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THE ACADEMY OF YOUTH MYTHOLOGY

August 2011 - I worked for Felicity Mukherjee to direct a week of live art experiences and experiments with young people at the Royal Festival Hall to explore and interrogate the myths that exist around youth culture. See images on the REcreative project blog, read an interview with me on Dazed Digital or follow #TAYM on Twitter.

April 2011 - A performance lecture for the UCA 'Art Activism' Research Conference at the Wellcome Trust.

March 2011 - My short film entitled 'What I want' was shown as part of the Art Assasins 'Immature' event at the South London Gallery.

August 2010 - Felicity Mukherjee conducted another market research on security and surveillance technologies for Panopti.com at the Gasworks Gallery in London, with a group of respondents from the Louis Vuitton Young Arts Project.

Felicity has formerly conducted research for Panopti.com at the Lift Festival for Speed Data Radio and at The Montague Arms for Ladies Night.

'Quantifying Rational Recreation' on BBC Radio 3

Felicity Mukherjee concluded her work for Rational Rec with a presentation of her audience evaluation exercise 'Quantifying Rational Recreation' on BBC Radio 3's Hear and Now show.

Read Felicity's Evaluation Report and see some images from live evaluation conducted at the Spitalfields Festival Launch.

Diagnostic Evaluation Machine

On entry to BonkersFest! on Saturday 19th July 2008, visitors were asked to proceed directly to the Diagnostic Evaluation Machine to receive their normality diagnosis and de-normalisation zone referral.  The Machine was been created by myself in collaboration with illeboc-r, and was operated by Felicity Mukherjee and her team of assistants. 

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Effective Art

Felicity Mukherjee conducted a thorough evaluation of this years Camberwell Arts Festival, investigating the social ‘effectiveness’ of art in Camberwell, referring to Southwark’s historical status as the ‘City of Transformations’ and current government initiatives using creativity as a catalyst for social change. 

Results of the evaluation will be presented in October at the Camberwell Arts AGM. Watch this space for details. In the meantime click here to read what one unsuspecting evaluation respondent thought of Felicity!

I AM A THINKTANK live evaluation

Felicity Mukherjee worked with Artsadmin, artist Richard Dedomenici and participants of the I AM A THINKTANK project to evaluate work produced with a live audience.

For more information about the project visit: www.artsadmin.co.uk

Quantifying Rational Recreation

Felicity Mukherjee has been conducting audience evaluation and research for Rational Rec at the Bethnal Green Working Men's Club and Spitalfields Festival Launch.

Click here to see images from the last exercise conducted at the Spitalfields Festival event on 18th March, evaluating the audiences appreciation of contemporary classical music and testing their musical ability.

Help me to help you help the world

A market research exercise conducted by Felicity Mukherjee on behalf of the artist Lucy Panesar. Thursday 25th October 2007. Artsadmin, London E1

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Marketing Madness

Saturday 1st September 2007  Felicity Mukherjee and her team of assistants conducted a new market research exercise for Bonkersfest on Tour at Liberty, a festival in Trafalgar Square on Saturday 1st September from 1-6pm.  

Click here for more information about how festival goers contributed to the effective marketing of a new psychotherapeutic treatment that assists the process of ‘de-normalisation’.

The Smoking Suffragettes at BAT

The Smoking Suffragettes made their first public intervention outside British American Tobacco on Tuesday 19th June 2007.

NOW ON YOUTUBE!!!

and click here to read an Art Monthly newspiece on the work

Monday 25th June at 16.45 on Resonance 104.4 FM
'Fag Break' with Cecilia Wee & Michael Garrad - For this 12 week series leading up to the English smoking ban on 1st July 2007, Cecilia Wee (New Art On Mondays, Art and War etc) prepares to give up smoking and Michael Garrad (Glue Peter) takes up the habit of the cancerous baton. Together, they cogitate the pros, cons and effects of the ban on contemporary culture. With special smoking-related interviews, interventions and interrogations.

Saturday 30th June at the Colchester Arts Centre
‘The Last Gasp’ - As we rapidly approach the joys of a Smoke Free Britain, the arts centre offers smokers the chance to enjoy one last night of nicotine-induced euphoria with an evening of special smoking themed entertainment. Keep your eyes peeled on the site for confirmation of the full lineup! Free fags on the door.

City of Transformations

After a brief intervention by The Smoking Suffragettes, I gave a talk about my practice relating to Camberwell the 'City of Transformations', as part of the Camberwell Arts Festival 2007

Paint White Cup Brown

My 2005 video sketch ‘Paint White Cup Brown’ was part of the Artsadmin Monitor Programme from 13-17th June 2007.

Good Vibrations

A market research exercise inviting the public to contribute towards developing the marketing strategy for an amazing new electro-therapeutic treatment for hysteria and other female stress related disorders. Click here for documentation from EEC 6th May & Bonkersfest 2nd June

VIDEO NOW ON YOUTUBE

'Good Vibrations' was a live art work commissioned by the East End Collaborations and The Live Art Development Agency, and South London Gallery for Bonkersfest.

Corporate Personae at SPACE Gallery

A seminar on corporate social responsibility and the role artists and activists, such as Platform and Alasdair Hopwood’s With, play in “identity correction” and interrogating the activities of big business. Can business ever balance public good with corporate wealth, or does the balance sheet always win? How do corporations use concepts of “healthy”, “normal”, “good for us” to market pharmaceuticals and therapies? How do artists critique and challenge the process of big-business PR? Speakers included Dan Gretton from www.platformlondon.org, Felicity Mukherjee from NFHC International Inc, Alasdair Hopwood from www.withyou.co.uk, social anthropologist David Leitner from Cambridge, and artist Lucy Panesar (me).

www.artscatalyst.org and www.scansite.org

CLICK HERE for photo documentation

Building Communities

Felicity Mukherjee's latest keynote speech on ‘Building Communities’, at the University College for the Creative Arts, Rochester, is now available on podcast from: www.ucreative.ac.uk

CIRCA Magazine review of 'Based on a True Story' live art seminar

A seminar on misinformation by artist Niamh Lawlor that took place in Cork on Saturday 27th January 2007. Felicity Mukherjee gave a unique presentation on 'Information in the Corporate Sector' at the seminar, before offering valuable insight into NFHC International's radical new '½ Smile' therapy, a market research initiative by NFHC International.

Click here to read the Circa review or visit www.basedonatruestory.com