Manchester Artist's Bonfire

Pledge #14 Alice Bradshaw

Name: Alice Bradshaw

Practice: I work with a wide range of media and processes involving the manipulation of everyday objects and materials. Mass-produced, anonymous objects are often rendered dysfunctional caricatures of themselves, addressing concepts of purpose and futility. I create or accentuate subtleties, blurring distinctions between the absurd and the mundane.
Website: http://www.alicebradshaw.co.uk/ and http://brownpaperbagproject.blogspot.com/

Pledge: The Brown Paper Bag project has been a multiplicit exploration of the brown paper bag spanning over 3 years. Manifestations include a limited edition of brown paper bags supplied to the community, a brown paper bag beermat, a brown paper bag letter, a miniature series of brown paper bags ranging from 15x15mm - 20x20mm, a series a V-shaped brown paper bags, a box made from a brown paper bag, a do-it-yourself brown paper bag box net, a net for brown paper bag boxes, a series of drawings of brown paper bag boxes, a museum exhibit, an exhibition installation and the Brown Paper Bag Box animation. They have been all over the UK, to Australia, Switzerland, Italy, Russia, the US, China, Greece, Bulgaria and Germany.

Now it is time to burn the brown paper bag box.

Details of artwork: 1 box, 80x50x50mm, made from a brown paper bag.



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Light Night Leeds 2010: Mélange, Harvey Nichols, 08/10/10

Light Night Leeds 2010: Play With Your City

Mélange
Harvey Nichols, Briggate, Leeds
Friday 8th October 2010, 18:00 - 21:00



Films, dancers, graffiti and a choir will all play their parting a curated programme of interventions in response to Leeds’ most famous store, Harvey Nichols, creating a cacophony of visuals, movement and sound for you to watch, take part in and enjoy.

Melange curated by Leeds Met Gallery & Studio Theatre in Harvey Nichols

Outside: FriiSpray developed by Jam Jar Collective. Use the digital spray cans provided to graffiti the front window of the store.

Ground floor: Briggate entrance 7pm, 8pm and 9pm: The start of the choreographed work by Tina Murtagh and involving 4 other dancers, Janice Keith, Amber Zamani-Esskeli, Gemma Riley and Dwayne Simms. Acting as personal shoppers, allow the dancers to lead you through the store up to the 3rd floor. At other times the dancers will interact with the public on the escalators.

Artists’ films playing on pillar monitors throughout the store

Level one
Simon Ringe - The Old In and Out, 2010
Simon Woolham - A Short Term Effect
Heidi Schaefer - Second Iraq War, 2009
Rebecca Elliott - Iron

Level two
Phill Hopkins - Dropping the House, 2010
Alex Pearl - Sing / Dance / Little Deaths
Hondartza Fraga - Shell of Shells / Annorstades
Josie Flynn - Pen Top

Level three
Pat Flynn - Untitled (Mobile), 2006 / Untitled (Coinshower), 2001
Alice Bradshaw - Brown Paper Bag Box

Level four projection
Andrew McDonald - Finger, 2002 / Lightening, 2002 / John and the Machine, 2007

Art for Addresses: Gillian Holding and Philip Broad will be working from till points on the middle levels to create art works on postcards in return for people joining our mailings lists Nick Cass has designed a rubber stamp to be printed onto cards. The cards will be mailed out to the participants after the event.

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Fundada Artists Film Festival 2010

FUNDADA ARTISTS' FILM FESTIVAL 2010
14th - 20th August 2010
Square Chapel, Halifax, UK
FREE ENTRY

Kevin Boniface (UK), Alice Bradshaw (UK), Adam Brandon (UK), Sara Brannan (UK), Sarah Buckius (USA), Jane & Mike Chavez-Dawson (UK), Çağlar Çetin (TR), David Cochrane (UK), Robert Crosse (UK), Keren Cytter (DE), eddie d (NL), John Deller (UK), Doplgenger (SRB), Eagle & Feather (UK), Sarah Filmer (UK), Şinasi Güneş (TR), Maggie Hall (UK), Sarah Harbridge (UK), Clare Harris (UK), Max Hattler (UK), Sam Holden (UK), Robin Kiteley & Samuel Stocks (UK), Sai Hua Kuan (SG/UK), Lemeh42 (IT), Lernert & Sander (NL), Sarah Lüdemann (DE), Rä di Martino (BE), Joanne Masding (UK), Fumiko Matsuyama (DE), Kit Merritt (UK), Vincent Meessen (BE), Milk, Two Sugars (UK), Lin de Mol (NL), Marlanna and Daniel O'Reilly (UK), Elodie Pong (CH), Sara Rajaei (NL), Thomas Rummelhoff (NO), Manuel Saiz (IT), Sebaldo (UK), Semiconductor (UK), Tory Smith (UK), Splitty McCheeks (UK), Jacki Storey (UK), Saskia Takens-Milne (UK), Paul Tarragó (UK), Tether / Grin & Slutsky (UK), Kathy Toth (UK), Jenny Triggs (UK), Barry Valentino (USA), Jorge García Velayos (ES), Katleen Vermeir & Ronny Heiremans (BE), Tom Walker (UK), Roland Wegerer (AT), Tomoyuki Yago (JP), Gerald Zahn (AT)

