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The Department of Wrong Answers
Wysing Arts Centre, Bourn
2-17 April
'The Department of Wrong Answers' is the first of three 'Departments' within Wysing Arts Centre's programme for 2011: 'The Institute of Beyond'. Taking the "meta-idea of wrongness" as a cue to create, five artists - Rob Filby, Laure Prouvost and Francesco Pedraglio (two artists who work together regularly), Giles Round and Cally Spooner - have been residing at Wysing for the past six weeks. During this period there have been regular public events; the project concluding with a public gallery presentation and an exhibition of works made during the residency. With more Arts Council England funding under their belt, Wysing is proud of its growing reputation as an experimental research centre for the visual arts that produces controversial, challenging and innovative art. Basing this year's artists' residencies, exhibitions and public events around 'Departments' fed from 'Wrong Answers', 'Psychedelic Studies' and 'Overlooked Histories', curator Lotte Petersen tells me that Wysing intends to build "new systems, new thinking, and new knowledge". The aim is to found a "utopia" and provide "alternative educational models" that "re-think what is possible". Grand aims, from wrong...
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