Studio: Marfa Experiments

12-Pages : Terror

The next issue of 12-Pages, the online publication from TBC Artists' Collective, will be available in February. Edited by Laura Davidson, the forthcoming issue is based on the theme Terror and will include new work by TBC artists, invited guests and from open submission. For more information visit - 12-pages.com

TBC Project: A Message to Ima Hogg

Sketches: Slice Visual Essay

The above sketches are based on a Laban performance entitled Me, Myself & I. During the beginning stages of the piece four dancers are all in unison, moving as if one entity. As the performance evolves the unity begins to fragment and element of individuality begins to surface, it is here where I have decided to base my sketches upon.

The drawings will be featured in a publication that will coincide with the Slice project. For more information visit 12-pages.com

Exhibition: Radicals and Non-Conformists

Poster design by Shia-ying Wallis

Founding member, Co-Director and this year’s curator of the Staff Art Show at the National Portrait Gallery, Beverley Bennett, commissioned fellow creatives to follow the brief ‘Radicals’ in conjuction with the 12-Pages Online Project Space.

Exhibitors were asked to take inspiration from sitters within the collection located in Room 18, Art Invention and Thought: The Romantics, which features the likes of William Godwin, Lord Byron, John Constable and William Blake.

As the project evolved, participants began to move away from the chosen theme by selecting new or existing work. In doing so, individuals emerged to become Non-Conformists, free-thinking Radicals. For more information visit radicalsartshow.blogspot.com.

12-Pages: Radicals

Open publication - Free publishing - More art


The issue of 12-Pages, TBC Artists' Collective online journal is now live on the TBC blog, 12-Pages.com. Edited by Beverley Bennett, the project challenged TBC members and their invited open submissions to contribute to the theme Radicals.

Response to Octavia E. Butler's novel 'Kindred'

Octavia Estelle Butler (June 22, 1947 – February 24, 2006) was an American science fiction writer, one of the best-known among the few African-American women in the field.  
She won both Hugo and Nebula awards. In 1995, she became the first science fiction writer to receive the MacArthur Foundation Genius Grant.
In 1979, she published Kindred, a novel that uses the science-fiction concept of time travel to explore slavery in the United States.

Commission News: Slice

Slice, a Pakistani–UK collaboration, curated by Fatima Hussein and Scale

TBC Artists' Collective have today been commissioned to produce work for SLICE, a Pakistani–UK collaborative website and accompanying exhibitions in London and Lahore curated by Fatima Hussein, artists and co-director of Other Asias, and Scale, the collaborative arts project run by artists and theatremakers Simon Daw and Paul Burgess. SLICE aims to encourage dialogue between two diverse cultures by linking communities in both countries via the creation of a new artwork that enters into dialogue with the social and physical fabric of two iconic, complex and historically linked cities. Ten artists from London and ten from Lahore have been commissioned to participate in SLICE.

TBC members Beverley Bennett, Charley Peters, Laura Davidson and Paul Mendez will produce a collaborative work for the project, which will be exhibited in both cities on online. The group members will also participate in two international web conferences.


The exhibition dates are as follows:
July 2011 Exhibition opens and SLICE website launch at Ideas Store, Whitechapel, London
September 2011 Exhibition opens at Rich Mix, London
September 2011 Exhibition opens at Zahoor ul Akhlaq Gallery, Lahore

TBC are very excited by the project and will post more news about their developing work on their Online Project Space, 12-Pages, and here on Carbon Particles, during the duration of their involvement with SLICE.

12-Pages: Pin Point Introspective

The new issue of 12-Pages, TBC Artists' Collective's online journal is now live on the TBC blog - www.12-pages.com. Edited by Elizabeth Oniri, the project challenged TBC members and their invited open submissions to contribute to the theme of Pinpoint Introspection.

Project News: Research for 12-Pages 'Movement'

I came across Steve Reich's work a while ago, but consciously decided to really listen to his compositions when Timothy Knights reintroduced me to him last year. The repetitive, complex arrangements, yet minimalistic music he creates evokes a emotional response that lyrics cannot express.
His use of phrasing has been described as a kaleidoscope that is gradually shifting. 'Four Organs' and 'Drumming' are examples of 'movement' that I find rather exciting in relation to the current 12-Pages brief.

TBC News: Call for Submissions

TBC Artists' Collective has now announced an open call for submissions to its February 12-Pages Project. Applicants are asked to make a new artwork in response to the theme of 'HYBRID'.

All responses should be sent to Beverley.Bennett@tbcartistscollective.org by midnight on 28th February 2011 to be considered for inclusion in the 12-Pages publication on TBC's online project space. HYBRID will be online in March 2011.

TBC Project: A Message to Richard Baker

Version 1

Version 2

Outcome

The Intervention

'A Message to...' an intervention project where TBC members researched and created a piece of work based around those who have influenced the city of Oxford.
Richard Baker (born 1972) is a British composer and conductor, known equally for his own highly charged and distinctive music and for his performances of contemporary music, especially the music of his contemporaries in the UK.

Version 1, Version 2 and Outcome are a merger between an original drawings created for the project and the materials used to create it. Baker's composition entitled Los Rabanos influenced the piece.

TBC Project: 12 - Pages Do It Again, and Again, and Again

 

For more information visit 12-pages.com

Delineation, Contemporary Dialogues with Drawing 27-31 October 2010

After a successful five-day run, Delineation closed its doors to the public. The Delineation project however, continues to develop. A post-exhibition catalogue, featuring critical responses to the exhibition and essays exploring contemporary drawing practices, will be edited by TBC over the forthcoming months.

Anyone interested in being kept up-to-date with the progress of this and other TBC projects should join the TBC mailing list by emailing with the subject heading 'Mailing List' to: info@tbcartistscollective.org.

Delineation: Contemporary Dialogues with Drawing - Scratch Black Light

TBC News: 12-Pages Online Project Space

For more information visit TBC Artists' Collective blog

12 artists', 12 minutes, 12 pages

TBC Artists' Collective project brief to create a finished work in 12 minutes. This piece is entitled Din.