Performing Paper #7
I took part in Performing Paper #7 at Paper Gallery, Manchester, 22 June – 3 August 2013. http://www.paper-gallery.co.uk/
HOARD:PAPER
Alice Bradshaw collected every item of rubbish from her art practice during 2012 that would have otherwise been thrown away. In defining what is related to her practice as an artist, she kept the rubbish produced through activities such as the physical production of art objects, posting, transporting and exhibiting work, researching and visiting events and exhibitions. She also included in the collection the rubbish which is produced whilst undertaking these primary activities such as coffee drunk in the studio, wine drunk at meetings, tights laddered on art and detritus from medical circumstances impacting on her practice.
The HOARD documents one calendar year of Alice’s life in the form of the negatives of practice. Each object has a personal history and narrative connected to her practice and the various activities that comprise her artistic life. They are the offcuts, the misprints, the used and consumed and the watched, attended and discussed. Objects that do not appear in the HOARD include diaries, sketchbooks and notebooks, receipts needed for tax returns, books, materials that might by used for future works and any other objects considered to have potential use value. Objects which are considered works of art are also not included in the HOARD.
Each item of rubbish has been photographed and catalogued in chronological order (month by month) and analysed. A total of 745 items have been collected and processed in this way.
Paper objects form the majority of the collection and have been selected and curated for Performing Paper #7 at Paper Gallery, Manchester, 22 June – 3 August 2013.
