AtelierTransPal is an ephemeral structure dedicated to facilitating art/critical and off-site practices.
AtelierTransPal at Chelsea College of Art and Design is made up of 2000 wooden pallets assembled to make up a space - 20m long, 4 m high, 7 m wide, – or dimensions variable - in the Parade Ground
AtelierTransPal is a modular multifunctional structure is a set of spaces available to students, researchers, staff, artists, others for their practice, for a duration of 5 weeks (1st of November – 8th of December).
The aims of the AtelierTransPal project
To bring together the pallet - the pallet has been declared to be one of the most significant inventions of the 20th century shaping the way we conceive and practice world economic exchanges, the circulation of goods across the world - over 60 million pallets produced every year in GB, and Art (the unique art object, the individual artiste/author of his/her work, the autonomy/singularity of all art practices…)
To set up a confrontation between the world of globalised economy (the pallet) and a space of individual creative practice (the artist’s studio)
To raise questions about how one practices (art) in the context of mass exchange of goods and information. What tactics for art practices in a context of globalised rules, norms, regulations, codes…?
To raise questions about how art practices exist/operate/ developed… amidst the reality of a mass economy. What means for a creative practice that is not necessarily part of a profitable economic system?
To raise questions about what happens in this no-mans-land that separates the art school – Chelsea (the institutions in charge of nurturing artists and new art practices) and the museum of contemporary art – Tate Britain (the ultimate destination/aim of all art practices?)
And more…
AtelierTransPal project / Critical Practice open event
As part of the support Critical Practice has been giving to the AtelierTransPal research project, we thought it would be a good thing to use AtelierTransPal’s Open Event Day, on the 1st of November, to organise a Critical Practice platform of sorts.
Themes of the protocol are discussed here but in the main people responsed to ATP, the protocol and the bitterly cold weather.
Critical Practice was invited to manipulate the 2000 pallets in readiness for the event on 1st November. A ATP installation floorplan was submitted to ATP and enacted on the 28th October.
ATP is a project by Stefan Shankland, developed with the assistance of Pierre Jorge Gonzalez / Judith Haase / Atelier Architecture & Scenography Berlin/Paris, and coordinated by Lieux Communs Production – projects for the European public domain. It is a part of Paris Calling
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Critical Practice was invited to manipulate the 2000 pallets in readiness for the event on 1st November. A ATP installation floorplan was submitted to ATP and enacted on the 28th October.