Cart Blanche© opened on July 1 st , 2004 and is an ongoing project

London, England

Cart Blanche© is a mobile gallery project launched on the occasion of the exhibition State of Independence . It is a ‘white-cube' on wheels (or box for things to happen in) which has made appearances and interventions at various art venues, events and festivals, public transport, and street corners.

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How the Project Started:

Selected Vision in Art members were invited to create artwork in response to a themed exhibition called ‘State of Independence', which ran from July 1 st - July 11 th , 2004. In the spirit of independence, my natural reaction was to think that all members should be asked to exhibit. It then occurred to me to construct my own gallery and invite more artists. If that gallery were mobile, it would also allow us to move between the two exhibition spaces and escape into the world with our prized goods.

Artists, Curators, Collaborators, Conspirators:
Shows, Events, Happenings:

State of Independence, July 1 st - July 11 th, 2004
From July 1 st - July 11 th , 2004, Cart Blanche© was moved between the exhibition spaces at 10 Northwold Road and Unit B, Leswin Place, London. It also went to other places such as: The Art Car Boot Fair 2004 at Brick Lane, Freedom Fries at Cumberland Wharf Gardens, A Slither & A Slice – 20 th Anniversary Celebrations at Café Gallery Projects, and Speakeasy at The Whitechapel gallery.
The exhibiting Artists were: Sarah Girard, Rebecca Hale, Susannah Hewlett, Anila Ladwa, Alan Liddiard, Ana Moring, Niki Sehmi, Jason Synnott

How to Get Involved:

I do not see myself as a curator but as an artist who is occupied with conflating roles in general. I am always looking for collaborators and interested artists and non-artists to work with. For Cart Blanche©, there is no submission process and invitations have worked out on a rather casual basis. Projects have evolved out of a context or event, and participating artists have either been people/artists around me at a particular time, a personality that I like, or person that I trust or think may be interesting to work with, a recommendation by a friend, or even an artist whose work I like. I am interested in heterogeneous art spaces that spill out into everyday life.

Note: The Growing List of ‘Friends of the Gallery' has been a good way of keeping people informed of Cart Blanche's© mobile activity. A 'Mobile Gallery Comments Book' is also very helpful as people have been very keen to jot down their commentaries.

I am seeking appropriate events, festivals, and galleries world wide that would be interested to house my mobile gallery temporarily or to have the gallery's activity as part of an event or occasion. I am planning a world tour and in search of collaborators.
web link: www.luciacipriano.co.uk

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Catalogue texts by the Artists:

"What times exactly should we say for the 1hr summit stocking washing meetings?" C+ J Artlab

What interests me is the idea of bringing opposing elements together, trying to fuse or collide abstract and material orders, investigating the 'stuff' that furnishes the world we inhabit, utilising the fluctuating boundaries between real space and the space of art, and exploring our resulting intellectual and aesthetic responses. - Dave Ball

Interpreting the theme 'Stuffestrade ' as an invitation to do away with the concept of putting someone or something on a pedestal, I chose to be irreverent to one of the main representatives of dogmatism, the pope, by representing him in pubic hair. Having ditched the idea of practising devotion to a spiritual icon I decided to pledge allegiance to Lucia Cipriano's Duchampian sense of alternative presentation of art by acting as warden for her mobile gallery. - Paula Chiaia

...encountering temporary public alters to the incidental, personal and memorial power of taste... - Gayle Chong Kwan

STUFF < F-EST > TRADE
-Daedalus

Stuffestrade's linguistic reference to other cultures and a stage on which the vagaries of the artworld are played out presents itself as if a bomb exploding in its middle to break up the constituent parts; forcing the audience to question the artist as a willing player. - kate forrest

'Stuffestrade' to me is; Stuff (things that are nearly thrown away but have particular/personal value) and Estrade (low-level platform, a little higher than street level) - meaning that it is all about raising 'stuff', only slightly, to the attention of the gallery audience. - Alan Liddiard

'I was looking for something a bit performative' Quote TIME OUT. - Alison Marchant

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Freedom Fries
Street Corner
Radio Void
"Squat" by Artlab