Over the last couple of years, I have been recording the audio from movies that I’ve watched where flowers are exchanged as gifts to help inform new works. Continuing to experiment with this and with it being Valentines day. I thought it would be a good opportunity play around with some of the audio recorded, making a collaged audio podcast combining music with the accumulated flower audio.

 
Hope you enjoy!!! 


Audio includes;

Last Exit to Brooklyn 1989
Timothy Wilson ‘Say It Again (Say I Love You)’ 1968
Alfie 1969
Bibio ‘All the Flowers’ 2009
Maureen Bailey ‘Takin My Time With You’ 1976
Arawak 'Accadde A Bali' 1970
Kool & The Gang ‘Heaven At Once’ 1973
Documentary- The Art of Ikebana 2015
Fertile Ground ‘Another Day’ 2005
Carey 1976
C.K. Mann & His Carousel 7 ‘Asafo Beesuon Medley’ 1975 
The Conformist 1970
Virtigo 1958
A Street Car Named Desire 1951
June Morrison ‘Suzie Thundertussy’ 1975
The Importance of being Ernest 1952 
Barry White ‘Love’s Theme’ 1974
Jean Pierre Mirouze ‘Sexoplis’ 1968
The Great Gatsby 2013
Trading Places 1983
Chakachas ‘Stories’ 1972
Children of Paradise 1945 
Sean of the Dead 2004 
Ramsey Lewis ‘Slick’ 1976
Broken Flowers 2005
The Pervert’s Guide to Cinema 2006
Roy Ayers ‘Love Fantasy’ 1980
Some Like It Hot 1959
Claudja Barry ‘Love for the Sake of Love 1976
Carry on Loving 1970
Bugsy Malone 1976
Marlena Shaw ‘Go Away Little Boy’ 1977


Flowers

Appau Junior Boakye-Yiadom is multi-media conceptual artist who re-appropriates cultural material having an affinity or connection to, inserting himself into its narrative. Predominantly drawing upon lens based and sonic material. 
Using the archive at 198 Boakye-Yiadom creates a 20minute piece in reference to amplified music and voices when walking around the area. ‘Growing up within the area, at a similar time to when 198 opened, what I’ve always found appealing through the years is the various unapologetic sounds that resonate.’

 

In June I was commissioned to create a piece of work that responded to 198’s 28-year archive. Having grown up and still living within the area, this was a project that resonated with me. With material ranging from, photographs to vhs recordings, I created a 20min audio visual piece responding to the areas sonic vibrancy. The duration marked the length of my journey walking from the Raymond Watson Sculpture ‘First Child’ in Max Roach Park (commissioned by 198 gallery, in memorial to the 116 children who died in the ‘Soweto Uprising’) to the gallery. All material used was taken from the archive except the following tracks. Making a conscious effort in including musicians from South London;

Balam Acab – Fragile Hope
D.J Heny.G- Political
Faze Miyake- Burciaga
Novelist- Style Riddim [Lewisham Mcdeez] [Instrumental]
The Cool Notes – Natural Energy 

Like most creative spaces 198 Contemporary Arts and Learning is a work in progress and continues to expand, well worth investigating and supporting (especially those with swollen pockets).  

I have also made this an audio piece for those on the move. 


boakye-yiadom