Chapter 1: The Beginning of the End
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Chapter 1: The Beginning of the End

Today the Paintor and his drinking buddy (aka Johnny slow fingas aka grampy aka the quiet man) moved there stuff into the Hampden Gallery incubator space, where they will soon begin construction of two machines.The first will be a coffee making machine that is said to be capable of making a perfect cup of coffee. The second apparatus is said to turn water to wine. Through out the month of November you can track the progress and process of the installation and filming of Swill Hole via this blog. I will be updating it frequently with photos and short text so get a subscription and tune in.

The Drinking Buddy ( just got up still alittle groggy from night of.......?

Swill Hole Interior

Swill Hole Exterior

SWILL HOLE  Featuring the Paintor
Hampden Incubator Project Room University of Massachusetts Amherst  November 2- December 3, 2006
November 2    Reception 5-7pm

Follow the progress of the installation and filming of Swill Hole through out
the month of November @  www.myspace.com/thepaintor

From the dregs of existence, the sty of the solar system, comes Swill Hole a new work by artist and director Tim Folland which single handedly degenerates the last 100 years of hygiene. Swill Hole, featuring the Paintor, a scrappy and resourceful practitioner of the lost and wayward arts, will be installed and filmed  in the Hampden Incubator Project Space during the month of November.

The packrat set for Swill Hole is a combination of Parisian artist hovel,
Frankenstein-like lavatory, nomad's shanty and shaman's cave.  The Paintor,
armed with a make shift wine box camel pack of his own design,  will primarily be working on two homemade, junk yard-dog experiments: the recipe for a perfect cup of coffee and a magical wine making apparatus, both of which will fuel a roller coaster of work throughout the month.

   Also on view will be Folland's Wall Drawing with a Crowbar video, a work that
precedes Swill Hole and Happy Accidents and was filmed at SPACE Gallery Portland, ME in February 2006. This work also features the Paintor and continues in the long tradition of wall drawings: from Lascaux  to the modern day Graffiti movement. This site-specific work used the gallery's sheet rocked walls as the Paintor's medium, thus transforming it into an object which bridges the gap between two-dimensional and three-dimensional art forms.

The set for Wall Drawing with a Crowbar is a site of demolition and creation,
with the optimism of big-money lotto tickets strewn about, plaster dust, unfinished checker games and the remains of last nights party. The video examines the nature of art making and intertwines it with themes of risk, devotion, hardship, and creativity.


For more information about the Wall Drawing with a Crow Bar or the Paintor
visit: http://www.thesmallschool.com or www.thesmallschool.com/WDWCB

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