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Dates: 5th April to 24th May 2008 Katy Beinart / Alex Buhagiar / Clare Carswell /
Catherine Charnock / George Mogg / Darla Oglesby /
Ann Rapstoff / Kay Sentance / Louise Taylor /
Jo Thomas & Vicky Vergou
Preview Friday 4 April, 6-8pm
GIFT is an exhibition of new work presented at OVADA Gallery and at sites around Oxfordshire by The Ideas Exchange (T.I.E.) based on the themes of reciprocity, currency and exchange. T.I.E. is a group of 12 artists from a range of disciplines, nationalities, ages and backgrounds that was formed two years ago. A core aim of group is to develop new ways of thinking, and communicating with each other, about their art practice and as such provides a supportive critical forum in which to create and evaluate new work and to connect with others in the wider community. Their practices span video, installation, painting, photography, performance, text and social intervention.
The exhibition takes the broad theme of GIFT, a concept that underpins the group's commitment to exchange and reciprocal dialogue. Gift, in this exhibition, is less the giving and receiving of material goods, and more about other forms of generosity and exchange. Compassion and social connection are brought into the gallery setting, for example, in the work of Ann Rapstoff, who has constructed an Office for the Dissemination of Sympathy, and by Alex Buhagiar in whose work local Amnesty International members play the major part.
These interpretations of exchange also go beyond the gallery into the city of Oxford, with several of the artists working directly with the public or with specific community groups. Katy Beinart, explores her family background drawing on history, geography and horticulture to make a site-specific work in Oxford's Botanic Gardens. Contrasting imagery drawn from local Medieval sculptures with mobile phone Bluetooth technology, Clare Carswell will be out in rural Oxfordshire making a series of interactive performance works that offer a private 'art-moment' to a new audience, challenging the conventions of intimacy and exchange in public places.
Alongside the artworks in GIFT, T.I.E will be hosting a programme of associated events, live art performances and workshops around the city of Oxford and at OVADA.
http://www.theideas-exchange.org Exhibition gallery: 17 images > View all images &h(200)) | Related events:
Meet the Artists
(Thursday 10th April 2008)
Talk and Meet the Artists
(Saturday 24th May 2008)
Gal.
(Thursday 17th April 2008)
Meet the Artists: Film Night
(Thursday 15th May 2008)
Tour of Oxford Botanic Gardens
(Saturday 17th May 2008)
Office for the Dissemination of Sympathy
(Friday 4th April 2008 to Wednesday 7th May 2008)
Film Night
(Thursday 1st May 2008)
Gift Limited
(Friday 18th April 2008 to Thursday 15th May 2008)
Dinner Party
(Thursday 8th May 2008)
Come play...
(Thursday 22nd May 2008)
Gift Limited
(Friday 18th April 2008 to Thursday 15th May 2008)
ME-WOMAN, The return
(Tuesday 20th May 2008)
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