Art Hostel, Leeds
16th October – 30th November 2018
Seeding your idea:
Have you visited, stayed or volunteered at the Art Hostel? If so, what idea did you take away from your experience? We want you to share this concept on a map, which is a central part of the project Seeding Art Currency.
Taking part:
• Tag your current location on our Seeding Art Currency map using a pin.
• Add a sentence responding to the question – what idea did you take out into the world after your Art Hostel experience?
Your contributions to our virtual world map will become part of a real-world mural in the hostel project space. Painted by artist, Bobbi Rae directly on the hostel wall, the pins will be represented with real seeds. You will be able to see the mural in further postings, surrounded by other artworks, all linked by themes of currency, seeds and transience.
There’s also a special launch event on 16th October from 6pm at the Art Hostel. Find out more and book your place, here.
Your collective ideas will go on to become other forms of art through the project’s open programme of events, the details of which will be posted at the launch on 16th October.
Seeds of the project:
The project emerges through the shared ideas of researcher Janine Sykes, East Street Arts, contributing artists and collaborators (see below). Janine is exploring curation as a blended practice, where the project space is both online and physical. She is interested in placing citizens’ at the centre of art projects (citizen occupation) to achieve an ethical practice.
Art as living currency
We will use the notion of art as ‘living currency’ to celebrate the Art Hostel, which is a social enterprise that encourages creative exchanges and ethical travel – both life-enhancing and transient activities. Like seeds, many friendships and creative ideas grow within the walls of the hostel, then disperse and flourish elsewhere.
Seeding art
‘Seeding’ is a phrase reappropriated from the digital industries to focus the achievement of the hostel, in the creation of a ‘commons’ – where global citizens ‘make, create, debate, sleep and explore’.
Collaborative events
Located at the Art Hostel on Kirkgate, in a former seed factory, the project brings together a mural with a series of artists’ works. A participatory and sensuous open events programme will also take place on the themes of currency, seeds and transience. All details of the programme will be announced on 16th October and the project runs through until 30th November.
Artists and collaborators
Paul Bennett-Todd
Sherelene Cuffe
Joy Hindmoor
Bobbi Rae
Gry Worre Hallberg
Found Fiction
Tales of a City
This project is supported by East Street Arts and forms part of the charity’s own programme within the Art Hostel.