Total Rewall – Opening night video

Well hi. Following on from yesterdays images from the opening night of Total Rewall, comes the video – hope that you like.

Background music courtesy of The Go! Team – Huddle Formation. Further posts later on today of a time lapse from the opening night, watch this url…

Total Rewall – Opening Night (04/12/09)

So, after months of behind the scenes work, extensive organising, hours of meetings, bucket talk and the occasional fist fight, the day of Total Rewall started on Friday December 4th in the infamous Leake Street Tunnel, Waterloo, once the home of Banksy’s Cans Festival.

All 32 of us involved in the exhibition descended to the tunnel from high noon onwards on a chilly, crisp winter afternoon, spending the day setting up our photographs and adding last minute touches. With the focus very much on collaboration, not only between the photographers organising the exhibition and taking of photos (of places graffers normally would not be able to work on) – but also with street artists themselves, a vital part of the cog.

From 6pm onwards the street artists began to come down and work their illustrative canned magic on the photographs, and fun was started to be had by all; the champagne and Red Stripe certainly aided this, as well as with the numbing of increasingly cold body parts. The event proved to be a success, with some stunning works of live art being created in front of a satisfied audience.

A big thank you to all the street artists that came down on the night and contributed, with some fantastic pieces created by SNUB23, dickcheese and Brighton-based stencil artist Hutch, as well as an epic piece by drastik. PLUS, another large-size thank you to dumbleberry, who ended up in the tunnel and spontaneously created a kick-ass giant Total Rewall logo for us, as photographed above.

Keep watch of this blog over the coming days, as videos and further waffle will be put up of the event. The documentation of the images is continuing in the tunnel (well, ’til tomorrow), as the evolution/deterioration becomes more apparent – also appearing on www.totalrewall.com

In the mean time, enjoy the following images…

Photography courtesy of Christopher Talbot

Words by Tim Boddy

The Thousands Art Exhibition

Total Rewall, along with the marvelous chaps from arts, music and culture site The 405, went along to the opening night of The Thousands Art Exhibition on a windy East London street last night – The Village Underground in Shoreditch to be precise.

Freash-faced 18 year old RJ Rushmore of Vandalog put the whole shindig together – an in-depth interview you can read courtesy of The 405 here. A plethora of street artists work was on offer, including: Faile, WK Interact, Adam Neate, Swoon, Banksy,  Know Hope, Herakut,  Elbow-Toe, and many more talented fuckers on display.

The 405 really went to town on some cracking interviews with the street artists involved – check the following out: Nick Walker, Rowdy and Armsrock

The goal of The Thousands was to attempt to show the art world and the public that there are great works of art within the sphere of “street art,” and that street artists deserve a place in art history at least equal to that of The Young British Artists or the great pop artists; And hells yes, that was indeed achieved. An added bonus was the free, taste-bud-shattering Japanese Ale on offer. Sadly, we can’t remember the name – much was consumed.

You have until this Sunday (22nd November ) to check it out, make sure that you do.

Here are some exclusive photos, from Tim Boddy

Upcoming exhibitions: Total Rewall Reccomends!

With our exhibition just around the corner, we thought it’s be polite to point out other similar, or just plain exciting looking exhibitions happening in London in the coming weeks. Here are a few that have caught our eye:

Found via the ever-excellent Hookedblog, ‘Innocence‘ by Hush features new work from the talented artists of all things Manga.

There is a preview tonight (Thursday 12th Nov 6-9pm), with a strict Guest List only, though the show runs until November 28th at the Urban Angel Art Lounge on Red Church Street.

Squarity is already up and running, having been on since November 6th – but fear not, you still have until 20th November to catch it.

In a basement that is Blackhall Studios, East London, nine artists are on display working on the same brief, but in very different methods and results – including the work of Matt Small. Please do go and visit.

Of course, Total Rewall are all for exhibitions that include puns in their names (Well, duh), and so it is that it leads us to Tate The Biscuit Show.

Graphic Designers, street artists and illustrators will interpreting proverbs and phrases in their own style. Held in Shoreditch Town Hall Basement, running from December 3rd – 6th. With the opening night a day ahead of our exhibition, make it a double-header of exhibition goodness.

Total Rewall: An introduction

Hello, and welcome to the blog of Total Rewall, thanks for stopping by.

To sum up Total Rewall in a sentence – we are a collective of photographers that will be putting up a public street-art exhibition in December, combining the art forms of graffiti and photography, held in Waterloo. For further info, please click your sweaty trackpad/mouse onto the About section.

In the mean time, keep track of us through this blog, Twitter, or any other means you see fit, for future updates.

Here is our lovely flyer, explaining more: