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The book "Luxury Goods – The Cost of Art", with an introduction by Michael Glover, and afterword by Tracey Mobley, displays all the artists texts from the first festival opposite an image of their work, and is available HERE.
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Georgian Television Coverage of The Festival
The text follows
On Sunday 1st feb Luxury Goods London completed their first festival at the Foundry, EC2. Luxury Goods explored 'the cost of art' through visual and performance art, painting, video, film, sculpture, music, storytelling, symposiums, and poetry, subverting the gloom and doom narrative of the economy in the heart of the city. Over 50 artists from all walks of life took part.
Following the example of the Society of Independent Artists, the only requirement placed on each artist was to include a 50 word text (not 49, not 51, but 50 on the nose) about the COST OF ART. Constraining their text to 50 words precisely, the artists discussed cost and constraint constrained by a precise word count. All submissions were accepted.
" Is the practice, production, and consumption of art a luxury? What are the commercial physical, spiritual, or mental costs of art? Luxury Goods festivals are dedicated to questioning meaning through art. Join in, and celebrate art, money, pain, outsiders, guilt and uncertainty across the world. Use 50 words, take part!"
Some festivals exist for the sake of the fun that you have there. Even this year's Venice Biennale, coming once again in June, will be much about who knows what, and whether you will be invited over to the best parties at Peggy Guggenheim's palazzo.
And then - oh yes, I almost forgot - there is the art, and, at the long end of a chain of hustle and barter and persuasion, the artists who made the stuff in the first place. What do they get out of it?
This is what Luxury Goods London was all about, and it is why it is worth remembering in this commemorative book of texts and
images. This festival – which did- n't last quite as long as the Venice Biennale will go on for – more's the pity – faced up to the cold, hard stare of commerce, and tried to make it come clean about itself.
Do artists, who sweat so long and so hard over their works, whether they be film, paintings, sculptures or zany performances, really get their financial due? Of course, we know all about the successes ad nauseam, and that is why we need to look a little harder, at what most artists receive as a financial reward for their labours.
Yes, art is a luxury good indeed for those who have a big enough wad to buy a Hirst or an Emin, but for the great majority of artists themselves, it is about graft, toil and
having just enough to get by. Art as a luxury good? No, art, for far too many, is a near-poverty bad.
That's what this festival was thinking about, and it's what we too should spending much more time pondering upon, soberly, so that more artists get their due.
Michael Glover
Art Critic, The Independent
Giles Abbott "Patched & Mended" new storytelling
Costs for my art? Ten years work to learn storytelling and literary skills. A lifetime's love of language. Research time absorbing classical sources, weeks to craft my version. Rehearsal and direction time. The cost of audience attention, that alone, priceless. And I went blind before finding story - what price eyes?
Holiday Goddess.com is a female-friendly travel website. Anna Johnson (who created the image Boulangerie here) is just one of the Paris devotees involved. At Holiday Goddess we know Paris = art = life. The French capital is a necessity not a luxury. And like Anna's work, it's not for sale.
Victoria Aitken Singer
Vicky from the yacht is all about having it all and then having nothing. At 99 cents its cheap to buy and not expensive to make. But the inspiration of having that idea could only come from having once been enriched in the world of luxury goods, ideas priceless?
CHRISTOPHER ALLEN: 'If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery...'
http://www.christophernallen.com
Working as a designer requires the creation of work in different media at different stages to pitch and sell an idea, normally with a single final outcome. If each stage becomes ‘limited edition’ in its own right, where does the value lie?
B.I.K.E
Black Label is the colour sewn on their leather. Worship the tall-bike at the bike kill. Outlawed by the outlaw. Ride together, eat together, joust together, even in hard times. Tony you are a happy fuck clown fuck-up. They admire your determination, but this is not the family you need.
Buy my story! It’ll cost you the earth! Buy a piece of my terror! Satisfy your blood lust! Give me a million because I’m prepared to sell. No news = no money. No sensation = no deliverance. A thousand faces lie in the mud. At what price do we buy their silence?
Captain J. Hugh L. Beattie ART MUST COMMUNICATE
www.jhlb.co.uk
Art should communicate with its audience fluently, in any context and in the future. When a painting can be read by the viewer without prompt or plaque it has enduring value. The message the art expresses however, does not have to reflect the artist's intent, he is just the conduit.
Responding to the idea of idealised femininity and also alluding to the cost of luxury goods in a wider context. Trophy women sit alongside other luxurious trappings, becoming ever more decorative, consuming luxury goods to attain a persona of perfection, but at what cost to other women around the world?
Luke Brennan Free trade
I exchanged a drawing for this hat. The picture is now tender of equal value to the hat, a currency that appreciates with investment. I would be willing to swap 20 paintings and a sculpture for a reasonable sized studio apartment, or 3 paintings for a holiday to New Orleans.
Luke Brennan Exquisite Corpse
Down with consumerism, capitalism complacency, the latest Nike iPhone
Hummer, the newest 70Inch Plasma Screen Encrusted Bling-Ting. Stop rotting; discontinue watching superficial husks Live Life for You. Up with discussion, creative friendship, respect, community’s built on bike love. Unite in Recycling cycling, Polish rusty treasures. Devalue value, value the devalued.
The hungry money god up on the`waters of blood he trod steel- in for ever more this oily war why my my chrystal eye we all turn to diamond when we purify never push a camel through the needles eye coz heaven is broken theres a hole in the sky
Michael Bucknell Critique of The Institution Video
Art school is a place of suffering we go through to become bad writers. They promise to help us meat their "learning outcomes", years later we recover. If it is not written they cannot see. One student, two disability advisors, one note taker, one camera, no failure, and no recording.
Michael Bucknell "Chinese Vermillion" five thousand pounds
I lust after paint. I collect colours excessively. All single pigment oils. I went go hungry for cobalt or cadmium. Since I moved to London I have dreamt of Michael Harding's fifty-pound Chinese Vermillion. It was worth it maybe now you can see the beauty of the old masters...
Michael Bucknell Monument to the Unknown Cyclist
Waste materials, detritus of lives junk into art - to be scaled, or not. How many must die so cars can live, yet how else can we move our art. Plasma cutter, a tool of war fashions pacific art. Ten years of my life to make this- a waste?
Deirdre Cunningham Work one
I don't like feeding conspicuous consumption, so instead create temporary installations or experiences often critiquing war. The cost to me is financial. No astronomical prices for me. It's still a luxury though – no-one will suffer if they don’t see it. So this time I've created a real luxury good.
Deirdre Cunningham Work two: credit card dominoes
As an artist I serve "social competition for status and prestige" *. But the Art market is no different from any other market in luxury goods. The credit crunch is sending that crashing too. Which might mean more opportunities for institutional critique or even more economic and social disempowerment.
*Fraser, Andrea (2005) Museum Highlights, the writings of Andrea Fraser, ed Alexander Alberro, Cambridge Massachusetts and London, MIT press.
They travel only by bicycle. They are talented musicians and acrobats. They travel from country to country giving open- air performances. Drawing others interested in living out the same experience. The last six years they have travelled 40,000 kilometres, through 27 countries in four continents, 125 people have travelled with them.
. . . . HERE WE GO!!!! RIGHT!!!! HOLD ON TIGHT NOW!!!! FUCKING BLINDER!!!! IN THE GRINDER!!!! WOOOOOOAHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!! CRUNCH Saatchi!!!! CRUNCH the White Cube!!!! CRUNCH the West End!!!! CRUNCH the art schools!!!! CRUNCH the midgets!!!! CRUNCH the critics!!!! CRUNCH the lotta ya!!!! CRUNCH!!!! CRUNCH!!!!!!!! CRUNCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! CRUNCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!! KERRUNCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!! NOW SHIT IT ALL OUT YOU TWATS……
Anne Brodie,Ruth Dupré and Louise Gilbert Scott. Roker Breakfast, Film
My work has always had a driving force which has absolutely nothing to do with making money. I make work because I have a ferocious need to be challenged. I feel compelled to follow ideas and hunches that often lead nowhere, but just often enough they explode and nurture me.
