Leaving
…Some 2 or 3 years before leaving I realised that People In Common was never going to be the ideal community that I had in my head. Continue reading Leaving
Author Archives: chris-coates
Searching for ABC
People In Common was nothing if not ambitious from it’s start in the mid-seventies.In it’s very first leaflet there was the suggestion of maybe finding a derelict village somewhere Continue reading Searching for ABC
Lantern HOUSE
The process of creating LANTERNHOUSE was unique. There was an unusual partnership between the client (WSI artists), the architect and the builder. Continue reading Lantern HOUSE
Odd Weddings
Not having got married me and Kate didn’t even have an anniversary marker date to hang a celebration on if we had wanted too. Continue reading Odd Weddings
Xmas is coming…
I guess we were trying to make a political point. Something along the lines of ‘this festival really has no meaning for us and we’re only going along with it because everyone else is’. Continue reading Xmas is coming…
Doing Up The Mill – Again (& other work)
During the autumn after the construction of the Cruck Barn in Ulverston a small team of us set to work fitting out the top two floors of the ‘square side’ of the Mill. Continue reading Doing Up The Mill – Again (& other work)
Four Funerals and the Odd Wedding Part 2
People In Common would utilise much of this new information to take control of it’s next funeral following the death of member Malcolm Cockcroft in the late 1990’s Continue reading Four Funerals and the Odd Wedding Part 2
BARN 2
The day of the frame raising was the point where construction and performance intersected. In a one-off never-to-be-repeated event … Continue reading BARN 2
BARN 1
The decision to build a replacement workshop using medieval building techniques, with a largely volunteer labour force, was arrived at by a sort of osmosis of ideas… Continue reading BARN 1
HOUSE
HOUSE was an ambitious attempt to apply the artist-led-community-engaged ethos of WSI to a construction project… Continue reading HOUSE