Floor Plan for an Institution

#2. The Auditorium
Vinyl Art Space
26th November – 18th December 2012

Details of Grooup Residency opportunity by Vinyl Art Space attached as a poster.

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#1. THE RECEPTION: BACKROOM 1987-2012

PV Thurs 8th November, 6-8.30pm
Exhibition: 09/11/12 – 25/11/12
Open: Fri – Sun, 1-5pm
In response to The Reception, two Worcester-based galleries, Pitt Studio and Division of Labour, present Backroom 1987-2012 by Spanish artist Antoni Muntadas

Backroom 1987-2012 is a durational installation which reoccurs in various locations over a number of years creating a conversation about the private, public spaces in every institution and the transparency of the activities that take place therein. Backroom is a version of another work called Quarto do Fundo – backroom from 1987. Muntadas placed a CCTV camera in the backroom of the Louisa Strina Gallery in San Paulo, access to this room is barred by a rope. The backroom in a commercial gallery is a space for keeping archives, documents, the store of works and most importantly where many dealings in the art market are made.

“Technology forces the door of the secret and the indiscreet camera unfolds what belongs to this category of the invisible, the constitutive principle of the exercise of power.”
Muntadas/Volume 1 Between. pg 241

Floor Plan for an Institution is a durational collaborative project, whereby artists & curators from 5 artist-run spaces have been invited to contribute to the design of a speculative artist-run institution within the Meter Room project space, as a means of collectively imagining an alternative model for what an art institution could be. Floor Plan for an Institution approaches the medium of the exhibition as a space where art and its institutions are imagined and speculated upon, rather than a space where fixed cultural values are represented.

Curators from each artist-run space have been invited to create one of the rooms for the institution, the sum total of which will create an alternative model for how an artist-run institution could be formed and how it might function. The following rooms will be responded to over a 5 month period:

#1. The Reception – Pitt Studio, Division of Labour
#2. The Auditorium – Vinyl Art Space
#3. The Cafe & Bookshop – Movement
#4. The Archive – Down Stairs
#5. The Gallery – Grand Union

The 5 artist-run spaces that have been invited will be hosted away from their usual sites and ways of working, giving them the opportunity to develop an off-site project in the Meter Room project space. Work will remain in-situ at the Meter Room after each exhibition to give a sense of movement between each room of the institution, and as a means of prompting dialogue between each curatorial response to the project.

Floor Plan for an Institution approaches the medium of the exhibition as a space where art and its institutions are imagined and speculated upon, rather than a space where fixed cultural values are represented.