Matt Elton Symposium Table www.matteltondesign.com
To cost a piece of my hand made furniture I base it on the design, craftmanship and complexity of each piece. The price has to cover all these factors but most of all has to work in unison with the piece of furniture itself. That’s the hardest thing to achieve.
Constantine d'Estoteville Skipwith A colourful dance
A blend of colours to most is nothing but normality; to me it's the joy of choice which has no cost but simply the one of daily observation to colour my view! Art is a luxury available to each of us bezplatno.
EXTRASUPER www.disperserecords.co.uk
Due to the increasing commodification of music in recent years, music as art has become more and more marginalised. As a result Al Hyland (the artist behind EXTRASUPER) has created a netlabel to distribute his work and the work of other artists for free under the Creative Commons Licence. www.disperserecords.co.uk
Filthy Lucre Calum F. Kerr
Art Brass Bread Coppers Cow's Licker Dosh Doubloons Dough Fiver Grand Lady Godiva Lolly Mill Monkey Moola Nicker Nugget Pony Quid Readies Score Shekels Shrapnel Silver Smackers Spondulicks Squid Tenner Ton Tony Benn Wad Wedge Wonga Let Us Say All this Filthy Lucre For Us to Collect And Pour Away
Alexander Fiske- Harrison Performance
Last summer, the Pendulum, a play written by its lead actor, was put on in London. The cast was excellent, the reviews were good, the returns were terrible, losing 97% of its cost. Why was it put on? Art, vanity, therapy or a complete misunderstanding of the value of things?
Andrew Gough www.agoughphoto.com Middle England Art Collector
"Extended Winter Sale, this artwork now 70% off, Invest in this new talented Artist before his prices increase, although you'll never sell it, you need it to start a conversation about how much it's worth now during dinner-parties . THIS ARTWORK IS NOT FOR SALE, THIS ARTWORK IS PRICELESS / WORTHLESS"
Is my art worthless because it has never been paid for? Since
I could grasp a
crayon, I have been devoted to improving as an artist. Whilst I am never completely satisfied with my work, others seem to like it. My life for their happiness. How
much is that worth?
This two hour workshop is an opportunity for you to come out with your Alter Ego. Improvisation will lead to a performance. Through looking at reactions to a world without Art, we will discover, in part, the cost of Art. Be your Alter Ego (within reason) and prepare to react.
Vladimir Ivanov Title: Still Life
Digital photograph, print, ltd ed of 6 My holiday.Trip home. Day one. Russian village Marfino. Freezing morning in November.Snowing. I went out to the entrance lobby for a cigarette.I see blue plastic bucketNewborn puppies lie still at the bottom.Innocent, lifeless, beautiful. Dead. My priceless experience of village life reality. Price below… Price: £250
I have very little to say on the subject of my art as a "luxury good" or the cost/price of the music that I make. I do not create music to turn a profit. My ideas are free and roll freely into what I make. Not for sale. Yet.
Recession Robert Kiff & Barclay Brennan
Value is consummated. It has a way of realizing itself in varying forms; forms that hitherto create equivalence. Attributes of works are henceforth divided into recognized charters and are used to invent a system of quantification and scale. These scales are temporary as they are always informed by relative value.
Anna Krsikova category: visual art...
I can not think of anything, I can not think of anything, I can not think of anything, I can not think of anything, I can not think of anything, I can not think of anything, I can not think of anything, I can not think of anything, I can
'Lamfrag' www.lamfrag.com The Polig and BOX
It stinks of dread and guilt, fragile like gas trapped inside the belly of a dying beast. Money hurts – especially when it’s ripped from the artist’s heart to fund these things. What is the cost? You cannot [cannot] put a price on it. There is no sale (DVDs £39.99).
Kaelin E. Lee http://kaelinelee.blogspot.com/ Photography
As a forest hibernates in the dead of winter, city life is still stirring. At first hidden, then upon second glancing life is seen where before nothing stood. Waiting for Spring, a city churns along while regeneration is in full swing under a white duvet of snow and Winter doldrums.
