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www.airspacegallery.org | @airspacegalleryUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger325125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9142344282390468470.post-85614414640204931852020-07-28T15:59:00.001+01:002020-07-28T16:13:40.283+01:00Collective Territories - Danny Treacy - Residence Report #4 - The Participants<br />
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "airspacecompletemedium" , "work sans" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica"; font-size: 18px;"><span style="color: #f57c00;">COLLECTIVE TERRITORIES</span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "airspacecompletemedium" , "work sans" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica"; font-size: 18px;"> is the first of our new programme's projects, we are working with UK artist </span><a href="http://www.dannytreacy.com/" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(1, 135, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 2px; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-family: airspacecompletemedium, "work sans", "helvetica neue", helvetica; font-size: 18px; text-decoration: none;">Danny Treacy</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "airspacecompletemedium" , "work sans" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica"; font-size: 18px;"> on a residency and exhibition. A 2-part project exploring memory of space and the significance of space. </span><br />
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "airspacecompletemedium" , "work sans" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica"; font-size: 18px;">This fourth residency update focuses on the participants who have been active as Danny's on-site researchers, as due to Covid-19 restrictions, he has been unable to be present in Stoke for part 1 of his residency. Each has been exploring a particular 'territory' of Stoke - one with association and relevance for them in some way - and then responding to this territories in conversation and collaboration with Danny. Once Part 2 happens in September, Artist and Researchers will be able to meet and respond further.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">More details about the Collective Territories can be found <a href="https://www.airspacegallery.org/index.php/2020/project_entry/collective_territories">HERE.</a></span><br />
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Alan Barrett</b>: His territory is located along a river, a "haven of tranquility in a skirmish of antagonistic noise". Alan also provides rich memories of places he used to explore as a </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">boy, particularly places that are connected to Stoke's deep industrial heritage.<br /><br /> <br /><br /><b><br /></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Melissa Compton</b>: Her territory is an area of woodland that provides a space for peace. Her responses are a combination of still and moving imagery.<br /><br /> <br /><br /><b><br /></b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "dinalternate"; font-size: 12pt;">Furthermore, it has given me an understanding of the extent to which the places that matter to people are in a state of flux.<br />On the previous page the small triangle of land serves as a place of contemplation and social gathering for one sixteen year old participant.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "dinalternate"; font-size: 12pt;">“<i>There’s added poignancy to this space as housing developers recently received permission to build here. So my space will be lost forever, Eaten up by asphalt and bricks. No more brook, no more pooh-sticks, no more innocent laughter with friends. No more.</i>”</span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "dinalternate"; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 700;">O</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "dinalternate"; font-size: 12pt;">n the following page, a participant’s map of a location that is significant to them also became an interesting intersection in my understanding of place in regards to the residency.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "dinalternate"; font-size: 12pt;">Stoke-On-Trent’s identity as a City appears to be fundamentally tied to it’s industrial past. Stoke’s industrial role was significant as a producer of coal, steel and of course pottery. This industrial heritage diminished significantly over the last five decades.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "dinalternate"; font-size: 12pt;">While my enquiry is not significantly informed by the industrial legacy of Stoke, it is an interesting fact that several of the sites that my participants are sharing with me, exist as collective territories because they are ghost landscapes of the industrial past; for example, the territory circled in the image below is an old ‘Marl Hole’ - a place where clay was extracted, now an area that has been left to grow wild.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "dinalternate"; font-size: 12pt;">Therefore, it appears that Stoke’s industrial legacy and it’s subsequent decline has given rise to various sites of potential, usually termed ‘Edgelands’ (M. Shoard), while also given other names such as’Drosscape’ (A.Berger) ‘Crapola’ (P.Guston) and my favourite, ‘Bastard Countryside’ (V.Hugo).</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "dinalternate"; font-size: 12pt;">Of all these terms, it was really only Marion Shoard who, as well as relating it to the British landscape, tapped into the positive potential of such areas and to acknowledge that to even see the potential in such places is a challenge, yet one that comes with rewards, such as freedom of expression, creativity and play. So it is good to see that in several participant’s relationships to place, there is a connection with territory via a process of engaging with the space, seeing its potential, ultimately discovering something that gives the space a significance, whatever that may be, the space facilitates.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "dinalternate"; font-size: 12pt;">I have been experimenting with the ‘cut-up technique’ (incidentally a technique used on T.S. Elliot’s ‘Waste Land’.) My intention is to unify the various voices that I have had the privilege to be in conversation with, but also to fragment this in a way, so that it is clear that there is a group speaking - a collective.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "dinalternate"; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 700;">So my space will be lost forever<br />its potential is still in my mind</span><span style="font-family: "minionpro"; font-size: 12pt;">Go here a lot when in need of a peaceful space<br />Walking around the field in the evenings during the recent storms<br />always based in the collective experience of how to nourish ourselves from our surroundings so who knows, perhaps it won’t be there anymore next year<br />the beauty of the brownfield and everything on it is that it doesn’t belong to anybody<br />Our place. My place.<br />With so little free time as a teenager<br />going with friends to the middle of the field<br />the little sanctuary where I can safely escape to<br />shocked into the ‘now’ with each high speed passing train<br />housing developers recently received permission to build here<br />So my space will be lost forever<br />Eaten up by asphalt and bricks<br />It looked like a mountain<br />it’s the sky that calms her</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "minionpro"; font-size: 12pt;">It was another escape from a very busy house<br />It was also the first place I ever found a fossil<br />I returned many times hoping to find a T-Rex tooth or claw<br />drinking cider and doing ouija boards<br />it was about being left alone<br />I like to wander around it myself<br />Some of us scratched our initials into the trunk<br />first stirrings of romance were felt<br />it was quite a while before I could get the image of a volcano out of my mind I used to sit there<br />Again, I’d climb it alone<br />Sometimes with friends, but mostly alone</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "airspacecompletemedium" , "work sans" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica"; font-size: 18px;">AirSpace Gallery is pleased to announce </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "airspacecompletemedium" , "work sans" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica"; font-size: 18px;"><span style="color: #f57c00;">COLLECTIVE TERRITORIES</span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "airspacecompletemedium" , "work sans" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica"; font-size: 18px;"> the first of our new programme's projects, we are working with UK artist </span><a href="http://www.dannytreacy.com/" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(1, 135, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 2px; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-family: airspacecompletemedium, "work sans", "helvetica neue", helvetica; font-size: 18px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 150ms initial initial;">Danny Treacy</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "airspacecompletemedium" , "work sans" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica"; font-size: 18px;"> on a residency and exhibition. A 2-part project exploring memory of space and the significance of space. </span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: airspacecompletemedium, "work sans", "helvetica neue", helvetica; font-size: 18px;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: airspacecompletemedium, "work sans", "helvetica neue", helvetica; font-size: 18px;" /><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "airspacecompletemedium" , "work sans" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica"; font-size: 18px;"><span style="color: #f57c00;">What makes a space special? <br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />What makes a space personal? <br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />What are the things that keep drawing us back to a space? <br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />How do we see ourselves in a space? </span></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: airspacecompletemedium, "work sans", "helvetica neue", helvetica; font-size: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "airspacecompletemedium" , "work sans" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica"; font-size: 18px;">And</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: airspacecompletemedium, "work sans", "helvetica neue", helvetica; font-size: 18px;" /><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "airspacecompletemedium" , "work sans" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica"; font-size: 18px;"><span style="color: #f57c00;">What do we feel there?</span></span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "airspacecompletemedium" , "work sans" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica"; font-size: 18px;">This is the first in a series of residency </span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(245, 124, 0);"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">updates</span>. <span style="font-family: helvetica;">More details about the residency can be found <a href="https://www.airspacegallery.org/index.php/2020/project_entry/collective_territories" target="_blank">here</a> - and to download the PDF of this report, click <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1bFQtUMVvQOAukIiPDCTU6Guq3QM8KxRK/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank">HERE</a></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b><span style="color: #f57c00;">INTRODUCTION:</span></b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: helvetica;">My practice is informed by process led research methods, within this I explore ideas of land use, shared experience and social invisibility.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: helvetica;">The residency at AirSpace Gallery provides an opportunity to extend this via new research methods, which will then lead to greater informed outcomes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: helvetica;">The choice to extend research methods is informed by my intentions to carry out the residency in a manner that is sensitive to the relationship to spaces that is not based in the first instance by my own perspective or assumptions, but by the knowledge and relationship to places of the residents of Stoke-On-Trent, who I am collaborating with.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: helvetica;">The ethos of the residency is to invite the sharing of information relating to particular spaces of personal importance, both contemporaneously and historically.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: helvetica;">The sharing takes place remotely, using email as an initial starting point. To generate further responses from the participant’s, conversations, recollections, and digital imagery are given as examples, although the responses can and should take any form that the participant chooses.</span><span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b><span style="color: #f57c00;">RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT BASED ON INITIAL RESPONSES</span>:</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: helvetica;">There was a very good response from residents of Stoke once the residency call-out had taken place. The </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">following pages are a compilation of the visual and text based responses from the initial sharing of relationships to locations by the participants.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: helvetica;">I am being led through the places by the participants, this becomes a form of visual storytelling and sharing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: helvetica;">This sharing process is also, as I had hoped, a way to build a metal map of the various places.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: helvetica;">What was unexpected is that it also gives me a feeling of familiarity with Stoke, as I am being led to areas of the town that I would never have planned on visiting if the residency had not had a collaborative element. This then becomes a form of ethnographic primary research.</span><span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: helvetica;">This image became of particular significance; the focus of the image is the dried fennel stems and is indicative of the relationship to this place that a participant has, as a source of collecting these natural forms for both study and for consumption. These flowers are nurtured and tended, this place is labelled a ‘Brownfield’- “often (but not always) land that has been used for industrial and commercial purposes and is now derelict and possibly contaminated”.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: helvetica;">This in itself is a fascinating relationship to a space that has already been officially classified as having no function. However what particularly drew my attention was the presence of cans in the image. The following page shows these in more detail.</span><span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: helvetica;">The presence of cans on this site resonated with my practice. I am particularly interested in the way in which particular objects found in locations become ‘signifiers’ - indicative of the type of activities that take place there and also of the communities that function there at various times. This duality of usage is particularly relevant to both my practice and the residency. Following further conversations with the participant’s knowledge of this place, I discovered that this area is also where Uber drivers park up, collectively waiting for fares to come in. It also serves as a temporary dwelling place for homeless sleepers.<span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: helvetica;">The way in which litter becomes an indicator of a place’s functionality by diverse communities became very interesting, both as a mode of primary research and more importantly as a means to consider the ‘ethics of litter’ to inform research methods.<span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: helvetica;">The following two participant’s images are particularly interesting in relation to the object’s status; they function as both litter and as artefact that indicates the area’s previous function.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: helvetica;">‘<i>Litter is rubbish that is left lying around outside.’</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i>‘A litter of things is a quantity of them that are lying around in a disorganized way.’</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i>‘An artefact is an ornament, tool, or other object that is made by a human being, especially one that is historically or culturally interesting.’</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: helvetica;">Therefore, I’m interested in the times old litter can become charming or valuable, while contemporary litter is rarely given such association with ‘worth’.<span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: helvetica;">- I’m interested in the duality of objects, how they can act as both litter and artefact. More importantly, I am interested in how these objects are indicative of territory.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: helvetica;">This relationship to litter as territorial signifier is elaborated by Luke Turner, on the function of littering in a part of Epping Forest colloquially referred to as a ‘cruising ground’:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i>warning to everyone else, a territorial marker of a queer autonomous zone where heterosexuals might be advised not to tread. It also heavily genders the area, marking it out as a queer space, yes, but as an exclusively male one too.”</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="text-align: right;">I find this particularly relevant in its connection to ethical approaches to littering as it is very easy to dismiss certain places due to the presence of litter. I believe litter is a valuable artefact that signifies a space’s functionality for diverse communities whose presence in the place is often actively dismissed or ignored.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: helvetica;">These images are examples of the ways in which I am reflecting on different types of litter/artefacts in a place that I’m currently engaged with. There are aspects of representation arising from<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="s1">Rebecca Davies and Selina Oakes’s multifaceted public programme for AirSpace Gallery in Stoke-on-Trent <i>–</i> <i>Public – You & Me</i> <i>– </i>demonstrates what Boris Groys calls education by infection: teaching art is teaching life. Its deceptively simple and generous set-up – a constellation of free, open door events, which will in turn help shape the gallery’s future exhibitions – is a portal for a complex set of ideas; moored in education, inclusivity, health, activism and usefulness. It is joyful, welcoming. In short, <i>Public – You & Me</i> questions what the gallery can do for its public, and vice versa. What makes it unusual is its artists and contexts.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></div>
