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Reprise

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part of Independence, commissioned by curator Chris Hammonds

End Date

3 Aug 2003

Start Date

3 Jun 2003

Location

South London Gallery: London

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Reprise was part of Independence, a celebratory exhibition at the South London Gallery, marking the devolution of the Gallery from Local Authority management.

Reprise was presented by the director Margot Heller at the opening party on the 1st June 2003.

On our behalf, Margot read a speech that we found through our research in the Gallery archives. The speech was first delivered in 1893 by the founder [the Gallery began in 1868] and director William Rossiter to the Gallery Council. Rossiter was fighting to retain the independence of the Gallery by keeping it out of Local Authority control, he was fearful of swapping one form of indebtedness, inherent in financial support - from private donation to public subsidy- for another .

Rossiter lost the battle to keep the Gallery independent.

108 years later, and although the direction of the Gallery's movement is reversed - from public subsidy to a 'mixed' economy - the forms of indebtedness remain the same; the struggle for independence is being uncannily replayed, in reverse.

Reprise
A souvenir pamphlet, with annotated text of the speech delivered by both directors
ISBN 1 898 461 244
Price 20p

Published by the South London Gallery and millimeter.org

Available from the gallery

Welcome

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Commissioned by Adam Budak and Marta Tarabula to coincide with the international conference on contemporary curatorial practice, Polyphony of Voices in Krakow.

End Date

23 Oct 2002

Start Date

21 Oct 2002

Location

Galeria Zderzak, Krakow Poland

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Galeria Zderzak is one of the first ‘commercial’ galleries to grow outside of the state funded system of patronage in Poland. While researching the gallery through its archives, we found video evidence that the director Marta Tarabula had been welcoming visitors and introducing artists at every exhibition opening since 1985.

We edited every welcome together, and this video loop played for the duration of the project; endlessly introducing artists, and welcoming each visitor.

At the projects inauguration, we in turn were introduced and thanked, and the audience welcomed by Marta.

Welcome makes explicit the exchange of obligations between a gallerist, the artist invited to exhibit, and an audience. Although in this instance, we declined the invitation of being promoted by the gallery, and instead Welcome uses the opportunity to assist gallery Zderzak through representing the gallerist Marta Tarabula.

The Polyphony of Voices international conference organized by the Bunkier Sztuki Contemporary Art Gallery in Kraków focused on the problematics of contemporary curatorial practices. One of the conceits of the conference was that each panel made from international curators, would be curated by artists. With contributions from Elmgreen & Dragset, Marysia Lewandowska/Neil Cummings, Andrea Fraser, Azorro Group, Christian Jankowski and Mariola Brillowska.

Andre Fraser's remarks on the conference

Museum Futures production meting

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Museum Futures Production meeting
Brad's studio London May 2008

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Dirk Vanhecke
Gallery Transit 2007

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