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The Warp Experience @ The Drome, London Bridge, 27 November 1999 E-mail
Written by Planet Angel   
Monday, 29 November 1999

This was the Planet Angel 'test' event, just to try out the canvasses on their own.  We stretched them across the walls - three of them in all, and put all the the paints, brushes and sponges nearby - a concept never seen before in any club... would it work?

 

We were very basic about this.  No music, no decor (apart from a bit of carpet and some helium filled, sliver and purple balloons!), no poetry... just the canvasses and Angel and Pete and his light box.

Well, it worked!  People painted.  People cut things from magazines and stuck them into the centre of newly painted shapes.  People wrote poems.  People told us it was a very good idea.

Then, the children found us...  The children found toilet tissue, a bucket of water and a big pot of blue paint. They made soggy blue tissue blobs and threw them at the canvasses. Then they painted their feet and tried to walk up the canvasses.  Then they painted their hair and the reclaim the streets literature stand.

Then, once the children had been organised into artistic groups and wanted to begin a calm painting game, along came a guy with a forty foot wide, seven foot tall banner. He decided to put it on the same wall as the canvasses and in the process, completely cover them up.  
We tried to tell him what we were doing, and we tried to tell him that his huge, silk, hand sewn banner was hung on wet paint, but he perhaps didn't hear us, or didn't want to hear us...

We retired for the evening at that point.  Worn out, but pleased at having proved the concept worked.  With water-based paints, small brushes and children friendly activities, we were going to do the full Planet Angel concept at the next Warp with the support of Greg, who ran the Meta
Conceptual Art Gallery.

Here we go!