Need to get a move on...what's been happening?

Snow business like monkey business
Har Har Har
Loads been happening but mostly to get in the way of the Monkeys and their business.
Liverpool beckoned and that was good.
Then there was the hand in
then the feedback and now the review.
Bah humbug when do we get a chance to get up to mischief say Pink and Blue?
We need to do posters and we need to check the cabinet to see what's inside to exhibit and if not enuff do something.
Edinburgh monkey will bring something
We can just have an art happening an event an monkey fluxus moment.
Yeh
Monkey Fluxus
Monkey happening
Very Kitsch Very 60's very retro very us.
Hooray.
So......
We will have a guest list.
Those not on it pay a pound and those on it will get in for free.
Yeh
How will people that the monkeys dont know get on the guest list?
Well they can make themselves known to us.
How?
Email
Yeh
What about refreshments as art and monkey business is thirsty work.
We will have beer, ginger beer and mince pies now that is Kitsch.
Yeh
So we are decided
Yeh
We will call a cabinet meeting for Tuesday after the bl**dy review hand in and make it official.
YEH YEH YEH
We love you YEH YEH YEH YEH
Should have been Hey Hey we're the Monkeys.
But it wasn't

Some washing in wind defying gravity....

Kitsch Krismas say the Kabinet and their next adventure

So watch out for Kitsch Kristmas in the Garage on 9 December 2010 twill be what it will be.......

Right we are Art Terrorists say Pink and Blue Monkeys

The monkeys are off to Edinburgh on 18 November 2010 to check out Childish things thanks to We Love Lucy who gave us the ticket and a wee bit of inspiration...Hooray for the Monkeys! We are putting the Cabinet of Monkeys Manifesto into action:

• Action comes before or alongside thinking and must be acted on
• Being playful and having fun is serious business
• Consideration of other things and people matters but monkeys sometimes cannot help themselves and get up to mischief so we apologise in advance but we will try and behave thoughtfully so feel free to  try and keep us on the straight and narrow
• Monkeys want their cabinet to be a place to show off so let us know when you want to put your stuff there and we will ask the cabinet if you can. The cabinet of monkeys want to feature everyone and everything that is playful.
• The cabinet wants only to make you smile...even just a wee bit and/or inside your head

A picture paints a thousand words...and a moving picture even more

A little time passes and a lot of redistribution of red. Who took the red stuff

Let the work commence....

Let the mischief begin....Cabinet of Monkeys are up to no good and are installing their tempory exhibition on Sunday 14 November around Garnethill......they are involved with PostScript and Hanging Out...

What now? The monkeys have a Cabinet Meeting

We have started on the monkey project but we need to move to action say the monkeys.
We need to become comfortable in our skins.
Let the metamorphosis begin.....

Sheila Monkey
"Remember I heard Mark Wallander talk of his experiences as a bear when I saw him in Edinburgh. On reflection it worries me a bit because just in the first few hours of his morphing into being a bear in Berlin he was so hot the sweat ran down his face and he couldn't see and kept bumping into walls. He had told folk that at no cost could/should they help him out of his suit until the morning. He then spent a long night fruitlessly pleading with the guy who was recording him to leat  him out! AND despite modifications it wasnt till the fourth night, I think, he was able to bear (sorry bout the pun) it!
Caitlin Monkey
"Oh Oh...I think we need to practice being monkeys, prepare, get under the skin of it. Don't you?"
Sheila Monkey
"Yar we need to get a feeling about the process that the transformation to being will have on us...and record this...as we want to be good monkeys when it come to our events and performances."
Caitlin Monkey
" And we need to do it in public but not in public dont we? We need to make it real."
Sheila Monkey
"I see the crative lab at the CCA is asking for proposals should we apply?"
Caitlin Monkey
"Definitely..we could work up to spending a day and an overnight or two as monkeys A day ( or two and maybe a night or two...blah blah blah) in the skin of a monkey"
Sheila Monkey
" Fab monkey lets do it gather things we will need to make our exhibition work and put these moments in our cabinet ...like a bottom drawer! Remember Mark Wallinger did suggest that everyone should be an animal at least once in their lives!"

More Sheila Monkey

From: South London Gallery <foh@southlondongallery.org>

Date: 27 January 2010 23:53

Subject: Michael Landy: Art Bin opens 28 Jan, 6.30-8.30pm

To: sheila.e.price@gmail.com

Art Bin is a major new installation by Michael Landy transforming the South London Gallery into a container for the disposal of works of art. Landy famously destroyed all his possessions in his 2001 installation Break Down and this enormous work similarly raises issues around disposal, destruction, value and ownership. Over the course of the exhibition, as people take up Landy's invitation to discard their art works, it forms what he describes as a monument to creative failure . Anyone can apply to dispose of art works in Art Bin by bringing them to the gallery or applying online at www.art-bin.co.uk. 

 

Sheila Monkey

Swimming with Fishes

---------- Forwarded message ----------

From: Simon Parris <simon@southlondongallery.org>

Date: 2 February 2010 18:47

Subject: Acceptance for Art Bin: Sheila Price 'Swimming with Fishes'

To: sheila.e.price@gmail.com

Ref: Sheila Price 'Swimming with Fishes'

Dear Sheila

Following your recent application to dispose of work in Art Bin we are

very pleased to confirm that the work detailed above has been accepted.

Please can you confirm when it might be convenient for you to deliver

the work to the gallery? Michael Landy's installation is open to the

public Tues-Sun, between 12-6pm. Additionally our office is also staffed

on Mondays between 10am-6pm and works can be received via post or

courier if suitably packaged.

If you have any questions or would like to discuss, please contact me on

0207 703 6120 or email me on this address.

With warm thanks & best wishes

Simon Parris
Programme Manager
SOUTH LONDON GALLERY
65 Peckham Road
London SE5 8UH
T: 020 7703 6120
F: 020 7252 4730
www.southlondongallery.org

More Caitlin Monkey

                                                                      -Untitled-

Missing

 

 

                                Has anyone seen our monkey? 6:00pm Wednesday 21st July 2010          

Organisers of a popular event at Longleat are appealing for anyone who can help track down a lost monkey suit.
The Meddle the Monkey costume went missing at the Tractor Ted Farm Show, which took place in the grounds of Longleat over the weekend of July 3/4.
If you have any information about the costume call Farm Show Director, David Horler, on 01373 834500.
A reward of £100 is offered for the safe return in good condition of the full costume.

BM (Before Monkeys)

Before the Cabinet the monkeys produced work as art students

 Caitlin Monkey

-Duckgate -

            

It shouldn't happen to a monkey...

Police Arrest Innocent Monkey

Where do we begin?

The Monkeys had an idea...
to use our identity as monkeys for an art project.
Will we be taken seriously as artists without people knowing who we are?
How could we do this?
We need a cunning plan.....
What if we dress in monkey suits and attend art galleries and shows
There we will engage with those there...?
We can take these moments and bring them together at a show.


The Monkeys like the idea.
Borrowed from the DADAists to gather inspiration and put it in a cabinet..a vitrine.
This  is our cabinet

We need monkey suits
We need a method to record and make art...an i pad
We need to get started.....

Suits you....