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1st of NOVEMBER OPEN EVENT ATP/CRITCAL PRACTICE
AtelierTransPal / Critical Practice
A few words on AtelierTransPal:
AtelierTransPal is an ephemeral structure dedicated to facilitating (art/critical) off-site practices. AtelierTransPal is made up of 2000 wooden pallets assembled to make up a space (20m long, 4 m high, 7 m wide,– dimensions variable). AtelierTransPal is a modular multifunctional structure – at Chelsea AtelierTransPal will become a set of spaces made available to students, researcher, staff, artists, others… for their practice, for a duration of 5 weeks (1st of November – 8th of December). (see text for flyer and model of ATP)
What are 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…
I would like to set up a space on http://www.criticalpracticechelsea.org/ to have a kind of collective putting together of thoughts, questions, ideas, suggestions relating to the 1st of November event, to AtelierTransPal, to individual art practices /mass economy, to Critical Practice… but I am not sure where to put it (and how to do it effectively so that we all know about it and use it easily). Could someone help with this?
AtelierTransPal project and Critical Practice
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 sort on that day/evening.
In order to prepare this event we should start thinking about :
What do we want to do on that day? What issues would we like to discuss / how would we like to do so? What type of images, words would we like to screen? What would we like to test out and experience? What food would we like to cook/eat? What public would we like to call upon to join us on that day? What kind of space would we like to organise within the AtelierTransPal structure to do this in (see Atelier trans pal structure modular plan)?
As well as responding freely to such question and asking further to clarify what we might do, I will very shortly be setting up a questionnaire of sort that could be a way of materialising some thoughts, ideas, sentences on “what is a (art/critical) practice”
I look forward to taking part in this exchange via the web site. I will be in London on the 9th,10th and 11th of October to meet up with those of you how would like to do so, to discuss these issues and others relating to AtelierTransPal.
Best wishes
Stefan Shankland art.space@wanadoo.fr
To set up an exchange process between members of the Critical Practice group in order to collectively explore the idea and actuality of “platforms for art related practices”.
Participants:
Atelier Trans-Pal (Stefan Shankland) Vernacular’s Protocol (Stéfanie Bourne), and members of the Critical Practice Research Group (all of us).
The Atelier Trans-Pal (ATP) project and its related research will be used as a means to stimulate exchanges on “platforms for art related practices”.
ATP could also be used as a tool to orchestrate a public event relating to this collective exchange process
more info on ATP
The modality of the exchange process involving the members of the Critical Practice Group will be conducted applying Vernacular’s Protocol conceived by artist Stéfanie Bourne.
The 4 main steps of Vernacular’s Protocol are:
1 – Identifying a common ground (with part taking CP members):
Setting up of a commonly agreed frame for our exchanges (when, where, how, how many times…).
Establishing a communication mode through which the discussion process will take place (telephone, mail, e-mails, one to one conversations, interviews, parties, blind dates…).
Establishing the broad territory of mutual interest (my suggestion will be “platforms for art related practices”; but this would be discussed).
2 – – Interaction, exchanges, communication:
Carrying out the collective interaction and exchange process about the chosen issue using the agreed mode of communication.
The communication and exchange phase lasts as long as it has been agreed in phase 1.
Material (all sorts) resulting form the process of interaction and exchange is accrued.
3 – – Event(s):
At an agreed time but in an undisclosed form, aspects of what has emerged in phase 2 are drawn upon to create a (public) event (speech, film screening, guided tour, meal, cancelled event…).
Collaborators (CP members) as well as other members of the public may or may not be invited to take part in or whiteness the event.
4– –Feedback:
Every body that has taken part in the Vernacular Protocol process is given the opportunity to give feed back on what the process has generated for them. The feed back can be in what ever form is seen appropriate and could be about the vernacular protocol itself, the Critical Practice group, CP members’ own work practice, platforms for art related practices, or the quality of the wine offered after the public event...
Stefan Shankland / 20 07 06
This supercedes the proposal submitted as a result of the 23th March CP meeting back to ATP
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Last modified: 01.10.06 by stefan
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