Andre Guedes in residence @ the Bluecoat
Posted by Vanessa on August 2, 2009 @ 2:30 pm
Andre Guedes Backyard of a building, 2005
I have had the pleasure over the past six weeks of helping to host Andre Guedes on his co-commissioned residency through the Bluecoat and Visiting Arts. Choosing to produce a project that evidences the present state of the institution by drawing a trajectory through its past, he has been trawling the archives of the Bluecoat for unusual documents, images and objects. Accompanying him to the Bluecoat’s offsite storage space in an empty warehouse in Liverpool’s old business district, I was overwhelmed by the sheer volume of exhibition catalogues, VHS tapes and random artifacts that we found from the Bluecoat circa 2004, prior to its redevelopment.
Andre’s exhibition and performative interventions will open at the Bluecoat in November this year. Watch this space for more blog posts on this topic - I am excited about it!