Curated by Alice Bradshaw & Nancy Porter

FAFF2010 Programme: Tuesday 17th August 2010

Paul Tarragó (UK)
The Badger Series Episode 3
The Badger Series has issues and attempts, each episode, to resolve them. Recasting a glove puppet through his own present day sensibilities, Paul assumes the role of a kindly uncle mentor to a household of capersome woodland creatures. Mortality, self-sacrifice, depression, altered states of consciousness and transgressive art practices are all explored as part of their everyday lives together. Meanwhile the show is mindful to adhere to the traditional structural formulae, with entertainment numbers and routines appropriate to the scaled down sitcom world that they occupy. The series is equal parts moral instruction and narrative play, mediate through the forced fit of an experimental filmmaker as children's entertainer.


Kevin Boniface (UK)
Worktime Learning
A postman's diary


Lernert & Sander (NL)
How To Explain It To My Parents: Bart Julius Peters
In How To Explain It To My Parents: Bart Julius Peters, Photographer Bart Julius Peters shows one of his latest photographs to his father - a portrait of a young hockey player in the North of Amsterdam. Dad struggles to understand why it is art and investigates how his son decides on the quality of his photographs.


Manuel Saiz (IT)
The Two Teams Team
The Two Teams Team is a short and multi-layered film about the difference and similarities between video art and cinema, two subjects which Manuel Saiz regularly addresses in his work, often on a meta level. Two actors - one specialised in film, the other in video art - are having a chat. Their conversation revolves around film sets in film and video art, bout differences in budget, about emotions, the relation to fiction and reality, and about punchlines.


David Cochrane (UK)
Cube
Performance related video
2 sugar cubes soak up and exchange coffee from a saucer



Maggie Hall (UK)
Line
"I produce work without a narrative and verbal content, work that exists purely to be experienced communicating a semi-intuitive understanding. I want to leave my work open to the formation of ideas and concepts rather than react to them. Recently I have begun to merge the initial creation of my work with the final product, recreating a version of the process. These works intend to compress, contain and capture the initial energy and tensions revealed in their creation."


Robin Kiteley & Samuel Stocks (UK)
Carbon Dating Angels
The idea of "carbon dating angels" suggests a search for origin, and by extension meaning or truth, in that which is beyond the realms of scientific enquiry. This piece appropriates the controlled and precise movement vocabulary of archive x-ray films in an intriguing, yet impenetrable, ritual of choreographed opened a new visual perspective this films alludes to ways of knowing that are at once buried and revealed.


Kathy Toth (UK)
Loop
Loop is a stopframe animation where handmade charcoal drawings have been photographed. Each object is rubbed out and then redrawn onto the same drawing for the next frame, thus leaving a trace of movement. These objects are inspired by found imagery resembling scientific diagrams. My interest lies in how diagrams are perceived once taken out of context and viewed purely as a set of shapes and lines. While drawing diagrams I begins to associate them visually with other objects in a way that is similar to cloud spotting and 'projective tests' within psychoanalysis.


Semiconductor (UK)
Black Rain
Black Rain uses images from the STEREO mission by NASA (2006-2008) in which twin satellites tracked interplanetary space for solar wind as well as registering violent eruptions of matter from the sun; coronal mass ejections (CMEs). Semiconductor collected all images resulting from the mission, selecting unwanted images usually edited out of scientific research presentations.


Saskia Takens-Milne (UK)
Untitled (Toast)
Saskia Takens-Milne's video art presents us with an uncanny, realistic depiction of life in a looking-glass world. The world depicted is the actual world in which we live, the only world we could - perhaps - ever have, the unreal world of ideology. The work is allusive in nature; but these videos surprise themselves - risible melodrama is a structural feature of her work - by being finally irreducible to, and inexplicable by, their origins.


Alice Bradshaw (UK)
Brown Paper Bag Box
Box, made from a brown paper bag, animated.


Paul Tarragó (UK)
The Badger Series Episode 4
The Badger Series has issues and attempts, each episode, to resolve them. Recasting a glove puppet through his own present day sensibilities, Paul assumes the role of a kindly uncle mentor to a household of capersome woodland creatures. Mortality, self-sacrifice, depression, altered states of consciousness and transgressive art practices are all explored as part of their everyday lives together. Meanwhile the show is mindful to adhere to the traditional structural formulae, with entertainment numbers and routines appropriate to the scaled down sitcom world that they occupy. The series is equal parts moral instruction and narrative play, mediate through the forced fit of an experimental filmmaker as children's entertainer.



