Art

A new work, Art, was shown as part of Rethink: Idea, Output, Exchange, a group exhibition responding to art in the time of 'austerity'

This one day event took place on the first day of the new tax year (2011/12) at PS2, 1 Rivington Place, London EC2.

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March 24, 2011... Artists Tim Etchells, Xavier Le Roy and Marten Spangberg, Mirza & Butler, Roelof Bakker and Michael Atavar show new and existing work for one day only as part of Rethink: Idea, Output, Exchange at PS2, 1 Rivington Place, London, April 4, from 12 until 8pm. The works encompass the genres of performance, photography, dance, visual art and artists' film.

The three-part art project Rethink: Idea, Output, Exchange, from Curator/Practitioners Michael Atavar and Portland Green is sited across three different spaces: the salon, the gallery and the publication. It invited artists, curators, funders and cultural thinkers to consider, through artistic practice, the function and role of art and arts practitioners within the current economic and political climate. Firstly through a series of salons in March 2011, then through an exhibition on April 4 and finally through an archive newspaper publication. The project is designed to occupy the three spaces between the end of the current government spending review period through the first day of the new financial year and into the future. It seeks to challenge the status quo and to respond to an increasing climate of uncertainty within the arts and arts practice.

ARTIST STATEMENT: What’s left of the art section in a recently closed down London bookshop are three labels taped to empty shelves: ARTISTS A-Z, GENERAL ART and ART HISTORY. These sections are photographed individually and presented together as a triptych.

Bakker says, “Art is a personal exploration on the future of art referencing aspects of its history.”

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