Conversations Series II Launch ‘Other Transmissions’ is a touring project launching at Tate Liverpool as a Tate Exchange event
A touring programme resulting from artists’ residencies that explore stereotypes, and ‘art world definitions’.
Artists: Joe Beedles, James Desser, Amy Ellison, Frances Heap, Andrew Johnstone and John Powell-Jones, supported by Venture Arts’ James Pollitt.
‘Other Transmissions’ is a touring project launching at Tate Liverpool as a Tate Exchange event from 20 – 24 March 2019, coalescing around a programme of drop-in workshops and talks informed by ‘Conversations Series II’ artist residencies led by Venture Arts’ with programme partners’ Castlefield Gallery and the Whitworth.
Following the launch in Liverpool, ‘Other Transmissions’ travels to Artlink Hull, where from 29 March – 21 June new works developed through ‘Conversations Series II’, will be shown alongside key works from the Whitworth’s Musgrave Kinley Outsider Art Collection, one of the most significant public collections of Outsider Art in the UK. Works on loan from the collection will include pieces by Henry Darger and Judith Scott.
On 28 June at Paradise Works, Salford, 6-9pm will be a film screening of ‘Other Transmissions’ group film and an exclusive live immersive intervention by Joe Beedles.
‘Other Transmissions’ will complete at The University of Salford, New Adelphi Gallery, from 1-31 Oct, where several works produced by the ‘Conversations Series II’ residency artists will feature alongside documentary material of the ‘Conversations Series II’ process, captured by the university’s BA Graphic Design students. Visual responses in the form of zines, riso-prints and film will be shown with the touring programme.