Open call for artists
Is My Work Commercial Enough?
Workshop by Chris Evans
10 November, 11:00 am, factory space
Townhouse Gallery of contemporary art is inviting visual artists to participate in the workshop “Is My Work Commercial Enough?” Each artist may submit one or more pieces of his/her work to discuss with a group of internationally renowned curators.
Artists have to be available physically for the workshop. Artists may bring the actual works with them or submit the works on a digital format.
Deadline for the registration is 2 November 2008.The workshop is conducted parallel to the exhibition “Lapdogs of the Bourgeoisie” taking place at Townhouse Gallery from 9 November till 3 December 2008 featuring artists Annika Eriksson, Chris Evans,Fleischmann / Michele di Menna, San Keller, Hassan Khan, Natascha Sadr Haghighian, and Marion von Osten. The exhibition is curated by Nav Haq and Tirdad Zolghadr
About the workshop
Chris Evans
An adaptation of Chris Evans’ Is My Work Too Commercial? (2006) this workshop continues the artist’s investigation into how art objects are produced, circulated and consumed. It bears echoes of an earlier project, Free Tutorials (1999, with Duncan Hamilton), which involved a minibus of artists visiting six art colleges. Unannounced and thus mildly intimidating, the tutorials “encouraged students to talk about their work unencumbered by institutional protocol”. In 2006, Evans continued his explorations into art world conditions of production with the large-scale project Militant Bourgeois, addressing the truism that artists require financial hardship to produce valuable work. Is My Work Too Commercial? and Is My Work Commercial Enough? are informed by a spirit of open inquiry, bringing a well-known professional blend of pedagogy, career tactics and aesthetic strategy to new and bewildering extremes.
cf: storegallery.co.uk/exhibitions/tutorialsFor registration and more information please contact Dalia Suleiman on:
dalia@thetownhousegallery.com, +2 0122250495, +2 (0)2 25768086