Special Collections Room, Bower Ashton Library:
Lilla Duignan
2nd - 27th October 2010
Towards a Tribe Manifesto
The Future's So Bright I Gotta Wear Shades (Timbuk3)
messages from the bookfront:
INTERESTED IN EVERY THING
REINING IT IN
LETTING IT OUT
TOO MUCH STUFF
IT'S REAL
IT'S VIRTUAL
….bringing it all together…& tying it up…
AN INCOHERENT BODY OF WORK
TRIBE: tales from the bricoleurs
Admiring Meir Agassi's work enormously, Tribe came about as a meta title and descriptor enabling Lilla Duignan to document her eclectic practice, and that of her collaborators: a way of giving rein to disparate aspects whist containing practice. The Meir Agassi Museum® came about partly as a result of Meir discussing some of the problems of diversity in his practice, with Annette Messager.
Tribe all have stories to tell in our work, and though from disparate backgrounds, we each recognise a common desire to find ways we can collaborate, to put ideas across, to make the sum greater than the parts...
The Small Centre for Collaborative Practice is a website as well as an ongoing piece of work, a developing aspect of Tribe's practice …a space for documenting making, for exploration, dialogue, dissemination & exposition around artists' publishing -
artists’ books / performance / bookworks / events / ephemera
The exhibition in the Special Collections Room will aspire to document key concerns of Tribe's work, and as such is not yet a fixed or predetermined thing: in honouring and trusting the process, the form will reveal itself. Tribe, too are excited to see what evolves: seeds of ideas fro the exhibition are quietly evolving.
For those of you able to visit the show there'll be an opportunity to participate in a Tribe project.
You can also visit the website and explore the work there; see also if you would like, for instance, to participate in a piece of Anne On's work.
All Tribe work involves documentation and digital imagery - adjustment - reconfiguration - and fabrication - all of which by their nature evoke questions of scale, existence, and form: of what is 'real' … with this in mind, it is clear that a Net presence is one apt mode to disseminate Tribe's work and to reach a larger audience; yet love of the handmade - crafty-ism and arty-fictions - also mean a presence in the so-called real world remains crucial.
The Meir Agassi Museum® references
ARTISTS
DREAMS
EMOTIONS
IDEAS
LANDSCAPES
MEMORIES
POETS
OBJECTS
PICTURES
SCENES
SOUVENIRS
SPIRITS
TEXT
what more could we possibly add?
Web References
Timbuk3 singing The Future…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvIAyxpjEuc
The Meir Agassi Museum
http://www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/magassi08.htm
see Tribe at Lilla's website
www.thesmallcentreforcollaborativepractice.com/big/TRIBE.html
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