Each month Appetite will feature a guest event from one of the other excellent arts organisations from Stoke-on-Trent. The first to feature in this new monthly spot is Airspace Gallery and their new exhibition Pigdog and Monkeyfestos!
PIGDOGANDMONKEYFESTOS is an exhibition curated by Shaun Doyle and Mally Mallinson, exploring contemporary artists’ manifestos and works inspired by the manifesto format. The exhibition includes the artists featured in the first two issues of Pigdogandmonkeyfestos the paper, plus guest artists invited to contribute to issue 3. Although PIGDOGANDMONKEYFESTOS is partly defined by the artists’ interpretation of what a manifesto is, should or could be, the exhibition as a whole is a celebration of difference and freedom rather than the endorsement of a single style or line of enquiry . Featuring over 50 nationally and internationally renowned artists, including Sarah Lucas, Billy Childish and Jessica Voorsanger, the exhibition is a chance to view diverse artistic thought in one eclectic gathering.
Alongside and running throughout the main exhibition, a series of workshops will be taking place at AirSpace and other venues in Stoke-on-Trent. The Cultural Sisters, a creative, visual and participatory arts organisation from Stoke-on-Trent, will deliver a series of scheduled, remote and open creative printmaking workshops. Inspired by the main exhibition, The Cultural Sisters will be working in the community with a diverse range of people to address the broad idea of the Mainifesto and the more personal and relevant respective concerns of the groups collaborated with. The prints made at each workshop will all go in to the PIGDOGANDMONKEYFESTOS Workshops Exhibition to be held in The Resource Room at AirSpace Gallery.
PROGRAMME OF EVENTS
Preview Night Performances
Thursday 1st May
Jenny Moore – Radical People
A new score for custom double-headed guitar, stage and voice. Oooh!
Alexis Milne – Spitting Bitumen : Preaching to the Transit Masses
A transient ritual by the Cult of Rammellzee featuring Tex Royale, Lu Ma Itri Oi, Butchers Corner, Dead Steppa and beats by MJBL8s.
The Artist Soup Kitchen
12 noon Saturday May 10th, 2014 in The Resource Room at AirSpace Gallery
Sausage Nailed To A Board with Doyle and Mallinson
PIGDOGANDMONKEYFESTOS – The Workshops Exhibition
Monday June 2nd – Saturday June 7th
Public Preview
Monday June 2nd 5pm-7pm in the The Resource Room at AirSpace Gallery
AirSpace Gallery is a collaborative, artist led project in Stoke-on-Trent, providing professional development opportunities, studio and exhibiting space and support for artists. Through a dynamic and evolving programme of exhibitions, events and activities AirSpace Gallery brings critical, high quality contemporary art to the region and provides opportunities for a broad range of artists. http://www.airspacegallery.org
Doyle and Mallinson have exhibited internationally at major institutions, most recently Whitechapel Gallery London Open 2012 and Tate Britain, Rude Britannia 2010. Solo shows include Galerie Nostheide-Eycke, Germany, The Dog’s Dinner 2013;
Venlo Stadhuis, NL Ecce Homo Erectus 2008 and MOT International London, Peristroma Dolorosa 2005. Shortlisted in the Artangel 100 last year and featured on The Culture Show in 2010 for their ‘Fascist Fruit Boys’ in Tate Britain’s Rude Britannia, their work, including earlier solo projects is included in numerous public and private collections including Saatchi Gallery, London and Odapark Centrum voor Hedendaagse Kunst, Venray NL.http://www.doyleandmallinson.com
Doyle and Mallinson are represented by Paul Stolper London
The Cultural Sisters is a creative, visual and participatory arts organisation. Established in 1995 and based in Stoke on Trent. Deborah Rogers, Melanie Stace and Fiona Waddle are the core group of professional artists who design deliver and manage creative projects, workshops, consultations, arts in health projects, training, outdoor performances, events, and commissions; using creative processes to engage with people of all ages, abilities, and backgrounds. http://www.theculturalsisters.org.uk
The Artist Soup Kitchen are talks and workshops to explore support networks, good practice and sustainability of the arts and artists in a changing climate. We have noticed that some of the best conversations happen over a good hearty meal and so over a delicious bowl of homemade soup, and specially baked bread, which is provided by B-arts, through their community bread-making project, Bread in Common, these sessions provide an opportunity to meet up in a relaxed and special environment, with a different theme and speaker each time. The Artist Soup Kitchen
Bread in Common Bread in Common is B arts bread project- artists and bakers using real bread to connect people and to nourish communities across North Staffordshire and beyond. In 2014 they will be opening a city centre bakery to support the work. Bread in Common
