tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-54470005906003540122024-03-05T17:48:14.972-08:00OPEN PLANOPEN PLAN at 55 Gracechurch Street, London.
A space for discussions, exchange, events and exhibition. Ongoing, beginning December 2012.
A collective project led by students from The Royal College of Art and AltMFA (London's alternative peer-led MA) in collaboration with myriad other London-based art schools and artists who will be invited to take part in events, exhibitions and screenings.
Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5447000590600354012.post-84560812681164693082013-06-11T14:01:00.000-07:002013-06-11T14:33:10.266-07:00Departure Foundation Micro-residency2 May 2013 A group of artists have been occupying Departure Foundation’s OPEN
PLAN project space throughout May. The Private View event showcases a
multitude of outcomes and possibilities spawned from the artists’
parallel responses to the large office space in the centre of The City.
Artists: <a href="http://www.birgitteaasen.com/" title="birgitteaasen">Birgitte Aasen</a>, <a href="http://www.alexjameschalmers.com/www.alexjameschalmers.com/alex_chalmers.html" target="_blank">Alex Chalmers</a>, <a href="http://www.margduston.com/" title="margduston">Marg Duston</a>, <a href="http://www.robingardiner.com/" title="robingardiner">Robin Gardiner</a>, <a href="http://www.akardos.net/" target="_self">AnnaMaria Kardos</a>, <a href="http://www.machinaloci.com/" title="machinaloci">Carol Mancke</a>, <a href="http://www.ellamccartney.com/" target="_self">Ella McCartney</a>, <a href="http://www.nataliesanders.co.uk/" target="_self">Natalie Sanders</a>, <a href="http://todayimadenothing.wordpress.com/" target="_self">Charlotte Young</a>.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5447000590600354012.post-64359312296902892302013-04-17T02:51:00.000-07:002013-05-02T02:57:02.875-07:00Testing ground at Open Plan [Departure Foundation]A three day collaborative project by six artists testing and
responding to Open Plan. Productive days on site with rotating crits and
discussions of how the site’s aesthetics’ and functional layout impacts
each practice in developing new site-related work. In fact, having
reconsidered plans opened up different paths of co-existent making and
extending individual practices. [<span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: black;">19 March, 8 and 9 April 2013] </span></span><br />
<i>Participating artists</i>: <a href="http://www.birgitteaasen.com/" title="birgitteaasen">Birgitte Aasen</a>, <a href="http://www.margduston.com/" title="margduston">Margaret Duston</a>, <a href="http://www.robingardiner.com/" title="robingardiner">Robin Gardiner</a>, <a href="http://www.akardos.net/">AnnaMaria Kardos</a>, <a href="http://www.machinaloci.com/" title="machinaloci">Carol Mancke</a>, <a href="http://www.kathytaylor.co.uk/" title="kathytaylor">Kathy Taylor</a>.<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5447000590600354012.post-39559996350880985922013-04-09T07:41:00.003-07:002013-04-09T07:41:51.316-07:00OPEN PLAN - MICRO RESIDENCY<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">10th - 22nd April 2013</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Natalie Sanders</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Charlotte Young</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Zbigniew Kotkiewicz & Liz Helman</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ilona Sagar</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Artists will be using the space to make new work and show existing work.</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5447000590600354012.post-69421982457065226032013-03-18T07:06:00.002-07:002013-03-18T07:06:34.246-07:00ORDINARY 21st MarchOur next exhibition event is Thursday 21st March.<br />
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Louise Ashcroft<br />
Peggy Atherton<br />
Renata Heliodoro Bandeira<br />
Maria Bartolo<br />
Alex Chalmers<br />
Neil Haas<br />
Fritha Jenkins<br />
AnnaMaria Kardos<br />
Soohee Kim<br />
Fiona Long<br />
Sohrab<br />
Charlie Godet Thomas<br />
Sharon Whyte<br />
Charlie Yetton<br />
Charlotte Young<br />
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6-9pm, 55 Gracechurch Street, London.<br />
