- Venue
- Guildhall Shopping Centre
- Starts
- Saturday, October 22, 2011
- Ends
- Friday, October 28, 2011
- Address
- Unit 22a (first floor), Queen Street, Exeter, Devon EX4 3HP
- Location
- South West England
HEIST is an artist-led curating project created as a response to the visit of the British Art Show 7 to the Southwest in Autumn 2011. It uses theft as a metaphor and mechanism for dealing with the large and disparate body of work that makes up the British Art Show and the associated Plymouth Fringe. Bypassing many of the usual rules of thematized curation, HEIST has allowed the success or failure of a series of negotiations with artists and art professionals to dictate the content of a show. Removed with apparent haste from Plymouth, a loose collection of art, artefacts, relics and ephemera will be presented in a vacant shop in Exeter. Appropriation, quotation, imitation and other forms of artistic ‘lifting’ will be utilised. HEIST explores the mechanics of the contemporary art market, including the value assigned to different types of art or artefacts. It reflects on the legal as well as illegal transactions that utilise art as a commodity or currency.