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<span class="s1">At first glance,<i> Public – You & Me</i> could be understood as a measure of potential: testing AirSpace’s strength as Stoke’s first and only contemporary visual art space, yes, but also its role as something more ambiguous: what Hans Ulrich Obrist would call a laboratory, or a place of knowledge production. Internationally, galleries are striving for programming that is no longer peripheral to its exhibitions. Rather, educational events (discussions, symposia, classes) for visitors entwined with curatorial production as one, core offer; equivalent to a rope woven from many fibres. In reality, public programming might rub up against the art presented, but is notoriously difficult to interlace. Large institutions have dedicated departments that typically work on the same projects, but disconnectedly, instead of in harmony; rare, too, is the programme that establishes hardy roots in its local communities.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></div>
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<span class="s1">For AirSpace, Davies and Oakes invited artists and designers to share their own modes of cultural production with us; contributing to a carefully considered, month-long series of workshops, performances, group crits, film clubs and socials. Drawing on Céline Condorelli’s vision of ‘making things public’, from her 2014 book The Company She Keeps (whose name-fellow, Mary McCarthy’s 1942 novel, charts her protagonist’s life and emotional development), <i>Public – You & Me</i> concerns itself with making with others: strangers, non-artists, friends and ‘friends in action’. Principal questions, learning and action are inherently socially engaged. The results (permanent, like Matt Foster’s <i>Plane Structure</i> <i>CoBuild</i> of chairs, tables, benches and information stands that now enhance the gallery in perpetuity; or more momentary, such as a screening of Andrew Kötting’s feature-length documentary, <i>Gallivant</i>, 1996) are not the point: the point is to create a shared experience.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></div>
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<span class="s1">This collaboration could be called art education, as the process is certainly a studious one. The teachers – who would probably protest at being called so – are professionals with years of experience in fabrication, publishing, printing, filmmaking and graphic design, and who encourage critical thinking. An integral part of <i>Public – You & Me </i>are the dialogues we have about the teachers’ work – including why they do what they do.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">It’s clear that <i>Public – You & Me</i> is a knotting together of makers who utilise collaborative models of working to address social inclusion; from the invited artists, including Phoebe Davies (whose programme contribution,<i> A Soundtrack for Stoke</i>, played locals’ favourite songs, encouraging the sharing of city-based memories and stories) to those who already reside and work in Stoke, including AirSpace co-director Anna Francis and <i>Public – You & Me</i> curator Davies (who co-run <i>The Portland Inn Project</i> <i>CIC </i>community interest company: a living artwork of buoyant karaoke sessions, kids café and classes in ceramics and opera). AirSpace’s regular, critical programme expresses inclusivity through food; Francis’s <i>Artist Soup Kitchen</i> has historically created a space for people to congregate and debate everything from image appropriation to family art activism.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><br />
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<span class="s1">The learning is troublesome, slippery. It doesn’t stick to a curriculum, nor does it have an Ofsted inspector. It cannot really be measured by matrix or exam. The materials can be misused; the ideas veer off wildly, reconstituted, misinterpreted. A lexicon is distilled from the pop-up library and wall hangings – <i>friendship, solidarity, civic pride, co-operation</i> – in a process of subtle influence.</span></div>
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<span class="s1"><b>Laura Robertson</b></span> is a writer, critic and editor based in Liverpool and London. Her work has been published in international magazines <i>Frieze, Elephant, Hyperallergic, Art Monthly,</i> and <i>ArtReview</i> amongst others, and she is a proud co-founder and contributing editor at <i>The Double Negative</i> online magazine. Laura currently holds the post of critical writer-in-residence at Open Eye photography gallery, and is studying MA Writing at the Royal College of Art (2018-20). She is a former director and trustee of The Royal Standard Gallery & Studios.<br />
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<span class="s1"><b>This piece was commissioned by Public - You & Me curators, Rebecca Davies and Selina Oakes. Laura spent two days at AirSpace Gallery, experiencing the programme first-hand - participating in workshops and immersing herself into the activities, speaking with and working alongside participants and lead artists.</b></span><br />
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Last week, Selina Oakes spoke with Peter Herbert from <a href="https://www.facebook.com/kingststudios/" target="_blank">Kettle's On</a> about <a href="http://www.airspacegallery.org/index.php/projects/public_you_me" target="_blank">Public - You & Me</a>, running at AirSpace Gallery throughout the month of June. The clip above is an excerpt from a longer conversation discussing changes in the arts in Stoke-on-Trent over the last few years and AirSpace Gallery.<br />
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Public - You & Me is a test-bed programme of public-facing activity. This week, <a href="http://rosenord.in/" target="_blank">Rose Nordin</a> from <a href="http://oomk.net/" target="_blank">OOMK</a> will lead a workshop on Zine Making and DIY Publishing, followed by a conversation on representation in the arts with <a href="http://www.kerrycampbelltmt.com/" target="_blank">Kerry Campbell</a> (<a href="https://mansionsofthefuture.org/" target="_blank">Mansions of the Future</a>). On Friday, we welcome <a href="https://www.figsinwigs.com/" target="_blank">Figs in Wigs</a> to the Gallery for a closing party like no other, with an immersive performance, a showcase of some of the works produced collaboratively in the space during Public - You & Me, and a drawing battle. 6pm until late, free and open to all.Selinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11765489793159058535noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9142344282390468470.post-75299485995160264282019-06-24T14:41:00.001+01:002019-06-24T14:47:36.159+01:00Public - You & Me: Conversation with Kate Owens, Block Print on Fabric (and dance if you want to)<style type="text/css">
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<span class="s1"><span style="color: black; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">In the past I’ve transcribed audio recording during workshops into scripts which are then used to create performance work like <i>Why Don’t You Put Eyes In Those Holes </i>(2016.) I’ve also created works by assembling all the leftover material from a participatory event as a textile hanging <i>Trying To Cut Out A Heart</i> (2016.)</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="color: black; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">The particular block printing process I proposed for the workshop at Airspace Gallery came from a method I developed in the studio in 2017, where I realised I could use my wooden sandals as print blocks and walk a design across a length of fabric. It seemed so efficient and exciting because it brought two activities together — dance and printing. I use dance in a loose sense, but I’ve always had an interest in dance and probably spend more money seeing dance performances than I do exhibitions. </span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="color: black; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">This was different because I was asked to specifically make soft furnishings. Having made textile-based work for the past four to five years I’ve recently started using the fabrics I print to make more functional objects out of the gallery space such as curtains, lampshades, cushions. In a way I’ve found exhibition making a bit deflating as you focus on making work and preserving it for showing in a very specific context. When it’s not on show in a (generally) neutral space, it’s packed up and protected and only lived with by the (very few) collectors of my work. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">We were live on Radio Stoke this morning - if you missed us, you can listen to Rebecca Davies chat about Public - You & Me. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">We're well into week two of the programme: today, Kate Owens invites members of the public to Block Print on Fabric (and dance if you want to) in a participatory workshop which will create one-off textile prints for the Gallery space.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Public – You & Me is a test-bed project open to all. Throughout the month of June, we're testing out different modes of working: we're navigating ourselves and audiences through ways of listening, doing and working together. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">It's your space, my space, our space.</span></div>
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Selinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11765489793159058535noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9142344282390468470.post-29267975878550119412019-06-07T11:36:00.000+01:002019-06-07T11:36:10.610+01:00Public - You & Me: Cobuild with Matt Foster<iframe allow="autoplay" frameborder="no" height="300" scrolling="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/633104265&color=%23ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true&visual=true" width="100%"></iframe>
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<b>Public - You & Me: Who is it for? What is to be done?</b> You & Me, we're putting into action the fleeting chats and in-depth conversations, down the pub, on the street and in the gallery – because public isn't a solo-act.
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Throughout the month of June, AirSpace Gallery is activated by a number of participatory events, workshops, socials, film screenings and performances as part of <a href="http://www.airspacegallery.org/index.php/projects/public_you_me" target="_blank">Public - You & Me</a>. Curated and delivered by Rebecca Davies and Selina Oakes, the four-week, test-bed programme seeks to develop a new approach to Public Programming at AirSpace.<br />
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From 3-28 June, we'll be working with artists from across the country - Plane Structure, Kate Owens, Ed Pickstone, Rose Nordin, Phoebe Davies and Figs in Wigs - to activate the Gallery, daily. Free and open for public use.<br />
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In Week One, we welcomed Matt Foster (Plane Structure) to the Gallery as we began our Furniture Cobuild. In the first Public - You & Me podcast, Rebecca and Selina chat with Matt about responding to a 'cobuild' brief for an artist-led space. (Recorded Wednesday 5 June, Runtime: 15m32s).<br />
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Public - You & Me. Drop in and get involved, 3 - 28 June.<br />
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View the entire programme <a href="http://www.airspacegallery.org/index.php/projects/public_you_me" target="_blank">online</a>.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">As part of an upcoming Test-bed Public Programme at AirSpace Gallery, taking place between 3 - 28 June, the Gallery - along with artists Rebecca Davies and Selina Oakes - are commissioning a Graphic Designer or Collective to refresh its graphic identity. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><span style="color: #f6b26b;"><b><blink>Deadline:</blink></b></span></span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><span style="color: #f6b26b;"><b><blink>
</blink></b></span></span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><b><blink>Sunday
2 June, Midnight</blink></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="color: #f6b26b;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b><blink>Contract:
</blink></b></span></span></span></span><span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="color: #f6b26b;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><blink> </blink></span></span></span></span><span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><blink>4-8
weeks</blink></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="color: #f6b26b;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b><blink>Fee:
</blink></b></span></span></span></span><span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="color: #f6b26b;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><blink> </blink></span></span></span></span><span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><blink>£1,000</blink></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="color: #f6b26b;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b><blink>Contact:</blink></b></span></span></span></span><span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="color: #f6b26b;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><blink>
</blink></span></span></span></span><a href="mailto:so@airspacegallery.org"><span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><u><span style="font-weight: normal;">so@airspacegallery.org</span></u></span></span></span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><b><blink><br /></blink></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><b><blink>ABOUT:
</blink></b></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><span style="color: #353744;"><blink>Artists
Rebecca Davies and Selina Oakes are leading a 4-week test-bed
programme of multidisciplinary arts activity at AirSpace Gallery. </blink></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #353744;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><blink>It
will engage in a dialogue that resonates with a local audience and
help to establish a revised public programme and long term strategy
of education and engagement for Stoke-on- Trent. </blink></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #353744;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><blink>There
are three key strands:</blink></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #353744;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><blink><br /></blink></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="color: #353744;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><blink>1.
QUESTION (talks/discussion)</blink></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="color: #353744;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><blink>2.
LEARN/UNLEARN (workshops/seminars)</blink></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="color: #353744;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><blink>3.
