collaborative art

collaboration |kəˌlabəˈrā sh ən| noun
1 the action of working with someone to produce or create something
2 traitorous cooperation with an enemy

art |ärt| noun
1 the expression or application of human creative skill and imagination,
• works produced by such skill and imagination
• creative activity resulting in the production of paintings, drawings, or sculpture : she's good at art

Ania Bas|anēaˈbas|
1 collaborative artist
2 developer of art projects
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NEWS Spring / Summer 2009

Ania in Walsall
Artists Studio at The New Art Gallery, Walsall

/ Ania will continue the art of conversation in Walsall by sharing stories with visitors and staff over tea and cake.
/The residency continues other the summer till Sunday, 30th August
/ visit virtual studio: www.aniainwalsall.blogspot.com


my site/ in space 5
/Ania is one of the 10 artists taking part in the next edition of my site/in space project created by Switch Performance
/site specific performances will be developed in early June 09 and the process will be led and mentored by an artist Janice Perry
/performances open to the public on 12th/13th and 14th June. Check out the website for details and to buy tickets!


Special Offer in London, UK & Szczecin, Poland
/ Special Offer has been franchised to Blanca Garay who will be running the platform as part of Accidental Festival in London in May 2009
/ Special Offer goes to Poland in June! Skup/Sprzedaż Języków will happen as part of Performance Intermedia Festival organised by Officyna on 18th - 21st June.


Artist 2 Artist exchange
/ In April 2009 Neda Razavipur, an artist based in Iran came to Uk for a week for a exchange awarded to Ania & Neda by Visiting Arts as part of A2A exchange
/ Ania & Neda spent an extensive amount of time over cups of tea and coffee talking & exploring about various aspects of their work.




Methodology - Disonancias 2009 /Euskadi & Catalonia
/ Ania is working on methodology for meetings between companies and artists for both editions of Disonancias 2009
/She is developing for it new dynamics & tools and improving the existing ones i.e. Labanias, creative currency!



June Banner by Łukasz Matulewski
/ Łukasz is an ace photographer. Check out his other pictures.
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Łukasz will show two pictures in June: one of his feet ;) and one of his plate. Watch this space!





Art Boot Sale at KUBE
The Art Boot Sale is a platform for selling work in an informal environment.
/The sixth sale will take place at the courtyard of KUBE (formerly the Study Gallery of Modern Art) in Poole, UK on Saturday, 27th June
/ June sale will focus on photography

Special Offer, 2008 - 2009
















Special Offer, London, UK 2008 & Limerick, Ireland 2009


SECOND SALE took place on 24th January 2009 at Bedford Row in Limerick as part of Excursions Performance Festival.


Read about the event in: Eightball and Limerick Post.
Listen to the radio interview on: Artzone

The event at Bedford Row would not have be possible without teachers: Gabriela Avram, Daniela Butan and Helena Zelesakova. Thank you!

See pictures from this event.

A big thank you to the Excursions Performance Festival Team: Sheila Deegan, Pippa Little, Joanne Beirne and Susan Holland.
















FIRST SALE took place at
Petticoat Lane Market, London
This project has been commissioned by The Street, a year-long series of artists’ commissions on and around Wentworth Street. Visit: Whitechapel Gallery

Special Offer is an exceptional platform for trading skills we all possess - our own language skills. The platform's aim is to create an alternative space in and around cities for people to meet & exchange language skills.

The platform has been initially developed as part of Whitechapel Gallery, London live art commission for a market environment. Now the platform can be franchised and used in other locations and communities. The core rules for buyers and sellers can be found below. A PDF will be available shortly for people who would like to establish the Special Offer platform.. If you want to make the Special Offer happen now, contact Ania at: aniabas{at}gmail{dot}com


The event at Wentworth street would not have be possible without artists/teachers: Blanca Garay, Swapna,
Sonia Paço-Rocchia, Pablo Alegre, Olivier Pierrre & Dimitris Christopoulos

A big thank you to the Whitechapel Team: Natasha, Sarah and Zahira.

