B+B Project History 2000-2003
B+B aim to reflect on the processes and implications of socially engaged art practice. Through dialogue, exchange and open discussions, B+B work to develop a space for critical reflection. B+B support artists and their collaborators in situations ranging from residencies and community-based projects to acts of consultation and activism.
B+B are Sarah Carrington and Sophie Hope. They have been working together since 2000 and collaborate on projects to provoke questions on the social function of art.
Sarah Carrington studied Visual Culture at the University of Brighton (1996-1999) and Curating Contemporary Art at the Royal College of Art (1999-2001). She has worked on independent projects with Anthony Auerbach on Summer School for Bukaka (Austrian Cultural Forum, London, August 2001) and with Mary Jane Jacob as Curator of Public Programs on Evoking History, in Charleston, South Carolina.
Sophie Hope studied Art History at the University of East Anglia (1996-1999) and Creative Curating at Goldsmiths University College (1999-2000). She has worked at Camden Arts Centre assisting on a series of public art projects, and at engage, the National Association of Gallery Education and as a freelance evaluator and researcher. She worked as the UK advertising representative for Frieze magazine and has recently worked in Hungary on developing 'Spaces for Constructive Discourse' at the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Transport.
B+B Projects:
- B+B Archive
- A collection of documentation of socially engaged projects. This collection brings together the ‘afterlives’ of a selection of recent projects from the US and the UK. Projects that involve collaboration and participation on multiple levels require time and resources for the extensive demands of documentation or evaluation. By transporting these examples and presenting their form in different contexts, B+B raise questions and encourage debate on projects that might otherwise live on in memories or filing cabinets. The B+B archive will be housed and developed at the Austrian Cultural Forum from March-September 2003.
- Talk Show
- as part of Critical Mass with Anna Best, Kathrin Böhm and Andreas Lang, Maurice O’Connell and Amy Plant, supported by the British Council
- 19-23 June 2002
- Smart Museum, University of Chicago
- Team Build
- with Anna Best
- 13-14 October 2001
- Baltic Visitors Centre, Gateshead
- Moving On
- with Ella Gibbs
- 3 March 2001
- Temporary Accomodation
- Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
- click here for more information about Programme
B+B presentations:
- Art and Music MA
- 12 November 2002
- Oxford Brookes University
- Library of Unwritten Books
- 31 October 2002
- Pumphouse Gallery, London
- Generosity Projects
- 9 February 2002
- California College of Art and Crafts, San Francisco
- Art as a Contact Sport
- 7 February 2002
- California College of Art and Crafts, San Francisco
- The Perils of Working in Public
- 30 April 2001
- Chelsea College of Art, London
B+B residencies:
- G.a.r.ba Residency
- September 2002
- Montescaglioso, Italy
- Awake
- February 2002
- Green Gulch Farm, Bay Area, California
- Oreste 3 Residency
- September 2000
- Montescaglioso, Italy
B+B essays:
- Subversive Social Work
- Engage article
- Engage Review, 11 spring 2002
- Tracing Change
- Groupsandspaces.net article
- http://www.groupsandspaces.net #0002 June 2002