DATA: CDS and DVDS.

• Reference:GB 254 MS 339/6/1
• Dates of Creation:1980s-2010s
• Name of Creator:
  Peter Haining
• Physical Description:
  1 box

• Scope and Content

  Junk into Art Art into Junk: Grampian television interview, installation at Forebank Studios, 1978; Junk into Art Art into Junk: collecting, scrapping and installing and Cairn, 1978; Junk into Art Art into Junk texts, works in progress, exhibition, 1978; The Accessibility of the Art Object: The stall at Forebank Gallery Dunde, Work live in situ at Henderson’s Gallery Edinburgh (x2) c 1979; The Accessibility of the Art Object: Documentation of the start of the project c 1979; Visual Art Promotions: Photo documentation files of influential punk records, c 1979; Visual Art Promotions: Various Products, c 1979; Visual Art Promotions: Various Texts and Documents, c 1979; Digitised copy of side 01 and 02 audio cassette Kunoldstr 34 Kassel 1982; Digitised copy of audio cassettes recording the Falklands War (x2); London correspondence exchanges 1983; Karen Strang edited mix recording her autobiography, 1980s; The Dental Dermatitis with Karen Strang, 1980s; Correspondence video with DJ @ Fomt, 1980s? (four copies); DJ driving to work in the Attic and an Attic anecdote of Dark Hopes, 1980s?; Dark Hopes, relating to DJ’s work, 1980s?; DJ @ Fomt sound files, 1980s?; Prototype DVD of David Zack’s visit to DATA Attic, 1986; Zack’s visit to the DATA Attic 1986; Digitised copies of audio cassettes 1983-1986 by David Zack; Original digitised copies of audio cassettes by David Zack 1986-1988; Digitised copies of audio cassettes by David Zack, filtered version, 1980s (x3); David Zack – correspondence with Horobin, songs and music and visit to Attic Archives, 1986 (3 copies?); Scans of photographs: The Traditional Methods and Conversations with a Bear, 1980s; As above includes also Toasts x 33, 1980s; Pram and Toasts x 33, 1980s; Pram Loop, 1984; London Pram The Year of Freedom correspondence and exchanges, 1984; Visit to the Data Attic by Graf Haufen , 1987 (two copies); Fifeman, 1980s; Word documents: Accessibility of Art Object, VAP, 1980-1985, Lynne’s Coffin Images, data relating to Rob Fairley, 1970s-1980s; Original wav sound files for Strontian audio project and David Zack correspondence portrait; Marshall Anderson (video edit bringing together drawings, poetry, photo-documentation and bookworks in collaboration with Lotte Globe) covering 1990-1999; DATA 1980-1986 in the Attic Archive, 2005; DATA 1987-1989 in the Attic Archive, 2005; Attic Archive Audio Sounds n.d. Visit by Judit Bodor and Roddy Hunter to Attic Archive 2005; From A to A – New Directions – move of Archive to Artpool and unpacking, 2010 (4 items); Peter Haining unpacking part of the DATA project at Artpool, 2010; Busy Doing Nothing (Peter Haining), 2000-2005; Experimental audio recorded outside at Tentsmuir Lagoon, Peter Haining, 2000s; DATA – controlled access – DATA University of Ulster, photos by Malcolm Dickson (x2) 2006; In and about with Ka Fairley, 2006; Lizzie’s Birthday Album, 2008; Fifeman, installation by Jenny Brownrigg for the Cupar Arts Festival, 2008; Photo documentation of Fifeman chair, 2008; Photo documentation of Heinrich Boll artist’s residency by Sarah Falloon and Peter Haining, Achill, December 2008; Strontian sound collages to commemorate the Room 13 summer school, 2008; Archive details 2009; Marco Crivello by Abigail Norris, 2009; Documentation: Two bookworks abandonment / burial by Lotte Glob and Peter Haining, Sutherland 2011; DVD Reform by Rose Poppay; DVD Derivatives Whispers by Abbie Norris, 2008; Silkie, 2008; Andy; Fire; Three Memories; Cascade; Feeders; Rays’ Bream; Utopia; Animations; Lagoon; A Fifeshire Ballad; Garden; Mossmorran; Laura and Jacqueline; Haining at Tintagh; Visits to James Finlay; A visit to Moscow Joe; Best Before Colonialism; The John Crampsey Story; Picture files: centres of no importance - Pete Horobin, Pete Horobin pre DATA documentation, Marshall Anderson – pyre for fox journal text and 3 drawings, Peter Haining – photo works, visual diary 2002, 2003, pencil drawings and lagoon drawings.

