AF2012 has become ALISN - Artist-led Initiatives Support Network
You can find us at www.alisn.org, and get in touch via info@alisn.org

The Last Babacus

The Last Babacus

We will shortly be announcing the screening of David Buchanan's feature length epic musical 'The Last Babacus'.

View Trailer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfjKc7TfhZ0

Location and Dates TBA

HTAP presents ln/Flux

Dear Friends,

After a year of work with Hackney Transients Art Project (HTAP) we are thrilled announce the unveiling of their major new show:

 

ln/Flux

Launches 6-9pm, Wednesday 2 September

80 Kingsland Road E13 9PA

www.htap.co.uk

All of us at AFMMXII are looking forward to the opening of In/Flux and we would very much like to see you there too!

In/Flux will be listed in Art Monthly, afMMXII network, CriticalNetwork, ArtsJobs, Jotta, Time Out, FaceBook, Art Rabbit, and the Russell Heron blog spot.  The Time Out First Thursdays Tour Bus is scheduled to stop at the show on Thursday 4 September.

 

In/Flux is supported by AFMMXII, Ideas Tap, and Ant Lighting & Production Management.

Sharon Gal's 'Room to Breathe'

Room to Breathe by Sharon Gal
295 Burntwood Lane, SW17 0AP | Saturday 4 July'09

Video Links:
Finale - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orHISX2oCuE&feature=related
Balloon music - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iZlJkRNke8&feature=related
Part 1 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c52rd8ywJdY
part 2 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMtAjS3c1yI&feature=related
Ricardo Tejero & Moshi Honen - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-YNMRUvYMQ&feature=related
Dave O’Connor & Ricardo Tejero - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAi49R7D1L8&feature=related

Photos by Sarah Wyld

HTAP 'Pattern Making for Beginners'

The exhibition took the form of an interactive mapping event investigating community formation through dialogue and play. As a research and collection centre, it enabled experimentation with a sense of place. In addition to photographic traces, object-based narratives and poetic gestures, visitors informed and directed the six different maps presented on the day with their own marks.

Artists: Alison Barnes, Marsha Bradfield, Miriam Kings, Lucy Tomlins and David Woosnam

For more info See www.htap.co.uk

or email info.htap@gmail.com.

See more photos at:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/hackneytransientsartproject/sets/72157621987350493/

HTAP at Hackney WickED Festival

HTAP at Hackney WickED Festival- 'Pattern Making for Beginners'

Facebook event link: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=142596141040

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'Pattern Making for Beginners' investigates community formation through dialogue and play. It proposes creative cartographies as a way of imaging/imagining new forms of sociality that are self consciously contingent, complex and often conflictive. 

The exhibition will be an interactive one-day mapping event. Tools and playful activities will be used to encourage multi-layered audience engagement.

The collection is aimed at uncovering micro stories which may otherwise not have been documented. Personal stories, anecdotes and poetic gestures give a sense of time and place. These will inform the wider concepts being investigated such as our understanding of community formation.

Artists involved are: Alison Barnes, Marsha Bradfield, Miriam Kings, Jessica Marlowe, Lucy Tomlins and Dave Woosnam. 

Come and engage with our activites! 

Lemondade and discussion area provided! 

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Date: Saturday, 01 August 2009

Time: 11:00 - 16:00

Location: The Red House - Behind Counter Cafe

Street: Roach Road, E3 2PA

Town/City: Hackney, United Kingdom

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Call For Objects: 

Could be any object, a sketch, an ornament which means somthign to you, or a documentation of that object (a photograph of the object).

You can bring your object to the event or submit before the event: 

Upload: 

www.htap.co.uk/objectcollection

or by post:

15 Sigdon Road, London, E8 1AP

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Further details:

www.htap.co.uk/object.pdf

For any questions or further information on HTAP events please contact info.htap@gmail.com

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Thank you,

Jordan Dalladay-Simpson

Co-founder of AFMMXII

Needle & Scalpel - 27 June to 3 July

An Exhibition of sculpture and etchings by Edward Addlington and Iavor Lubomirov.

Opens 6pm (Saturday 27 June) with a Champagne Reception.

Thereafter open daily: 4 - 8pm 28 June to 3 July
Address: 295 Burntwood Lane, SW17 0AP

Supported by: AFMMXII & The Magnificent Basement Co. Ltd.

Needle and Scalpel will be the first exhibition resulting from a series of planned collaborations between 'Artists for 2012' and London property developers willing to open their buildings between completion and sale as alternative temporary exhibition spaces.  

