For some time now, I've been worrying about the relevance of static gallery art. I love galleries, but the work in them often doesn't seem to be addressing anything apart from itself. Meanwhile, out in the real world, there are things I feel quite concerned about - or at least more interested in.
When I started working with Felicity Shillingford on a response to the visit of the British Art Show to Plymouth in the autumn, our first thought was to secure some kind of space in Plymouth and put on a show. But then we thought, why should we go all that way just to add to the quantity of art being exhibited in a city where we don't even live? A city which has already swallowed up Exeter's art college and many of our artists. And the idea of stealing art and bringing it back to Exeter was born. It's still going to result a gallery-type show, but the really important part of it is the stealing and removing of art to another place, and the negotiations that will be required to do so.
Meanwhile, in attempting to help the Spacex Review Group formulate responses to a project called The Recipe Exchange, I stumbled across an article by Grant Kester called Dialogical Aesthetics: A Critical Framework For Littoral Art. I'm not expecting to suddenly become a completely different kind of artist as a result of reading it...but I do feel a shift in outlook starting to happen.
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