ACT (performances/events). </blink></span></span></span></span></span>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b><blink>BRIEF:
</blink></b></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="color: #353744;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><blink>We’re
looking for an innovative and engaging Graphic Designer or Design
Collective to research and develop a new typeface and logo for
AirSpace. They will devise/ deliver an engaging one day workshop to
inform the design work.</blink></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="color: #353744;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b><blink>The
Commissioned Recipient must:</blink></b></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><span style="color: #353744;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><blink>Consider the future uses of the typeface and logo for print and web (to be extended upon in a 2nd Phase)</blink></span></span></span></div>
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<li><div align="left" class="western" style="line-height: 22.08px; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><span style="color: #353744;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><blink>Be well versed in typography, print and web design</blink></span></span></span></div>
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<li><div align="left" class="western" style="line-height: 22.08px; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><span style="color: #353744;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><blink>Work in an open and collaborative way with project curators and community</blink></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><span style="color: #353744;"><blink>Be expected to travel to Stoke-on-Trent on 20-21st June and 28th June (can be negotiated)</blink></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b><blink>OUTCOMES:
</blink></b></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="color: #353744;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><blink>The
outcome of this brief will inform the future development of the
Gallery’s graphic identity. Phase one outcomes:</blink></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="color: #353744;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><blink>Typeface
and logo delivered to project curators in useable, digital format</blink></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="color: #353744;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><blink>Typeface
and logo presented in a physical format, to be exhibited in the
Gallery</blink></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="color: #353744;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><blink>Delivery
of a public-facing workshop</blink></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="color: #353744;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><blink>Considerate
of AirSpace’s ethos / identity</blink></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="color: #353744;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><blink>Work
with the Project Leads</blink></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b><blink>APPLY:
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send the following in an email to Selina Oakes at <a href="mailto:so@airspacegallery.org">so@airspacegallery.org</a></blink></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />The last of our organisational development visits was carried out by Rebecca Davies. In March, she met with Alice White, Curator for Local Audiences, at <a href="http://www.peeruk.org/">PEER</a> - an independent arts organisation based in Hoxton in East London. "Peer has evolved from the ground up over the past 20 years, putting down deep roots within the socially, culturally and economically diverse area of Hoxton.."<br /><br /><br /><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-H_v04bUHen4/XKNKaoSF7fI/AAAAAAAAfIE/WgalwoYZbB4Suq9-x_8i7chALJy2NchDwCLcBGAs/s1600/A1911B44-7B11-47C5-AC87-04A925C0208B.JPG"><img border="0" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-H_v04bUHen4/XKNKaoSF7fI/AAAAAAAAfIE/WgalwoYZbB4Suq9-x_8i7chALJy2NchDwCLcBGAs/s640/A1911B44-7B11-47C5-AC87-04A925C0208B.JPG" /></a><br /><br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> <br /><br />I arrive at PEER on a sunny Spring afternoon.<br /><br />During the morning, I’d been exploring/making the most of London and time with my brother who was over from Germany.<br /><br />We start at the Lisson Gallery – both spaces.<br /><br />I stand outside in awe of their purpose built architecture – something I am becoming increasingly mindful of. Why? Because AirSpace was not originally built to be a gallery – not sure what it first was, but it became a resting/safe space for young women suffering from domestic abuse. Then it was a bank.<br /><br />Now it’s AirSpace – Gallery and Studios. And a great job has been done to turn it into exactly that, despite my feeling sometimes the building makes it a bit of a challenge.<br /><br />Lisson has shit loads of money: its an incredible space to view work, to show off the work it has on its walls and plinths AND, in the case of this particular show we saw, warts and weaknesses (gaah it was so boring – apart from one piece that was basically van Gogh postcards in a frame).<br /><br />We moved on to The Approach – a small gallery space above one of my favourite East End pubs. Definitely NOT built to be a gallery, and I’m sure some of the Eastenders old and new are surprised there’s white walls, and meticulously placed expensive artworks right above the space they lovingly refer to as their local. Nevertheless, it’s a beautiful space and nice to hear the hum of afternoon pint drinkers climb it’s way up the stairs and provide (me anyway) comfort while looking at the art.<br /><br />A bus ride from Hackney Road to Old Street.<br /><br />A short walk through Hoxton Square.<br /><br /><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-TIBMSMiVKtc/XKNKaOWE5pI/AAAAAAAAfH8/yp6VvGD5zYkycu8urjbmSfNDMgzJpssDgCLcBGAs/s1600/453FFA10-A413-4748-A247-034BBA01D758.JPG"><img border="0" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-TIBMSMiVKtc/XKNKaOWE5pI/AAAAAAAAfH8/yp6VvGD5zYkycu8urjbmSfNDMgzJpssDgCLcBGAs/s640/453FFA10-A413-4748-A247-034BBA01D758.JPG" /></a><br /><br />The old White Cube looks derelict – now surrounded by gourmet burger cafes and cocktail bars. Some people ACTUALLY LIVE on Hoxton Square. EU Flags hang in the door way of what looks like a sexy design studio. I’m not digressing, I’m trying to set the scene, because then you’re on Hoxton Street and outside PEER. Where it feels so, so, so different to any of that: just a five minute walk from the terrifyingly polluted and noisy Old Street Roundabout there is a neighbourhood. And there is PEER.<br /><br />The Khadija Saye Garden is blossoming and a luscious green (I learn later that Khadija was once a gallery intern at PEER and the garden is a memorial to her after she died in the Grenfell fire). Two trees with circular benches are full of college students, and skateboarders are utilising the spacious pavement outside the gallery - which, to the passing public, is two giant windows from ground up. The invigilator beams and stands up from her chair (not behind a desk) when we come in. We like the exhibition – but we’re struck even more by the action and life outside. It feels like a two-way viewing space. The pavement is a stage, but to those sat on the benches in front of the gallery, we are onstage.<br /><br />I say to the young woman invigilating that I am here to meet Alice, but know that she’s tied up right now having a meeting at the local sixth form college. "So I’ll just hang out here till she arrives," I comment; "oh in that case… would you mind filling out a feedback form? It won’t take long," she responds. It is actually quite lengthy, but I am pleased to provide some feedback and take photos of some of the pages on the i-Pad she’s passed to me.<br /><br />I happily share why I’m there, when I was last there, why I went last time, who I am, where I live – because answers to these questions, I am learning, are very important if you are a gallery that wants to listen to people and create a space which tries to engage its audiences – or represent and engage better with the ones it might not be. She tells me she went to the local Sixth Form and it was through a talk that Alice gave at the college that she heard about opportunities at PEER to work – PAID – in the gallery.<br /><br /><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-g6M784IOrLY/XKNKa3HXoAI/AAAAAAAAfII/HshQCGOoKVI8mDjF_UZz1CxHM6pB6C1AACLcBGAs/s1600/DB12FFBC-2E5C-4564-B34C-2D0672B8D217.JPG"><img border="0" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-g6M784IOrLY/XKNKa3HXoAI/AAAAAAAAfII/HshQCGOoKVI8mDjF_UZz1CxHM6pB6C1AACLcBGAs/s640/DB12FFBC-2E5C-4564-B34C-2D0672B8D217.JPG" /></a><br /><br />Alice arrives and we go through to the back – a smaller space with a video playing and PEER’s edition prints of artist works are hung on the walls. She makes me tea and dries the cups using a tea-towel that hangs from a cat’s bum tea-towel holder in the kitchen.<br /><br />"I’m a curator FOR local audiences. Not OF. And people often say OF. But it’s FOR - they’re local PEOPLE I work with. NOT objects." She has said this to me before (we are currently working together on a project in Barking and Dagenham with social services.) "PEER sits within the community, down the street from the library, a social housing estate, next door to a post office, it’s on a street where there are other cultural organisations, cafes, restaurants, newspaper shops, hairdressers, bakers, a funeral director and a Poundland. We don’t exist in isolation. We are public." One wall of the gallery is pretty much a window – "..the hope is that outside will know about what we’re doing here and be able to look in."<br /><br />PEER maintains a core ethos to make ‘art part of daily life’ – I instantly think of the beautiful street clock that Chris Offili made with them, standing outside the gallery.<br /><br /><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-NrDQOODlMYM/XKNKaHDYHzI/AAAAAAAAfIA/hG05k8-x4t8-KsC0gq-RogKqV9ZHDzsqwCLcBGAs/s1600/8E9C08BF-C86F-4894-98C7-3C19D1B05681.JPG"><img border="0" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-NrDQOODlMYM/XKNKaHDYHzI/AAAAAAAAfIA/hG05k8-x4t8-KsC0gq-RogKqV9ZHDzsqwCLcBGAs/s640/8E9C08BF-C86F-4894-98C7-3C19D1B05681.JPG" /></a><br /><br />A brief introduction to the gallery’s Director, Ingrid Swenson MBE (for services to the arts in East London) actually turns into a much longer discussion with her about NPO – PEER surviving on 5OK from its first three years as an NPO – it being difficult for some time, but how she’s glad they went for it. We plan a PEER trip up to Stoke – the potential of AirSpace being a location for their touring shows is discussed, and Alice and I go back to the space where we’d started our conversation.<br /><br />There is a map of the local area titled ‘Adopt a Tub’ – it sets out the locations for bath tub planters across the estate – a recent offsite project that Alice has been leading on with an artist and a gardener. Alice recently successfully applied for Paul Hamlyn funding with the gallery – a sum of money that covers her leading PEER Ambassadors (enabling young people to get paid Gallery Assistant experience) and PEER Notices (a year long public art project on Hoxton Street across a year; allowing deep and embedded relationships to form with place and the people who live, work and study here,) thus "pioneering projects across two years that aim to provide opportunities for local young people from BAME and lower socio-economic backgrounds and artists to work together on public art projects."<br /><br />This is great news and means Alice can continue collaborative activity, like the Adopt a Tub scheme, in the local area. Alice is passionate about such collaboration, and about PEER working with local residents, "it’s where they live; they have the power to shape it." It’s clear how important it is to her that people locally feel like PEER has got their back, "because some people feel powerless in their home situation." This has meant that Alice’s role at the gallery includes going off-site a lot, meetings and projects at the local college, attending Local Ward meetings. And we discuss the politics of this, the level of responsibility Alice has for locals working on these projects, how involved she can or can’t get when situations between residents and the council arise – and how important it is for her and PEER to represent those residents when they too are a neighbour. "Residents ask you to fix things," but that’s not Alice’s job. Is it?<br /> <br />For me, working in a similar way on projects, i.e The Portland Inn Project, it’s about putting the pressure ON. Not taking it off. To be truly collaborative is about solidarity – and there are certain things that cannot be fixed in this way – that is the job of local services/the council. "Sometimes," Alice continues, "there are snapshots of a failing system, but then you see small moments of great things happening."<br /> <br />These conversations with Alice, I don’t doubt, will continue (I hope) for years. I think we both see sharing this knowledge as a vital way of our learning methods of best practice. PEER is important. As far as East London galleries go, it’s quite an exception. It listens, it works with, and is truly neighbour to the area it sits in – and Alice’s role is imperative in that.<br /> <br />Thank you to Alice White and PEER.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.peeruk.org/">www.peeruk.org</a>.<br /><br />This activity has been funded as part of an Arts Council England National Lottery Project Grant. </span><br />
Selinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11765489793159058535noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9142344282390468470.post-48788384021069830032019-03-30T13:19:00.000+00:002019-03-30T13:19:24.176+00:00AirSpace Gallery Programme Evaluation 2015-2018<b><span style="font-size: 17px;"><br /></span></b>
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For the period September 2015 – September 2018<br />
by Selina Oakes</span></b></span></b><br />
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<span style="font-size: 17px;"><span style="font-size: 17px;">In order that we continue to offer the city a relevant cultural output, we tasked arts researcher and writer <a href="https://www.selinaoakes.com/">Selina Oakes</a>
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2015-2018 Arts Council England funded programme. Through detailed
research and feedback from contributors to the programme, and our
physical and remote public audience, Selina has provided us with a
comprehensive reflection, confirming what we are doing well, and
identifying areas for improvement, which we will seek to embed into our
future thinking.</span></span><b><span style="font-size: 17px;"><b><span style="font-size: 17px;"> </span></b></span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><span style="color: black;">On Saturday 16 February, we visit</span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><span style="color: black;">ed</span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><span style="color: black;"> The Newbridge Project site in Gateshead. Founded by two Newcastle University graduates in 2010, The Newbridge Project has grown, changed form and changed buildings since then. Currently, it is split across two sites – one in Gateshead and one in Newcastle. We meet with Director Rebecca Huggan to chat about the organisation's development, its changes to a charity and more recently an NPO.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">Glen Stoker notes: “It [The Newbridge Project] is a</span><span style="color: black;">n interesting arts model built on the provision of studio space and an artist community-resourcefulness which acts as a motivator for their programming. NewBridge occupy two buildings and have recently moved one of their studio blocs to a new building in Gateshead. Their business model is built on having a lot (100+ over two buildings) of low-cost studio provision to cover all business overheads.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">There are currently two full-time members of staff: a Director, who is largely tasked with </span><span style="color: black;">organisational stability and programming strategy, </span><span style="color: black;">and a </span><span style="color: black;">Programme Director, </span><span style="color: black;">who </span><span style="color: black;">look</span><span style="color: black;">s</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">after the</span><span style="color: black;"> gallery programme </span><span style="color: black;">and </span><span style="color: black;">off-site public programme. </span><span style="color: black;">There are also two C</span><span style="color: black;">o-ordinators – </span><span style="color: black;">an Artist Development Co-ordinator and a Studio Programme Co-ordinator – who operate</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">three</span><span style="color: black;"> days a week each. Salaries made up from various income streams </span><span style="color: black;">such as </span><span style="color: black;">NPO funding, support in wages from Newcastle University and studio income.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">Studios are a</span><span style="color: black;">lways at 100% capacity with a waiting list of around 60 – showing th</span><span style="color: black;">at there is</span><span style="color: black;"> studio demand in the area</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">T</span><span style="color: black;">hey have difficulties with the environment of their studios – particularly the cold – but their cashflow enabled them to </span><span style="color: black;">sustain themselves and</span><span style="color: black;"> install a new heating system.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">The Newbridge Project o</span><span style="color: black;">nly </span><span style="color: black;">has a</span><span style="color: black;"> 3-5 year lease – so </span><span style="color: black;">there is a</span><span style="color: black;"> sense of impermanence and precarity </span><span style="color: black;">as it is </span><span style="color: black;">a lot of work to move 100+ studio holders to a new building for an acknowledged short amount of time. </span><span style="color: black;">This f</span><span style="color: black;">rustrates existing studio members</span><span style="color: black;"> to some extent, t</span><span style="color: black;">hough, there is a general understanding that this is just the way it is all across the city: all of the studio providers in the city - Northern Charter, B&D, Ampersand, Breeze Creatives - are all on short term, temporary leases - so generally all the city’s artists are in the routine of regularly moving studios.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">M</span><span style="color: black;">ost of R</span><span style="color: black;">ebecca</span><span style="color: black;">’s time is spent searching for a building with a longer term lease. </span><span style="color: black;">A</span><span style="color: black;">conversation to access a new City Council-owned building with a 25 year lease, big enough to house both current building’s worth of studio artists has just fallen through after 12+ months of negotiation - so now looking at new options, is it feasible to buy a building?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">T</span><span style="color: black;">he area they’re looking for buildings is problematic. </span><span style="color: black;">M</span><span style="color: black;">ost artists want studios in Newcastle, and even though Gateshead is only 10 minutes walk from Newcastle centre, the perceived poor transport infrastructure (public and private) deters people from Gateshead as a location. 9/10 of prospective studio holders state a preference to be in Newcastle rather than Gateshead.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“It is clear that there is a successful model here for running an arts organisation based on its studio provision. The business model is built on a steady large scale revenue stream from its studios, which in turn, opens up access to other funding bodies. There is almost a readymade supportive community made up of the artists inhabiting the studio spaces, meaning there are plenty of resources to tap into. The potential for the associated gallery programme is rich with professional development possibilities for the studio community and it is clear that the human resource-rich nature of the organisation is attractive to the artists Newbridge work with. There are clear links with and formal support from the University and its culture department - as the benefits in terms of attraction for new students is clear, and the prospects for graduate retention are high. A symbiotic relationship, which ought to also offer the ability to sway the political stakeholders as to the worth and value, both socially and politically to this level of cultural activity.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">Whether this sort of model could ever be transferrable is moot, as it relies so heavily on some basic fundamental infrastructural realities - namely stakeholder support, a critical mass of practitioners and a healthy and vibrant, dynamic and fraternal cultural eco-system. However it is clear that if these conditions exist, this model is not only feasible but desirable. It is clear that in the case of Newcastle and Gateshead that these conditions exist - and is further helped to by the presence of a high quality, supportive arts institution - The </span><span style="color: black;">BALTIC</span><span style="color: black;">, who appear to understand the worth of and necessity for grass roots, artist-led activity in support of its activities and as an essential element of a city’s cultural offer.” - </span><span style="color: black;">Glen Stoker</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We continue the conversation by speaking about Newbridge's Public Programme. At present, Newbridge receives some support from the Newcastle Cultural Investment Fund which is put towards an offsite commission. Rebecca notes that, a few years ago, Newbridge delivered Hidden Civil War, which comprised of 20 events in one month. It focused on austerity politics and presented existing works. Following this, Newbridge has decided to slow things down: to deliver less but to commission new works which are responsive and more embedded in Newbridge's overall output (Rebecca's points to the more recent Deep Adaptation as an example).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">Newbridge's Public Programme exists alongside the Exhibition programme. It focuses on a) its public audience and b) support for artists. The PP in itself can be divided into public-facing and an associate scheme, the later of which is called Practice Makes Practice - </span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><span style="color: black;">an artist development programme run by artists for artists and the wider arts community. </span></span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><span style="color: black;">PMP is given structure by a steering group and regular activities managed by the PMP Coordinator. They have communal soup meetings once a week and specialists workshops such as lifedrawing once a month (which attracts 60 people each session). PMP focuses on developing artists as people who are part of a community.</span></span></span><br />
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the 15 and 16 February, members of AirSpace
Gallery (Glen Stoker, Anna Francis, Rebecca Davies and Selina Oakes)
travelled to the North East of England to visit arts organisations as
part of an ongoing Organisational Development and Research Period.