The object of these collaborations is:  

1. to provide artists with opportunities outside the gallery system

2. to take emerging art outside saturated artistic hubs in South and East London and into the wider London community

The space for Needle and Scalpel is provided by 'The Magnificent Basement Company Ltd' in a development near Wandsworth Common.  A second show led by Sharon Gal, featuring live performance art, audience participation art and music will take place the following Saturday 4 July from 2-7pm.  Details to follow.

Hackney Transients Art Project

The aim of the Hackney Transients Art Project (HTAP) is to celebrate the transient nature of the people of Hackney and the positive effect they have on their community.

Artist need only email examples of recent work and write 150 words as to why they think the project is a good idea. Deadline 7th December 08.

Volunteers just need to drop us an email to tell us a little about them. Interviewees are ongoing from now until March 2009.

Full outline and how to apply hackneytransientsartproject.blogspot.com

Or download an application pack here.

More info email
info.htap@gmail.com

It is not uncommon to hear the people you meet in Hackney say they were not born here, but moved into the area from other parts of the UK, and the rest of the world, before making Hackney their home. Some stay a few years, others for decades, both taking and giving back to their community in a positive way.

BAA Expo & Goldsmiths

Goldsmiths and BAA have joined forces to create a unique contemporary art and design project: the Goldsmiths/BAA Expo Award with afMMXII. Goldsmiths students from all levels and disciplines have proposed innovative installations for Heathrow Terminal 5, culminating in the commission of two artworks for Departures.

This new partnership started last year and has developed into a meaningful and original project. 70 students in 28 teams originally put ideas forward for the installation. Seven of these teams were invited to develop their concepts and presentations with support from BAA, Goldsmiths, world-leading design and communication agency Imagination and cutting-edge art organization afMMXII.

Heathrow’s role as a gateway for the UK and an international crossroads for the world makes Terminal 5 a dynamic public space that is full of potential for creative intervention. The brief evoked diverse, innovative responses from Goldsmiths’ students, who explored such themes as: air travel as a collapse in time and space; the airport as a temporal, non-place of super-modernity; critical awareness of environmental sustainability; global networks of knowledge and connectivity; and the glamour of flight.

Goldsmiths is internationally renowned for contemporary art and forward thinking design. This challenging collaboration between BAA and Goldsmiths forms a new channel for exploring potential relationships between commerce and creative practice. It has generated a fascinating and mutually beneficial critical dialogue between these two influential partners.

After a final presentation, the 2 winning teams were decided by a panel that included Andrew Shoben, Professor of Public Art at Goldsmiths, and Cathy de Monchaux, Goldsmiths’ alumna and international artist. Andrew and Cathy went on to mentor the students through the award process, lending professional insight and critique.

The winning teams were: Sally Hogarth and Emma Johnson who put forward ‘Taking Place’ - a multi media light installation with video imagery from the departure lounges of airports from all over the world; and Lobby, a five strong collaboration who put forward ‘Arc’ - an arc-shaped structure covered with blue Rimex, the edges illuminated by white LED lights behind a band of frosted perspex.

As a result of this collaboration, these artworks will be displayed for 2 months at Heathrow Terminal 5. The works will be displayed simultaneously on the top floor at Terminal 5 from 13 September – 30 October as part of the 2008 London Design Festival.

Art in the Carpark - Liverpool

10th - 17th Sept 2008: Art in the Car Park was a diverse group show in response to the CCP Car Park, Liverpool. The result was a body of new artwork that weaves into the social, economic, political, historical and geographical situation of the site and the city at large.

In the 80s, CCP Car Park, based in the heart of Liverpool, housed the offices of a car-sales business. After it was abandoned, it remained dormant in the portfolio of property developers until its rehabilitation by The Art Organisation (TAO) this year. TAO respond to the unique situation of a city in regeneration, negotiating the use of empty buildings for use as rich and compelling temporary space for artists and art.

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afMMXII Fellows

afMMXII runs on a three-tier system as follows:

1. Founders
2. Fellows (AFFs)
3. Artists

The role of the fellows is to assist in the organisation, development and management of individual projects or initiatives, as well as assisting the founders in establishing new projects and opportunities. Our AFFs are all volunteers as well as practicing artists, with wide ranging backgrounds and good insight into the current workings of the arts.

If you would like to help us out and become an AFF, please contact us at fellows@af2012.org telling us a little bit about yourself, your experiences with the art world, and any skills you can bring to the team.