We are the Lonesome Cowboys, sometimes we are fine. Where is John
E. Cashmoney, goddamn we've done our time. We are the Lonesome Cowboys, a pack of prairie dogs. We like to fight with bikers,
and sleep with burning logs. We are the Lonesome Cowboys and sometimes we are cutey...
The Ikea Generation has been and gone. No longer will we hide our treasures in shame, but display all our hoardings with pride. The fluffy tailed squirrel and dozy looking owl will watch over us with renewed joy, as you have once again realised that you are "a porcelain millionaire".
Renate Lutz Geschwister
Ist man gebunden, ist man Verbunden, ist man so Blutsverwand wie Seelenverwand? Wenn man weiß das die Personen die vor einem Stehen, die Personen sind die einen erschaffen haben. Ist man ihnen Vertraut, kann man ihnen Vertrauen oder sollte man misstrauen. Sie sind es die uns formen und leiten. Es ist das erste Vertrauen welches wir Fassen, Begreifen, Lernen. Die Gefühle werden übertragen und auch von allen weitergetragen, wenn man nicht fragt und nichts sagt.
Renate Lutz Halt!
Menschen verlieren sich so manchmal. Ein gewisses verlieren von der Selbst und steigende Anforderungen der Gesellschaft, treiben manche Menschen in den Wahnsinn. Oft wird durch diese enorme Konkurrenz innerhalb Europas ein Kampf der Menschen kreiert nicht nur gegen Einander ,oftmals gegen die eigene Psyche.
Michael Maier On the Yacht
This photo part of an expensive coffee table book, "Welcome to the
Fairground" trade fairs are like going to a circus- watching the different types of "beautiful freaks" . Yachts are expensive but free to photograph, and the EFFORT of such a project is taxing but spiritually good value.
Delaney Martin Nostril Dumbass in Oh Shit
Turn of the century, New Orleans, Louisiana. The End of the World Cirkus resides at the Ass Place. Clown for life Nostril Dumbass tattoos red diamonds round his eyes, geeks chickens with his teeth, and eats cereal with milk squirted from out his own ass. You can’t buy not caring.
A person sitting at six seater table in a pub called the dog and swine with a pint turning the glass with his right hand while staring at a fruitmachines flashing lights thinking about what to do with spare
time. Then a pang of loneliness. From work cam spare time and a
lonely luxury.
Writing a novel is a process which can take weeks, months or years. To put a price on a finished work in no way reflects the effort involved or, indeed, signifies the quality of the content. I am therefore selling one copy of my debut novel The Book Of Fuck, page by page. Interested parties can simply cut out one page and donate an amount they deem appropriate for a fraction of a work.
In Britain public appreciation of art is low; people have not the confidence nor the knowledge to judge an artwork on its merit – but have to rely as in the antique trade on the hallmark, the name of the artist, to tell them whether it is good or not.
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Knots Is a philosophical short Film that tells the story of humanity in his duality. Chance to keep and accumulate objects or to be free and give, seed, instead of possessing. The man dies and rebirths in a perpetual motion of chances to be. May you all seed and bloom.
Matteo Pizzarello Transformation of Matter 1 Transformation of Matter 2 Transformation of Matter 3 Dancing Sperms in the universe Molecular structure of the universe Future Golden Eggs Golden Space
Art is the luxurious chance of creating a meaningful piece of this world. As an artist I channel through my visions from the universe and from the one soul. May I always see the highest visions and creations of human kind . May your eyes see what I can’t see.
Karly Rayner www.karlyrayner.co.uk Pimp My Ride
Speed and power once meant the elegant and richly decorated equine. Hooves have been replaced with rims. Pimp my ride culture raised its garish head and swept away the appeal of earthy tweeds instead presenting a wasteland of soulless chrome. Flossy the thoroughbred is sold, another Peugeot hits the tarmac
Chris Red Artist Painting
These North Korean propaganda inspired paintings i have created are what i consider enjoyable to make, simplistic but void of any deep meaning. truly a luxury for me, as i normally choose to work towards ideas which are very deep in meaning and concept which can become unpleasant and burdensome.
