Manchester Contemporary

Posted on | October 27, 2011 | Comments Off

In case you’re wondering where the Corridor8 team are, tonight you’ll find us mingling at the opening of the Manchester Contemporary. Whilst getting a preview of the latest art from Bureau, Ceri Hand, The International 3 and Workplace galleries, we might also be heard to casually mention the forthcoming third issue of Corridor8, that just so happens to profile the private galleries working in the North. It is of course another new format for the magazine, with new tantalising extras, and a launch date in Newcastle in December.

Just also wanted to mention that the events at MC look good this year too. We’re looking forward to Tom Dickson’s talk (check out the profile in Issue 2 for some background info) and hearing about not only his impressive collection, stored and displayed in his Sheffield mid-terrace, but also his archive of press clippings and memorabilia on every artist in his collection. Thorough stuff.

Art School Alternatives /Liverpool Biennial 2010, 7th October 2010

Posted on | October 10, 2010 | No Comments

John Moore’s University Art & Design Academy, the Johnson Foundation Auditorium. Trailer film. Comprehensive film of the artist-led workshops and discussions exploring alternative concepts and structures of learning can be found on the Art School Alternatives site, http://artschoolalternatives.tumblr.com/

Symposium chaired by Derek Horton and initiated/produced by Laura Mansfield.

Films by Carl Davies

See also the following related articles by Derek Horton:

‘(Sitting on a log) Imagining the SuperCity Art School’, Corridor8 #1 (2009).

‘Unmitigated’, A Latento #3 (2009, ISSN 1755-5787, Eds: Alex Farrar, Harry Meadley & Iona Smith). http://www.alatento.eu/

‘On Flying Through Dust Clouds, Escaping Fog Factories & Doing-it-yourself in the Cultural Borderlands’, Corridor8 #2 (2010).

‘Underground With Duchamp: Digging in and Tunneling Out’, forthcoming, Line magazine http://www.guardian.co.uk/edinburgh/2011/feb/03/edinburgh-line-magazine-edinburgh-college

Participants in the Corridor8 symposium have since been involved in the formation of Strategies for Free Education (http://noinstitute.wordpress.com/), an artist-led think tank and action group run by members of Disrupt Dominant Frequencies (http://www.disruptdominantfrequencies.net/) and No Fixed Abode (http://www.nofixedabode.org.uk/). Upcoming is a conference with a more local educational slant by discussion platform Millpond (http://www.millpond-leeds.co.uk/about#) and student co-operative SLICE (http://www.sliceleeds.blogspot.com/).

Following the symposium, Islington Mill Art Academy (http://www.islingtonmill.com/index.php) have visited fellow participants Department 21 (http://www.department21.net/) and symposium attendees The Glasgow Open School (http://gdiycommunity.wordpress.com/).

Symposium participant Lady Lucy’s current exhibition Whitechapel Gallery Staff Portrait Studio is open to the public until the 22^nd of May 2011 at Whitechapel Gallery, London.

In March 2011 symposium attendees Alternative Strategies played host to a series of open discussions, screenings and workshops which stem from the desire to look creatively, critically and productively at different ways of approaching self-organised education and methods for building on and disseminating knowledge.

http://alternativestrategies.blogspot.com/

Further information

Please see www.artschoolalternatives.info for more information on the symposium and updates on the day’s discussions.

Laura Mansfield is currently co-editing with the ICIA, University of Bath, a publication on interdisciplinary art practice, due to be published March 2012.