My day began with a coffee in the new temporary cafe next door to the Archive, bizarrely shared with performers from Spartacus Chetwynd’s Turner Prize installation dressed in outfits involving camouflage and plastic ducting ! The Tate was buzzing with press prior to the Turner Prize Opening tonight.<\/p>\n
Something to think about:<\/strong> …\u201cThe APG (Artist Placement Group) was formed in 1966 to examine the potential activity of a fine artist within industrial and commercial organisations<\/p>\n to investigate the circumstances of their professional segregation<\/p>\n and to attempt to bring about a continuous communication between these two poles.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThe artist – or more significantly, to get away from the traditional concepts inherent in the word, the individual – must insist on being recognised as an autonomous professional.\u201d<\/p>\n TGA 815\/1\/10\/3\/2\u00a0\u00a0 Mayor, David\u00a0\u00a0 The Artist Placement Group\u00a0\u00a0 11 Nov 1971<\/p>\n One item I enjoyed from the Archive was the “Egg Placement Group”, linked to the influential Fluxus Group and obviously a send-up or reaction against the APG . It invited artists to submit proposals for the “placing in its widest sense, of at least one egg”. Proposals included placing an egg inside a crater on moon, and on pile of dog excrement gathered in the centre of a public park. One of the items I looked at included an ‘egg-placing’ kit, sent through the post.The egg concerned was to be placed in the centre of the lawn at the Courtauld Institute.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" My day began with a coffee in the new temporary cafe next door to the Archive, bizarrely shared with performers from Spartacus Chetwynd’s Turner Prize installation dressed in outfits involving camouflage and plastic ducting ! The Tate was buzzing with press prior to the Turner Prize Opening tonight. Something to think about: …\u201cThe APG (Artist Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jillrandall.co.uk\/tate-project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jillrandall.co.uk\/tate-project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jillrandall.co.uk\/tate-project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jillrandall.co.uk\/tate-project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jillrandall.co.uk\/tate-project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/jillrandall.co.uk\/tate-project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":146,"href":"https:\/\/jillrandall.co.uk\/tate-project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129\/revisions\/146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jillrandall.co.uk\/tate-project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jillrandall.co.uk\/tate-project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jillrandall.co.uk\/tate-project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}