Profiles

Visual arts organisations and projects in the North West region.

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100th Monkey

Description: Named after a dodgy theory of parallel evolution and shared experience, the artists' collective 100th Monkey rose from the ashes of the university-based collective 14 Gifted Children. Exploiting collectivity more for motivation, opportunity and asylum than collaborative practice, 100th Monkey seeks to develop projects which expand networks between artists. Our aim for fluid membership allows for the expansion and contraction of numbers depending on the project in hand. 100th Monkey …

A Foundation Liverpool

Description: The A Foundation is a registered charity established by James Moores in 1998. The primary purpose of the Foundation is to support the development, production and exhibition of contemporary visual art and, in particular, to focus on the enrichment and regeneration of Liverpool through culture and the arts. As well as a gallery in Liverpool, A Foundation now has a sister site at Rochelle School in London. Greenland Street, Liverpool: Greenland Street is an arts centre located in the Old Por…

Abandon Normal Devices (AND) Festival

Description: After its smash-hit inaugural year in Liverpool last Autumn, this year’s Abandon Normal Devices (AND) Festival of New Cinema and Digital Culture is hosted by Manchester from 1 – 7 October 2010, where it once again invites a host of international cross-platform artists and filmmakers to investigate the question: what are normal devices? How and why might we abandon them? Abandon Normal Devices is a 2012 inspired new festival and has already produced award winning work, Apichatpong Weerasetha…

ACIDHIVE

Description: ACIDHIVE is a contemporary virtual gallery space which promotes undiscovered artists through the means of a website. This concept is prevalent in today’s society as technology is advancing at a rapid pace; the main example being musical artists promoting their music on the internet through sites such as Myspace. And now, it seems fitting that art should do the same. This is an adaptation of the norms of a typical gallery set up in which there are plaques of information about the work on dis…