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23/2/2001

Please Disturb Me

Great Eastern Hotel, London

6 artist/1 hotel/2 weeks.

Curated and produced by Simon Tegala.

Artist: Franko B, A&P Grose Forrester, Runa Islam, Peter Morgan, Simon Tegala, Gavin Turk.
"Please Disturb Me" is an exhibition within the Great Eastern Hotel, situated in the heart of the City of London. Six artists were each given a room and invited to spend a weekend together at the hotel. The purpose of this stay was for the artists to, individually and collectively immerse themselves within the environment and workings of the Victorian hotel.

The artists will return to install works within the rooms and public spaces. The rooms will be available for guests to stay in during the week and available for public viewing at the weekends.
Hotels the world over, elicit very intense emotions, those relating to travel, identity, anonymity and sexuality. The six London based artists in "Please Disturb Me" have been chosen to explore these relationships and respond to the notions of private and public with respect to the building, guests and visitors and staff.

The Great Eastern Hotel was originally built in 1894, and reopened in February 2000, it is a remarkable building where no two of 267 rooms are alike. The hotel will provide a unique environment to which the artists will react to and within.

Live web based performance events will be presented and broadcast from the hotel. Running concurrently will be a video programme presented on the internal television channels. Alongside Ambient TV will broadcasting live performance events from the hotel.

Video programme:
Ambient TV: Manu Luksch, Ilze Strazdina
http://www.ambienttv.net

Video artists: Jake and Dinos Chapman, Shu Lea Cheang, Johan Grimonprez, Monika Oeschler.

Web Design: Astrid Wunsch, Idoia Acha, Syzygy UK Ltd
http://www.syzygy.net

Great Eastern Hotel - EC2 - London - Tel: 020 76185000 - Fax: 020 76185001

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