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photo credit: AnnaMaria Kardos and Fiona LongUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5447000590600354012.post-65307668835044120472013-02-22T05:51:00.003-08:002013-02-22T05:51:22.078-08:007th March - Carey Young - Visiting ArtistWe are really excited that Carey Young is coming to visit OPEN PLAN on 7th March. More details coming soon!<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5447000590600354012.post-250482096690239432013-02-22T05:43:00.002-08:002013-02-22T05:43:33.538-08:00Next event: NOMADOLOGIES, Thursday 28th February 2013<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>OPEN PLAN: Nomadologies</strong></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, Thursday 28th February 2013, 6-9pm. A group show for one night only. New work by artists involved in the project.</span><br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5447000590600354012.post-79098630704448647002013-01-15T03:35:00.002-08:002013-01-21T04:29:57.170-08:00NEXT EVENT - Thursday 7th February 6-9pm<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">New video, sculpture and performance by artists involved in the project.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.gwenbajon.com/" style="color: black; text-decoration: none;">Gwen Bajon</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://petrdavydtchenko.com/" style="color: black; text-decoration: none;">Petr Davydtchenko</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.louiseashcroft.info/" style="color: black; text-decoration: none;">Louise Ashcroft</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.alexjameschalmers.com/www.alexjameschalmers.com/alex_chalmers.html" style="color: black; text-decoration: none;">Fiona Long, Peter Shenai, Alex Chalmers</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, Neela Basu, The Equivocator and more...</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Loosely referencing Michel De Certeau's terms Strategy and Tactic in <i>The Practice of Everyday Life</i>. These terms are summarised <a href="http://itpedia.nyu.edu/mediawiki/images/4/4e/DeCerteau.pdf">here</a>.</span><br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5447000590600354012.post-70992082946155666612013-01-09T16:06:00.002-08:002013-01-09T16:06:33.622-08:001 day collective residency, Thursday 10th JanuaryMembers of AltMFA and RCA Sculpture will be occupying the space for a whole day. This one day residency will be a starting point for collaboration, exchange and sharing ideas about how we want to use the space in the coming months.<br />
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Meeting at 11am for breakfast and brainstormingUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5447000590600354012.post-42773893348208656262012-12-15T07:13:00.003-08:002012-12-15T07:18:25.786-08:00Louise's thoughts 15/12/12. Things I personally would like to explore through the OPEN PLAN project<br />
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I am currently thinking about the structures of capitalism and the state, and how they are played out through the law and what part the sovereign plays, etc. This stems from my repeated reading of <a href="https://uspace.shef.ac.uk/docs/DOC-63149" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">A Thousand Plateaus</a>.</div>
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I have been thinking about the plays <a href="http://www.usq.edu.au/artsworx/schoolresources/goodwomanofszechwan/epictheatre" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">Brecht wrote that were for ordinary people to rehearse</a> - the rehearsals themselves were the performance and there was no audience - the audience and the actors were one. Brecht wanted to use the processes of playing and rehearsal to initiate group conversation and reflection upon socio-political ideas - to resist what Marx called '<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marx's_theory_of_alienation" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">alienation</a>'.</div>
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From these thoughts on rehearsal, I have been thinking about the word 'essay' (and 'essai' in french, which means try or attempt). The essay was invented as a literary form by 16th century french writer<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_de_Montaigne" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"> Montaigne</a>. This has led me to think about the very english idea 'it's not a goal but it's a good try' - which was alledgedly what Rugby School's sports teacher said when <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Webb_Ellis" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">William Webb Ellis</a> supposedly invented rugby while playing football and subverting the rules. I like this idea of a try, or a rehearsal, an attempt. The space we create could be utopian in this way (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utopia_(book)" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">utopia means nowhere</a>, so it is a dream space but it also has to be pragmatic in some way so it can be beliveable and hopeful, because utopia doesn't work unless it feels like it could happen, even though it is never fully attainable). John Jordan's film <a href="http://vimeo.com/18815492" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">Paths Through Utopia</a> is really relevant.</div>