Key venues included Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art (MIMA), The
Newbridge Project and Baltic 39. Our goals for the North East visit
were a) to find out about how specific organisations are run and
supported b) to connect with like-minded organisations c) to conduct
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first stop was MIMA, where we met with Olivia Heron, Assistant
Curator, and Kate Densham, Public Programmes and Events Assistant
Curator. Olivia greeted us and introduced us to MIMA's temporary
projects and collection. Outside, Joanne Tatham and Tom O'Sullivan's
monolithic sculpture provides an additional archway into the
building. Brimming with psychedelic colours, the piece, <i>A Proposal
to Ask Where Does a Threshold Begin and End</i>, mimics the Tees
Transporter Bridge while connecting the gallery's interior space with
the exterior plaza. Though only temporary, Olivia informs us that it
has already remained standing long-after its initial 'expiry' date –
something which illustrates an element of flexibility in the
organisation's programming side.</span></span><br />
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<i>Liquid Crystal Display</i> is being installed – a show which is
touring from Site Gallery in Sheffield (and co-curated by former Site
Gallery Director, now MIMA Director, Laura Sillars). We're shown into
the Collections room, where Olivia explains some of the working
relationships which MIMA builds with artists. She reflects upon
cyclical processes and the establishment of familiarity between
artists and the gallery. For example, MIMA typically enters into
talks with an artist over a year – first showing their work as part
of a group exhibition, then solo, then perhaps a purchase for the
collection. She speaks about how MIMA has shifted its focus and has a
more balanced approach to the Exhibitions and Education programmes.</span></span></div>
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this, cuts to the curatorial budget have not
affected their collection or programme too severely: Olivia remarks
that they are resourceful and search for cost-effective methods such
as printing things in-house and commissioning artists to make the
work onsite. MIMA also goes directly to the artist – and not
through auction houses – when looking for new acquisitions: Keith
Piper's Four Horsemen, for example, was rolled up in his attic until
MIMA showed an interest in some of his not-so-known works. There's a
sense of resourcefulness but also support for artists, which isn't
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MIMA we explored the building, and had a chance to look at the
permanent collection, to get a sense of the importance of this within
the building, but that the way the space was organised was really
interesting. In addition, the types of works commissioned and bought
set the collection apart from other Art Galleries.” - Anna Francis</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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Kate Densham met with us to chat about MIMA's Public Programme (PP) –
its Community Days and Gardening Days (supported by Middlesbrough
Environment City) which are advertised as “safe spaces” where
“everyone is welcome.” Kate speaks about the PP's aim to have a
different use for the building, to connect, and to dispel barriers.
The communal lunch space downstairs invites members of the public to
have a free vegetarian meal with MIMA staff – it's a “soft
introduction” to MIMA.</span></span><br />
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reflects on MIMA's Public Programme and outreach initiatives: </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">“</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">A
key part of the MIMA offer seems to be the weekly l</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">u</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">nch,
which happens on a Thursday. Thursday is Community Day at MIMA, and
as well as a lunch slot, where food is freely available to those that
want it, the galleries and spaces around the building are occupied by
a wide range of projects and activity. There is a gardening group,
who look after the little garden/allotment at the side of the
gallery, there is a sewing group, and a singing group, and all sorts
of other people regularly or irregularly using the spaces. Some of
that activity is very self-organised by the groups themselves, and
via the partnerships that MIMA has, and other activity is more looked
after by the gallery staff.”</span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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Community lunch is vegetarian, and is delivered by The Other
Perspective CIC – a food based group. The crockery currently used
is throwaway, but Kate from MIMA tells us that this is potential for
a project in future – this interests me a lot, as it is in line
with the work we are doing on Portland Street.</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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ask about how the community can connect in to the Community Day, and
Kate tells us that basically, “We say </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">'</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">yes</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">'</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
a lot.</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">”
P</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">eople
come and ask if they can do something, there is something
communicated out into the community that there is space here and when
people ask, the answer is yes. (Something we could consider at
AirSpace – where are the points of entry, how can our resources be
shared out a bit more?) We delve into this a bit more, how is it
possible, how is this managed? What rules are in place? Who does the
washing up?</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">“<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Kate
tells us, all the staff are trained in conflict management, which
sounds very helpful (give</span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">n</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
our experience in Portland St and is perhaps something we should
think about). There are clear guidelines that everyone knows about (I
should have asked where these are accessed): no swearing, no alcohol,
there are boundaries and they are communicated i.e. staff cannot sign
letters of support for asylum claims. At the moment, as everything is
throwaway, there is no washing up, bit who does it once there is
some, will be dealt with then.</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">“<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
programme does inform the community activity, but community activity
is also informed by external activity i.e. International Women’s
Day etc. Kate works on a lot of the public projects, and tells us
about one, which she works on one and a half days a week. It is a
Great Places project for North Ormesby, looking at local examples to
think about social activism and cohesion. The project takes the
approach of ‘joining in with people’s lives’ first and then
later introducing creative activity. So far, the project has started
with something universal – ‘How We Eat’ – </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">c</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">reating
space to eat, meet and make together as a community, in order to then
understand how else we want to be and work together. This sounds so
much like the Community Maker project which AirSpace has partnered on
since 2015, and which has developed into The Portland Inn Project.</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-decoration: none;"><b>MIMA Reflections</b></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-decoration: none;">“<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
resources of MIMA are much greater than AirSpace, but what it tells
me is that a lot of the activity which we have been doing now for
years on scant resources, feeling our way, have been good and
developmental activity both for us as an arts organisation, but also,
in contributing to</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">a) Professional
development support for artists (this we want to continue to do,
and considering access points into the building and the programme
could really help – it can’t be a case that we just create more
for ourselves to do, it needs to be about developing space for
others.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">b) The
understanding and value of artists in social contexts within our
city (this part needs much more work, because we have identified a
discernible gap between how people view the work we do in the city,
and the gallery programme. In particular, the work which Rebecca and
Sel</span><span style="color: black;">i</span><span style="color: black;">na
are doing in relation to the public programme aims to understand
more about this gap, and increase the esteem felt towards the
gallery by the local audiences. This feels like such a positive for
the future of the project.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Throughout
our meeting, Kate speaks about the programme seeks to be “reactive”
and tries to listen and act in response to audience needs. She also
mentions the personal relationships forged between MIMA staff and
members of the public – and that an element of trust in each other
is vital.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">We
drive from Middlesbrough to Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and arrive in time
for the BALTIC Artists' Award opening night with work by the 2019
nominees </span><span style="color: black;">Aaron
Hughes, Kang Jungsuck and Ingrid Pollard.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-decoration: none;">In
the morning, we regroup to discuss AirSpace's Mission and Vision
statement. We reflect upon the organisation's core values, its goals
and objectives – what they were, what they currently are, and what
we wish them to be. A line from MIMA's own mission resonated with us
- “We are an organisation with a social function.” We mind-mapped
words like respond, invite, trust, support, permeability, flexible,
mobilise, visualise, nurture, growth and sustainability (to name a
few!) and began formulating a short statement of intent – with
words like champion, artists, artist-led, collaborative and
cross-disciplinary.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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Selinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11765489793159058535noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9142344282390468470.post-5693465477922169462019-03-12T20:43:00.003+00:002019-03-12T20:43:40.096+00:00Organisational Development: Visit to Site Gallery
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span><span>As part of AirSpace Gallery's period of programme and organisational
reflection, research and development, ahead of our intended programme of
works 2019-2021, we embarked on a series of research visits to relevant
organisations across the country.</span></span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span></b></div>
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<br /><span style="font-size: small;"><span><span>In late 2018, I visited Site Gallery in Sheffield and spoke
with Executive Director Judith Harry. I was particularly interested in their organisational development, but also to hear about their major - and at the time imminent - Capital Development Project.</span></span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">SITE Gallery</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Site Gallery is
Sheffield’s international contemporary art space, specialising in moving image,
new media and performance.</b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Pioneering emerging art practices
and ideas, we work in partnership with local, regional and international
collaborators to nurture artistic talent and support the development of
contemporary art.</i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">At the heart of what we do, is to
connect people to artists and to art, inspiring new thinking and debate through
our exhibitions, talks, events and other public activity.</i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">We work with early career to
established artists to commission new work, produce solo and group shows,
deliver residencies, performances, events and community programme. Through
diverse programming, we reveal the process of making art and invite our
audiences and participants to engage, explore and connect.</i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">In 2018 Site Gallery re-opened
after a building programme which trebled the scale of its public area.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We now have a large scale gallery, a
dedicated projects space, café and shop as well as a beautiful new façade and
main entrance</i>.</b></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Executive
Director</span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Artistic
Director</span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Curator</span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Curator
(City of Ideas)</span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Producer
(City of Ideas)</span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Engagement
Curator</span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Technical
and Operations Coordinator</span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Ops
and Front of House Manager</span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Finance
Manager</span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Finance
Assistant</span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Marketing
and Commercial Manager</span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Young
People's Programme Producer</span></div>
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Site has been operational for 40 years -
transforming from a photographer’s gallery (originally set up by Sheffield
Hallam photography graduates in an out of town space) into a long standing
RFO>NPO organisation and one of the country’s leading contemporary art
spaces, with a focus on performance, film and new media. </div>
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At the time of interview, Site were about to unveil a brand
new ACE funded Capital build - which trebled the scale of its public area,
increasing its Gallery spaces, adding a café and shop. The interview here, and
the experience of Site, was of interest to AirSpace as we are exploring any
city’s need for a large scale Contemporary Visual Arts venue, the political
will to see that happen, the viability and the process of large scale capital
funding.</div>
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The initial plan for Site’s new build started in 2012 with a
rejected bid - rejected because of an unrealistic scale of ambition. The
process of putting that bid together, allowed for it to be unpicked to form a
more realistic workable plan was submitted in 2013. The new design plan
specifically answered the challenges at the heart of Site’s business strategy.
