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3/3/2001

Inside the Red Shoes

Whitechapel, London

A day to demonstrate the world wide RED SHOES phenomena.

Wear Red Shoes has been put together in collaboration with Anna Best, Anna-Lisa Cattani, Ella Gibbs and Amanda McGregor. This one day event is part of PROGRAMME for the show Temporary Accommodation, a 7 1/2 week project based at the Whitechapel Art Gallery, London 12 January-4 March 2001.

The happenings on the verge of the millennium are emerging foot first! During the last day of Temporary Accommodation, PROGRAMME will be celebrating the wearing of red shoes as a representation of freedom, ambition, hope and a shift into fresh perception. The curation of the project takes place with an understanding of dreams, myths, happiness and the reality of their existence. The artists and curators involved in the project all have strong interests that relate to the fairytales and myths seen in the Hans Christian Anderson tale, the Red Shoes Ballet and Dorothy and the Wizard of Oz.

Amanda McGregor developed an interest in red shoes due to their representation of freedom and ambition. She became aware that many people are being presented with a pair of red shoes before a certain leap into freedom, success and love, after a period in their lives has ended. Amanda will be offering the audience an opportunity to write or draw their related stories in a red book, this will be bound after the occasion.

Anna Best is producing a gathering of people wearing red shoes. This event explores how to make a collaborative image that is also a social event, and can within basic parameters form its own identity. Various publicity devices have been utilised to attract a broad range of red shoe wearers into the Whitechapel, including advertising in Loot Newspaper. Anna Best is currently exhibiting in 'Demonstration Room, Ideal House'’ at the Apex Gallery in New York.

Anna-Lisa Cattani is arriving hot footed from Italy with two pairs of specially made shoes. The shoes are of different heights, they will challenge the participants perception. The audience will be welcome to try them on and wander around the gallery space. She has exhibited widely in Europe, she is currently finishing her PHD at the University of Bologna.

Ella Gibbs devised Programme specifically for Temporary Accommodation (the current show at the Whitechapel) Programme is an ongoing series of planned incidental live events. Throughout the project she has been working each day in the gallery. She has invited artists and curators to realise diverse projects, producing weekly newsletters to keep up to date with each changing day. During PROGRAMME she has noticed many people wearing red shoes and now a collection of shoes has begun in the gallery. She will be celebrating the closure of the show wearing red shoes, encouraged by the idea that red shoes will dance her and others out of the gallery and back into the real world.

Wear Red Shoes will be taking place on Sunday 4th March 2001 from 11am-5pm, it will be open to many interesting ideals, that will become realised through the conversations and turn out of the day. Amanda McGregor has organised the RED SHOES project with support from Goldsmiths College. For more information on the artists and forth coming projects please contact Amanda McGregor on 07939 512 837 or Tel/Fax: 0207 274 6533, we look forward to seeing you walking with your red shoes on, into the Whitechapel Art Gallery.

Information about Temporary Accommodation at the Whitechapel can be found at http://www.whitechapel.org/temporaryaccommodation

Whitechapel, 80 Whitechapel High St, E1 7QX, London info@whitechapel.org

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