• Administrative / Biographical History

  Following the death of Marshall Anderson, Peter Haining was born on 01.01.2000. It was his aspiration to spend 10 years living in the south of Ireland where he could experience a Catholic culture, one diametrically and theologically opposed to his Protestant upbringing. In order to establish a foothold there he applied for a residency at the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin – IMMA – which at the time was hosting the Monika Kinley collection of outsider art. It was Haining’s intention to research this international collection then carry out his own audit of autodidactic artistic expression in the whole of Ireland, thereby perpetuating research that Marshall Anderson had carried out in Scotland during his decade. Haining laboured as an agricultural worker to raise the money for his journey to Ireland and in March 2000 he left Dundee by bicycle to travel to Cairnryan. He crossed to Larne and began to cycle round the north coast of County Antrim. In Carnlough he came across the eccentric and individualistic installation of Moscow Joe McKinley, which he photo-documented. From this first encounter a relationship was cultivated and a later video was recorded. Haining’s residency at IMMA commenced on 01.09.2000 giving him ample time to zig-zag and detour through the country before arriving in Dublin. When the residency at IMMA ended in January 2001, Haining moved to another residency at Cill Rialaig in County Kerry. Here the doors closed on him in March and with snow on the hills he was back in the saddle, touring and documenting naïve painting and sculpture, as well as decorated cottages, of which the Republic of Ireland had many. These being a distinctive Catholic expression and therefore mostly absent in Scotland. The IMMA residency had been valuable in several ways. It had given a stipend which Haining saved to continue funding his itinerant lifestyle, and it also helped open doors to art organisations, which offered opportunities to give public lectures introducing his research to the general public. In 2004 Haining moved across the border and rented property in Enniskillen. This was paid for by labouring part-time as a gardener. During this period he self-published his research into autodidactic art as a limited edition computer disc. Various problems in the attic in Dundee coupled to a feeling of completion in Ireland urged Haining to return to Scotland. His research was catalogued as "HIBERNIA – Haining’s Irish Biketour in Eire and Round Northern Ireland Arts" – and is now archived at the National Irish Visual Arts Library in Dublin. Back in Dundee Peter Haining took up residence in the Attic Archive where he began a series of works, completing some DATA projects and filing the material relating to the Marshall Anderson decade. He fabricated folios from Anderson’s clothing to contain drawings and constructed boxes from recycled cardboard to secure correspondence, periodicals and publications. He also invested in a powerful desktop Mac with film editing software so that he could produce a series of DVDs based on video footage recorded in Ireland, as well as digitised analogue VHS recordings and current video shot in Fife. The resulting collection of 36 DVDs was boxed in 2 editions and archived in the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art in Edinburgh and Artpool in Budapest. Before finalising his decade on 31.12.2009, Peter Haining had to set in motion the selling of the attic at 37 Union Street, Dundee, and with that resolve the problem of what to do with its multi-various collection of artworks, books, objects, ephemera, packaging, and toys.

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• Note

  Following the death of Marshall Anderson, Peter Haining was born on 01.01.2000. It was his aspiration to spend 10 years living in the south of Ireland where he could experience a Catholic culture, one diametrically and theologically opposed to his Protestant upbringing. In order to establish a foothold there he applied for a residency at the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin – IMMA – which at the time was hosting the Monika Kinley collection of outsider art. It was Haining’s intention to research this international collection then carry out his own audit of autodidactic artistic expression in the whole of Ireland, thereby perpetuating research that Marshall Anderson had carried out in Scotland during his decade. Haining laboured as an agricultural worker to raise the money for his journey to Ireland and in March 2000 he left Dundee by bicycle to travel to Cairnryan. He crossed to Larne and began to cycle round the north coast of County Antrim. In Carnlough he came across the eccentric and individualistic installation of Moscow Joe McKinley, which he photo-documented. From this first encounter a relationship was cultivated and a later video was recorded. Haining’s residency at IMMA commenced on 01.09.2000 giving him ample time to zig-zag and detour through the country before arriving in Dublin. When the residency at IMMA ended in January 2001, Haining moved to another residency at Cill Rialaig in County Kerry. Here the doors closed on him in March and with snow on the hills he was back in the saddle, touring and documenting naïve painting and sculpture, as well as decorated cottages, of which the Republic of Ireland had many. These being a distinctive Catholic expression and therefore mostly absent in Scotland. The IMMA residency had been valuable in several ways. It had given a stipend which Haining saved to continue funding his itinerant lifestyle, and it also helped open doors to art organisations, which offered opportunities to give public lectures introducing his research to the general public. In 2004 Haining moved across the border and rented property in Enniskillen. This was paid for by labouring part-time as a gardener. During this period he self-published his research into autodidactic art as a limited edition computer disc. Various problems in the attic in Dundee coupled to a feeling of completion in Ireland urged Haining to return to Scotland. His research was catalogued as "HIBERNIA – Haining’s Irish Biketour in Eire and Round Northern Ireland Arts" – and is now archived at the National Irish Visual Arts Library in Dublin. Back in Dundee Peter Haining took up residence in the Attic Archive where he began a series of works, completing some DATA projects and filing the material relating to the Marshall Anderson decade. He fabricated folios from Anderson’s clothing to contain drawings and constructed boxes from recycled cardboard to secure correspondence, periodicals and publications. He also invested in a powerful desktop Mac with film editing software so that he could produce a series of DVDs based on video footage recorded in Ireland, as well as digitised analogue VHS recordings and current video shot in Fife. The resulting collection of 36 DVDs was boxed in 2 editions and archived in the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art in Edinburgh and Artpool in Budapest. Before finalising his decade on 31.12.2009, Peter Haining had to set in motion the selling of the attic at 37 Union Street, Dundee, and with that resolve the problem of what to do with its multi-various collection of artworks, books, objects, ephemera, packaging, and toys.

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• Physical Characteristics and/or Technical Requirements

  CDS and DVDS

• Archivist's Note

  Description compiled by Durham Burt, Archives Assistant, 24/04/2012.

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• Location of Originals

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