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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June 10th 2009

Dance / Danse (working title)

Julien and Nicholas have come up with a great proposal… in their own words: “Each day, we are surrounded by seemingly insignificant objects, taking them from one place to the other, or leaving them on a table for weeks, without paying any attention to them. We ignore or forget them, using things only when we need to, making sure they donʼt interfere or inhabit our space. But what if they were not so stable and subservient? What if they could swivel, bounce or even fly. And what if they did so all at the same time?

We want to imagine a place where objects could live and move, harmoniously, and of their own accord. Without interfering with each other these objects would bounce, roll, turn and cross each other’s paths. This experiment is about re-discovering our daily surroundings. The scene would be interactive. Each object is assigned to a letter on the keyboard, and can be activated or deactivated at any time.

This experiment is based on the short film ʻTangoʼ from Zbigniew Rybczynski. During the exhibition, we will invite people to interact with these objects. They can randomly press any button, or even spell some words, their name, and see how the space will react.”

May 10th 2009

Julien Vallée & Nicholas Burrows

Berlin based Julien Vallée has been making beautiful things for some time now, but we’ve never quite managed to find the opportunity to have him involved in and IYC project. Until now that is, as he’ll be combining forces with Nicholas Burrows from Nous Vous in Leeds, UK. Above is a 3D piece recently exhibited by Julien in Zurich.

Julien Vallée
Nicholas Burrows