The importance of Arts Council’s funding conditions informed this - a clear
condition is that they will only fund capital projects that ensure
organisational resilience and financial stability. The strategy for income generation
with the new build here is to make the building pay for itself - through the
lease of space such as its business units, leasing the new project space to
other cultural and commercial organisations, developing a larger audience that
will spend time and money in the Gallery, in its café (which is leased out) and
shop which will stock editions from artists working with Site.</div>
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Atop of and necessary for this financial resilience, one of
the 5 goals for the capital project was <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">to
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">create a competitive artistic offer</b></i>
- before the expansion, the smallness of the gallery space limited the quality
and scale of exhibitions and works the team were looking to programme. Despite
the organisation’s reputation for quality, potential touring partners would
inevitable be deterred by the small size and potential of the space. Finding
arts partners and co-commissioning touring shows forms a major part of the
financial model.</div>
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Through, and as a result of the new build and capital
expansion, staffing at Site increased to project manage the capital process,
and then to cope with the increase in its output - adding an operations and
front of house manager and a full time curator - taking full-time and project
roles to 13 posts. (In 2012, this had been 4 full time posts - Executive Director,
Artistic Director, Marketing and Technical - and 1 part time post - Finance.
All other roles were volunteers). </div>
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It is of key interest that an early strategy at Site was
around increasing personnel capacity, through long term funding - via funding
bodies such as Paul Hamlyn, Esmee Fairbairn and Arts Council’s Business Development
Grants and Catalyst programme - which funded roles on a long term basis, and
bought time freeing up the schedule of the directors to allow their
organisational restructuring vision to flourish. Judith’s background was in
fundraising, and Laura Sillars the new Artistic Director, believed in the
strategic importance of fund raising within her position. </div>
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A fascinating part of the discussion here was about the role
of fundraising and fund-finding within the organisation.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“ I don’t really believe in
employing fundraisers - I think everyone (in the organisation) needs to fundraise.
Everyone in this organisation, now, has got specific areas within their job
description which is about income generation. So it’s either fund-raising or
commercial, but everyone knows exactly what they’re doing.”-</i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i>Judith Harry</div>
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This approach allows for a team ethic towards the future
prosperity of the organisation, and a sense of ownership of the organisation,
and upskilling of individuals within the organisation. The emphasis is on long
term roles but not necessarily for a specific individual to be in that role for
a long time - an expectation is more that an individual might be with Site for
a certain amount of time, and to give all of your energy to your role, take
advantage of the support and experience of the organisation to become better at
what you do, and leave a more rounded and able practitioner.</div>
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Judith made clear the importance of Stakeholder support and
political will to allow for their expansion, and more holistically, for the
City’s emergence as a cultural hub. Arts Council funding comes with a proviso
that the City Council were also heavily invested. For this capital project,
Sheffield Council gave their building, on a 25 year peppercorn lease, plus a
significant sum towards match funding the project - along with a level of trust
in the organisation to allow Site to get on and deliver a programme for
themselves and the city. Crucially, throughout the process, The Arts Council
and the City Council developed and maintained a close relationship - meeting
regularly to assess progress, continued support for Site to ensure best
practice through the project. </div>
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Also clear was the need for experience of Capital funding
within the organisation. At the time of planning, Site had this experience on
their board, through their Chair and also Claire Lilley - a Site Board Member
and head of Programmes at Yorkshire Sculpture Park who have delivered multiple
Capital projects. Also, Judith had been working on a capital project prior to
her arrival in Sheffield. This experience allowed for a good start to the
vision and approach to Arts Council - helping to get the pitch right,
especially following the initial rejection, helping to shape the resubmission,
and understand exactly what was being asked for and why. Following this, the
Arts Council’s robust procedures at every stage offered the necessary framework
for planning. Strategically, the employment of a freelance consultant at this
early stage proved invaluable for advice.</div>
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On the surface, such a huge redevelopment and such large
ambition might seem way beyond a small artist-led organisation like AirSpace -
yet it was clear from talking with Judith Harry, that despite its longstanding,
before the arrival of her and artistic director, Laura Sillars, in 2011, Site
wasn’t a huge organisation - it was a small version/organisation of what had
the potential to be a bigger institution. The thing that changed in the years
prior to 2011, then was that the vision and ambition for what Site could
potentially be, shifted - upwards - through a new Chair of the Board and strategic
appointments.</div>
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Finally, a common theme emerged, as I heard how important
the developing cultural infrastructure in the city is - a fraternal
relationship of support between all of the city’s arts organisations and
venues, built on communal activity such as the Arts Sheffield Festivals, which
tests the strengths of those relationships, but ultimately forms lasting
organisational bonds, and an understanding of each organisation’s value. Many
of the city’s organisations have worked together on Catalyst consortium
projects, and Ambition for Excellence projects. </div>
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Sheffield - which is constituted of the directors of all the leading
building-based arts organisations in the city - theatres, visual arts and
museums and the 2 universities - working, strategically, collaboratively
together for the good of the city - including a funded facilitation role by the
City Council. Meeting regularly - 11 times a year, with 1 away day to bring in
and deliver on city-wide funding and programming. Direct results of this
collaborative activity has resulted in, amongst other things, an independent
Arts-Education network, and a Creative Guild, for independent artists,
designers and crafters.</span>
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</style>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9142344282390468470.post-21341502716827335652019-03-12T13:21:00.004+00:002019-03-12T13:22:02.374+00:00Organisational Development: Visit to In-Situ, PendleAs part of AirSpace Gallery's period of programme and organisational
reflection, research and development, ahead of our intended programme of
works 2019-2021, we embarked on a series of research visits to relevant
organisations across the country.<br />
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In early 2019, we visited In-Situ, in Pendle, Lancs - an organisation with relevant thematic concerns for AirSpace, but one with a proven ability to engage in real terms with its community and a brand new NPO organisation. I talked with Paul Hartley - an ever present at In-Situ - and new-to-the-organistion - Andy Abbott about their approach and structure.<br />
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Some notes from the visit:<br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Our vision is for
In-Situ to be a part of everyday life. For our art to be an art of action. For
our art to contribute to society as a whole. For our art to challenge current
thinking about environment people, place and culture</b>.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Paul Hartley</b> –
Organisation and Engagement</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Andy Abbott </b>–
Environment Programme</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Anna Taylor </b>–
Marketing and Communications</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Kerry Morrison</b> –
Lead Artist</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Hussnain Hanif</b> –
Engagement</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Sophie Skellern</b> –
PhD Evaluation</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Background</b></div>
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In-Situ is a not for profit arts organisation started in
2011 by Paul Hartley, Kerry Morrison and William Titley - formed originally in
Accrington, from a shared interest in how artists could work in aid of the
displaced communities resulting from a housing market renewal scheme - and from
a shared frustration about how art was working in communities and in particular
a sense of tokenism and short-termism.</div>
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Situated in Pendle - a district made up of 3 towns: Colne,
Nelson and Brierfield - a mix of urban, post-industrial cotton mills and
manufacturing industries - with associated migration from South Asia (mainly
Pakistan) mainly based in Brierfield and Nelson, both of which are
characterised by around 30-40% migrant communities. Surrounded by wealthier
rural areas.</div>
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Built from an initial £10,000 seed money investment from a
visionary element of Lancashire County Council which sought to strip some
existing bureaucracy from arts funding in an attempt to get funding direct to
artists. The money allowed for a series of national and international research
visits to inform the existing interest in how artists can contribute to social
solutions rather than merely offering a mirrored response or highlight of
problems. The research visits led to some planning time - based in the back
room of a library in Brierfield, where on a scrap of paper, an initial 5 year
plan was formed to create an organisation which would;</div>
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1 - Commit to one place (Pendle)</div>
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2 - To try and always think long-term</div>
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3 - To always have artists driving projects in leading
roles, rather than local authorities or other stakeholders bringing artists in
as deliverers of their projects.</div>
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4 - to build on a historic (1960’s), but maybe lost, view of
the role of artists working with communities - not as community artists, simply
delivering workshops, but exploring the political dimension of the contemporary
artist in how they and art can play an active role in shaping policy.</div>
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5 - To keep briefs open and allow the artist to develop them
through their practice</div>
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6 - To allow space for each of the 3 artists to maintain and
develop their own collective and individual practices. (Paul > Community
Development Work and space finding for conversational activity, William >
revealing small town sub cultures, eg Northern Soul, Kerry > the urban
environment, brownfield sites and liminal spaces).</div>
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From here - Arts Council funding allowed for R&D into
organisational and structural development and In-Situ was set up as a
not-for-profit company limited by guarantee. Aided by the coalescence of Libraries,
Museums and the Arts in the local council, their ad hoc space in the library
became more permanent, offered free of charge and became their base for 5 years
and allowed for a follow up 2 year ACE Grants for the Arts bid which crucially
allowed for the specific non-prescriptive development of an embedded, social
practice-led way of working.</div>
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- Initial set of 12 artists’ residencies built on
conversation, communication and social practice - affording time to be spent in
place to identify concerns.</div>
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- Using the Library as a base - for talks and meetings - but
not for exhibitions.</div>
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- Having artists “out and about” was crucial - engaging with
the community on their terms, but being visible as artists.</div>
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- Projects grew organically from these residencies, meetings
and conversations with the public.</div>
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Particular attention has been paid to:</div>
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- understanding the organisation’s place within its specific
location, something helped by the organisation’s founders being from the area.</div>
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- and in particular the migrant character of the area. </div>
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- always paying attention to the central idea of being
embedded in the place</div>
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- how to engage with those communities </div>
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- building relationships through committed, time-plenty
activity</div>
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- maintaining built relationships </div>
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- working with particular artists sensitive to those
communities </div>
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- building partnerships with organisations who already work
in those communities. </div>
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- delivering talks in an open a way as possible, to allow
the community access to the thinking behind the works</div>
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- being realistic about how much work can be done, and
ensuring quality of work is maintained</div>
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- disseminating word of the local activity to a national
audience</div>
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Being central players in the area’s Arts Council Creative
People and Places project, allowed In Situ’s existing activities to be scaled
up, to deliver much bigger set piece activities, reaching a much larger
audience and participant group. This in turn alerted the local Council, private
sector and stakeholders to understand the value of artist activity. Ultimately,
In Situ were gifted their current premises by the Council who understood from
previous activities, that there ought to be a continued presence of artists
within the development of their area. </div>
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The decision to apply for NPO status came at this stage -
with increased visibility, a settled place in its community, a confidence in
what the organisation was and what it wanted to do, support from its community
and the local policy makers, and a building.</div>
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Capacity building had been done through paid intern schemes
with young, emerging practitioners, working on organisational projects. NPO
status has allowed for this time and energy hungry organisational aspect to be
more effectively balanced and efficiently managed. Previous intern-led activity
such as marketing and communications is now officially undertaken by
specifically skilled members of the organisation. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Does NPO mean the end
to artist led? What is In-Situ’s thinking and how has it changed the
organisation?</b></div>
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Ultimately, following a personnel change, with amongst two
new members - (Andy Abbott - heading the Environment Programme and Anna Taylor
- heading Marketing and Comms) filling the gaps made by the departures from
directorship of William Titley and Kerry Morrison - the key for In-Situ has
been to develop roles for specific themed activities, but then hiring people
who have arts practices - and in this way, maintaining the artists perspective
at the heart of the organisation. </div>
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Finding the balance between members of the organisation who
enjoy or are capable of the necessary admin and fund finding, and those who thrive
on the delivery of the artistic output is paramount. <span style="display: none; mso-hide: all;">p</span></div>
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It is clear that it has also been
key for the new group running In-Situ that there is an aspiration for there to
be a fluidity between the roles - a hierarchy free structure, and that each
main player in the organisation, in theory, can deliver in each role. However,
it may be that in realistic terms, you have to play to the strengths of each
individual, and allow this to inform your way of working.</div>
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organisation, as Andy Abbott suggests, has morphed necessarily into an arts
collective, built on artist principles and sensibilities. The conversations between
the group are ongoing as to at what stage can each individual’s arts practices
be brought into their specific roles within the organisation and into the
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</style>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9142344282390468470.post-83699362567667024892019-03-12T13:10:00.003+00:002019-03-12T13:14:51.812+00:00Organisational development : Visit to Backlit, NottinghamAs part of AirSpace Gallery's period of programme and organisational reflection, research and development, ahead of our intended programme of works 2019-2021, we embarked on a series of research visits to relevant organisations across the country.<br />
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<a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-2X_EgBh8uG0/XIetrkrvwNI/AAAAAAAARLU/DDVYNWfkzTgGBvFvSlSGXT3FTVIdYcfWACLcBGAs/s1600/backlit1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1067" height="200" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-2X_EgBh8uG0/XIetrkrvwNI/AAAAAAAARLU/DDVYNWfkzTgGBvFvSlSGXT3FTVIdYcfWACLcBGAs/s200/backlit1.jpg" width="133" /></a></div>
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In late 2018, I visited Backlit in Nottingham and spoke with Directors Matthew Chesney and Suzanne Golden. Backlit was of particular interest, set up in a very similar way to AirSpace at a similar time, in a city not dissimilar to Stoke, but with marked differences in the city's arts and cultural infrastructure.<br />
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Some notes from the visit :<br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">BACKLIT Gallery</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">An artist-led gallery
and studio space based in Nottingham, hosting an annual programme of events and
exhibitions</b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Team</b></div>
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MATTHEW CHESNEY - Director</div>
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SUZANNE GOLDEN - Deputy Director</div>
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HEATHER PERKINS - Marketing Coordinator</div>
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GINA MOLLETT - Learning and Community Coordinator</div>
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ALICE JACKSON - Catalyst Project Coordinator</div>
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JOEY HOLDER - Office Manager and Studio Coordinator</div>
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CARYS BOWEN-JONES - Volunteer Coordinator</div>
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PETER CHESNEY - Technical Assistant</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Background and Ways
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Central to the BACKLIT ethos is
its strong working relationships with regional universities and its
partnerships with other galleries and creative organisations. It is also
