May 15, 2012
In May 2012, Reactor undertook a research and development trip to Portmeirion, North Wales, here seen in The Village looking out over the Free Sea. Earlier in the trip we rode a six-seater golf buggy up to Tangle Wood, visited the dog cemetery and went looking for caves along the coast. We're now worked out and punched out.
Be seeing you!
Feb 22, 2012
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As part of Deathtrap, the final event at Reactor Towers before is was demolished, Reactor collaborated with Mark Gubb on throwing a TV ‘out the window’. After having sat in Reactor Towers for the past 8 or 9 years, its final day came playing a VHS tape of various rock music videos and interviews supplied by Mark for about 8 or 9 hours. Then it was carried out on to the balcony and thrown off whilst still switched on and playing with volume turned right up. Song at time of death is ‘Inner Self’ by Sepultura from their ‘Beneath the Remains’ album, so Mark reliably tells me. RIP TV.
Feb 17, 2012
When: Saturday 3rd March 10am-6pm
Where: The Bluecoat, Liverpool
The event will begin with a short presentation by Reactor on their work focusing on examples of collaboration, interaction, participation and co-participation. This will lead directly into a participatory workshop where three groups will each work with Reactor through a hyper accelerated development process to create micro-projects. The resulting work will be a series of live situations that can be inhabited and experienced by a public audience at the Bluecoat at the end of the day.
Jan 10, 2012
Saturday, 14 January 2012
Midday to Midnight (Free, no booking required)
Reactor Towers, 5d Arkwright Street, Nottingham NG2 2JR
Following a Compulsory Purchase Order (CPO), Reactor has been given 14 days to vacate Reactor Towers (the space the group have occupied for the last nine years).
In response the group will stage one final project in the space: Deathtrap.
Nov 14, 2011
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‘The attributes of liminality or of liminal personae (“Threshold People”) are necessarily ambiguous, since this condition and these persons elude or slip through the network of classifications that normally locate states and positions in cultural space. Liminal entities are neither here or there; they are betwixt and between the position as assigned and arrayed by the law, custom, convention, and ceremonial. As such, their ambiguous and indeterminate attributes are expressed by a rich variety of symbols in the many societies that ritualize social and cultural transitions. Thus, liminality is frequently likened to death, to being in the womb, to invisibility, to darkness, to bisexuality, to the wilderness, and to an eclipse of the sun or moon.’
Nov 04, 2011
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Rockaway Beach to Breezy Point, Queens, NYC.
As part of Congress of Collectives at Flux Factory, Reactor invited individuals and groups to become guest members of Reactor for a day. On Friday 14th October, Jason Eppink joined Reactor at Wall Street and took a journey out to Rockaway Beach. A walk was then undertaken out to the private and closed community of Breezy Point, Queens.