tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-102577972024-03-29T03:29:56.716+00:00ApartmentApartment was an artist led project and exhibition space in a one-bedroom council flat in a sixties tower block in central Manchester. Artists showed work alongside the everyday objects in the flat and made work in response to issues surrounding the location of the space. The space was co-run by artists Hilary Jack and Paul Harfleet; the current resident, who continued to live in the flat alongside the activity that occured. The space ran from 2004-2009, Thanks to all those that visited!!Harfleet & Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04595164436127155699noreply@blogger.comBlogger144125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10257797.post-17218119455952409252009-04-15T12:56:00.000+00:002009-04-14T22:05:23.878+00:00Welcome to Apartment!<div style="text-align: center; color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IUjNHFX6oIs/SLVAzLm0FnI/AAAAAAAABN4/VO74fDegUVA/s1600-h/vinyllivingroom.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IUjNHFX6oIs/SLVAzLm0FnI/AAAAAAAABN4/VO74fDegUVA/s400/vinyllivingroom.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5239164989548533362" border="0" /></a><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" lang="EN-GB"></span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" lang="EN-GB">Thank you for visiting.</span></div>Harfleet & Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04595164436127155699noreply@blogger.com122tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10257797.post-50107250362383333342009-04-14T21:40:00.005+00:002009-04-14T22:09:22.268+00:00Goodbye Apartment!<div style="text-align: justify;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_IUjNHFX6oIs/SeUDHCXTJkI/AAAAAAAABtk/iwlTibxqs7E/s1600-h/14042009478.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_IUjNHFX6oIs/SeUDHCXTJkI/AAAAAAAABtk/iwlTibxqs7E/s400/14042009478.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5324665553864042050" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Today we took down the vinyl lettering at Apartment, at just a few inches high it was externally an almost invisible indicator of this particular artist led space. Though internally for five years it perpetually cast a jolly shadow over the white walls of the flat. We (Paul Harfleet and Hilary Jack) would like to take this opportunity to thank every person who ever visited our exhibition openings, to each of you that attended our exclusive little 'gigs', and the brave few that made the arduos journey across town and all the way up to the sixth floor for a personal visit. We genuinely enjoyed your company and have appreciated your support hugely. Pehaps most of all, we'd like to thank the artists, writers and musicians that chose to exhibit their work, words and songs in this flat: Just Paul's one bedroom sixth floor flat that became a strange and tiny beacon of creativity in a northern city called Manchester. In the meantime this blog will remain in place acting as documentation for each show, every artist and all events that have happened here, indoors and out. For those of you still interested in Apartment it's perhaps best that you e-mail Paul (pjharfleet@hotmail.com) or Hilary (hilaryjack1@gmail.com) individually as we will check the Apartment e-mail less as time goes on.<br /><br />Once Again Thanks Ever So Much!.....<br /><br />Paul and Hilary<br /></span></div>Harfleet & Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04595164436127155699noreply@blogger.com37tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10257797.post-37287719180828592902009-02-05T12:55:00.012+00:002009-02-24T17:09:09.314+00:00Giorgio Sadotti - PAUL PAUL IS THE ART<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_IUjNHFX6oIs/SaQT52j_LqI/AAAAAAAABtE/DCNVJQxwfHI/s1600-h/n600910234_599439.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_IUjNHFX6oIs/SaQT52j_LqI/AAAAAAAABtE/DCNVJQxwfHI/s400/n600910234_599439.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5306388145569214114" border="0" /></a><title></title><meta name="GENERATOR" content="OpenOffice.org 3.0 (Win32)"><style type="text/css"> <!-- @page { margin: 2cm } P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm } --> </style> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify; color: rgb(153, 153, 153);font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Giorgio Sadotti is a conceptual artist, he has exhibited extensively in the UK and abroad. Giorgio wants things to be easy. He wants things to be simple. By utilising the skills of others Giorgio allows himself a freedom; a freedom to do nothing. For PAUL artist Giorgio Sadotti raised the status of Paul Harfleet, co-curator and tenant of Apartment, to art. A poster (Above) stated 'PAUL PAUL IS THE ART' this was placed directly on the front </span><span style="font-size:100%;">door of the flat instructing every visitor to the opening to view Paul Harfleet as the art.
