Oreste 3
B+B is formed! Sarah Carrington and Sophie Hope meet on a residency in Montescaglioso, Southern Italy organised by Oreste. Participants include groups of young artists and curators from Finland, Holland, Hungary, Poland and Great Britain.
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B+B is formed! Sarah Carrington and Sophie Hope meet on a residency in Montescaglioso, Southern Italy organised by Oreste. Participants include groups of young artists and curators from Finland, Holland, Hungary, Poland and Great Britain.
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B+B initiate their first public event in response to Ella Gibbs' Programme at the Whitechapel Art Gallery during the exhibition Temporary Accommodation. What are the after-effects of collaborative and multi-authored ways of working?
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How to avoid New Labour funding jargon! B+B host a spoof-seminar, providing advice and strategies for artists to work in public at the Workers of the World - Where art thou?, a conference held at Chelsea College of Art.
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Be a princess of persuasion! B+B and Anna Best host a two day event on the notion of artists working as agents for change at Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead. Participants included Kathrin Böhm, Maurice O'Connell, Barnaby Drabble, Lucy Kimbell, Nina Pope + Karen Gurthrie, Barbara Stevini, Jon Winet and Carey Young.
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Practice random acts of kindness! B+B take part in a conference in San Francisco about artists who situate their work at the service of others. Contributors include Carlos Basualdo, Peter Coyote, Jeanne van Heeswijk, Mary Jane Jacob, Ben Kinmot, Cesare Petriousti, Michael Swayne, Jorgen Svensson and Temporary Services.
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B+B transport four projects from the UK to Critical Mass, an exhibition of activist art practices in Chicago.Projects include Contact by Amy Plant, Occasional Sights by Anna Best, Cubes by Kathrin Böhm, Andreas Lang and Nicoline van Harskamp and the Penryn Valley Project by Maurice O'Connell.
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Anna Richardson, Emma Roberts and Barry Sykes accompany B+B on G.A.R.B.A., a residency, in Montescaglioso, South Italy.
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Schools as sites for experimentation? B+B work with the Education Team at Whitechapel Art Gallery to evaluate Creative Connections, a large-scale artists-in-schools initiative.
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Why do artists hang around in parks bothering people? B+B hold a discussion in response to a collaborative project by Sam Brown and Caroline Jupp at the Pump House Gallery.
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B+B host a six month programme of residencies, discussions and events with artists at the Austrian Cultural Forum London. Contributors include Artpool, Halt+Boring, Edina Husanovic, Siggi Hofer, Helmut and Johanna Kandl, Tadej Pogacar and Paula Roush.
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B+B attach themselves to projects in areas of social change and regeneration. Projects include Matchmakers in North London by Kathrin Böhm and Andreas Lang and Brand New Letchworth with Tara Sampy, OFFMO, Big Hope and many more.
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Artist as... B+B join the core group of Interrupt, a series of symposia across the UK which aims to stimulate debate around the central question 'Where does socially engaged, participatory and education arts activity stand within current debates around contemporary arts practice?'
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Boycott Biennale! Ella Gibbs, Alasdair Hopwood, Paula Roush, Sean Parfitt and Barry Sykes join B+B on journey to survive the Prague Biennale.
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Art for change! B+B travel to Paris to visit the ESF to investigate if art is activist enough.
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Archive alive! B+B take their archive of socially engaged projects to Stuttgart. Tara Sampy joined B+B to discuss the afterlives of process based practice.
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Migration, representation, collaboration and activism in contemporary art. An exhibition and programme of events at the Pump House Gallery, Battersea park, London in May 2004. Participants include Zeigam Azizov, Big Hope, Ursula Biemann, Phil Collins, Petja Demitrova, Esra Ersen, Grassroots Collective, Edina Husanovic, Adla Isanovic, Sejla Kameric, Klub Zwei, Martin Krenn, Kristina Leko, MAIZ, P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Museum, Photoinsight, Lisl Ponger, Marko Raat, Isa Rosenberger, Social Impact, Szuper Gallery, Wochenklausur, Moira Zoitl
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B+B workshop at Tate Britain, Wednesday 11 May 2005 10.30–4.30
Tracing Change is the culmination of our research into the role of the artist in processes of social change and planning. Since 2003, we have journeyed to three socially engaged art projects in areas of regeneration around the South East of England. Tracing Change will present these examples of complex partnerships between artists, arts organisations, architects and planners, business and corporate interests, regeneration agencies and communities.
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ICA, London, 23–28 August, 2005
As part of London in Six Easy Steps at the ICA, we have developed Real
Estate as a response to the use and ownership of land in London. Artists
and activists featured in Real Estate take forms of control and instrumentalisation
as a starting point from which to intervene, subvert, play and disrupt the
city.
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image: Polly Braden and David Campany, 'Stretch Limo', from 'Adventures
in the Valley', 2005
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Along country lanes and urban cross-roads, an itinerant apprentice offers
ideas and articles of all sorts traditional and revolutionaty, abundantly
crafted in exchange for skillful demonstrations and socialble company.
Notion Nanny is a collaborative touring project in which Allison Smith takes
on the role of an itinerant apprentice traveling through rural and urban
districts in search of traditional skills and revolutionary dialogue. Through
a series of residencies and exchanges, Smith builds a temporary guild, a
platform for discussion, and a sculptural installation, which together form
the basis for a cumulative traveling exhibition making stops in Cumbria,
London, Shropshire, and eventually, the United States.
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A two year project comprising of exchanges, projects, conersations and a temporary Union.
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‘Art School: Workshops for artists and commissioners of art’
is a new agency run by Sophie Hope with a team of Art School Instructors.
‘Art School’ develops critical thinking and debate about arts
relation to society with those working in the arenas of art, business, architecture
and local government. The workshops provide innovative tools for commissioning,
developing and evaluating art in traditionally non-art contexts.
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B+B are evaluating the Art U Need art commissions taking place in neglected
open spaces across South Essex. The projects are commissioned by lead artist
Bob and Roberta Smith and Commissions East. These pages map the context
of Art U Need, giving the background to the funding and regeneration agendas,
information on the five sites and the art projects taking place in them
and feedback from interviews and discussions with the different people involved.
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Sophie has continued to work on B+B projects and her independent practice
since 2006.
Check the NEWS blog for regluar updates
on Sophie's projects and activities and visit the
research pages on this website for info about Sophie's current work
on her PhD.
Use the scroll bar below to find more information about Sarah and Sophie's
past B+B projects.
Sophie welcomes any feedback you may have or information you want to share
and can be emailed on sophie[at]welcomebb.org.uk
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