projects

Audience, listening

Cinzia Cremona/ Manuela Zechner

"No Artist is an Island" is a one week project space at the Artillery in Walthamstow, London, in which artists and producers develop, test and share new ideas, and aims to explore relationships between artists, artistic production and audiences with an open-ended approach.

It is an opportunity for artists and producers to develop their creative practice and gain critical feedback from their peers in a very practical sense. The project space is intended to function somewhere between studio and gallery, to develop artwork that involves an element of audience participation, live performance or the site specific. The purpose of the project space is not to produce a static exhibition of work but to instead allow participants to develop work in which audiences may be invited to participate. The shape of what takes place is determined by the participants.

For No Artist is an Island, Future Archive will take different forms on different days:

1. On the open day, one or two group interviews on the themes of Proximity, art practices and audiences, with invited guests, open to interventions by the other participants and the visitors. One of these conversations will be with Critical Practice, reflecting on their relation and approaches to audience, spectatorship and proximity.
2. A Future Archive lab, where Cinzia and Manuela will hold open discussions about the project itself.
3. A series of individual and/or group interviews on the themes of artists-audience relationships - very flexible and open format, to be adapted to the changing circumstances of the project space.
4. Cinzia will conduct a series of experiments as 'performance to camera', using the parameters of the Future Archive to create a personal performative space.

Some of the outcomes will be edited and shown in the Changing Room Gallery on a video monitor.