Following the success of INTERROGATION: WALSALL September will see INTERROGATION: WEST BROMWICH. I will be acting as guest artist/mentor on the Site-specific mission.
Anna Francis’ INTERROGATION projects ‘explore how… art… can connect with public realm space.’
From the brief:
The concern this year will be to investigate how artists are bridging gaps - gaps in infrastructure, regeneration and consultation processes, and bridging gaps between people and cultural activity. This will be done through four interrogation days using four different methodologies:
INTERROGATION: ACTION RESEARCH (08 September 2010)
INTERROGATION: PARTICIPATION (15 September 2010)
INTERROGATION: SITE SPECIFIC (22 September 2010)
INTERROGATION: INTERVENTION (29 September 3010)
Each ‘interrogation’ will last a full day and will see around 20 artists (5 per day) becoming secret agents - learning about different approaches to each of the methods and then planning their own approach, supported by the guest artist and Anna, and going in to the town centre, to put theory into practice, interacting with the public of West Bromwich.
Each ‘interrogation’ will produce a set of evidence and information which will be displayed, to build up a picture of West Bromwich and the role the artist can play in ‘bridging the gap’.
The findings of each interrogation day will be displayed in the town in an empty shop space which we will be using as or HQ for the duration of the project. There will also be a symposium event to disseminate the findings of the programme and to share our approach with other artists and regeneration professional alike at the start of October 2010.
See Longhouse for more info.