http://www.artteacherforum.com/ Art Teacher Forum Topic: Your gallery show is tomorrow... en Sun, 20 Jul 2008 17:04:24 +0000 http://www.artteacherforum.com/topic/25#post-50 Tue, 31 Jul 2007 12:57:34 +0000 dawnsbrain 50@http://www.artteacherforum.com/ <p>...and you haven't done a single artwork. You've got to justify a fifty-thou arts grant.</p> <p>Quick! Think high concept!</p> <p><a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=412082&#38;in_page_id=1770"><strong>An empty art gallery - the latest from the 'mad' world of modern art</strong></a></p> <blockquote><p>An art exhibition has opened in Cardiff but with no actual art on show, instead visitors are asked to remember their experiences of another art gallery.</p> <p>When visitors arrive at the Chapter Arts Centre they find an empty space.</p> <p>"You are asked to summon up these remote spaces - through memory, body, speech and movement - so that they exist at two locations simultaneously, both here and there," reads the introduction to the show.</p> <p>This bizarre concept has prompted outrage from critics of contemporary art.</p> <p>Artist Simon Pope, 40, admits some people have reacted as if "someone is playing a joke on them".</p> <p>But he has defended his 'work', claiming the underlying purpose of Gallery Space Recall is entirely serious.</p> <p>"I want to guarantee people see this as a serious bit of art work in the context of 40 years of contemporary art practice. I'm not doing this as some ridiculous, radical gesture to get into the press," he added.</p> <p>Instead, Pope says the project is part of a collaboration with Vaughan Bell, a cognitive neuro-psychologist at the Maudsley Hospital in London, aimed at generating a greater public understanding of psychosis.</p> <p>Specifically, the exhibition recreates the symptoms of a disorder called Reduplicative paramnesia, a rare delusional belief that a place or location has been duplicated, existing in more than one place simultaneously, or that it has been 'relocated' to another site.</p> <p>Pope claims that the exhibition creates a condition similar to that experienced by some psychotics.</p> <p>The project has been funded by the Arts Council of Wales and the scientific Wellcome Trust's fund for arts and science collaborations.</p> <p>A spokeswoman for the Arts Council of Wales said Gallery Space Recall was among several projects being supported by a £50,000 grant to the Chapter Art Centre. The exhibition runs until 5 November.</p> </blockquote> [Daily Mail - United Kingdom] </p>