Analogue Out in the Open: Unguided Tours

The final part of the Analogue project comes to Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery on Saturday 7 November.  Members of the public will have the opportunity to take part in a series of walkthroughs of the Craftspace exhibition; Taking Time: Craft and the Slow Revolution, curated with Helen Carnac. 

These small, intimate groups will not be traditional guided tours; instead curator Helen Carnac, Craftspace Exhibitions and Project Development Manager Emma Daker, Craftspace Director Deirdre Figueiredo and Visual Artist and Writer Russell Martin will each, in keeping with the exhibition, take time with gallery visitors to talk together about the show, share insights and reactions to work.

The Analogue project, developed by Russell Martin, aims to highlight the themes of Taking Time, promoting dialogue between practitioners and bridging the gap between contemporary crafts practice and non-arts practitioners.

Deirdre Figueiredo is Director of Craftspace which works in partnership with makers and artists, audiences, venues and a diverse range of organisations to push boundaries and perceptions around contemporary crafts practice. Craftspace’s artistic programme explores contemporary crafts and making across diverse social and cultural contexts through a programme of touring exhibitions, action research partnerships, learning and participatory projects.

Emma Daker is Exhibitions and Project Development Manager at Craftspace, a crafts development agency based in Birmingham. Until recently Emma was Contemporary Craft Curator at Bilston Craft Gallery, the dedicated craft venue of Wolverhampton Arts and Museums. Emma holds a degree in 3D Design (Crafts) from the University of Wolverhampton and an MA in Museum Studies from the University of Leicester.

Russell Martin is a visual artist and writer living and working in London.  For the past ten years, he was worked exclusively with dialogue as a medium, and remains interested in how this can create and maintain social structures.  Recent projects include Rational Rec, a monthly interdisciplinary arts social event, and Portable Radio, a series of recorded dialogues with art practitioners around the UK.  Russell was commissioned by Craftspace to initiate the Analogue project in advance of the Taking Time exhibition.  More information can be found at russellmartin.org.uk.

Helen Carnac is a maker and academic. As a maker Helen is interested in her work being centred self-consciously on the explicit connection between material, process and maker, with an emphasis on deliberation and reflection. Helen was co-chair of the 2006 ACJ conference Carry the Can www.carrythecan.org, which hoped to develop understanding and debate about the different ways we value material and process today and recently co-curated the exhibition ‘Process Works’

www.craftspace.co.uk

www.takingtime.org