Burke Roberts http://www.bizzurkearmy.com Bizzurke Army U.F.M.# Sky Drops
Be it through religion or philosophy, art is the only thing that has survived any culture. Even technologies are discovered, lost and rediscovered. The value of form transcends all the commerce of one moment’s bullshit. SKY DROPS asks the individual's position in a firestorm of lies. I made this film for 99
U.S. Dollars. The going rate for the values within, are in the triple digits. Money is a
lie. Status is a lie. Art is a lie. Value is a personal truth
Scary Toesies Twanky Snax
Twanky Snax! Any of various volatile short powerful neck. A small stocky moth cooked slowly in a box or chest for a corpse of clear odourless glass not clearly or logically connected to the medallion. Reproducing by egg, a liquid or a solid giving off poisonous vapours. Suspended in saliva.
Scott Schwager Stone 5, Oil on Canvas, 2008, £500
Fossil, engraving A scientist's 10 commandments Rossetta, Africa, Europa Diamonds and emeralds Lover's friends Bartered/battered... Language of humanity Is man's capital Oh York stone paving, slate roof Modern Pharaoh's granite tombs Zero to millions Beneficiaries of State To see your name there is nothing Like seeing it in paint
Niki Sehmi Desecration
Motor, Spring, Knife, Balloons, Food Colouring The assailant begins well poised for the act. There is a transformation from total control to the ridiculous and then desperation. The observer is unfortunately encouraging the inevitable rather than offering salvation. Will it will it will it will it will it will it.
rolf skooli I'd like to exhibit one a1 image if possible. static,visual art: a drawing.
watching, having, wanting, healing, consuming, despising, fearing, loving, needing, hoping, dismantling, twisting, fantasizing, oppressing, remembering, valuing, waiting, abusing, projecting, touching, poisoning, reflecting, seething, choosing, collapsing, disfiguring, analyzing, abandoning, stretching, contradicting, destroying, embellishing, sinking, discovering, controlling, corrupting, growing, despairing, manipulating, accepting, decomposing, moistening, contrasting, surprising, avoiding, submerging, staining, sabotaging, surrendering, understanding.
The luxury depicted within the subject matter is a story of camaraderie between two people sharing a special moment in a setting that allows them to converse, with out any recourse. Free to share and be with one another allowing themselves to be as they are Captured through my lens.
Christian Smith www.christian-smith.com Photography
The luxury is Simone's willingness to play a character within these photographs. By wearing her favourite john Galliano jacket, Simone is able transform herself into this fictional character. The jacket adds an additional element allowing her to play more with her performance as it unravels In front of my camera.
Sofizel et La Horde Sauvage Will interpret a refreshing bouquet of songs made of DIAMONDS, COURAGE, MONEY, LAZINESS and INTIMACY.
LIFE is a roller coaster ride. I rarely know what surprises, tomorrow will bring. ART makes Life worth living and Art costs me my whole Life. I work to be able to expand my creativity and ideas. It’s like surfing the wave, keeping in mind I need to keep balance.
www.upbondageupyours.blogspot.com#
Pick up a plane and throw it off a tall building…
Once night (on the roof of a high rise) I wrote the lyrics to ‘heaven is a place on earth’ on a scrap of paper. I folded the sides and released it into the wind. This airplane mountain reminds me of that day and the start of a new life.
The Tate Sisters www.tatesisters.com
The iconic Marilyn Monroe is an epitome of luxury. Here she is depicted green with envy from the viewer; the use of golf tees to form her face, gives reference to a sport only for the wealthy. Bright, bold stars have been painted to depict fame and the unreachably high.
Alex Taylor, Giulia Bacci Obsessed About, Film
'The cost of this film is to be found in the experiences contained within it. It is the tip of an emotional iceberg of obsessive hankering and lingering. What is the cost of lingering? Time. Hankering implies wanting to move toward something but remaining still. Energy was spent on delay.
Carolinda Tolstoy Dreaming of Dreams
Variety of thoughts flowing into a myriad of stratospheres Tolstoy selects familiar materials with strong personal resonance, so they offer a way into the work as a
springboard into a psychological space beyond Dreaming of
Dreams 25 Oil, acrylic, metal leaf on canvas 62 x 77 cm £500
The essence of my art is priceless therefore I would never exchange it for a commercial value. The essence of my art is priceless therefore I exchange it for what is priceless to you. The essence of my art is priceless therefore I exchange it for the highest price possible.
