COLLECTIVE 27th January 2006 to 1st February 2006 Time: 11:00am to 7:00pm Location: Wellington House, Pollard St, Anocoats, Manchester.

tilfeldig Productions Irene Rukerebuka and Eva Aftab

The artists are:
Tony Knox, Liverpool,
Hermanti Chauhan, Leicester ,
John Deller, London.
Jo Harrison, Manchester
Gaynor Sweeney, Liverpool
TC Cormack, Sheffield.
Allis Ni Rian, Manchester.
Bryony Bond, Manchester,

Collective is a site specific art exhibition taking place in the Wellington Mill, Ancoats, Manchester featuring 8 emerging and established British based artists from contrasting disciplines. The exhibition will run from 27th January to 1st February 2006 and will be followed by a limited edition catalogue.

Each artist from sound to sculpture to performance art will create new work within the interior of the textile mill in response to the history and background of the derelict mill. Lasting for only seven days; the history of the Wellington Mill will exist within contemporary eyes, evoking a sense of loss and nostalgia within an abandoned space, momentarily installed; to produce a visual, conceptual and enthralling original exhibition.

Produced by Tilfeldig Productions and Rant Magazine, Collective comes with support from, Levis, Arts Council, Awards For All, Dont Panic, Supply UK and Cusquena premium beer.
From guerrilla marketing through to the canvas made invites : Tilfeldig Productions maintains to produce unique, thought provoking and cutting edge exhibitions.
600 limited edition catalogues, will be available to purchase in places such as Collette in Paris, Cornerhouse Bookshop, Here Gallery in Bristol and any decent law abiding art gallery, through Rant Magazine.

Email: irene@tilfeldigproductions.com

Liverpool based artist who has undertaken project and featured within the collective show is Tony Knox is produced new work entitled to 19 months later, a short film in which Knox in a small private woods surrounded by four 12 x 6-foot mirrors originally from the Tate show during the Liverpool biennial 2004, Knox proceeded to produce a pair of scissors and then started to cut away at his beard, revealing physical similarities to his father he then adopted his father's clothes and glasses and then started to cut away it is shoulder length hair, transforming himself into the persona of his father who passed away 19 months to the day of this performance.
The work was presented as a digital projection onto the hung mirrors that previously laid in the woods five months he and whether it be sure the vulnerabilities of life and references to a sense of loss and a degeneration of memory.

This project has been supported by the University of Central Lancaster.
A persomal thank you to Runa Cha and others for there filming on the Project.

Tony Knox as other explorations was Moth man in which Knox trained as a wrestler to five months with garage pro wrestling and had a live wrestling match, this was a video piece shown at the transvoyeur show the Liverpool biannual 2004, also he organised and participated as Moth man in a live wrestling show at jump ship rat in which he won the rematch but sustained injury there is recently talk that Moth Man may gain takes centre stage in another wrestling bout in 2006.

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rene Rukerebuka and Eva Aftab to realise the final stages of this extraordinary exhibition. As well as this project, Rukerebuka also is founder and editor of Rant Magazine and Tilfeldig Productions. Rant has an international distribution to various arts and cultural outlets.

For further information please go to:
www.tilfeldigproductions.com

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