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1. 'Wish you Were Here'
2. 'Room and Board' Invasion
3. Static Complex
4. The State of Architecture
5. The State of Liverpool

1. 'Wish you Were Here'
The Collection
Limited Edition
13 hours
£150

'Wish You Were Here' 87.FM was a temporary radio station broadcasting to Liverpool during the Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art 2002. It presented a range of aural explorations of nearness and remoteness from contemporary artists, writers, cultural theorists, local communities and people whose professions concerned 'near' and 'far'. In November 2002 the station transmitted four programmes during which a host of contributors investigated ways radio sound could engage and disengage people. This audio CD publication is a record of the works which were contained within the four broadcasts. See 'projects' for more information.

2. 'Room and Board' Invasion
A forthcoming publication investigating all BFO's 'Invasions' of cultural spaces in the UK, Europe and North America

3. Static Complex is a publication that will document how Static Gallery and Studios work in light of how the interlocking elements of the 'Complex' have been designed and programmed, by employing tactics that will ensure the following issues are addressed: Public/Private, Dark Space/Light Space, Defensible Space, Hierarchy, Conflict, Voyeurism/Surveillance, 'Den Culture', Security, Threshold, Community, Citadel and Ownership (See static complex page).

4. The State of Architecture

A publication investigating alternative models for architectural production.
Extract:

In 1995, Static Architecture began an investigation into the similarities between the occupation of a country by force by a colonial military power and the defence of that nation by what we may call - depending upon your view point - either the terrorist or the freedom fighter.
The basis for this investigation was the concept that an art form, in this case architecture, could also be colonised, not necessarily by force, but by a creeping system of educational and professional mediocrity, self regulated and fed by a collusive construction industry. A body which struggles to consider architecture as an art form.

The obvious net result of investigating this concept was to look at a) Who colonised architecture and b) Who fights back.
The notion that there is a lot more to architecture than what we are actually presented with works well as a vehicle to test the very nature of 'why' and 'how' architects go about their business.
One outcome of this research was the potential in a form of architectural production that assumed it was fighting against something and, by having identified its enemy, would therefore employ the tactic of the hypothetical architectural terrorist.

The notion of being 'out of control' is therefore an equivalent point of reaction and retaliation.

It is important to note that the process of investigating the structure of the terrorist organisation is also the process of understanding the ideology of its enemy (or vice-versa). It is the extraction as a creative act of what we find in these structures - the transfer of a combatant, destructive and arguably required reality into a dislocated art genre - which is of course the most troublesome and complex element of the study.
Can we appropriate the positive aspects of a structure and at the same time ignore the inevitable consequences which it brings to bear on society.

The synopsis above and the results of the main body of work are to be released in a publication entitled 'The State of Architecture'.

The contents are: The Definition of Architecture; Ideological Framework; The Enemy; Translation; Cell Units; Funding; Subterfuge; Code; Means To An End Ideology; Implementation; Historical Precedent; Proximity; Construction; Deconstruction.

5. The State of Liverpool

The State of Liverpool will examine how planning decisions have effected the Bootle, Dingle, Huyton and Toxteth areas of Liverpool.
The study will investigate the proposition that planning policy effectively 'cut off' large areas of inner city and suburban Liverpool.
The three sections of the study are as follows:

a) Militarisation
A study of how military strategists and planners operate in the context of Belfast and Derry in Northern Ireland, in order to compare the actions of the military to that of the civil authorities in Liverpool.

b) The Disenfranchised
The effects on a society subject to a series of hostile and restrictive planning decisions.
c) The Way Out
A series of proposals to re-open and regenerate the ghetto.