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ArtFayre Programme 2005

Thursday 22nd September, 7pm-9.30pm

ArtFayre opens and free refreshments will be served.

Friday 23rd September

12noon ArtFayre opens

12-5pm I Love My Yugo! Sarah Carne provides an artwork and tour/taxi service all in one, in the form of her Yugo car. Trips take place every 30mins from ArtFayre and Baltic alternatively. To book a trip, visit the Waygood stand or call the Yugo Booking line 07989 496565.

1.15pm Hull Art Lab presentation at HAL stand.

2-4pm André Spicer and S Mark Gubb discussion event at ArtFayre Café, chaired by Ray White.

5pm Close

Saturday 24th September

12noon ArtFayre opens

12-5pm Sarah Carne Yugo trips take place every 30mins from ArtFayre and Baltic alternatively.

1pm ROOM presentation at printROOM stand (to be confirmed)

2-4pm Joel Fisher and Mark Little discussion event at ArtFayre Café, chaired by Ray White.

5pm Close

From 5.30pm After Fayre celebration and warm up for Park Lane party, DJs and live music from Chippewa Falls, until 9pm.

Waygood International ArtFayre 2005

22nd – 24th September 2005

Discussion Events
Waygood will be holding a number of talks and presentations during the ArtFayre. Details are correct at the time of going to press, and the talks’ titles are to be seen only as starting points from which to explore the issues surrounding the ArtFayre and contemporary artistic practice, in what we hope will be lively and inspirational dialogues between the producers, facilitators and consumers of art.

Friday 23rd of September:

1.15pm Hull Art Lab - Creativity v Imagination (or Inspiration is a Myth)

In an improvised, three-way, informal conversation, Hull Art Lab will ponder the finer points of contemporary art practice, and the unchallenged belief in ‘free’ inspiration as a driving force in artists work. Should rigour, contemplation, and careful consideration of ideas replace serendipity and chance to ensure that art avoids stagnation and the carefree repetition of ‘good’ ideas, or should the muse take control?

In this conversation Espen Jensen and Rob Gawthrop will argue these issues ‘live’ whilst Bob Levene’s contribution will be a pre-recorded projection.

2pm – 4pm. Rhyme and Rhizome - How do the recent developments in the organisation of cultural production and circulation affect creative practice?

Speakers: Andre Spicer and S Mark Gubb. Chair Ray White.

André Spicer is a member of the ephemera editorial collective (www.ephemeraweb.org). He has been involved in a range of other publishing enterprises include student media, a post graduate journal, and a mainstream print based journal. He is currently a lecturer in Organisation Studies at the University of Warwick. His research focuses on the cultural industries, organisational politics, and alternative enterprise. He is currently writing two books entitled: The Power of Resistance and Unmasking the Entrepreneur.

www.ephemeraweb.org

S Mark Gubb is an artist based in Nottingham. He has recently completed The Wheatley Sculpture Fellowship at Birmingham Institute of Art and Design and, in October, is going to Krakow, Poland, to be hosted by Bunkier Sztuki as Arts Council Moving Image Fellow. Other recent projects have included ‘Romantic Detachment’ at PS1 (MoMA), New York, and ‘A Real Rock Archive’ for The Public, West Bromwich. Mark also works as a writer and lecturer and is part of the advisory panel for a-n The Artists Information Company, initiative ‘NAN’ (Networking Artists Networks). Mark positions his work in a range of contexts and has a particular interest in the cross pollination of contemporary cultures with art and the dissemination of critical and credible art in to an alternate arena; how this effects the work, the culture it draws on and the relationship the ‘art’ has with a non arts specific audience.

www.smarkgubb.com, www.arealrockarchive.com

Saturday 24th of September:

1pm. ROOM presentation - to be confirmed.

2pm – 4pm. Squaring the Circle - In an environment of supposedly mutually supportive initiatives, how does the more commercial model of some art fairs and institutions co-exist with artist-led initiatives?

Speakers: Joel Fisher and Mark Little. Chair Ray White.

Joel Fisher has a consistent and extensive exhibition history extending over a number of years. He has been honored with over 100 one-person exhibitions in private galleries around the world, and solo shows in such museums as the Stadtisches Museum Monchengladbach, The Palais des Beaux-Arts Brussels, The Museum of Modern Art Oxford, the Stedleijk Museum Amsterdam, and the Kunstmuseum Luzerne. His artwork is in over 45 public collections in at least 12 different countries, such as the Centre Pompidou Paris, Stedleijk Museum Amsterdam, The Museum of Modern Art in New York, The Tate Gallery and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.

Mark Little is Senior Lecturer in Visual Culture at the University of Northumbria. His main interests include art and technology, new media technologies, the body and the urban. He is a member of the Editorial Board of the cultural studies journal, Parallax and a founding Editor of the Journal of Visual Culture. He is a practicing artist working in collaboration with Lloyd Gibson - their latest project is Zuza, a work based on the life of an Algerian woman who died on Tyneside while an exhibit at the 1929 NE Coast Exhibition.

Ray White is an independent curator and project coordinator. He is a founding member of the disco artists’ collective, has been a steering committee member of Live Art organisation platformnortheast for the last three years – coordinating the annual event this year. He also programmes for A-Side, the artists’ film and video strand of Side Cinema, Newcastle upon Tyne.