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Do My Bidding! - Europe!....
By: Lou Taylor
We will be travelling Europe to determine if relational art is received differently than it is here in the UK. We will be driving through various countries in a campervan and working with galleries there as well as interacting with people on a less formal basis, on the streets and inside the campervan.
Lou Taylor
Do My Bidding was established in 2007, our purpose being to work collaboratively on projects that reach a wide audience and bring art to the disadvantaged.
The collective consists of two female artists who endeavor to undertake both collaborative works and independent pieces. We aim to engage in at least one community project per year, working in under-privileged areas to bring art and art practices to those who might not have access to them.We aim to improve our social adhesion in communities as well as anywhere else we can work.
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Lou and Net.
# 2 [14 March 2010]
Many thanks to our sponsors docscanning.co.uk
Luckily for us (and him because he now has a very good job) the managing director of the company went to university in Wales and was therefore willing to fund our project as we are promoting Wales across Europe, also probably because he is a well educated man he has a great appreciation of the arts!
11/03/2010: So, off we go to Weston Super Mare by train (thank you Swansea Metropolitan for the tickets) to collect the vehicle that will be our home for a month from 1st of April 2010.
12/03/2010: The Evening Post called today, I gave an interview over the phone. It was most embarrassing as I used words like "discourse" and other anal art talk. I did however make my view on art/artists known.... (if you know me then you will know I think it's pretty much mainly bullshit).So keep those peepers out for the Evening Post so you can read all about my inability to communicate properly!Will let you know when we will be featured, start saving your pennies to buy your copy!Today: Clearly I am not very good at this blogging thing yet as obviously I should be letting you all know where we are going! Div :P
Starting off late on 31st of March we will be leaving Swansea for Harwich where we will get the ferry to Denmark....From Denmark we will drive to Sweden where we will be working at our first gallery, tapper-popermajer. Next we go to Saksala ArtRadius in Finland. The next gallery, Sabot, is quite a drive, it's in Romania! To get there we will go through Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia and Hungary. From Romania we head to Serbia and Elektrica and then we go to Croatia's Labin Art Express (the place I think Netley is most freaked out by!!). From Croatia another long drive through Slovenia, Austria and Germany to Belgium, we are still waiting for ultimate confirmation from this gallery as the dates have changed,Gallery-Gabrichidze. From there it is through to France and then back home where we will be exhibiting the entire work inElysium Gallery's new building.We have also been offered a show in tactile Bosch in July!!
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What a great project. I am jealous of you. I hope it goes well and and I want to read your interview in the evening post which sounds like it cuts through what some see as phony arts speak etc. An area I have struggled with for many years.
posted on 2010-03-14 by Rob Turner
# 1 [14 March 2010]
It has been decreed by a power almighty that we are to journey off into distant lands to bring a message of joy and goodwill to all people.
Europe...
Do it!
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