committed to supporting projects that promote community and local heritage.</i></b></div>
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Set up in 2008 by NTU Fine Art graduates, one of whom was
current director, Matthew Chesney, with 2 board members remaining from the
original instigators. Originally housed in a derelict building, they moved to
their present location - a large two storey building just outside the centre of
Nottingham in 2012. The present building is home to 45 resident studio artists
on the first floor with Gallery space on the second floor.</div>
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It was clear from talking with Suzanne Golden - Deputy
Director - that the organisation is directly linked to its studio - who form,
and are acknowledged as, a core part of their audience.</div>
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Studio artists are a mix of mainly new arts graduates /
emerging artists from the Universities, and artists relocating back to or to
Nottingham, attracted by the city’s affordability and the affordability of the
studio spaces.</div>
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Studio spaces are also hired by specific arts groups and
independent businesses.</div>
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activity by studio artists - offering professional development for the studio -
a core ethic of the organisation. This might be, for example, a new commission
- working alongside a more established artist. But a crucial way of aligning
the studio ethic with the Gallery ethic.</div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Internet, heating and
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Profile on the website</i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Access to any member only
opportunities including exhibitions and events</i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Priority over non-members to
workshops, talks and other critical sessions</i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Being part of a diverse and
exciting studio community</i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Opportunities to apply to
BACKLIT Artist events including projects, annual group show and participation
programmes</i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Access to regular development
opportunities</i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Access to regular workshops</i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Access to one-to-ones with
relevant members of staff in person or via Skype</i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Backlit’s studio provision is augmented by an Associate scheme which
for a small monthly fee offers</i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Expanding your network with
access to like-minded people in the Nottingham arts scene</i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Acknowledgment on BACKIT’s
website with a link to your own page</i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Opportunity to apply to
BACKLIT’s annual group show</i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Opportunities to show work at
BACKLIT’s makers fair, Open Studios and within the building year-round</i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Priority access to BACKLIT
events and private views</i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Invitations to quarterly
BACKLIT Studio meetings</i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Regular communications that
share Associate and Studio artists’ work, practice and projects</i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Access to BACKLIT’s Dark Room
and Screen Printing studio</i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Discount rates to hire out
our project space</i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Priority notification of
short term studio rental</i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Direct contact with BACKLIT
staff</i></div>
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2 main audiences were identified - the artists they work
with (including studio) and their local community and associated community
groups. A recent Arts Council grant allowed Backlit to reassess how they can
work with those two specific sets of audience. This process has let to a more
defined way of working - building relationships with specific community groups
- eg Refugee Forum, the Women’s Muslim Community Group, Community Recording
Studio and the Renewal Trust. Building those links allows for an embedded sense
of operations within the organisation’s community.</div>
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To enhance their embedded sense of activity, there is a
commitment to being present at as many community events as possible to build
the community network and level of trust and engagement - done largely by Gina
Mollett - Learning and Community Co-ordinator. </div>
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Their involvement in the Tate Exchange programme as helped
learning about how to best engage. How to evaluate relationships and connect
properly, and work most effectively in a socially engaged way. How to best work
in this way - how to collect evidence, how to log information, observational
tracking - eg overheard conversations as case study, storytelling,</div>
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Key learning included</div>
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- that evaluation should start at Day 1 of a project and
shouldn’t be done at the end - it’s an ongoing process allowing for continual
reflection, assessment and change.</div>
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To aid understanding of their organisation to new audiences,
projects have included work around the building they’re inhabiting - its
history and how it has and does relate to the community. Work was done, within
the project to find personal attached relationships and shared experiences of
the building - rooting the local community in the past, present and future of
the building.</div>
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From this, there was a development of a group of community
ambassadors - The Morley Union - who could advocate for the organisation,
champion its actions, within the area’s activities.</div>
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An important element of the organisation is their volunteer
support - from the Backlit website:</div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Any volunteer at BACKLIT will benefit from networking and industry
experience, but each role has specific skills development to ensure the perfect
match!</i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Volunteers at BACKLIT can get structured support as well as having an
increased number of opportunities available. So far the volunteers have
experienced several benefits from joining the programme, some of which include:</i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Networking with local &
national Artists</i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Developing: Curation,
Communication, Creativity, Cohesion</i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mentoring & Friendship</i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Confidence & Public
Speaking</i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Relevant Industry Experience</i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Work Experience & Employment
References</i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Community Involvement</i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Free attendance to Events
& Exhibitions</i></div>
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Volunteer activity is formalised, largely through a
symbiotic link with the Universities - who benefit from the relationship - and
understand and value the relationship - as it allows them to offer a work
placement element within their courses. There is also a partnership with the
Job Centre to offer volunteer placements for non- students - increasing the
reach of the organisation. Also worked with NCVS - Nottingham Community
Voluntary Services. </div>
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Volunteer activity largely consists of Gallery Assisting and
Invigilating, but also extends to help with building renovation. The
organisation has a specific role attached - Carys Bowen-Jones co-ordinates the
activity. Voluntary activity is unpaid - but at the end of each exhibition, for
instance - the volunteer group is offered the Project Space, free of charge, to
respond to the exhibition in any way they feel. </div>
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The organisation benefits from good support from the Local
Council, and specific individual councillor/council officer advocacy - </div>
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and also through a supportive relationship with the City’s
main gallery-based arts organisation - Nottingham Contemporary and the other
arts organisations in the City - such as Primary. The Backlit programme
activity often includes complementary activity happening at NC - but
interestingly, NC understand that there are mutual benefits, particularly in
terms of audience development for both organisations.<br />
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There is an acknowledged understanding of a sense of a
contemporary arts infrastructure in Nottingham which helps, in a fraternal and
supportive way, the individual organisations to prosper. </div>
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However, as Director Matthew Chesney mentioned partner and
sector support from, in particular, the Universities could always be better - a
conversation is still to be had, and an argument to be won, about the
bi-directional benefit of artist-led organisations - in terms of helping with
Graduate retention in the city, their role as part of the cultural
infrastructure and offering possibilities for new arts graduates to build a
career in the arts.</div>
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An interesting development in the Nottingham arts ecology,
relevant for AirSpace, is the effect that the growth of Backlit and Primary,
and their move toward NPO has had. There is a sense that new projects and
organisations are continually cropping up - but interestingly, whereas
previously they may have happened independently, new projects are happening
within the walls of these 2 new NPO’s - Trade, 4x4(formerly HUTT) and Tom
Goddard at Primary, and Chaos Magic from within Backlit. As building
development in cities grows, and available building space and resources
dwindle, the ability of existing arts organisations to house and nurture new
activity becomes ever more important in order to keep the overall ecology fresh
and developmental.</div>
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Backlit is currently set up as a charitable organisation and
also a recent 1<sup>st</sup> time Arts Council NPO organisation. Application
for NPO for an artist-led organisation is a daunting prospect, in terms of
having the organisational structure in place, and the ability to cope with and
thrive from its implicit demands - but the move for Backlit seemed an obvious
one to make for the future prospects of their organisation - and also, they
found that, in a right time right place sense, the move made sense. Ultimately,
they believed they had nothing to lose by applying, and in terms of the potential
organisational benefits, the move made sense. </div>
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However, there have been and continue to be challenges,
especially for the artist-led - Suzanne talked of “spinning plates” - “ as an
artist you need to be able to multi-task…you put yourself in this type of job
and its HR, finance, curatorial, working with the volunteers… trying to prioritise
and work out what needs to be done when…it’s often quite difficult.” </div>
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the NPO experience so far has been fairly straightforward in terms of
programming and in many ways easier than during the days of project-to-project
funding. The difficulties have been issues around Human Resources and getting
systems of organisation and policies in place - “ we’re not HR trained, we’re
not accountants - we’re artists who got into directing and curating, admin and
fund-raising…”</span>
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<span style="-webkit-text-stroke: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In the space of five decades, Dublin has experienced a significant wave of artist-led initiatives and studios – beginning in the 1960s with <a href="https://projectartscentre.ie/" target="_blank">Project Arts Centre</a> (a then three-week festival, now turned multidisciplinary venue) and later, in the 1980s, <a href="http://www.templebargallery.com/" target="_blank">Temple Bar Gallery + Studios</a>. The city has a diverse and dynamic artist-led narrative – one which is seemingly evermore important in 2019, when there is, today, a deficit in studio space, or even space to create. As a fleeting visitor to Dublin, I can only reflect upon the conversations which I had and observations that I made during my stay.</span><br />
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<span class="s1"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Trekking down Temple Bar, past the crowded pubs advertising live folk music nights, I approach Temple Bar Gallery + Studios (TBG+S). The custom-designed structure sits boldly amongst a bustling row of shorter, squat, red-brick buildings. Its white-rendered walls and top-heavy appearance spark comparisons with the likes of the Bauhaus and a Cubist aesthetic. In reading through <a href="http://www.templebargallery.com/info/about/history" target="_blank">TBG+S's history</a>, I learn of its transition from a disused shirt factory into a purpose-built gallery and studio-complex. It's difficult to determine how much of its original DIY ethic is still in place: still, it's worth remembering that TBG+S has been running since 1983 and has been fortunate in the consistency and determination of its members. Currently, it is housed in this building under a “Cultural Use Agreement” and maintains a fair rent clause with Temple Bar Properties.</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Inside, I meet with Róisín Bohan, Learning and Public Engagement Curator. It's a part-time role at TBG+S – remarkable when reflecting upon the work involved – and so Róisín also works at the <a href="http://www.rhagallery.ie/">Royal Hibernian Academy</a> (RHA) in a similar role. Despite its name, RHA is an artist-led organisation with charitable status. At TBG+S, I'm shown through the Gallery – where <i>Efference Copy Mechanism</i> by Ronan McCrea is currently installed – to the Atrium. The Atrium is used as a place for studio artists to present, test, and experiment. Currently showing is a collection of posters created by two TBG+S founders Robert Armstrong and Joe Hanly at The Print Studio, housed in TBG+S in the 1980s, which brings colour and abstract figures to the cool, concrete walls of the Atrium's interior. These prints, used to promote other artists' shows, have never been presented as a body of work until now: Róisín tells me that the exhibition came about after an informal conversation between Robert, Joe and TBG+S Director, Cliodhna Shaffrey.</span></span></div>
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<i><b>Set In Sediment</b></i> is the culmination of <a href="http://www.charlottedawson199.wixsite/portfolio"><b>Charlotte Dawson</b></a>'s 6-month <b>Graduate Residency</b> at AirSpace - the endpoint of a period of reflection, research, test and experiment.<br />
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The exhibition represents a brand new body of work, focusing on our individual connection with the land, with memory, with journey. A sense of arrival, residence and escape. Notions of rootedness and tenuous existence. An exploration of our nature to collect and store and create and recreate objects as physical tokens of memory and history.<br />
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Full exhibition details can be found <a href="http://www.airspacegallery.org/index.php/projects/set_in_sediment_charlotte_dawson"><b>here</b></a><br />
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Each year, AirSpace Gallery’s Graduate Residency Programme offers two
new graduates a fantastic opportunity to be part of an exciting and
innovative artist-led space in Stoke-on-Trent, providing 6 months free
studio space, ongoing professional development support, mentoring and
guidance in those crucial first months out of higher education, and an
end-of-residency solo exhibition. Now into its 7th year, the residency
programme is an attempt to tackle and highlight a problem with graduate
retention in the city, offering early stage professional development
support to artists.<br />
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<u>Set in Sediment Documentation</u><br />
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<u>Set in Sediment - Public Preview 22nd March, 2019</u><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Selina Oakes met up with Emer Grant, Artistic Director, Laura Farrell, Operations Manager, and Freddy Blackman, Gallery Assistant, at <a href="http://www.nncontemporaryart.org/" target="_blank">NN Contemporary Art Northampton</a> on 22 February 2019.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #999999; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">"We work with artists at all stages of their careers to present an international programme of contemporary art and multi-disciplinary events." - NN Contemporary Art</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Number Nine Guildhall Road is an
arresting four storey building, poised in the middle of Northampton's
Cultural Quarter. It's red-brick exterior houses a Gallery, a Project
Space, Artist Studios and an artistic community under the umbrella
name of NN Contemporary Art Northampton (NN). As part of AirSpace
Gallery's Organisational Development, I visited NN to learn about
its development and transition from artist-led to NPO.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">This was my first journey to
Northampton – located between Rugby and Milton Keynes it's an hour
and a half train journey from Stoke-on-Trent. Admittedly, I knew very
little about its history or narrative, but I'm quickly informed by
the NN team that it's known for its shoemaking and leather industries
heritage. In speaking with Emer, Laura and Freddy, I learn that
Northampton is not so dissimilar to Stoke-on-Trent – a place which
also grabbles with narratives of industrial nostalgia. Like
Stoke-on-Trent, Northampton exists in proximity to larger
conurbations – notably, its big-city neighbour, London.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">We chat and have tea in the Gallery
space and, later, upstairs in the Office. Laura talks me through NN's
early days as Northampton Arts Collective (NAC), which began back in
2003. The group became more established with a more permanent site at
The Fishmarket, given to them on a temporary lease. From 2006-2011,
NAC produced a series of contemporary exhibitions and also ran events
and a cafe from within the vast Fishmarket site. It also became more
structured with the recruitment of John Simpson as General Manager
and a curator, Catherine Hemelryk, who later became NN
Artistic Director.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">When The Fishmarket became
earmarked for demolition, NAC was a 'roaming' project for six months
before the Borough Council provided them with a new home on Guildhall
Road. NAC Limited Company became NN Contemporary Art (a charity and
now an NPO) and received a significant amount of funding (£50k) from
a now obsolete funding body, WNDC, to renovate the then empty
building. I'm told that NN will be moving to another building
– provided by the Borough Council – in 2019, but will
remain on Guildhall Road. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Emer stresses the importance of
partnerships, collaborations and working together: without strong
relationships with local councils, universities and fellow artistic
groups, it can be difficult to grow, develop and become a sustainable
entity. She also speaks about 'Place-Making' and the value in knowing
your surroundings – for example, connecting with craft narratives
is important. For Northampton, its shoes, for Stoke-on-Trent, its
pottery – both have unique histories which can enable you to tap
into other disciplines and support, while maintaining your
contemporary focus and artistic integrity.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Early on, we walk and talk through
<a href="http://www.nncontemporaryart.org/whats-on/" target="_blank">Quickly Moving</a>, NN's biennial Graduate show. NN, too, has large
windows which, the team says, has its perks but also its challenges.
