August 5th 2009

Line-Up Confirmed

All 40 projects have now been confirmed, and the countdown to create the work is well and truly on. Over the next 5 months the artists involved will be thinking, sketching, experimenting, making, doing and everything in between to come up with their final piece for the exhibition in January.

We’ll see installations, sculptures, moving image, books, posters and lots more besides before we start to fill the gallery at the beginning of 2010. From now on, this blog will document how all of the contributors are getting on, giving you a behind the scenes look at how things are coming together for the grand unveiling.

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August 5th 2009

Thorbjørn Ankerstjerne & Tuur Van Balen

Thorbjorn and Tuur are alpha-male-designers. Combining their passion for making things, they’re eager to explore how it feels to lose control over your body, how walking around with an old map can get you lost in the past and if rubbing the roof of your mouth with your tongue can really prevent a sneeze. It’s all about control and in this collaboration, they can’t both be in control all the time…

Thorbjørn Ankerstjerne
Tuur Van Balen

August 4th 2009

Andersen M Studio & LekaGape

We asked Andersen M (a still from one of their beautiful films pictured above) to be involved in the collaboration project a little while ago and at the end of last week they sent over there thoughtfully considered project proposal.

Andersen M will work with LekaGape, a private non-profit organization which cares about socially disadvantaged people in one of the poorest regions of South Africa. They will be creating posters with children from an orphanage in South Africa, which will be exhibited and sold at the exhibition with all money being donated to LekaGape. A truly worthwhile collaboration.