project:
Dream Posters

location:
Hull:- Spring Bank, Princes Avenue, Beverley Road, Newland Avenue, City Centre.

Leeds:- Armley, Hyde Park, Headingley, Canal, Town Centre.

Liverpool:- Huyton, Fazackerley, Sefton Park, Town Centre.

date(s):
23 May - 16 August 2003 (or until removed)

description:
Corona Smith, the editor of The Zoo & Logical Times will be presenting his Dream Posters project in three transpennine cities. Beguilingly simple the project involves the fly-posting of the artists dreams - opening up the intensely private sphere of the subconscious mind to the scrutiny of a broad and diverse public. If you would like more information about The Zoo & Logical Times, or would like to contribute to the second edition, or merely join a mailing list please email: zooandlogical@yahoo.co.uk

Corona Smith's report on his piece for ATP03

On the 23rd May 2003 I travelled to the outer rim of Hull. I stood on a bridge which marked the border of Hull & handed out copies of Lewis Carrols 'Jabberwocky' to those leaving the town. Shortly before 7:00 p.m.

Pippa Koszerek arrived with a couple of bottles of wine & glasses. A red ribbon was tied to the bridge &  Pippa gave a short inaugural speech, after which Paul Burwell, of the Kingston Rowing Club, cut the ribbon with a pair of garden shears.

I shook a can of Dandelion & Burdock.

The, by then, assembled masses, drank wine & discussed Quantum Physics (among other things). For me this event marked the beginning of a journey of some 400 miles, flyposting my dreams in the locations they occured. This involved a round trip from Hull to Liverpool via Leeds.

All the dreams were dreamt by me, except one. This belonged to Carl Jung & was posted under his statue in Mathew Street, Liverpool. The text under the statue quotes Jung as saying "Liverpool is the Pool of Life." I'm not sure he ever said such a thing.

On arriving in Armley, Leeds, I was met by the Police who were investigating the recent theft of paving slabs from Armley's streets (they're Yorkshire stone & make excellent drives).

Five Police cars turned up leading the locals to worry about impending Council Tax inflation.

I went down to the canal, posted a dream & watched the insects flying over the surface of the water & wondered if they ever bumped into each other.

In a recent book of memoirs, Alan Bennet claimed there were "..no Kingfishers in Armley." The Kingfishers must have heard about this & thought it a good place to move to.

My brother took me to an Autonomous Zone (Anarchist squat) in Hyde Park & we played ping pong.

In Liverpool (or is it Mcartneyville?) I was met by a 60 foot high John Lennon dressed as the Mona Lisa playing a Gibson 335.

I could see Liverpool's bid to become a city of culturedom was not something to be scoffed at. Flyposting in town was tricky, everywhere so clean, especially down by the Pier Head.

Not much evidence of culturedom in Huyton & Fazakerley, although I admit my visit was brief & solitary.

The Bluebell in Huyton was boarded up & falling down. My Grandad played the Piano there in the 50's & 60's, whilst my Grandma sang "Take these chains from my heart & set me free". My Grandma is in a residential home in Knotty Ash & was 80 recently. She is looked after by diddy men.

My cousin in Huyton was revising for a G.C.S.E in English & the text he was trying to fathom was a monologue by Alan Bennet (the one about his Auntie who played the Piano for the pictures), in which the family piano becomes a stand for the telly.

Things aint what they used to be.
 

The statue of Peter Pan has gone from Sefton park.  

Whilst I was in Liverpool, Paul Mcartney played a 40,000 seater gig. 500 tickets were given freely to Liverpool City council workers.

The day I left Liverpool it was announced that it had/would become the European City of Culture for 2008. I can only take a small amount of credit for my discernible contribution to this outcome & must congratulate Sir Macca for his ongoing contribution to the Pool of Life.

Corona Smith.