A short play as meditation on the primary and secondary functions and realities of art production, curating and ‘art as exhibition’. Wade will take us on a short journey through the stages of exposition, rising action, climax, falling action and denouement hinged on the proposition ‘art is not exhibited, art exhibits’.
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Gavin Wade is Director of Eastside Projects, Birmingham, an artist-curator and Publisher of Strategic Questions. In 2010 he received the Paul Hamlyn Foundation Breakthrough Fund Award for exceptional cultural entrepreneurs. Curated projects include: Painting Show (2011-12), Dan Graham: Models & Videos (2011), Book Show (2010), Joanne Tatham & Tom O’Sullivan: Does Your Contemplation of the Situation Fuck With the Flow of Circulation (2009) & This Is The Gallery And The Gallery Is Many Things, (2008), Eastside Projects; Strategic Questions Venice, 52ndVenice Biennale (2007); Public Structures, Guang Zhou Triennial, China (2005); ArtSheffield05: Spectator T (2005). His books include UPCYCLE THIS TEXT, Stroom (2011); Has Man A Function In Universe? Bookworks (2008); The Interruptors: A Non-Simultaneous Novel, Article Press (2005); STRIKE (adjusted by Liam Gillick), Alberta Press London (2002); and Curating In The 21st Century, The New Art Gallery Walsall (2000).
*Image: The True Artist Helps the World by Revealing Mystic Truths (May 4th, 2012), Gavin Wade