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this is tomorrow 2
 
This is Tomorrow 2008 - PROPOSAL
   
A rethinking of the iconic 1956 exhibition
 
THIS IS TOMORROW 2 will reconstruct the collaborative group format and pavilion structure of the THIS IS TOMORROW 1956 exhibition. Whereby 12 groups of three / four people: Artist, Architect and Culture + Communications - musician, engineer, theorist, philosopher, scientist, new media, writer... work together in response to the question What are the multidisciplinary issues and subjects of interest for artists and architects today? And thereby propose a project to represent their collaborative artist / architect / urban vision.
The participants would use the defined exhibition space and collaborative process as a platform to communicate and present artist / architect / urbanist / social / cultural ideas. It is concerned with forward thinking linked to questions of urbanism and cultural production. The curatorial brief has purposefully been left as open as possible at this stage to allow for organic development through discussion between the curators and the participants.

We would expect the exhibition to develop a process based, workshop format rather than a finished art / architecture product. We anticipate the presentation of information through conceptual, symbolic, digital and multi-media formats. The catalogue would be a major part of the exhibition with text and design recording the ideas emerging within the collaborative pavilions.
 
The process of collaborative multidisciplinary action, thinking and discussion with an internationalist perspective is a key element of the proposal. The groups will be drawn from UK and international artists and architects based in the UK or with significant UK links.

 
     
AIM
The exhibition will be aware of the iconic nature of the 1956 exhibition and will aim - through catalogue design and text, posters and the exhibition itself to produce an equally important reference exhibition and statement for a current generation of artists / architects / + a multidisciplinary audience.
ORGANIZATION
Architecture / Curator - Lucy Bullivant
Art - Jeremy Hunt
Culture + Communications - Michael Da Costa
Exhibition Manager & Co-ordinator - Georgina Turner
 
SELECTION : The artists / architects groups would be selected directly by an exhibition advisory board and the exhibition curators
EXHIBITION ADVISORS : Peter Murray, Director of Wordsearch, Derick Johnson, Director Revelations (Additional advisors in progress)
VENUES : UK and international. In progress.
DATES : Winter 2006 / 2007 - touring through 2007
 
EXHIBITION STRUCTURE
- 12 groups of three / four people: Artist, Architect and Culture + Communications work together to create an exhibition / installation in a defined pavilion space c.6 x 6 sq.metres. Total Exhibition footprint: c.300 sq.metres.
- A dedicated exhibition pavilion would be designed (subject to budget)
- The exhibition would publish two major catalogues - This is Tomorrow 2 and the original 1956 catalogue.
- Each exhibition group would produce and publish a poster.
- The exhibition would tour internationally.
- An exhibition website.
- Symposium, Lecture and Educational Programme .
 
EXHIBITION CATALOGUES
CATALOGUE 1 : This is Tomorrow 1956
THE EXHIBITION WILL REPRODUCE IN FACSIMILE THE 130PP (165 X 140mm) 1956 CATALOGUE WITH SUPPORTING ESSAY.
 
The original catalogue was edited by Theo CROSBY and designed by Edward WRIGHT printed in an edition of 1300 copies.
Each group was responsible for their contribution and manner of presentation.
CATALOGUE 2 : This is Tomorrow 2
Edited by Jeremy Hunt, Lucy Bullivant, Miichael Da Costa
The exhibition would be aware of the iconic nature of the 1956 exhibition and would aim - through catalogue design and supporting text and design to produce an equally important reference statement for a current generation of artists and architects. The catalogue would be a major part of the exhibition concept presenting the ideas emerging within the collaborative pavilions in advance of the exhibition.
It will be a visual and conceptual moment of art and architecture thinking.
 
The participants would use the catalogue as a platform to communicate and present art / architecture / urbanist / social / cultural and technological ideas
 
It is concerned with forward thinking linked to questions of individualism, technology, urbanism and cultural production.
 
The curatorial brief has purposefully been left as open as possible at this stage to allow for organic development through discussion between the curators and the participants.
 
We expect the catalogue to develop a process based visualisation of ideas rather than a finished art / architecture product.
 
We anticipate the presention of information through conceptual, symbolic, photographic and digital formats.
 
The process of collaborative multidisciplinary action, thinking and discussion with an internationalist perspective is a key element of the proposals.
 
CONTENT : CATALOGUE 2
Cover Title/ Credits/Introduction
8pp
Text 1. Relationship to This is Tomorrow 1956
12pp
Text 2. Lucy Bullivant. This is Tomorrow 2
12pp
Text 3. Jeremy Hunt. This is Tomorrow 2
12pp
12 sections created by the exhibition groups 12pp Each
144pp
 
TOTAL : 188pp
 
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