The Manchester based art collective Archipelago present Consulate of Cornerhouse, an exhibition as provocation exploring the emancipatory potential of the new "participative" organisational paradigm. Consulate of Cornerhouse will inhabit a site facing Cathedral Gardens attached to The Triangle Shopping complex in Manchester city centre from 19^th February until 6^th March. Work will also be displayed in the Cornerhouse itself from 24^th February until 9^th March.

The Consulate of Cornerhouse will re-imagine and reconfigure essential material elements of Cornerhouse (a space, a group of people) off-site, operating as Cornerhouse "on foreign soil". The Consulate will include a fabrication of the director's office, with programming plans for imaginary future Cornerhouse projects. Archipelago will realise one of these plans in the consulate space; an idea to memorialise the current Cornerhouse staff by making casts of their faces. The finished casts will then be displayed in the "real" Cornerhouse from 24^th February, accentuating both the connections and differences between these two groups as organisational forms.

Between 24^th February and 9^th March in the "real" Cornerhouse watch out for the approaches of the self driven official/unofficial market researcher, as well as a screen based web interface visible from the street outside. The screen will display live edits to a series of problematic statements; enticing anonymous editorial decisions from audience members and passers-by, the reward for input being the acclaim of authorship or heightened obscurity depending on the choice of moniker.

Archipelago are a group of practitioners with diverse experience across art and academia who share a common interest to artistically engage with contemporary notions of organisational structures and how this affects the various actors involved; artists, curators, institutions, and audiences.

Archipelago met through derive (details below)

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A project in self determined criticality, with a view to developing support structures that recognise and take a position in relation to current and changing forms of hegemony in art.

 

 

 

 

What is it?
A monthly gathering for artists who see research as a crucial part of the continuous development of their practice.
An opportunity to work up an area of interest that may not currently be supported by what comes to hand, and present to a like minded group, with a view to developing the support structures needed.
A space to share and engage in critical discussion.
 
What are the aims?
To recognise the choice to be based in the North West in order to see what can happen from this position.
To crystallise and make visible, the forces which drive and coerce the production and distribution of art, by building up a critical dialogue through regular presentations of a diverse series of interests.
To find ways of measuring development and/or success, through articulating a self-awareness of operating outside of an academic structure.

 

 

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