The Empty Space Gallery

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"** NEW THURSDAY CLUB ** NEW THURSDAY CLUB ** NEW THURSDAY CLUB **


Supported by the Goldsmiths Digital Studios and the Goldsmiths Graduate School

6pm until 8pm, Seminar Rooms at Ben Pimlott Building (Ground Floor,
right), Goldsmiths, University of London, New Cross, SE14 6NW

FREE, ALL ARE WELCOME
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*13 MARCH with ANNA HOWITT
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The Empty Space Gallery*

The Empty Space Gallery exists to foster creativity, and encourage debate about what ‘art’ is and what ‘artists’ are. It’s a novel way of encouraging people to engage with this thing we call ‘art’ and what it might be. Ultimately it is an experiment in ‘art’, ‘artists’, those that believe in them and those that think they are. The Empty Space Gallery can also be considered an anonymous art fair, where more established and well-known artists share the same space and audience as unknown doodlers.

How does The Empty Space Gallery work?

Individuals, whether ‘artists’ or not, are invited to submit anything they deem to be ‘art’, in any medium whatsoever. The purpose of the experiment is to gain some insight into, not so much how work is created, but how it is received, consumed, and engaged with. The aim is to uncover some of the processes we employ in order to decide whether something is ‘art’ or not.

Once the ‘works’ are received they are catalogued and sealed in plain white A4 envelopes. Only these envelopes are placed on display; no details of the ‘artist’ are available at this time. Visitors to the gallery are invited to pick, at random, any envelope they choose and own whatever they find inside.
In addition, visitors are also invited to create an ‘artwork’ there and then, for inclusion in the gallery, which is then passed on again to another visitor.

ANNA HOWITT is artistic director of The Forward Company, an interdisciplinary arts company based in Berkshire. She also is an arts and literary reviewer. She finished her MA in Contemporary Arts at the Manchester Metropolitan University in 2001 and has since had a residency at the South Street Arts Centre in Reading (2003-4).
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** PLEASE NOTE: KATE PULLINGER & CHRIS JOSEPH (whose Club event had to be
postponed for personal reasons) WILL BE KICKING OFF THE SUMMER TERM OF
CLUB EVENTS ON 24 APRIL **

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THE THURSDAY CLUB is an open forum discussion group for anyone interested
in the theories and practices of cross-disciplinarity, interactivity,
technologies and philosophies of the state-of-the-art in today’s (and
tomorrow’s) cultural landscape(s).