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19/11/2006

This Will Not Happen Without You

John Hansard Gallery, Southampton

From the collective archive of The Basement Group, Projects UK and Locus+ 1977 - 2006

This Will Not Happen Without You revisits some of the most compelling art projects, performances and events in Britain over the last thirty years.

The exhibition begins by tracing the activities of The Basement Group (1979-1984). A collective of six artists focusing on performance and time-based work, the group later evolved into Projects UK (1984 to 1992), the UK’s first office-based organisation, working with artists to develop site-specific events and temporary works.

This role was expanded by Locus+ (1993-), who have since commissioned and published a wide spectrum of innovative, socially engaged, collaborative visual arts projects, across the country and beyond.

This Will Not Happen Without You will enable visitors to explore documentation of performances, projects and events, along with objects, ephemera, publications and artist’s proposals, spanning the history of the three organisations.

The exhibition documents unique performances by artists including Stuart Brisley, Mona Hatoum, Bruce Mclean, Silvia Ziranek, Alastair Maclennan, Rose English, Nan Hoover and Charlie Hooker.

Projects featured include a series of commissions by Stefan Gec which deal with his background as a second generation Ukranian. Natural History comprised six large black and white photographic portraits, installed in outdoor locations in Newcastle upon Tyne and Canada, of the first six firemen killed in the immediate aftermath of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in 1986.

Repens, a temporary commission for Compton Verney by Anya Gallaccio, transformed an internal ceiling feature (designed by Robert Adam for Lord Willoughby de Broke in 1763) into a landscape design, imposed onto the lawns of the estate. Other artists represented include Simon Patterson, Cornelia Hesse-Honegger, Lawrence Paul Yuxwelupton, Richard Wilson, Layla Curtis and Chris Burden.

This Will Not Happen Without You features a cross-section of practice that arose throughout rapid cultural change in this country. The exhibition reveals much about the processes and contexts through which each project was developed and realised. By acting as a catalyst for radical new work, the approach taken by all three organisations has profoundly influenced art practice today and its role in the public realm.

This Will Not Happen Without You is an Arts Council England touring exhibition, curated by Richard Grayson. The exhibition opens at the John Hansard Gallery, after it travels to the Hatton Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne from 10 Feb - 31 March 2007 and Interface, Belfast from 21 June - 08 Sept 2007.

Throughout the exhibition visitors can watch a filmed discussion between exhibition curator Richard Grayson and Stephen Foster, Director, John Hansard Gallery, displayed in the gallery Reading Room.

John Hansard Gallery
University of Southampton - Highfield Southampton
Admission to the Gallery, its exhibitions and many of its education events including talks, tours and workshops, is free.

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