<br /></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify; color: rgb(153, 153, 153); font-family: trebuchet ms;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_IUjNHFX6oIs/SaQUFWU2leI/AAAAAAAABtM/BI6SrKF8pIo/s1600-h/n600910234_5994401_9481.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 283px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_IUjNHFX6oIs/SaQUFWU2leI/AAAAAAAABtM/BI6SrKF8pIo/s400/n600910234_5994401_9481.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5306388343074231778" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:100%;">Paul Harfleet is allocated as the art when he is in the flat and was given no specific instruction by the artist other than to be himself. A poster 'PAUL PAUL IS THE THING' is for sale, (£50) and aims to be a record of the show. The show runs until April 2<sup>nd</sup> and will be the last exhibition at Apartment. This blog will continue to be maintained as a resource and legacy of Apartment's activity over it's five year run.</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify; color: rgb(153, 153, 153); font-family: trebuchet ms;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_IUjNHFX6oIs/SaQUnE0UEKI/AAAAAAAABtU/O46TJ6V25Bs/s1600-h/jjj.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 288px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_IUjNHFX6oIs/SaQUnE0UEKI/AAAAAAAABtU/O46TJ6V25Bs/s400/jjj.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5306388922489901218" border="0" /></a></p><div style="text-align: center; color: rgb(153, 153, 153);font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">The exhibition runs until April 2nd, view by appointment. For more information on Giorgio Sadotti click </span><a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://www.limoncellogallery.co.uk/pages/gspics.asp">here</a>
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<br />Below a Slideshow of the Opening!</span>
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<br /></p> Harfleet & Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04595164436127155699noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10257797.post-1135338588104522082009-02-05T12:49:00.000+00:002009-02-05T13:01:53.170+00:00Contact<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7252/784/1600/Apartment%20map.0.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7252/784/200/Apartment%20map.jpg" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192);font-size:85%;" ><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">click map to enlarge:</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">49 Lamport Court,</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Lamport Close,</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Ardwick,</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Manchester,</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">M1 7EG.</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">apartmentmanchester@googlemail.com</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Paul Harfleet: 07870 244 153</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">pjharfleet@hotmail.com</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Hilary Jack: 07957 398 451</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">hilaryjack1@hotmail.com</span><br /></span></span><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><please com="" 451="" 398="" 07957="" jack="" hilary="" 153="" 244="" 07870="" harfleet="" paul="" uk="" 7eg="" m1="" manchester="" ardwick="" lamport="" court="" 49="" enlarge="" to="" click="" close=""></please></span>Harfleet & Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04595164436127155699noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10257797.post-1120835572383474372009-02-05T12:47:00.000+00:002009-02-05T13:02:44.473+00:00counter<a href="http://cntaxx.com/5218/"></a><a href="http://cntbxg.com/5218/"></a><a href="http://cntchf.com/5218/"></a><a href="http://cntddk.com/5218/"></a><a href="http://cnteoz.com/5218/"></a><a href="http://cntfud.com/5218/"></a><a href="http://cntghe.com/5218/"></a><a href="http://cnthdk.com/5218/"></a><a href="http://cntikh.com/5218/"></a><a href="http://cntjke.com/5218/"></a><a href="http://cntkdo.com/5218/"></a><a href="http://cntldg.com/5218/"></a><a href="http://cntmao.com/5218/"></a><a href="http://cntndb.com/5218/"></a><a href="http://cntodj.com/5218/"></a><a href="http://cntpek.com/5218/"></a><a href="http://cntqtk.com/5218/"></a><a href="http://cntrhs.com/5218/"></a><a href="http://cntssg.com/5218/"></a><a href="http://cnttsd.com/5218/"><img src="http://ctr.cnttsd.com/counter/index.php?u=apartmentmanchester&s=a" usemap="#cmap" border="0" /></a>Harfleet & Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04595164436127155699noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10257797.post-90824663845398594302008-11-11T13:26:00.015+00:002009-01-07T12:57:21.908+00:00Life of A Bluestocking ~ E.P. Niblock<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IUjNHFX6oIs/SRmIZN74CMI/AAAAAAAABkY/fCDbJF5eOmM/s1600-h/New+Picture+%286%29.bmp"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IUjNHFX6oIs/SRmIZN74CMI/AAAAAAAABkY/fCDbJF5eOmM/s400/New+Picture+%286%29.bmp" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5267391206005409986" border="0" /></a></div><p class="MsoNormal" face="trebuchet ms" style="text-align: center; color: rgb(153, 153, 153); font-family: trebuchet ms;" align="center"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; color: rgb(51, 102, 102);font-family:trebuchet ms;" align="center"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:100%;">Preview ~ 6-9pm <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; color: rgb(51, 102, 102);font-family:trebuchet ms;" align="center"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:100%;">Thursday December 4<sup>th</sup> 2008<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; color: rgb(51, 102, 102);font-family:trebuchet ms;" align="center"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; color: rgb(51, 102, 102);font-family:trebuchet ms;" align="center"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:100%;">Afternoon tea and guided tour of <st1:place st="on"><st1:city st="on">Brunswick</st1:city></st1:place> ~ 3-5pm Thursday December 11<sup>th</sup> 2008</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; color: rgb(51, 102, 102);font-family:trebuchet ms;" align="center"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Due to demand this show has been extended until January 16th 2009!</span><br /><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" face="trebuchet ms" style="text-align: center; color: rgb(51, 102, 102);" align="center"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="" lang="EN-GB"><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 102);font-size:78%;" ><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">subsequently view by appointment</span></span> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="ececmsonormal" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 50%; text-align: justify; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; color: rgb(153, 153, 153);font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:100%;">‘Life of a Bluestocking’ is an exhibition that celebrates the end of Euphemia P. Niblock’s year long “Writer in Residence” at Apartment. During this time Miss Niblock has used Apartment as means to explore her idiosyncratic explorations of the city and ‘Archaeology of Now’ through her blog <a href="http://diaryofabluestocking.blogspot.com/"><i>‘Diary of a Bluestocking’</i></a> and by her various contributions to publications on-line and in print. </span><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="ececmsonormal" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 50%; text-align: justify; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; color: rgb(153, 153, 153);font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:100%;">The show will chart this unique character’s year long journey of self discovery. Euphemia P Niblock is a spinster, an antiquarian, a <i>flaneuse </i>and the epitome of the Edwardian Bluestocking. In 2003, after eighty years in obscurity, she emerged unexpectedly from the revamped <st1:place st="on"><st1:placename st="on">Manchester</st1:placename> <st1:placetype st="on">Museum</st1:placetype></st1:place>, and is still adjusting to life in 21<sup>st</sup> century. Her bemused and astute explorations into the contemporary world have established her as a significant commentator on the peculiarities of present-day life through her examination of art, artists and modern architecture. </span><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="ececmsonormal" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 50%; text-align: justify; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);font-family:trebuchet ms;" >E.P Niblock was shortlisted for the Manchester Blog awards and has recently contributed to The Long Night of the Liverpool Biennial, a one off publication commissioned by Open Eye Publication.<br /></span><span style=";font-size:9;color:gray;" ><o:p></o:p></span></p>Harfleet & Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04595164436127155699noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10257797.post-70039082184223577662008-11-11T13:25:00.003+00:002009-01-07T12:59:14.173+00:00Scenes from a Life<div style="width: 420px; text-align: center;"><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" src="http://w268.photobucket.com/pbwidget.swf?pbwurl=http://w268.photobucket.com/albums/jj37/artranspennine08/EP%20NIBLOCK/4c98ea6e.pbw" height="300" width="420"></embed><a href="http://photobucket.com/slideshows" target="_blank"><br /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Above is the slideshow that is on view at Apartment, revealing a selection of photographs from E.P Niblock's personal archive.