Description:  On Saturday April 30  I came across the Porta/Broadway Market project, as I did my food shopping:

They diverted me.

 In their own words: "PORTA2030 is a performative urgency network exercise with porta-porters.
During the week of April 24 to May 1, 2006, 10 porta-porters, each assigned a mobile network unit, traverse Broadway Market’s PORTA wifi zone. The porta-pack, a compact pack carrying a flashcard drive, a webcam, an LCD terminal with 4 click buttons and a speaker, is a DIY wifi network unit. The porta-pack documents, transmits and archives the community in transition with porta-porters on the go. An inter-communication module is developed with porta-porters . 3 urgency sensors triggered by real life events on Broadway Market further command collective action among the porta-porters."

http://www.porta2030.net/

The smile of a  yellow sashed porta-porter.

A community sending out and recording  its own history as it happens.  

Network Yourselves in a stream.

Porta-porter Louise on the go, moduled with yellow sash. 

An inter-communication module is developed with porta-porters . 3 urgency sensors triggered by real life events on Broadway Market 

Network Yourselves in a stream

 Porta-porter Arthur's on the go,  red light on showing him recording me recording him.  It's a fish-eyed meeting

The red van has arrived to light the Beltane fire. The sash delivered content is to be screened and interfaced with.

Nearby, Gossip the Coffee-shop,  is a gatherpoint. The yellow sashed streaming  current content.

 The projector is focused as the light lessens 

The Greenman has arrived hair all a bush of foliage in shape. 

 The screen is on the front of off-broadway. As the light decreases the streamed images become clearer.  

The spirit of Broadway Market on Screen

Spirit / Nutricious Food Gallery

The  crescent Moon just entered into her own sign of Cancer is visible in the  darkening sky above the horns of the Green man. She is with as yet invisible Mars.

Streamed Wifi screened on the front of off-broadway Gallery.

Live music is provided by Pilot,  (read in the Russian way P-ee-lot)   an artist instrument maker on a new creation. The Wave

He resonates his bell held to the ground. the sound  is ethereal like a glass harmonica. Into this waving  as a drone he plays a pipe which is resonated in harmonic hums by the cheek being used as a reed. 

The sounds called back the sun to warm the world.

The bowl is resonated the pipe used as a bow.

Pilot is on screen arriving on another of his creations "remodeled motobike of his own engine!"

 

Shu Lea Cheang with Porta-porter sasched communication captures images of the night.

shu lea cheang, as she styles herself ,  can dance  a teacup.

http://babylove.biz

 Stephen Selby is given the bill for his nights entertainment! by Shu Lea Cheang!

Magdalena Lemanczyk our genial host.

 For those that want to interpret the evening in astrological terms here is the chart! Moon Mars conjunct in Cancer trine Jupiter in Scorpio opposition Sun which has set in Taurus.