5 Invitations

Graceful Rock

Live drawing session 

Sunday, September 19th, 2:00pm - 3:00pm

Location: 53 28'55.85"N 2 15'29.85"W

Arrivals

Moving in to Castlefield Gallery

We moved into Castlefield Gallery on 13 September, set up our office and started to receive responses.

Invitation No. 3: Graceful Rock

A live drawing session at a specific location.

Emailed to Castlefield Gallery's mailing list and posted on facebook.

One of three

A set of three pencils

Each pencil given to a specific artist during a dinner party 

Each invitation so far sent out has been a considered gesture taking into account who will receive it. In this case I thought it appropriate to create an adaptation of invite No.1 to give to a photographer and a artist/designer. I kept the third pencil for myself.      

Anticipation...

Preparing to move into Castlefield Gallery on Monday. Invitations bearing fruit - lots of responses coming through. Always exciting and intriguing. Need to collect a response from the post office, I look forward to opening it with great delight. Thanks for all the responses so far.      

Invitation No. 5: Press Play

An audio file.

Sent by text message and email to individual artists working with sound.

Invitation No. 4: Directions

Directions for a walk.

Inserted into Castlefield Gallery infomation rack.

Invitation No. 2: A Title, Should You Choose to Accept It.

An envelope, containing a title.

Handed to specific artists, sent in the post and slid under doors.

Invitation No. 1: Please Take One

Pencils, with an instruction for use, delivered to:

Islington Mill

Hotbed Press

Rogue Studios

Bankley Studios

Mirabel Studios

Ian Simpson Architects

Invitations

Over the last week Association have been busy sending out a series of invites to various people in Manchester, to encourage them to respond to our current practice.  We hope that these invites will stimulate new conversations and potentially encourage future collaborations. We are not asking for anything in particular in response - and we accept that some people will choose not to respond.  All the responses we do receive, however will be documented and archived during our time at Castlefield Gallery.

In the meanwhile, invites are finding their way to various corners of the city.  We have sought out certain artists who have specifically shown an interest in working with us, but also covertly deposited invitations in places, to be discovered by whoever happens to pass by.  Envelopes have been slid under doors, text messages have been sent, directions have been given and objects have been deposited.  We await the responses with great anticipation!

If anyone would like further information about where to send a response to, please email us:

associationprojects@gmail.com

Please Take One

Association @ DJCAD

Association were invited to take part in a presentation of work at Ducan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design in Dundee with Dundee based artist collectives Now Now and Ganghut.  The presentation was organised by DJCAD as an 'exchange of ideas event' with the potential of developing a collaborative project in the future.

We'll keep you posted on any further developments.

http://www.exhibitions.dundee.ac.uk/programmes_current.html
nownowprojects.wordpress.com
www.ganghut.co.uk

Our presentation coincided with the End of Residency Event, for artists Sophie Lisa Beresford, Michael Mallett and Stephen Murray who had taken part in the Cooper Summer Residency.

Summerhouse @ Castlefield Gallery

Association have been invited by Castlefield Gallery to take part in their Summerhouse project.  We will be occupying the gallery between 13-23 September 2010, to undertake the following project:

  

Throughout the summer Association will send out a series of invitations to artists in Manchester, inviting them to respond.  Each invite will be a carefully considered gesture which references our previous activity, but is devised to encourage a response from particular groups of artists. The response we request is non-prescriptive and may take the form of a piece of work, conversation, a further question, or in some instances, nothing at all.  The direction of our activity in the gallery is reliant on the intervention of others.  We intend to arrive at Castlefield Gallery armed with the many or few responses we receive and embark on a fortnight of activity; digesting, collating and responding to our replies.

We will be posting further information about the progress of the project over the next few weeks.

Castlefield Gallery

Islington Mill

Invitation to respond

Whilst working towards the next phase of Association, we have asked a series of guests to contribute to our blog. We await the results with anticipation. 

Shadow drawing

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