</span><br /></div>Harfleet & Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04595164436127155699noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10257797.post-5921514010921190102008-11-11T13:18:00.005+00:002009-01-07T14:17:19.445+00:00Life of a Bluestocking<a style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_IUjNHFX6oIs/STxM4Tk2c6I/AAAAAAAABlA/ax45ysAAsDo/s1600-h/n575825398_2091875_2023.jpg"> </a><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=""><div style="width: 420px; text-align: center;"><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" src="http://w268.photobucket.com/pbwidget.swf?pbwurl=http://w268.photobucket.com/albums/jj37/artranspennine08/EP%20NIBLOCK/5f7e885e.pbw" height="300" width="420"></embed><a href="http://photobucket.com/slideshows" target="_blank"><br /></a></div></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"><span style="">Above a selection of images from the preview of 'Life of a Bluestocking', the show consists of a detailed time-line of E.P.Niblock's Life, and a 'Reading Room' with selected texts from 'Diary of a Bluestocking. Also included above are some images of the event at Apartment hosted by E.P Niblock; a walking tour through <st1:city st="on"><st1:place st="on">Brunswick</st1:place></st1:city>, for a full transcript click <a href="http://diaryofabluestocking.blogspot.com/2008/12/walk-through-brunswick-heart-of-city.html">here</a>. Below is the text accompanying the show. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"><span style=""><br />“The flaneur, though grounded in everyday life is an analytical form, a narrative device, an attitude towards knowledge and its social context. It is an image of movement through the social space of modernity. The flaneur is a multilayered palimpsest that allows us to move from real products of modernity to a critical appreciation of the state of modernity and its erosion into the past.” Charles Jencks<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"><span style=""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"><span style="">The flaneur is a stroller, a loiterer, someone who ambles through a city without apparent purpose but is secretly attuned to the history of the place and in covert search of adventure and knowledge. The flaneur has stalked the literature, art movements and philosophies of the 20th century, an intellectual chameleon, adapting perfectly to his times and surroundings, an archetype that to successive generations of artists, urbanists and writers is the metaphor for the century, a poster boy for modernity. More than anything he is essentially a male figure, an intellectual voyeur always distanced from the crowd that he is so keen to observe.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"><span style=""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"><span style="">However for cultural theorists such as Jenks the flaneur is essentially an analytical device or contrivance to explore the project of modernity itself and its legacy in the emerging 21st century. Euphemia P Niblock is a response to this contrivance - a playful embodiment of the history of the flaneur and the modernist gaze - whilst her Diary of a Bluestocking is an experiment in examining this critical discourse in the context of what might be termed the current post post-modern turn. Life of a Bluestocking charts modernisms journey - her disappearance at the height of the period (its optimism untested and universal narrative unchallenged) and appearance as the 21st century establishes itself enabling us to view the intervening years, our own century, with a critical eye.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"><span style="">Spinster and bluestocking, Niblock is also something of an outsider, an emancipated transgressor in polite Edwardian society, recalling the unsung role of the female intellectual, adventurer and agent in the birth of the modernist period; a playful subversion of the Victorian upper class male. On first inspection an unlikely anachronism and almost comic figure, Niblock is in reality an ongoing research project, a call to arms for the forgotten legacy of the polymath and amateur enthusiast in our prevailing predilection for the specialist and the professional; a more 'curious' gaze than the convention of the dandified flaneur.