THE FOUNDRY... The Cost of Art The Foundry was recently blessed by the newly appointed Prebend of Ealde Street (Old Street). The blessing, bestowed upon the Foundry's ancient well was combined with reading of banns of marriage to his congregation as they amassed two levels underground in the Foundry Vaults. On the apex of Old Street & Great Eastern Street the Foundry occupies the site of a subterranean spring well, known as St. Agnes Le Cleare. The Foundry is a bar, gallery and performance space owned and run by husband and wife team Jonathan and Tracey Moberly. It's co-ordinates - N51:31:34 W0:05:00 - are in Shoreditch, East London, just outside the original City Walls. The area is steeped in history as a haven from the flow and flux of city centre strife. Shakespeare's 'Theatre' (as it was formerly named before it was
dismantled, it's timbers hacked down one by one then recycled on the South Bank and called The Globe) was a few streets away. As the area developed, music halls and theatres along with drink and prostitution took the city workers away from their daily toil into a more entertaining and creative sanctuary. The presence of the well encouraged the establishment of local brewers and an abundance of ale-houses in the area.The site bounded by the Foundry's co-ordinates has assumed many different functions over time, buildings torn down and reconstructed, legends and myths formed, some of which, documented, remain, whilst others are now lost along time's journey. One that remains is that of Annis Cleare, after whom the well is said to be named. Annis was a wealthy widow who took her own life reportedly due to the shame she brought
upon herself from her dalliances with a riotous courtier in the reign of Edward I. Another legend places Robin Hood in archer's fields at St Agnes Well as he splits an arrow for Queen Catherine, or Eleanor of Aquitaine. In time a wall with doors was built around the well to reduce the accidental drowning of people and cattle. Buildings were soon erected over the well. One of these, bearing the sign of a swan, was a destination for those seeking smallpox vaccinations in the nineteenth century. Subsequently it has been many things including a Victorian public house, a bathing house, a bank, a casting foundry and now the New Foundry bar, gallery and performance venue.As a former bank it is still resplendent with vault safe door on the lower level and built- in bullion turntable. The Foundry's walls and inner sanctum now
accommodate and nourish a variety of creative and artistic pursuits in contrast to the money it was originally designed to house.It is an eight minute walk from the griffins that mark the gateway to the City of London: a boundary line which city bankers and brokers cross as their forefathers did. Whipping up a frenzy and stirring up the art markets as they descend upon the growing number of art galleries, bars and clubs in Shoreditch: massed grey and black clad troops capturing artworks and buying up the signatures that the new Shoreditch became awash in. The Banking army were mainly uninterested in the actual art works: signatures were their trophies. As our true economic climate of derivatives and hedge funds reveals itself in the current global monetary crash, so it would seem that the economy of the increasingly
biased signature art market is collapsing. Many of the art pieces would have been bought or been on sale to decorate the soon to be heavily partitioned, currently spacious loft apartments secured on 100% mortgages.The New Foundry has been set run for over a decade as a flux reaction to many of these signature based galleries. Formed in order to allow artists to show or perform with as few barriers as possible placed in their way and to dispense with the requirements of the curator or the need for money in order to exhibit. The policy of the Foundry is in place to allow anyone to exhibit anything they desire with all of the "curatorial" selection process of the "gallery" being taken "out" of the equation. This gives rise to a number of variants at any one given time, creating an illusion of transition
