The House of Beautifully Earned Trust

Muster Station
The House of Beautifully Earned Trust

2018 Starts in the HB cinema and continues on a short walk

Is this a new form of Airbnb or a regular family home? Yes.

Is it a protest or a celebration? No.

Do they love art or seek to destroy it? Yes.

Who is the family? No. What year is this? Yes. Why do they need visitors? No. Who’s actually in charge around here? No. What does it mean for our future? Yes. And so on? Maybe.

Muster Station is a rethinking and regrouping; an evolving group of artists that emerged from the closure of their art school at the University of Kent. As a sequel to (and inversion of) the School of Beginnings held at Tate Modern, (February, 2018), the Muster Station artists ask you to now put your trust in them, to show you a video, a sound, a walk and a home; The House of Beautifully Earned Trust.Muster Station, the School of Beginnings and The House of Beautifully Earned Trust were initiated by Whitstable-based artist, Adam Chodzko.

Participating artists:

Megan Boyle

Adam Chodzko

Sophie Chapman

Jordan Colbert
Jose Fernandez Levy

Andrew Gallacher

Sian Hookins

Adam James

Jose Macabra

Angel Obi

Claire Orme

Daniel Owusu
Carol Smith

Olu Taiwo
Fiona Townend

The Cinema at The Horsebridge Centre, Whitstable – Where The House of Beautifully Earned Trust begins

Adam Chodzko preparing onion soup for the House of Beautifully Earned Trust.

Angel Obi, At Home, in The House of Beautifully Earned Trust

Angel Obi and Carol Smith in domestic harmony preparing for guests to The House of Beautifully Earned Trust

Jordan Colbert updates social media for The House of Beautifully Earned Trust

Adam James (The LARP master) prepares scripts for The House of Beautifully Earned Trust

Olu Taiwo preparing to re-purpose VHS tapes for The House of Beautifully Earned Trust

4th February 201812th February 2018

Data For Data’s Sake #2 – Shredding

Tate Modern

Collaborative making at Tate Modern, 5th floor, Blavatnik building on 3rd and 4th February 2018. Data for Data’s Sake (2018) invited visitors to take government data about UK government art collections (including the Tate’s) personalise it, shred it and cage it, to produce new works of data.

XML Data

Using XML data from the government data website (government art collection) for performance reading/singing of raw data.

Shredding the data

Highlighting/colouring A4 sheets to produce new ‘works of Data’ + inviting visitors to make their own works from shredding the data and caging the data. Works of Data which turn into works of art, which must, of course, be destroyed… because: Continue reading “Data For Data’s Sake #2 – Shredding”

4th February 201812th February 2018

Tate Exchange 3/4th Feb 2018: School of Beginnings

Tate Exchange Conceptual Art Collaboration, Performance and Production.

Andrew Gallacher: Data for Data’s Sake

Performance

I will deliver spirited readings of this data. Perhaps I will stand at a lectern and be lit theatrically. I may wear a costume – perhaps academic robes, or a clerical surplice, or the evening dress of a concert tenor. These performances could last about 5 minutes and be performed to fit in with other events taking place in the venue. I envisage 4 such performances on each of the two days. Continue reading “Tate Exchange 3/4th Feb 2018: School of Beginnings”

3rd February 201810th February 2018

Tate Modern 10 minute talk: Fountain by Marcel Duchamp

I’m Andrew Gallacher, I’m an artist working here at Tate Exchange – 5th floor Blavatnik building. I’m a conceptual artist and that’s why this work interests me so much, because, it is probably the first bit of conceptual art. by conceptual, I suppose I mean that the idea behind the work is the most important thing about it. Continue reading “Tate Modern 10 minute talk: Fountain by Marcel Duchamp”

3rd February 201813th February 2018

Tate-Sung Data For Data’s Sake Performance

Andrew Gallacher Tate Modern Performance

This is XML Data from https://data.gov.uk/dataset/government-art-collection

William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham Pitt, William, 1st Earl of Chatham Prime Minister 1708 1778 1708 1708-1778 Birth Date – Death Date 130755 15964 130760 William Henry Cavendish Cavendish-Bent-ink, 3rd Duke of Portland Cavendish-Bent-ink, William Henry Cavendish, 3rd Duke of Portland Prime Minister 1738 1809 1738 1738-1809 Birth Date – Death Date 130760 26542 130764 Spencer Perceval Perceval, Spenser Prime Minister

2nd February 201814th May 2018

The Ten Million Dollar Difference: Basquiat V. Gallacher

Here are two works of art.

Jean-Michel Basquait’s Untitled (1982)

and Andrew Gallacher’s Data for Data’s Sake #3 (2018)

The Basquait sold at auction for $110,000,000 (bought by Yusaku Maezawa who then took a selfie with the painting and posted it on instagram.) Continue reading “The Ten Million Dollar Difference: Basquiat V. Gallacher”

1st February 201810th February 2018

Muster Station: The School of Beginnings

Muster Station is a rethinking and regrouping; an evolving group of artists that emerged as a direct consequence of the closure of their art school and the need to produce a new imagination for their agency. Continue reading “Muster Station: The School of Beginnings”