SELL!
A great opportunity to teach somebody your language and earn extra money!
All languages welcome!

/ Come to SPECIAL OFFER event
/ Give as much time as you wish! Stay for 30 minutes or a couple of hours.
/ Sell your language to a stranger (client) who wants to learn it.
/ Negotiate a price with the client.
/ Teach your language at the market for an agreed period of time.
/ There is no commission. All money you earn you are going to take home.


BUY!
A great opportunity to purchase new language skills for little money!
Learn a language from a native speaker for as little as one pound!

/ Come to SPECIAL OFFER event
/ See what languages we have on offer.
/ Negotiate a price with the teacher.
/ Learn your new language at the market for an agreed period of time.
/ Enjoy your new skills!

Become a fan of this project! Spread the word about it!
International School of Creative Learning from London is supporting Special Offer!


Grammar & Spell-check by Mullins of Europe. Thank you Mullins!

Visual, 2009













Visual - The Flexible Art Gallery For Business

created by Arts & Business

Ania Bas has been selected to be part of the Visual, the flexible art gallery for business.
Ania develops work with companies and organisations that is project based and collaborative. The work is about process and participation as well as the end product. Employee engagement and tailoring the project specific to business objectives is important in her practice. The Visual is allowing various business to collaborate with Ania on a new projects.
Visit Ania's profile and gallery on Visual!

Choosing – the daily task, 2008












Choosing – the daily task
Project commissioned by iNNoVaNDiS for Day of Entrepreneurs in San Sebastian

iNNoVaNDiS used again this method of working in April 2009. Results of DINÁMICA DE ANIA BAS (without Ania being present) can be seen here.

Ania Bas run workshop/dynamic about how our choices determine what we do, who we are and where we go. This project has been commissioned by iNNoVaNDiS as part of an entrepreneurial day organised by the University of Deusto on 18 November 2008 in San Sebastian, with the collaboration of iNNoVaNDIS and Gaze.

During 30min low tech sessions groups of students were able to live their potential future and see where their choices could potentially take them.

People who took part said:


¡Mi primera dinámica! Una gran experiencia. ¡¡Se puede aprender divirtiéndose!
My first dynamic! A great experience! It is possible to learn and enjoy it at the same time!

Tomar decisiones implica responsabilidad. Gracias. Beautiful!
Taking decisions implies responsibility. Thanks! Beautiful!

Ya se que voy a ser de “mayor”... GRRRRR.
Now I know what I will become in the future... GRRRRR

Tal y como demuestra el croquis ahora tengo más claro mi futuro... De hoy en adelante me esforzaré es conseguir mis metas. El mar de dudas en el que me encontraba se ha disipado. ¡Soy feliz!
As this scheme shows now I have my future more clear. From now I will put all my efforts in reaching my goals. The flood of doubts in which I was, has disappeared! Now I’m happy!

Supongo que tendremos que tomar estas decisiones dentro de poco...
I suppose that we will need to take these decisions very soon....

Espero que así sea. ¡Voy a trabajar para cumplirlo!
Let it be that way. I will work so hard to get it!

Estabilidad no es siempre opuesta a la creatividad, pasión e iniciativa. A veces desde la estabilidad es más posible reflexionar, ser creativo, tener vida social, hacer red, montar proyectos. Todo depende de las experiencias que uno tenga y de la actitud. En todo momento se puede re-comenzar, ser una persona creativa y tener pasiones.
Stability is not always opposite to creativity, passion and initiative. Sometimes from the stability it is possible to think, to be creative, to have social life, networking, make projects. It depends on the own experiences and your own attitude. You can always re-start, being creative and passionate.

Pictures by Asun Ibañez

Big thank you to iNNoVaNDiS team for making it happen! Eskerrik Asko!

