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National Camping and Caravanning week 2009 is taking place from May 23rd to May 29th. The event, run by the Camping and Caravanning club is a celebration of camping, caravanning and outdoor activities.

Sponsored by the International Caravan and Motorhome Show 2009, Millets, and the Explorer Group amongst others, there are a variety of events taking place nationwide through the week.

Yeomans are holding a number of exhibitions nationwide to tie in with the event. There is a fly fishing demonstration at the Haltwhistle Club Site on 26 May, events at Ripon Racecourse, a rally at Hill Cottage Farm Camping and Caravan Park in Hampshire, to name but a few.

Competitions such as a children’s drawing competition, a Photography competition, a Halfords ‘Get Active’ competition (over £500 worth of bikes and scooters for the winner), and a Yeomans competition (the prize is a £800 Outwell Indian Lake 6 tent) are being held.

So, if you fancy getting involved, doing a competition, visiting an event, don’t delay, get over to their website: www.nccw.co.uk.

This looks interesting. Bombay based artist Ashok Sukumaran has an exhibition title ‘The Neighbour’ running from March 9th to April 13th 2009 at the University of Westminster in London.

The exhibition looks at caravan culture during the 1970’s and 1980’s, and was commission by The Arts Catalyst, who explain the whole concept thus:

In The Neighbour, two ostensibly “mobile” habitats share space. One is a “static” mobile home from the late 1970’s, which developed as a way for lower-middle class families to partake in “caravan culture”, or escape longer term from the city and its property regimes. The second, coming from another direction in the same period, is a camper van, which follows gypsies and travellers in an attempt to produce the continuously nomadic home, built in the car factory.

These two objects, from the inside and out, ask us to inhabit questions about the contemporary “housing industry”, the overlaps in our landscapes of desire, of crisis, and the psychic dimensions of enclosure and spacing that have evolved not just among people, but also among competing machines, and their regulatory frameworks.

Sukurmaran himself describes it like this:

“The neighbour, neither friend nor enemy, is the one who may not be in your “network”, but is nevertheless in your world.”

I like the themes of the static and the mobile going on here. The intertwining of the permanent with the transient, to reflect on our society. And what a clever way to do it.