The light that shines through the ground-floor windows (it's a clear,
sunny day) illuminates the graduates' works, making them visible from
the street. Some visitors are intrigued and enticed to come
inside; others become wary of something which is unfamiliar to
them. The hand-stitched wallhangings by Sophie Neville, pitched
against a Yves Klein Blue, grab my attention; as do Abbie Schug's
immaculate hyper-realist portraits. The show is an invaluable
platform for recent graduates from art schools outside of London: the
2019 edition, too, is a poignant compilation of six female artists'
works.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">We speak about Northampton
University, and the close relationship that NN has built with the
institution – many of its volunteers are third year students.
Volunteers are typically engaged on a <a href="http://www.nncontemporaryart.org/get-involved/volunteering/" target="_blank">10-week Volunteer Programme</a>,
where they provide gallery and social media support. In return,
volunteers are provided with a platform to discuss their own practice
and also gain access to the Project Space. It's a two-way
relationship: Emer describes an upcoming module which she is due to
deliver at the university on Digital Cultures – in-kind and as part
of the partnership agreement.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">NN is conscious of its new
commitments to its NPO-status. But Emer's focus as new Artistic
Director is less on numbers and more on sustained engagement with a
smaller group of visitors. This reflects NN's care and consideration
of its audiences, and the long-lasting impact it wishes to make. In
maintaining a sustainable, small yet reliable audience, NN has a
strong base from which to grow and expand further. Something which
Emer hopes to incorporate in the new building is a more visible
Project Space, one which the artistic and local community sees as an
accessible resource – at present, it is slightly concealed on the
third floor.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">I ask about Northampton's artistic
community and learn that there are multiple artist-led spaces and
artist studios in the town – Intersession, The Artist Sanctuary
Studios, Burns St Studios to name a few. Northampton also has a
dedicated <a href="http://www.northamptonartscouncil.org/p/about.html">Arts
Council</a> to “support and nurture the arts.” There
appears to be a strong, supportive artistic network in the area, and
NN plans to expand this network further by refreshing its Public
Programme and by using the town more as a gallery in the future.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">We finish on how to promote the
value of an arts organisation – whether it be an artist-led
collective, a charity or an NPO. Emer puts it simply: economic
regeneration through culture – and this is what councils should be
looking to support. We touch briefly on engaging with your audiences
and collating feedback: again, Emer has honed her evaluation to one,
focused question, for a set period – she asks her visitors, “Why
do you come here?”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><b>NN Contemporary Art, Number Nine Guildhall Road, Northampton, NN1 1DP</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><i>Quickly Moving</i> runs until 23 March 2019.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">With thanks to Emer, Laura and Freddy at <a href="http://www.nncontemporaryart.org/" target="_blank">NN Contemporary Art</a>.</span></div>
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AirSpace Gallery is really happy to announce the selection of the first three artists for our 2019 InTheWindow programme.<br />
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Our window at AirSpace is a really important space. When operational as part of our main exhibitions, it acts as a non-institutional way in to the gallery - accessible on the public's own terms. In between our exhibition programme, while changeover activity<br />
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is happening, we close the window up and offer the space, through a series of open calls, to artists to propose new and experimental works - for a period of 1-2 weeks - with a significant challenge, in how to successfully utilise the specific opportunities that such a front-facing, idiosyncratic space offers.<br />
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For this call, we specifically requested proposals which would catch the eye in an animated way - and so movement and performance of both object and self is central to each of the selected works.<br />
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For this first part of the 2019 window programme, we have selected artists <b>Kiran Kaur Brar</b>, <b>Alex Billingham</b> and <b>Hollie Miller</b>. Each artist will animate our window with a series of sculptural and special event single performances for a period of 2 weeks each between March 9th and May 4th, 2019.<br />
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Look out for details of each artist's works via our website - <a href="http://www.airspacegallery.org/">www.airspacegallery.org</a> - and <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/airspacegallery/">Facebook group</a> . The schedule and artist info can be found below.<br />
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<b>March 8th to 23rd, 2019</b> - <b>Kiran Kaur Brar</b> - timed to start on International Women's Day and Women's History Month, Koran presents a performative work referencing Suffragetism and violent/non-violent protest.<br />
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progress and power and the social, political and ideological systems that
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photography, video, performance, text and collage, I attempt to resist formulas
and aesthetic continuity. I am particularly interested in exploring the
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exhibition space/institution to the macro politics of the wider world. The
visual language I employ is influenced by the context that I am responding to." - Kiran Kaur Brar</span></span>
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<b>March 30th to April 13th, 2019</b> - <a href="http://alexbillingham.co.uk/"><b>Alex Billingham</b></a> - <i><b>Die Glamour Berg</b></i> - <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">an installation comprising </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">a series of suspended sculptures currently measuring from 1 to 11
inch’s diameter, consisting of a mixture of wool, latex, </span></span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 12.000000pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">false eyes, glitter, <span style="font-family: inherit;">Dymo tape, Rein
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I’m a genderqueer performance artist from the West Midlands making work which mixes
endurance, visual arts, low-fi tech, film and installation. It’s often visceral and physically
exhausting, pushing what my body can take. While performance forms the core of my
practice I also work in film, installation, sculpture, and audio using whichever medium best
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trust in me. I strip away all my supports leaving a tender and violent performance. Our place
in the environment, gender, temporal mechanics, a fascination with the fetishization of
Nuclear dread and an obsession with outdated hopes for the future all bleed into my work.
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Research and experimentation inform my practice starting with a basic idea and playing
around with different materials and techniques before committing to the research. I find it
essential to have both working together as the physical often alters the direction of the
research. Often adopting a low-fi visual style binding grunge with glitter and grime to make
beautifully dirty work.
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span id="goog_781369969"></span><span id="goog_781369970"></span><span id="goog_781369971"></span><span id="goog_781369972"></span>April 17th to May 4th, 2019</b> - <a href="http://www.holliemiller.co.uk/"><b>Hollie Miller</b></a> - two sculptures, </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">consisting of human hair wigs, individually
wrapped around a pair of antique children’s boxing gloves with a cow bell of different pitches
nestled in each palm - the hair coated in pigment (blood and bone flour) and hanging off
delicate rusted chains will occupy each half of our window - gently rocking, ringing the bell and dropping pigment throughout the time. Finishing the exhibition, Hollie will present a site specific public performance.</span></span></div>
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<a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-KlfnNdVpxgY/XG5msv8lX2I/AAAAAAAAQ44/4hNwuFICuWA40Lc8a2Cz5TYiT6aVT9SJACEwYBhgL/s1600/Screenshot%2B2019-02-21%2Bat%2B08.50.11.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="915" data-original-width="1364" height="133" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-KlfnNdVpxgY/XG5msv8lX2I/AAAAAAAAQ44/4hNwuFICuWA40Lc8a2Cz5TYiT6aVT9SJACEwYBhgL/s200/Screenshot%2B2019-02-21%2Bat%2B08.50.11.png" width="200" /></a><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Hollie Miller is a visual artist working with performance in live and recorded contexts. Her
corporeal works are site-specific, intimate and time-based, exploring ephemerality in the digital
age. In placing emphasis on recording live performances, Miller suggests that our everyday
actions never cease and can be crystallized through the digital as ‘living fossils’. In her
performances, Miller activates sculptural objects installed in the gallery space. These charged
artefacts exist beyond the live moment where her affect has left residue.
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Using her own body as a vessel of transgression and subversion, Miller’s work is informed by
the history of women’s self-representation. Her artworks employ the language of cinema to
critique and disrupt the capitalist portrayal of women by the commercial industries. She is
particularly interested in vulnerability as a form of resistance and how this engenders our
capacity for empathy in relation to the other. In her work Miller embodies the ‘minor gesture’
with poetic sensibility to highlight and overcome invisible violence on women.
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</span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">When working within the natural environment, Miller often applies organic materials such as
mud, onto her body as emblems of freedom that corrupt the surface of her skin. This physical
change draws attention to her identity and sexuality via her actions and presence. By placing
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the earth as mother and/ or lover. Creating a dynamic between the physical and the
metaphysical she uses performance as a tool for transformation and female ascension.
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Before the winter
season set in, AirSpace Gallery received a visit from Rivca Rubin: a
practitioner, behavioural scientist and Director of Imag?ne and
Upwording Ltd, based in Manchester. In her own words, Rivca “assists
people to live the lives they want to live; artists to ascertain
their vision, locate the essence and refine their practice; companies
to refine, grow purpose, align practice to values, and create working
cultures where people are engaged and flourish.”</div>
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As part of AirSpace
Gallery's ongoing organisational development, Rivca was selected to
provide Co Directors Glen Stoker and Anna Francis, and artists
Rebecca Davies and Selina Oakes with the tools and strategies to
coach and mentor others, as well as to work together, fluently, as
the Gallery moves forward into its future phases.</div>
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was intense: from my own perspective, time was needed to let things
'settle in.' The session began with a rumination over our 'Desired
Outcomes' – what we wanted to achieve from our time with Rivca. In
a personalised journal printed 'Upwording – AirSpace Gallery' with
Rivca's tagline “Words change worlds; yours, mine, ours,” we each
jotted down a few loose ideas: collectively, we were excited but
apprehensive. We spoke about what we wanted more or less of, and then
reflected on the wider impacts of realising our desired outcomes –
on ourvselves, our networks and the community.