Laundry Open Lab, 2008











Laundry Open Lab, Custard Factory Gallery, Birmingham, UK
Full details at Laundry; Also visit Intercultural Dialogue

Laboratories of cross-cultural practices: Start Talking
This project is structured around three creative laboratories - in Birmingham and the Black Country, in Poland with the Borderland Foundation and in Bulgaria with the New Culture Foundation.

Open Lab Presentations:

Saturday November 8th @ 5.30 pm
Interactive Installations: Gary Stewart, Iniva (the Institute of International Visual Arts)

Sunday November 9th @ 5 pm
Art is my Business: Ania Bas

Sunday November 9th @ 6 pm
Off the map - art in Nodar, Beirut, Alexandria: Alicja Rogalska

Sunday November 9th @ 7 pm
Crossing Borders: Brendan Jackson

DIY 5 - Archive Y’self to Pieces, 2008















DIY 5 - Archive Y’self to Pieces, London

Ania participated in DIY 5- a profesional development project for artists to become obsessively self-referential archivists of their own practice and outputs. Project devised and led by Richard Layzell.

Ania, with Shakti (Laura Angelica Zapata Gomez) and Maggie Tran created a performance at Arnold Circus in London, using 3 chairs, 5 sheets of A4 paper, 3 pens and around 7 minutes. The performance was heavly documented by Annie Carpenter (pictures), Tim Jeeves (film), Martina von Holn (sound) and Mark Caffrey (text).

The work has been revisited a week later in Cafe Gallery Project space where Ania created an installation using the strongest in her opinion evidence of the piece: commentary by Martina von Holn and taking the piece outside the gallery space, by the gate. (The sound piece will be available on the website soon)

DIY 5 is a Live Art Development Agency initiative being developed in collaboration with Artsadmin, Colchester Arts Centre (East England), Fierce Earth (West Midlands), Nuffield Theatre & LANWest (North West), Arnolfini & Theatre Bristol (South West), and New Work Network.

Pictures by: Annie Carpenter

The Banner, 2008 - 2009

The Banner, on-line (July 2008 till June 2009)

The Banner is an on-line project. I am inviting one person every month to create a banner for the website. Łukasz Matulewski, Bydgoszcz based ace photographer is the last featured banner-maker. From July onwards banners will be chosen from open submissions. Details to be announced shortly!









Mrowki /Ants
, June 2009 by Łukasz Matulewski









Członek / Member* , June 2009 by Łukasz Matulewski

Zdjęcie zrobiłem komórką.












Another world is possible, May 2009 by twoaddthree

The Institute for the Art and Practice of Dissent at Home is an artist activist initiative run out of the spare room of twoaddthree’s council house in Everton, Liverpool. We, Gary, Lena, Neal, Gabriel and Sid, thought it would be nice to celebrate MAYDAY with a banner. We thought it might be best to make our own. This is from the G20 protests, in London, 2009. We believe that another world is possible and can hear the rising cry of our own capitalistic subjectivities screaming “MAYDAY!MAYDAY!MAYDAY!” - twoaddthree











Merry-go-round, April 2009 by Tomas Pabedinskas

This winter I had a kind of obsession for photographing an old pleasure-ground in my native town Kaunas. I never felt a need to take photos here during other seasons. So I wondered what made me come back to this place time and again.
Perhaps the quiet pleasure-ground covered in snow matched my nostalgia for the past days of childhood spent here. Maybe it was a soft longing for the past time, which was never consciously noticed before, but exposed itself in a concrete vision now.
It could also be the plans to remove the pleasure-ground from its long-time location and to build houses here. It could be a mere wish to preserve the feature of my town that is meaningful for me, although not so important for society in general.
Finally, the carousels looked unusual and attractive in winter time. Framed in a picture, they reminded me of an old French photography. Like some classical photo from the middle of the past century rendered in colors. A piece of romance known from famous photos found in my own town. I wonder if this photograph could mean something similar to so many people looking at it on-line, so many persons with their own stories, not connected to original contexts of the picture. - Tomas












