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This Will Not
Happen Without You revisits
some of the most compelling art projects, performances and events
in Britain over the last thirty years.
The exhibition begins
by tracing the activities of The Basement Group
(1979-1984). A collective of six artists focusing on
performance and time-based work, the group later evolved into
Projects UK (1984 to 1992), the UK’s
first office-based organisation, working with artists to develop
site-specific events and temporary works.
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This role was expanded
by Locus+
(1993-), who have since commissioned and published
a wide spectrum of innovative, socially engaged, collaborative
visual arts projects, across the country and beyond.
This Will Not Happen Without You will
enable visitors to explore documentation of performances,
projects and events, along with objects, ephemera, publications
and artist’s proposals, spanning the history of
the three organisations.
The exhibition documents unique performances by artists
including Stuart Brisley, Mona
Hatoum, Bruce Mclean, Silvia
Ziranek, Alastair Maclennan,
Rose English, Nan Hoover
and Charlie Hooker.
Mona Hatoum, Look No Body! 1981. © The
Artist / Locus+ Archive |
Projects featured include a series of commissions
by Stefan Gec which deal with his background
as a second generation Ukranian. Natural History
comprised six large black and white photographic portraits,
installed in outdoor locations in Newcastle upon Tyne and Canada,
of the first six firemen killed in the immediate aftermath of
the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in 1986.
Repens,
a temporary commission for Compton Verney by Anya
Gallaccio, transformed an internal ceiling feature
(designed by Robert Adam for Lord Willoughby de Broke
in 1763) into a landscape design, imposed onto the lawns
of the estate. Other artists represented include Simon
Patterson, Cornelia Hesse-Honegger, Lawrence
Paul Yuxwelupton, Richard Wilson,
Layla Curtis and Chris Burden.
Anya Gallacio, Repens, 2000. © The Artist
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This Will Not Happen Without You
features a cross-section of practice that arose throughout
rapid cultural change in this country. The exhibition
reveals much about the processes and contexts through
which each project was developed and realised. By acting
as a catalyst for radical new work, the approach taken
by all three organisations has profoundly influenced art
practice today and its role in the public realm.
Simon Patterson, Landskip, 2000. © The
Artist / Locus+ Archive |
This Will Not Happen Without You is an Arts
Council England touring exhibition, curated by
Richard Grayson. The exhibition opens at the
John Hansard Gallery, after it travels to the
Hatton Gallery,
Newcastle upon Tyne from 10 Feb - 31 March 2007
and Interface,
Belfast from 21 June - 08 Sept 2007.
Filmed Discussion
Throughout the exhibition visitors can watch a filmed discussion
between exhibition curator Richard Grayson
and Stephen Foster, Director, John
Hansard Gallery, displayed in the gallery Reading
Room. Don’t forget - free tea and coffee is available!
This will be available on this webpage in transcription, audio
and video formats.
Due to unforseen circumstances the
filming of this discussion has been temporarily postponed and
is due to take place early December. We are sorry for any inconvenience
caused by this delay.
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