EVENT - In conversation with Plot Holders
In conversation with Plot Holders
Trevor Pitt, ‘in conversation’ with the ten ALLOTMENT plot curators
Tuesday 17th July 2012
19.00 – 21.00
FREE ENTRY (please pre-book your free ticket)
ALLOTMENT is an innovative programme that has been running in mac birmingham’s Arena Gallery since January 2012. The ground floor gallery has been equally divided into ten ‘plots’, each is tended by an independent Midlands-based creative practitioner. By providing a plot to manage and make their own, ALLOTMENT offers plot holders the space to identify, profile and nurture new and emerging visual art talent.
ALLOTMENT is an extension of ‘anticurate’, mac birmingham’s clever and highly successful take on the Summer Open, 2011. Guided by Trevor Pitt, several groups of ‘anticurators’ were invited to select works from the collected open submissions to curate a final exhibition that was displayed in the main gallery for one week.
This process of inviting in groups of people to work on exhibitions has continued with ALLOTMENT. Rather than focusing on ‘anticurators’, however, ALLOTMENT seeks to profile regional curatorial talent.
For one night only, each of the plot holders will be ‘in conversation’ with artist Trevor Pitt. Trevor will be speaking to each plot individually, highlighting their processes and thoughts behind their allotment plots.
Plot holders include:
- · TROVE, Birmingham based independent contemporary art gallery;
- · Dan Auluk, Birmingham based artist;
- · Moonbeams, an art project working with children aged 0-6;
- · Clarke Gallery, independent contemporary art gallery based in ‘Berlin, Birmingham and Beyond’;
- · mac staff, including some of the previous ‘anticurators’;
- · BCU MA Contemporary Curatorial Practice course, course leader and one student, both practicing curators;
- · Next Generation, mac birmingham’s initiative working with young arts practitioners;
- · Sparrow+Castice, Birmingham based artists;
- · Helen Foot, Shropshire based textile curator;
- · Dialogue, a Birmingham and Bordeaux artist exchange group.
A Public Response
Phase 3
A Public Response
Would you like an opportunity to be involved in the Allotment Project at mac, Birmingham?
Well here’s your chance to do so!
Have a look through any one of the hexagonal mirrors in the allotment space, in the Arena Gallery, and take a photo of what you see.
Email the photo you’ve taken, to dan@danauluk.co.uk along with the following details:
- your name (or alias)
- a title to one of your favourite films of all time
Dan will then respond to your photo and reply back with an original art work within 48 hours.
All the photos submitted by you will be uploaded to the website below.
www.apublicresponse.co.uk
Allotment Oppourtunity and a call out for a public response
Title: A Public Response (project start date: Saturday 26th May 2012)
Would you like an opportunity to be involved in the Allotment Project at mac, Birmingham?
Well here’s your chance to do so!
Have a look through any one of the hexagonal mirrors in the allotment space and take a photo of what you see. (starts 26th May 2012)
Email the photo, to dan@danauluk.co.uk along with the following details:
- your name (or alias)
- a title to one of your favourite films of all time
I will then respond to your photo within 48 hours with an original digital art work of my own.
All the photos submitted by you will be uploaded to the website below, which will open on Sunday 27th May 2012 at midday.
For more about the project visit:
www.apublicresponse.co.uk
Thank you
Dan
About Dan Auluk
Dan’s current arts practice engages with video, photography, sound, text, performance and intervention. Bringing all these methodologies together is his curiosity in engaging with, or simply observing the public. His work, often influenced largely by feature films, contains an outward, public-facing element and an internal challenge or exploration of his own boundaries. These can be mixed to varying proportions in any one piece.
“I’m interested in the spectator and their involvement in the work I am creating or produce. My intention is to create work that offers enough interpretative space to allow the viewer to impose their their own ideas and thoughts. I’m not creating art work to offer any answers or offer a viewpoint on life. I’m more interested in what I learn from the experience and interaction of others whilst making the work and how this manifests itself in the public domain.”
www.danauluk.co.uk
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