Decay. In bright colors (part 4/4), March 2009 by Ivan 'Dervish' Dervisevic









Decay. In bright colors (part 3/4), March 2009 by Ivan 'Dervish' Dervisevic










Decay. In bright colors (part 2/4), March 2009 by Ivan 'Dervish' Dervisevic









Decay. In bright colors (part 1/4), March 2009 by Ivan 'Dervish' Dervisevic









Heavy plant crossing, February 2009 by Mullins of Europe









Please do not park here, February 2009 by Mullins of Europe








Fire Exit
, February 2009 by Mullins of Europe










Temporary Road Surface , February 2009 by Mullins of Europe









The black cow/ Czarna krowa , January 2009 by Marta Balejko









Uwaga/Attention, January 2009 by Marta Balejko









TV Istanbul - (series 3, 1/1), December 2008 by Marcin Bas








Above the bridge in Sarajevo - colour (series 2, 4/4), December 2008 by Marcin Bas









The bridge in Sarajevo - colour (series 2, 2/4), December 2008 by Marcin Bas







Above the bridge in Sarajevo
(series 2, 3/4), December 2008 by Marcin Bas








The bridge in Sarajevo
(series 2, 1/4), December 2008 by Marcin Bas

Location: Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, 28th June 1914, 1:15 pm







The sky above the hill (series 1, 3/3), December 2008 by Marcin Bas







The hill above the camel (series 1, 2/3), December 2008 by Marcin Bas








The camel in Crimea (series 1, 1/3), December 2008 by Marcin Bas







look, look!
(1/3), November 2008, by Karol Rogacki

It did make you look, didn't it?







locking
(2/3), November 2008, by Karol Rogacki

Eternal Love in the Bay of Naples. Locals seem to secure their feelings in quite a peculiar way.








eyes (3/3), November 2008, by Karol Rogacki

Eyes wide open. In London some buildings have eyes.

The genesis of November banners: Karol (me) had taken some totally awesome photos and when Ania saw them she said 'I want you to work for me'. Karol (me) said 'It's gonna cost you!'. Ania replied 'No worries, I've got heaps of money'. Hopefully that was the beginning of a long-lasting artistique co-operation.











jeden za razem obok drugim , October 2008 by Michał Kaczorowski

Michał said (in Polish): Niespodzianka czyha za każdym rogiem, trza ją tylko umić upolować.







route 98/a lorry/a camera, September 2008 by Michał Ślązak

Materials used: the road, a lorry, camera
Clockwise rotation approach to route 98










sun/sand/michal/camera, September 2008 by Michał Ślązak:

Materiały: słońce, piasek, Michał, aparat
Dlaczego: chciałem pojawić się na blogu Ani w pewnej formie ;)

Materials: the sun, sand, Michal, camera
Why: I wanted to appear on Ania's web in a certain form ;)










The field of artichokes, August 2008 by Ola Faf:

It seemed at first to be only a jungle, now it is a paradise. This is how much your perspective can change after eating a jar of homemade pickled artichokes while sitting on the roof on a warm evening. This is the way I like Venice now.









Where am I,
July 2008 by Helen Heath:

My only son is one – and during the past twelve months I have lost myself. Not really sure how, when or even how serious it is, but I am not the same person anymore. Sometimes I miss being able to set up an easel and paint for days, weeks… Occasionally I yearn for days when I got carried away collecting bits for a project – spread them across a table to study them.

These days I’m lucky if I get to go to the toilet alone. I now have a very time and energy consuming project – which is on going. I have learnt that it is more fun to play along. So I am trying to get inspired (I just wish I could remember if I do!) In the meantime, Bertram and Rupert are the astronauts who live in my son’s pile of Mega Blocks – with mummy’s help they kindly build things for him to bash down… sometimes I wish he were less destructive.