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One of the most
useful techniques covered during the two-days was the GROW Coaching
Model developed by Sir John Whitmore and Carol Wilson. For the
purpose of these sessions, Rivca had adapted the GROW model and
emphasised the mentor and coach's function as “facilitating their
[mentee/ coachee] thinking without contaminating it with your own.”
It's common sense really: in order to facilitate someone's thinking
and speaking, it is vital that that same person is listened to and
given the time to be listened to – a process which is so often
neglected in everyday society and often a source of frustration.</div>
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So, we learnt to
listen: to listen to our mentee's responses – to the language they
used and the silences they required. Again, too often are we taught
that 'silence' is a negative thing, when quietness can be a moment of
thinking and revelation – at least this is what we were trying to
learn. Another key part of the GROW model was learning how to detach
yourself [as a mentor] from content, judgement and your own
conclusions. For example, we [as mentors] asked the questions to
stimulate thought rather than suggest responses to questions that may
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G- began with What
Do You Want? - the larger, Macro, overall goal – and ended with How
Important is this to You? - the Micro goal. R- continued with What is
Happening Now? - a process of positivity and reflecting on what is
already in place, and then observing what is not in place. O-
questioned What the Mentee Could Do with the current realities in
place. W- concluded with the mentee setting themselves tasks and time
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In practising the
GROW model between ourselves, we learnt a) more about each other b)
more about ourselves c) more about how we do and do not listen.
Another technique which attached itself to the GROW model was a
process of 'reflecting back' – of mirroring what the mentee said to
us, rather than providing new content. This was particularly
challenging as, in society, we are frequently taught to speak about
ourselves and what we know – rather than mirroring what someone
else has said. In feeding back what the mentee had said and neither
embellishing it nor adding new content, the mentee's words are
solidified and strengthened. It is then up to them to acknowledge
their own thoughts when fed back. This was particularly challenging.
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Another tool used
was eliciting new information through questions such as “What else”
and “Is there anything else?” While frustrating at times, it had
the potential to elicit new thought or action in the mentee. As
mentors, we were asked to provoke self-feedback: asking the mentee to
reflect upon their own performance in a presentation, performance or
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Towards the end of
the first day, another model – COCI – was introduced to us. COCI
is adapted from Deborah Barnard's Relational Dynamics Coaching and
promotes non-violent communication: how to adopt a sense of
acceptance and empathy without the need to agree. Before employing
COCI we were also asked to either a) wait for an invitation to unpack
a comment or conversation or b) ask for permission i.e. “may I
share with you what I mean?”</div>
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<b><span style="color: #999999;">I</span></b>-ntention > check your intention: recognise intention to hurt or reprimand and
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In using COCI, we
were also asked to reflect upon basic human needs such as health and
wellbeing, freedom: autonomy and choice, and safety and security. The
focus of non-violent communication is to meet our human needs at no
cost to ourselves or others. In relation to coaching, it is also
important to separate your need from the coachee's needs.
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Day two began with a
reflection on the previous day's learning and putting the GROW model
into practice while assessing each others' performances as mentors
and coaches. We also looked at the differences between mentoring –
in which mentor may direct the mentee's focus – and coaching – in
which the coach guides the coachee with action points. Both however,
focus on the learner (mentee/coachee) and 'advise' is rarely given as
mentee/ coachee may become dependent on mentor.</div>
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Time was spent on
how to open a coaching session: for this we followed the Seven Seas
model (which is actually 6 Cs and 1 Qs) – Contract, Confidential,
Comfort, Clock, Control, Coaching and Questions. We were also asked
to 'Check-in' with our mentee at the beginning of each session.
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In the second half
of day two, we looked at Visualisations: a tool used to focus the
mentee on the future and then to work backwards in the their minds to
where they are today. This encourages a freedom in what the future
could look like (with a focus on wants rather than needs) and how to
get to b) from a).
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'Upwording'
concluded our two-day workshop. We spent a couple of hours reflecting
on the use of language and how it contributes to the formation of
power structures and hierarchies – and how languages of obedience
and control can be dismantled. In Rivca's words, Upwording identifies
“how small changes in the way we speak can create seismic impacts.”
In the session, Rivca suggested that thinking and speaking are so
habitual (she also noted that most things done by humans are habitual
– not natural): Upwording promotes the use of active language
choices to dispel coercive and authoritarian ways of communication.</div>
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For example, saying
“I heard or I saw or I felt” instead of “You did or You said or
You made me feel” shows that you are taking responsibility for your
own emotions and actions, and not passing the blame to someone else.
Upwording puts the emphasis on “I” but also highlights the use of
fact and factual statements rather than evaluative ones. It also
suggests that it is dangerous to place sentiments and ideas upon
another person: in saying “You are….” the speaker places
pressure on the receiver by stating that they are something which
they have to live up to at all times. There is also the notion of a
“theft of ideas” - if we suggest something to someone this limits
their sense of capability to think and creative, and thus affects
their self-esteem.</div>
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But, equally, there
is also the manner in which you respond to a stimulus or how someone
speaks with you. While Rivca states that it is better to use “How
would you like it be?” and “What else could you do?” rather
than you can do this or that, it is also up to the receiver to
interpret stimulus how they see fit. There is always a choice – for
both parties. Still, this workshop focused on mentoring and coaching
and, as a mentor or coach, the task ahead of you is to elicit the
best outcome for your mentee from the mentee themselves.</div>
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As AirSpace Gallery
grows and develops, we (Glen, Anna, Rebecca and Selina) hope to
provide further mentoring and coaching support for emerging and
mid-career artists in the future. This two-day workshop, led by Rivca
and supported by Arts Council England as part of our Organisational
Development Bid, has enabled us to evaluate of modes of communication
and models of mentoring which we plan to actively employ as part of
AirSpace Gallery's upcoming programme.
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Thank you to Rivca
Rubin <a href="http://www.ifweimagine.com/">www.ifweimagine.com</a>.</div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Kerry Campbell got in touch with me in March 2018. She had recently moved from her hometown of Luton – something she mentioned in her email to me, which I instantly picked up on, because her introduction was personal – and where she came from was important to her.</span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Kerry is energetic, bold and hungry – she’s a total asset to the art world - an industry and culture she constantly challenges, largely through her programming (also see the Luton based TMT Projects she’s running.) And it feels great to see her again, to discuss work and listen to how she approaches her role at Bloc Projects. (Please see previous writing about Clare Charles – similar feels here, meeting to share and support each other – not just for research!)</span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My discussion with Kerry highlights that we’re not miles apart in what we’re doing already. Except, I do it as an artist – as part of my artistic practice, rather than with a gallery. So how can I do this without it feeling like a job on top of my practice? If AirSpace Gallery is truly artist led, then perhaps I am a long term artist-in-residence delivering a peer-led, inclusive, multi disciplinary, sociable programme </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">– </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">like what I do anyway as the landlady of The Oasis Social Club, or as part of The Portland Inn Project?</span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And Kerry will take the E </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">–</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> for the team of us all working together to figure out how best to make art more public, more diverse, more inclusive and more collaborative.</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">With thanks to Kerry Campbell and Bloc Projects.</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Visit Bloc Projects: </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.blocprojects.co.uk/">www.blocprojects.co.uk</a></span></div>
<br />Selinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11765489793159058535noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9142344282390468470.post-43259927903417756692018-11-28T21:18:00.000+00:002019-02-05T16:20:58.417+00:00Organisational Development: Research Visit to Arcade + Campfa, Cardiff. <br />
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Rebecca Davies meets with Clare Charles, Director at Arcade + Campfa, Cardiff.<br />
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I first met Clare back in 2014 when she bought my ice cream van for a hundred quid.
I had put a callout on Facebook for someone to take this vehicle off me: "she’s a beauty and had a good innings as a library, maypole and rave venue, but her heart is slowing down (and my energy at the time trying to store her somewhere in London) and needs someone or a group to breathe life into her."<br />
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Clare got in touch.<br />
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Clare was working for Made in Roath at the time and the van went on to be a May Day float, bar and temporary space at Spit and Sawdust – a skate park and arts programme in Cardiff.<br />
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In the Spring of this year, I got in touch with Clare: we had seen each other a couple of times at workshops or events I had run in London since 2014.
She was working as Project Manager with Metal, Southend. Given her experience working with Engage, Ffoto Gallery and on various projects in Wales, I was keen to link with Clare as part of my research for AirSpace Gallery.
She responded immediately – but to say that she was leaving Metal and going to be Director of an artist led space, back in Cardiff.<br />
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So, on Wednesday 3 October, I made my way out to see Clare in Cardiff. Arriving at the station I was reminded what a bloody big city it is: the last time I had visited was for my friend Phoebe’s 21st – about twenty of us rolled in and out of a Wetherspoons pub to watch the rugby (and on that trip I think Cardiff graced me with two new experiences – rugby and snakebites).<br />
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I met Clare at Arcade, which incidentally is in a shopping arcade in the centre of Cardiff. Surrounded by a sea of commercial businesses, Arcade sits in the belly of a brightly lit metal and glass building. It’s main unit sits next door to New Look and opposite a hair salon. Directly in front are two massage chairs. "It takes me back to our unit at The Elephant, Clare!" I exclaim when I arrive. The music blaring from the salon competes with the muzak playing from the mall’s tannoy speakers. Clare had visited the project I ran for years with Eva Sajovic from the Elephant and Castle Shopping Centre.<br />
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An exhibition is being installed, and Clare introduces me to the artist and walks me through the space. Out the back is an office (Clare’s mostly) and up/down some stairs there is a residency space (the annual residency is six months, the artist finally sharing their work in an exhibition). Clare leads us into another unit – Arcade’s second space, Campfa, which also has a show being installed. "What are your partnerships like?" I ask, "Links with the university are great – the Fine Art course use the gallery for their shows and treat it as their own space." Being the Director, Clare runs the space, leading on all the programming that takes place; she is supported by one part-time Producer and occasionally people volunteer their support (volunteers are associates and associates have an exhibition once a year).<br />
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Arcade is currently in its eighth year as an artist led gallery and residency programme.
There is a new show every three weeks – which was first set out to ‘keep things fresh’. I’m a bit shocked, "but that must be exhausting Clare!" The two of us are pretty tired and hungry, so continue the conversation in the Wetherspoons round the corner from where Clare lives – walking distance from the gallery. We talk excitedly about work we’ve been doing over the last few years, projects that have been met with challenges, people who have supported us, institutions who have disappointed us and pitfalls we have had to overcome. The more we talk, the more I realise we’ve both needed this. It feels like support!**<br />
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**I keep banging on about this, but feeling like someone’s ‘got your back’ is really important to me. Personally and professionally. It’s about trust, and it’s about feeling like you’re supported enough in the work to take risks and be bold. This, I think, strengthens the artist led.<br />
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Everyone is trying to protect what’s important to them right now – that’s a standard result of a shitty social and economic environment.
I am trying to protect and champion the arts, because I think it’s rad, powerful and can change shit for the better, if that’s what people want. And I think through doing this organisation development, we are trying to protect an arts space – AND the artist led.<br />
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Good arts spaces are permeable – to their locality and community.<br />
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This is something that Clare recognises from experience, but also wants Arcade to do more of – permeate.
In February 2019, things will be a little different at Arcade/Campfa, in a bid to activate the space more and widen their community. "It’s been a remit of artists to be centred if people hover at the gallery’s entrance – it has always been up to that person to enter. But I’m trying to shift this." In addition to some great pre-existing activity, such as critiques for volunteers (often students) and volunteer socials, the plan is for the gallery to introduce something more permanent, that’s part of the space: a workshop and library. This programme would be curated by an artist, supported by Clare and the Producer. "There would be wifi and tables, and space for people to come and work." The residency would also use it as a space to share work and interact with people.<br />
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During my short stay in Cardiff, Clare arranged for meetings with Becca Thomas of Spit N Sawdust and the organisers of Made in Roath (Clare is also on the lead team for this great arts initiative/community and annual arts festival). Some great conversation ensues around being truly artist led, the notion of a gallery being ‘outdated’ but how a space can be used to help develop an organisation. We discuss operating as a space for people to be heard – keeping things small and helping to diversify a programme. But we also highlight how Arts Council England’s pressure for professionalisation of organisations is really just about turning organisations into institutions.<br />
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I sit with Clare at an outdoor cafe in the centre of Cardiff, about to get my train. And we reflect whilst drinking tea and eating welsh cakes. Clare has only been director of Arcade since April 2018, there’s a lot to be done – but dammnnn she’s on it. And damn we’ve got our work cut out. My first research trip has shown me this isn’t just research: this is an exchange of ideas and a rallying of support for the invaluable artist led.<br />
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With thanks to Clare Charles and Arcade + Campfa, Cardiff.<br />
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For more info, visit <a href="https://arcadecardiff.co.uk/campfa/">www.arcadecardiff.co.uk</a><br />
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