Formation.

press release

27th November 1991

Formation of conceptual performance art group

Advertising Art

On Sunday 24th November 1991 Advertising Art began.

Due to lack of funding and recent demoralisation of 
artists there are no members or resources. To get 
around these problems it was decided that 
Advertising Art would be a conceptual group.

Advertising Art is dedicated to questioning.

For further details please contact Heath 
on 0272 550681.

Environmental Forces.

The clipping is from the Bristol Evening Post, Thursday, February 13, 1992, page 3. The article reads:

Guessing game of mystery car park snapper

By Louise Jury

A MYSTERY photographer is baffling police with his 
strange behaviour in a city centre car park.

Police want to track him down to find out why he 
was taking pictures of drivers as they arrived at 
the Trenchard Street NCP car park in Bristol on Tuesday.

Forty motorists were caught on film by the man, 
and later found the pictures underneath their car 
windscreens, accompanied by a printed card.

It said: “You and your car are invited to take part 
in a performance entitled Environmental Forces this Friday.

“You and your car must leave your place of residence 
and travel into the centre of Bristol in search of 
resources without which you would not even get home.

“You will be in direct competition with other car 
driver teams and subject to unknown factors.”

A police spokeswoman said: “I wouldn’t blame anybody 
who took a look at this and thought it was suspicious.

“There is nothing to identify who it is from. It might 
be completely innocent, but if it is meant to be doing 
good, then they haven’t really put their case forward.”

Four people contacted police with their photographs, 
concerned at what the card meant.

But the police have no clue, except an NCP car park 
attendant who asked the photographer and was told he 
was part of the university.

A Bristol University spokeswoman thought it unlikely 
the mystery was linked to them.

The students’ rag week treasurer, Miss Rebecca Wolf, 
said it was not connected to their activities.

And Mr Tony Ambrose, of the Bristol Cycling Campaign, 
which is opposed to more traffic on the roads for 
environmental reasons, knew nothing of the photographs.

A photo caption in the article reads: “The cryptic message.”

The card reads:

**REGISTRATION NO.** PPk 276x

You and your car are invited to take part in a performance 
entitled Environmental Forces this Friday.

You and your car must leave your place of residence and 
travel into the centre of Bristol in search of resources, 
without which you and your car would not even get home.

You will be in direct competition with other car/driver 
teams and subject to other unknown factors.

Please find attached a photo of you and your car.

“PPk 276x” is handwritten; the rest is printed.

Press Release 

Advertising Art present a performance entitled Environmental 
Forces using 5O cans asking place In Bristol on Friday 14 Febuary. 

50 cars will make their ways from different locations into 
the centre of Bristol. Each driver/car relationship will be 
in search of resources for their own survival. This will add 
to the morning traffic congestion though, thus threatening 
the success of every other driver/car relationship on the 
road. Environmental Forces aims to discuss self regulation, 
self maintenance and symbiotic evolutionary progress of 
driver/car relationship.

This performance will be accompanied by simultaneous 
installation works (audio, visual, electromagnetic). 

Advertising Art is conceptual performance group. 

For further details please. contact Heath on 0272 550681 

Funded Art.