onemillionstories is an online project by creative writing student Karen Holst Bundgaard.

Onemillionstories now has been updated and has its own website. Click on the link below to read the stories.

Ten interconnecting stories are split into six parts that appear in random order each time the page is refreshed. Thus the reader plays an active part in creating a potential one million darkly comic narratives, subtly commenting on how the choices we make each day affect our lives.

A literary experiment following the legacy of authors such as Raymond Queneau, B.S. Johnson and Peter Adolphsen.

Chord exhibition book

Measure have produced a book about the Chord project priced £8/£5 concessions.

It will be avaliable to buy online soon.

Containing an interview with Shawcross and an essay exploring the themes behind Chord, it is beautifully illustrated with the artists drawings and installation photographs.

The history of the Subway is explored in an essay featuring exclusive heritage photographs, as is the regeneration history of Holborn over the last 100 years.

For further information and to pre-order please email info@measure.org.uk.

Ben Rivers

A World Rattled of Habit

4 September – 17 October 2009

A Foundation, Liverpool.

A Foundation is pleased to announce an exhibition by artist and filmmaker Ben Rivers’ in the Furnace gallery at A Foundation, Liverpool.

Ben Rivers’ work often explores mankind’s relationship with the wilderness, and with ways of hermetic world-making. Primarily shot on black and white 16mm film, his works are difficult to place in a specific time, depicting lives lived at the edges of society, or imagined landscapes populated with the soundtracks of old films and cinematic trickery.

The exhibition at A Foundation will present many of Rivers’ existing works including the acclaimed Ah, Liberty!, winner of the Tiger Award at Rotterdam Film Festival, and This is My Land, a portrait of Jake Williams, who lives alone in the forests of Aberdeenshire separate from society and with a unique perspective on time – he creates hedges by putting up bird feeders, allowing the birds’ droppings to germinate and grow.

Rivers’ films and models will be shown throughout the space using the Furnace’s architecture and creating unique spaces for screening. The exhibition will also include a new suite of etchings produced especially for this exhibition.

Visitor Information During exhibitions our galleries are open Tuesday to Saturday, 12pm to 6pm

Admission to exhibitions is FREE

September 7pm to 9pm Exhibition continues until 17 October

A Foundation, 67 Greenland Street, Liverpool, L1 0BY

t: +44(0)151 706 0600

e: info@afoundation.org.uk

w: www.afoundation.org.uk

Featuring as part A World Rattled of Habit are the huts and films from On Overgrown Paths, Measures touring project with Ben Rivers.

Puss and Mew Public House Snug

Chancery Lane

Puss and Mew, is a heritage based arts project by Luis Carvajal and Annie Davey. It explores the social and vernacular history of London, particularly its entwined relationship with gin, through the recreation of cultural artefacts and events. Chancery Lane is situated between the once notorious parish of St Giles to the west, where one in four homes was a gin shop, and the site of Tom Langham’s distillery to the east, destroyed during the Gordon Riots. In Lincoln’s Inn fields itself, the Master of the Rolls, Sir Joseph Jekyll was hustled and trampled during a riot subsequent to one of the unpopular Gin Acts in which he was instrumental.

The result of specialised research and an adherence to traditional craft techniques, previous Puss and Mew projects include The Revival of an Eighteenth Century Gin Vending Machine, Clerkenwell (2004), and Southwark (2006). Although mostly situated in historic or unexpected venues the projects have also been exhibited within museums and galleries such as the V&A and arts organisations such as Artangel. Examples of Puss and Mew trade tokens are housed in the British Museum collection.

Later this year and for a limited time, a functioning early Victorian public house snug, a curious and short lived example of social architecture, will re-open in an undisclosed venue around Chancery Lane. It will be available for up to six guests at one time and will serve authentic “Old Tom” cordials, the progenitor to London Dry.

Measure and Conrad Shawcross in Holborn

Harmonic Tree at Gate Street

inholborn and Measure announce an ambitious and exciting work of public art for London, in the heart of Holborn Gate Street is an important pedestrian link in Holborn which is used by approximately 300 pedestrians an hour to link the Holborn Gateway and Lincoln's Inn Fields which has been targeted for regeneration by inholborn, Camden Council and partners.

Taking a prominent position at the head of the street, Conrad Shawcross' Harmonic Tree will provide a new landmark for local pedestrians and visitors, forming a key component in the local application of the Mayors' Legible London programme - a new network of signage to suppport pedestrian wayfinding in London.

Conrad Shawcross talks about the work ‘The piece continues on a series I started as pendulum driven drawings, which took, as with a lot of my work, the ratios of the harmonic spectrum as their subject matter. The machine that makes them is based on a Victorian machine called a Harmonograph, which involves two pendulums of variable length, one holding a pen, one holding a piece a paper. Harmonic Tree is a three dimensional interpretation of one of these drawings’.