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GLOW II: Rites of Spring, Museum MAN, Berlin (DE) 29/04/10-01/05/10

GLOW II: Rites of Spring

Narrative and Non-Narrative Video Program
Thursday 29th April - Saturday 1st May 2010
Bar Z

Alexander Aparzev
Stephan Apicella Hitchcock
Alice Bradshaw
Johannes Buss
Eli Cortinas
Yuriy Kruchak + Yulia Kostereva
Danielle de Picciotto
Thomas Draschan
Jenna Duncan
Matl Findel
Angela Freiberger
Taras Golubkov + Oskana Trypolskal
Heide Hatry
Lan Hungh
Daniela Imhoff
Simona Koch
Konstantin Kopietz
Shanghay Surbir
Megan + Murray McMillan
Vlad Marmaladov
Lauren Moffatt
Jonathan Monaghan
Olek
Sarah Ludmann
Magdalena von Rudy
st.& st.
Denis Salivanov
Vadim Schäffler
Christine Schulz
Karol Slowik
Kai Teichert
Rachel MacLean
Paul Rascheja
Andreas Lorenschat
Nathalie Percillier

GLOW manifests from a winter’s hearth of cinematic program and video installation to a new program exploring the rite of spring’s luminescence and life.
Hedonism, transcendence, utopias (lost and found), idylls and euphoria(s) explored.
Over 20 artists from Berlin and the international arena will participate in the program.
The Narrative program will begin every two hours in the intimacy of The Z-Bar Kino, while non-narrative works play in the main room throughout.
Over the course of three nights an individual artist has been invited for a specific installation within the space of GLOW.

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Repurposes, 20/03/10-18/04/10, Baron and Ellin Gordon Galleries, Norfolk, Virginia (US)

Baron and Ellin Gordon Galleries, Norfolk, Virginia (US)
20th March - 18th April 2010

Michael Alstad, Kristen Alvanson, Mary Babcock, Andrew Bascle, Robert Billings, Alice Bradshaw, Andrew Breitenberg, Jenna Collins, Caroline Cox, elmur.net, Gale Flax, Scott Groeniger, Hilary Jack, Daniel Jasper, JK Keller, John Kramer, Roselyn Leibowitz, Lemeh42, Ann Liu, Paul Matosic, Chris McCampbell, Steven McCarthy, Rebecca Mushtare, Antonia Perez, Vincent Romaniello, Marcella Stasa, Wesley Stuckey, Beth Taylor, Bradly Dever Treadaway, Isabel Uria, Supisa Wattanasansanee

Repurposes Curated by Kenneth FitzGerald, Associate Professor of Art, Old Dominion University, and Garland Kirkpatrick, Associate Professor of Art, Loyola Marymount University.
A joint project of Ephemeral States and Helvetica Jones



Repurposes is an exhibition representing themes of reexamination and reengagement of personal and public convictions. In a time of historic change and challenge—politically, economically, technologically—how do we remake our world and ourselves?

It is a longstanding belief that progress comes from the new—new ideas, new purchases, new media. But what if the answers are already with us? A different perspective is to work with what we have: to reclaim and reconsider. Instead of crafting new principles for how we should regard our world and ourselves, we might first rehabilitate meanings that have been lost or disfigured. Due to misuse and distortion, many terms have been drained of meaning (“liberal,” “conservative, ” “original,” “reality”). A cynical response has been the abandonment of not only the words but also the underlying ideals.

Specifically, artists must also face the overproduction of material culture and its implications for our self and the environment. How might we employ and transform the abundant objects and imagery that already exists? Might we go beyond a simple material-based “recycling” effort to employ the symbolism inherent in material culture? Could “improper” or unexpected expressions and uses may bring revelation?

The work selected for this exhibition takes many perspectives on Repurposing. The most common expression of the repurposing ideal here is through the adaptation of previously used (“recycled”) materials into new forms. However, even in this repurposing, the nature of the transformation and the significance of the initial item or use differs. Some make explicit commentary on relevant topics such as consumerism and waste, while others subtly promote the message of repurposing through the aesthetic pleasure to be derived from the resulting work. Many do both. In addition to transforming materials, there is also work that renovates language and imagery. Words and conversation (both private and commercial) are subject to conversion—to prompt the audience’s conversion to a new way of regarding communication.

The idea of repurposing is evident in the form of the works described above. However, for others, the generating impulse is not as apparent. The repurposing is in the biography, the experience of the artist. The beliefs that we can reconnect with are multiform and subtle.

Repurposing of any kind, expressed in any manner, is ultimately purposing. Examination—and reexamination—of meaning and purpose is always advantageous. Especially if that study leads to action on the convictions we recover or discover.

www.typeandyou.com/repurposes