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I am also interested in the shape of the rugby ball and the way it is designed so that it is slippery/unpredictable/<wbr></wbr>omnidirectional. I think it relates to the shape of the <a href="http://www.pdfbook.co.ke/details.php?title=Occupy&author=Noam+Chomsky&category=Political+Science&eid=13161&type=Book&popular=4" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">Occupy</a> movement and Deleuze and Guattari's idea of a rhizomatic spatial mode- the potential to pop up at any place or time, a contingent spatial 'becoming'. In A Thousand Plateaus they talk about the difference between<a href="http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=B9xLrS6mpGoC&pg=PA389&lpg=PA389&dq=a+thousand+plateaus+chess+and+go&source=bl&ots=j3dwlysCFP&sig=FWQRAa_rnK8KrROz63ALKWGjtc8&hl=en&sa=X&ei=XIrMUML3KMSp0QW9xIGIDA&ved=0CDAQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=a%20thousand%20plateaus%20chess%20and%20go&f=false" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"> the game <i>Chess</i> and the game <i>Go</i></a>. I am thinking a lot about social structures and how they are reinforced in real space (the police as performers of this structure, which make the law physical and present, like scaffolding that is always being remade and moved). Form and formlessness (in George <a href="http://aphelis.net/georges-bataille-linforme-formless-1929/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">Bataille</a>'s sense) are ideas I keep coming back to.</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5447000590600354012.post-83658715350685125722012-12-14T05:38:00.003-08:002012-12-14T05:38:48.011-08:00Planning Meeting 11.30, 15th December 2012 at the RCA Sculpture Cafe, Battersea.Artists from RCA sculpture met in the cafe today and discussed the project. <div>
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- there will be <b>a one day group residency (to kickstart the project) on Wednesday 9th January</b>. Everyone currently involved in the project (and others who are interested) are invited to spend a day at the space. We will use the discussion roundtable and screening area. Individuals and groups can begin responding to the space.</div>
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- we should all be thinking about <b>angles of research </b>that we want to explore during this ongoing project. So far, we have talked about the politics of space (the New York based group <a href="http://www.wageforwork.com/">WAGE</a> was discussed briefly) and we have begun to question the art-site relationship, particularly in regard to curatorial conventions and the tropes of the gallery space, the warehouse space, and the now ubiquitous temporary use of empty offices as exhibition spaces.</div>
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- Lina has proposed doing some sound-based rehearsals in January. Everyone has been encouraged to put forward ideas for events, meetings, screenings, performance evenings and exhibitions in the space.</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5447000590600354012.post-28922416299260261402012-12-13T07:18:00.001-08:002012-12-13T07:20:47.411-08:00Designing the roundtable and screenThe space will be divided into 3 segments - a roundtable area for discussion, a screening area for film and video, and an exhibition area for showing works.<br />
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Artists from the RCA will be designing the roundtable and screening area.<br />
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Next meeting: 11.30am Friday 15th December at the Sculpture Studios, 15 Howie Street.<br />
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RCA artists will begin installing works on 18th - 21st December.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5447000590600354012.post-48734405201205922962012-12-13T07:16:00.001-08:002012-12-13T07:16:08.671-08:00Events in JanuaryNew York / London based curator Cathy Serrano will be organising two events at OPEN PLAN in January. She will be focussing on creating a space for exchange and discussion with the aim of facilitating collaboration and site-specific responses to the context of the office space. Dates and info coming soon.<br />
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If you would like to organise an event or meeting at the space, contact louiseashcroft@departurefoundation.com<br />
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The aim is to create a site for creative cross pollination between universities, institutions and individual artists.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5447000590600354012.post-88554521627815570172012-12-13T07:11:00.002-08:002012-12-13T07:16:39.360-08:00<br />
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