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Allure of Sorts, sorted
Many many thanks to all the artists who performed with us! It was quite an exciting day and there were a lot of interesting reactions from the passers-by ranging from interference and popping a performer’s balloon to a security guard participating instead of moving us! There were a few last-minute changes, unfortunately, Katie Shevlin could not participate and a few locations changed on the fly, but all in all, it was a good day that ran fairly smoothly. Every time one performs in a public space, the element of surprise is greater than in any gallery, just to state the obvious. You never know what the audience will do since…
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Allure of Sorts
A collaboration between Scaffold Gallery and Tape Modern presents, Allure of Sorts.We are holding a one one-day performance festival where performances will ripple across Manchester city centre. We invite the use of architecture, history, the cityscape and relation with the social landscape of activity. This project was born out of a need to be within life, to not be exclusive. The event will probe on the uselessness but essentiality of art and what is the accepted use of public space; What is space and how do we occupy it? Is the white box tired? How does performance art operate in public space? Our largest pool of witnesses will be the…
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Introducing enne&moffa
I know this may sound ridiculous, after so long and it is not even the person you know best who will be writing this post. Do not threat, the lovely Enne has something up her sleeve that will quite amaze you pretty soon! But for now, hello, my stranger friends! Although you may not know me through writing, I am the other half of Tape Modern the Moffa in enne&moffa.Throughout these months of virtual inactivity on the media platforms of Tape Modern, we have been actually very busy with our dyad enne&moffa, who have been off gallivanting with various projects that have taken us as far as Asia and to…
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Where to begin after such a time…
In the last post I said we were trying to find a new building as soon as possible. Well, it didn’t happen soon. The blue building, the one we last moved into, was not good for us. It was big and gorgeous yes, but we couldn’t get running water without a flood, and the electricity situation was a bit precarious to say the least. On top of that, some of the supporting columns were dangerously rotten. Without running water everything felt difficult and our kitchen situation was sad. One can be happy without such luxuries but then you kinda want to be in nature, camping or something. This felt too…
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Evictions
Tape Modern got evicted. We were aware that it will come soon but the beliefs and security came a week earlier than our sources let us believe, so we were taken off guard. In an ideal world, we would have been ready, reinforced the barricades and knowing where we would move. Alas, we only had a list of possible buildings we could move into, but we had not done our research on them yet. It turned out none of them was viable so we ended up house hunting while part of the crew stood watch for all our gear. In the end, we only spent one night under the sky…
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Show’s over
The Dogs have eaten all the Food and our show is closed. Many thanks to all our artists, visitors and the squat crew for sharing this with us! Before we move on to transforming the space back to an artist studio, there’s still a few things about the show we would like to share with you: Last Friday we had a small event at the gallery: altercation by enne&moffa was performed for the second and last time. We had a small but a lovely crowd to experience the work and the wine with us. I don’t usually repeat a performance so it was an interesting and new experience for me…
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Opening = Happening
First and foremost I want to thank all the wonderful artists who showed their work at Food to the Dogs and everyone who came to the opening! It was quite the night; we had a good turnout especially considering that this was Tape Modern’s first show and because of the secret location people had to wait for the release of the address to find our place, bit of a hassle but people made the effort. We had gorgeous works, plenty to drink (thanks to Sand Bar and Cloud Water) and the performances created engaging action. The vibe was SO good and we had loads of fun doing it all! We…
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Address and Password
Tonight our exhibition Food to the Dogs will open at Tape Modern, 66 Baring Street M12PY. The password is Fancy Nourishment. Everything is set up for an art happening! Come down and see what’s what. Our performances in the opening: 20:30 Enne&Moffa 21:30 Mutabase The performance by Enne&Moffa will be repeated on 4.6.2018 and 8.6.2018 at 6pm so even if you can’t make it to the preview you’ll get a second chance to see the work.
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Food to the Dogs
We are happy to announce the first exhibition coming up in Tape Modern: Food to The Dogs I am very excited about this exhibition! It will be the first one we do with our new space, the artists we have lined up are interesting and I love the works we’ll have the privilege to show. Naturally, we need to keep in mind that we might be evicted at any point. We have plans in place of how to get all the works safely to the next building and how to keep the ball rolling if this would happen. Because of this, we are doing this on a…
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Up and Running
As I mentioned in my last post, Origins part 2, the squat was too precarious an environment to realise modestly ambitious how we had planned it. I was not sad about it. On the contrary, I felt I found something that was even better for me in this time and place. Not all of us agreed though and after some conversation, we came to the conclusion that we had very different needs for studios due to the nature of our practices and therefore trying to find a studio together didn’t seem very meaningful. Modestly ambitious became a frame work for other art activities and Sophia and I decided to stay…