Locomotion, 2008
















Locomotion, Crewe Railway Station, England

performed as part of Station/Stationary

"Highlighting dance, live music and film, the station will be pulsing with over 150 performers including professional dancers, first time performers and local groups of young and older people from Crewe and the wider region."

Performers Ania Bas, Rachel Jane Dean, Patricia Derrick, Hannah Pantin and Natasha Vicars, inspired by the classic film Brief Encounter (1945), gave a subtle performance on parting in the railway station's halls, corridors and lift.

Documentation by Ed De Quincey
Portraits by Ania Bas & Natasha Vicars
Grammar & Spell-check by Mullins of Europe

Polish Artist at Your Workplace for £5,52 per hour, 2008

















Polish Artist for £5,52 per hour, Liverpool, England
residency at The Institute for the Art and Practice of Dissent at Home

During 3 days long residency Ania was looking for a job as an artist in non-art and art venues. She offered to work for a minimum hourly pay: £5,52 initially just for a week. She decided that whatever she would create during this time is going to belong to the employer. Ania only wants to keep the rights to the documentation of the whole process.

Costs of having Ania in the work place for 5 working days/ 8 hours per day ONLY: £220,80
What is on offer? Check it out!

Approached venues include:
Lily Bizzare Fancy Dress Hire, News from Nowhere Radical & Community Bookshop, Liverpool F.C. store, Modo club, Primark Store, Post Office in Everton, HSBC Everton, JET Liverpool Atlantic, Lifestyles Everton Park, A Foundation, Tate Liverpool, FACT, Central Library Liverpool, the Bluecoat and International Slavery Museum.

Previous employers said:

“I couldn't believe an artist can be so USEFUL!”

“It was great to have somebody so creative around for so little pay!”

“The artist helped us channel negative behaviours and attitudes”

“Having the artist around was a better investment than a new air conditioning!”

Ania still awaits replies. Interested in having an artist in your workplace for £5,52 per hour? Get in touch! E-mail Ania at: aniabas{at}gmail{dot}com

BOB - Biuro Ochrony oBiektu, 2008














BOB - Biuro Ochrony oBiektu, Warsaw, Poland

performed at European Performance Art Festival 2008
Ujazdowski Castle (CCA, Warsaw)

Ania Bas as a general affairs coordinator at BOB - the Bureau for the prOtection of the estaBlishment during two days of the Festival was protecting the Ujazdowski Castle. As the employee of the Bureau she was implementing a pilot project that was proposing an alternative to the signage such as: Silence! or Please Do Not Touch! usually present in historical buildings. All visitors to the centre were advised and instructed to wear a white, numbered and reusable sheet of A4 paper as a visual sign that will remind them to behave properly in this establishment.

Eurpean Performance Art Festival 2008,
OPEN EPAF, 3rd Edition
Centre for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland

Curator: Waldemar Tatarczuk
Isreali Programme Curator: Sergio Edelsztein

Big thank you to Mr Stanisław and Mr Wiesław who supported Ania during performances.

Picture by an employee of the CCA, Warsaw, Poland.

Summer Arts Academy, 2008















Summer Arts Academy, Vilnius/ Kaunas/ Trakai, Lithuania

The 2008 Summer Arts Academy was a challenging creative 10-days program of exploration of the urban environment, engaging with people and using various media and artforms. The program of the Academy was build on the theoretical and practical platform of cultural animation. Summer Arts Academy took a form of a creative project lead by cultural animation practitioners & artists Ania Bas and Alicja Rogalska. The outcomes established during the Summer Arts Academy will be recorded and presented in the form of installation, intervention or a similar event in November 2008.

The working languages of the Academy were English, Russian, Belarusian and Lithuanian.

The project was devised by:
• artistic director Julija Fomina, curator of the Contemporary Art Centre in Vilnius
• SAA 2008 coordinator Katsiaryna Radzko, European Humanities University PR manager
LitPro project’s staff members
Ania Bas & Alicja Rogalska

Please visit the project blog for more details.

Photographs by participants of the Academy.