within an unchanging base. A person who has never shown work could be positioned next to a new artist or a well established artist or a person who doesn't regard themselves as an artist at all. This random process of 'first come first serve' creates serendipitous occasions for example where all artists seem to be linked to a theme, medium or generation where in truth they are sporadic across any of the dimensions, but the one that may form a tentative link. Whilst at other times no connection between the artists can be made. These juxtapositions create a whirlpool of creative thoughts, actions and meetings within themselves. When performance, both audio and physical is added to this equation the whirlpool flows into an eclectic melting pot of bubbling creativity. When politics are added to this analogy it can sometimes
overflow... smoldering.Six artists at any given time exhibit with two or three new exhibitions each week and a similarly open approach to performance, poetry, music, film and other disciplines alongside the exhibition art. A radio programme is broadcast each week from the Foundry live on Resonance 104.4 FM weaving all these aspects of the venue together. It is not difficult to understand how individuals and groups have gone on to achieve critical acclaim. This is most evident with musicians such as Pete Doherty who hosted and performed in the Foundry's open mic poetry nights for several years, followed by his ex-partner Carl Barat as the Libertines developed; or Kate Nash as she performed on the opening night of her art exhibition where she was greeted by Bjork's producer and taken to Iceland to record; or members of
the band Hot Chip who met there,one of which did his first ever dj set there... The story is repeated with various other artists who with exhibitions and performances have grown and developed into larger collectives whose history is perhaps not as easy to plot as those in the music industry.The ethos, policies and location of The Foundry were appropriate to accommodate the first of "The Luxury Goods festivals" it seemed to be the most apt place to start what will hopefully evolve into a much needed wide platform for art, politics and debate....."LUXURY GOODS A Free Festival of Art and Guilt A free week long program of multi-disciplined arts discussing art as a luxury good. >From outsider art to conceptual art, all creative practice has a value invested that often exceeds its
perceived commercial value. Join us to throw away your concerns and happily commit to the value of art in uncertain times!"
Tracey Moberly
Abbott, Giles 6-7 Adams, Jessica 8-9 Aitken, Victoria 10-11 Allen, Christopher
12-13
B.I.K.E 14-15 Bacci, Giulia 120-121 Bayley, Annouchka 16-17 Beattie, Hugh 18-19 Belvanis, Sooz 20-21 Brennan, Barclay 64-65 Brennan, Luke Free Trade 22-23 Brennan, Luke Exquisite Corpse 24-25 Brodie, Anne 44-45 Brown, Beatrice 26-27 Bucknell Michael Critique of The Institution 28-29 Bucknell, Michael Chinese Vermillion
30-31
Bucknell, Michael Monument to the Unknown Cyclist 32-33 Cunningham, Deirdre Work One 34-35 Cunningham, Deirdre Work Two Credit Card Dominoes 36-37 Cyclowns The 38-39 Dollar, Wenceslas 40-41 Dupre, Ruth 42-43 Elton, Matt 44-45
d'Estoteville Skipwith, Constantine 46-47 Extrasuper 48-49
F. Kerr, Calum 50-51 Fiske-Harrison, Alexander 52-53 Gilbert Scott, Louise
42-43 Glover, Michael 3-5 Gough, Andrew 54-55 Green, Rob 56-57 Irwin, Tamsin 58-59 Ivanov, Vladimir 60-61 K Music, Erin 62-63 Kiff, Robert 64-65 Krsikova, Anna 66-67 Lamfrag 68-69 Lee, Kaelin E. 70-71 Lonesome Cowboys from Hell The 72-73 Fitzjohn, Louise 74-75 Lutz, Renate Geschwister 76-77 Lutz, Renate Halt!78-79 Maier, Michael 80-81 Martin, Delaney 82-83 Maximen, Seth 84-85 Moberly, Tracey 126-134 Myers, Ben 86-87 Niman, Richard 88-89 Pizzarello, Matteo Rubbish Love 90-91 Pizzarello, Matteo Knots 92-93
Pizarello, Matteo Transformation 94-95 Rayner, Karly 96-97Red Artist, Chris 98-99 Roberts, Burke 100-101 Scary Toesies 102-103 Schwager, Scott 104-105 Sehmi, Niki 106-107 Skooli, Rolf 108-109 Smith, Christian 110-111 Smith, Christian 112-113 Sofizel et la Horde Sauvage 114-115 Stripe, Adelle 116-117 Tate Sisters 118-119 Taylor, Alex 120-121 Tolstoy, Carolinda
122-123 Zokaei, Zoha 124-125
Unfortunately we are unable to credit the photographers this time round but will do so in the next book.
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