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Bath School of Art and Design becomes a founding associate of Tate Exchange
Thursday, 26 January, 2017Bath School of Art and Design at Bath Spa University is pleased to announce it is now an associate of Tate Exchange and will be staging its first event on 27 January at Tate Exchange in London.
Tate Exchange is an ambitious ‘open experiment’ which allows other organisations and members of the public to participate in Tate’s creative process, running events and projects on site and using art as a way of addressing wider issues in the world around us.
The Bath School of Art and Design event is called “No Working Title” and has been developed by artists and academics Natasha Kidd from Bath School of Art and Design and Jo Addison from Kingston University.
This first project with Tate Exchange will involve 40 students from four different UK art schools coming together for a day of dialogue and exchange about artworks they have made in response to instructions they have previously received from one another.
With their own practice at the centre of the process, the students each received instructions for making artworks from a partner who they have never met. At the event on 27 January, the students will meet for the first time, reveal the work they have made in response to the instructions and engage in critical debate, alongside academic staff and Ann Coxon, one of Tate’s curatorial team.
The event will also include a talk by Ann Coxon, who will discuss the role of the instruction in art and its influence on making, curating, thinking and teaching. A further speaker is David Gauntlett, the author of Making is Connecting and Professor of Creativity and Design at Westminster School of Media, Arts and Design, University of Westminster.
Natasha Kidd, Senior Lecturer in Fine Art at Bath School of Art and Design said: “It is incredibly exciting for our Fine Art students and the wider University to be an official associate of this ground breaking program by Tate that foregrounds collaboration, exchange and most importantly “new ways of reaching audiences.
“Over the last month our students have been busy responding to the instructions they received ready to reveal the work they have made at the event day on the Tate Exchange floor.
“The event looks to be an incredible day that will be highly perfomative. The introductions between students and unwrapping of works are highly choreographed and never fail to surprise. Students are asked to discuss in depth, the implications of making work in this way. It is at the moment of unveiling the work that the slippage between intention, translation and interpretation are made tangible. There are real excitements and disappointments, wrangles and near love affairs. And for the first time the public is invited into this process.
“We are hugely excited to be working with Ann Coxon and David Gauntlett on this event. We have also invited a number of our alumni to take part, with their role being to meet and host the public, discuss the project and invite visitors to write an instruction for our students themselves.”
