of doing we decided to stop all our activities for a good period time and organize a way in which we could truly find our essential selves and reinvent scaremongering.net without losing the experience we had garnered from 2003 up to 2006.
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If I had to describe this project in a single word it would definitely be ambitious, ambitious as fuck! Like always we started thinking about it in March and the intentions were small. The very first plans involved a small patch of abandoned land in Pembroke which consisted of a couple of small dilapidated buildings connected by a grassy path. We were thinking of doing a small exhibition this time round based more on installations and theatrical character narrations connected to the art works. The themes we had in mind were sketchy but we knew that we wanted something on life and death worked on by a small team of artists. The original target was July/August 2006 and we started doing some research on the area we wanted to use and see from where we could get all the necessary permits. Unfortunately we discovered that the land belonged to a political party and this put us off the whole thing since we never wanted to get close to those people in any way.
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‘Strangers’ is definitely the most ambiguous, experimental and excruciating scaremongering.net project to date. Most of us who worked on it or helped in it still can’t really decide whether it was a success or a total failure, even from amongst the people who attended the night we got a lot of mixed reviews. There were those who left right in the middle, others who stuck till the end simply not to offend us and others that really enjoyed it and wanted more of the same next time round. If I had to decide on which was the general comment we got from the public I guess the summative phrase would be ‘Good try.’. Since I was there and could see the whole project from its conception up to its execution I can give everyone the whole lowdown on how it developed and also what was all the baggage attached to it that ultimately made it the flawed project that it was.
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Following the previous year’s formula the lecture nights were organized once again this time round by Glen Galea who went through all the trouble of putting the program together and chasing the lecturers to find an appropriate slot in their ultra busy schedules.
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Film Nights Season 2
After the success of the set of films shown in 2004 Stan and Kari made their very best to keep it up in 2005 with a new selection of brilliant unknown classics of independent European and American films. Once again the films were hosted at Misfits which unfortunately for all of us it turned out to be its last winter before closing its doors once and for all later on in 2005 making it very difficult for us to have a third season anywhere else.
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While we were still all tired out from the work on Merely a Stain we spent most of our hot summer nights drinking away at Misfits. On such a night we were chatting away with a couple of artists, most of whom had participated in Merely a Stain, and while we were agonizing on about the fact that it’s about time some of them came up with ideas for the next projects, we came up with one there and then.
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This was our first major experimental work and to understand better the final result it’s important that I explain the process we put in motion to build up the project. Somewhere round March 2004 we started discussing the prospects of having an interdisciplinary experimental exhibition which was also experience based rather than simply having pictures hanging up on walls.
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4 Lecture Sessions
On the same vein of the film nights this was another successful attempt we made at bringing people together for a pleasant experience while engaging in something thought stimulating in this case with a taste of fringe academia.
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This event was our first collaboration with Misfits, our unofficial official hangout. At heart this event was a electro/house party and the art in it was much more of a means rather than an end in itself yet our intentions were to have a mixed media art exhibition and a video art montage of very particular animations and short films compiled off the net which would set and direct the tone of the party.
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At around October 2003 we started discussing the possibility of taking scaremongering.net more seriously. The general idea was to turn scaremongering.net into some form of organization that organized art exhibitions and alternative events and use the website to promote art and unknown amateur artists and writers like ourselves.
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The very first scaremongering.net site was put up by Kari McKay in 2001 for private use by a number of close friends. This was a perfect place where we could show off each other’s creative attempts at being controversial, subversive, violent and sometimes simply sad and sick.
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Tuesday nights at Misfits had become a regular mid-week outing for a good number of both Misfits patrons and movie lovers throughout this first season of the scaremongering film nights.
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