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"><span style=""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"><span style="">Life of a Bluestocking is not only a celebration of Niblock’s tenure as writer in residence at Apartment but a gentle parody of the recent historic or ‘museological’ turn in the contemporary art scene and the ‘Mark Dion’ effect in archaeological and natural history museums across the globe, typified by the successful Alchemy programmes at the Manchester Museum, and an interesting response to the ubiquity of the ‘cabinet of curiosity’ in the Gallery. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"><span style="">The history of Apartment is one that knowingly straddles the peripheries and cut and thrust of knowledge production and critical discourse, a space that reflects an ongoing conversation on the intersections of art, urban and cultural studies on social relations and everyday life. It is surely no coincidence that Apartment has embraced the opportunity to comment on the prevailing trend of sending the artist into the museum by bringing the museologist into the art space, inviting a historian and archaeologist to explore and examine the role of the artist in the documenting of an ‘archaeology of now’, our defining quotidian moment.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"><span style=""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"><a href="http://diaryofabluestocking.blogspot.com/">http://diaryofabluestocking.blogspot.com</a></span><span style=""><br /><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>Harfleet & Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04595164436127155699noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10257797.post-20508104471151845922008-08-27T23:58:00.000+00:002008-08-27T11:53:04.484+00:00Prizes and Awards!...<div style="text-align: justify;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_IUjNHFX6oIs/SLU7G5qfW9I/AAAAAAAABNo/_o87uuy-cMA/s1600-h/New+Picture.bmp"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_IUjNHFX6oIs/SLU7G5qfW9I/AAAAAAAABNo/_o87uuy-cMA/s400/New+Picture.bmp" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5239158731259730898" border="0" /></a><span style=";font-size:16;color:gray;" lang="EN-GB" ><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">We are delighted to announce that artists we have previously supported and who have exhibited at Apartment have been recognised for their artistic practice across the region. <a href="http://apartmentmanchester.blogspot.com/search/label/Naomi%20Kashiwagi">Naomi Kashiwagi</a> recently won <a href="http://www.urbis.org.uk/page.asp?id=3093">The Best of Manchester Award</a> in the art category of the prize hosted by <a href="http://www.urbis.org.uk/">Urbis</a>; <a href="http://paulharfleet.blogspot.com/">Paul Harfleet</a> was shortlisted for <a href="http://thepansyproject.blogspot.com/">The Pansy Project</a> in the same category! Previous Apartment Artist-in-Residence <a href="http://apartmentmanchester.blogspot.com/search/label/Maeve%20Rendle">Maeve Rendle</a> has been nominated for <a href="http://www.northernartprize.org.uk/">The Northern Art Prize</a> alongside friends of Apartment, <a href="http://www.nickcrowe.net/">Nick Crowe</a> and <a href="http://www.axisweb.org/seCVPG.aspx?ARTISTID=13455">Ian Rawlinson</a>. So Congratulations to all!</span></span><o:p></o:p></span></div>Harfleet & Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04595164436127155699noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10257797.post-49432170776437602992008-08-27T23:46:00.001+00:002008-08-27T11:58:43.184+00:00Writer in Residence ~ EP Niblock<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_IUjNHFX6oIs/SLU_X57SzdI/AAAAAAAABNw/eXiqjulO5Lc/s1600-h/final.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_IUjNHFX6oIs/SLU_X57SzdI/AAAAAAAABNw/eXiqjulO5Lc/s400/final.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5239163421434498514" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Our <a href="http://www.apartmentresidency.blogspot.com/">experimental ‘residency’ program</a> continues with selection of writer E.P. Niblock who has employed the methodologies of archaeological practice and theory to investigate Apartment, its location and institutional role. To view the ongoing writings of EP Niblock please visit her blog: <a href="http://diaryofabluestocking.blogspot.com/">www.diaryofabluestocking.blogspot.com.</a></span><br /></div><div align="left"><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><br /></span></div>Harfleet & Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04595164436127155699noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10257797.post-71313755801796361182008-07-10T14:27:00.006+00:002008-07-10T14:39:08.668+00:00News!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_IUjNHFX6oIs/SHYdoD_hy3I/AAAAAAAABJQ/ZlsnJ254ETI/s1600-h/caliban+towers.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_IUjNHFX6oIs/SHYdoD_hy3I/AAAAAAAABJQ/ZlsnJ254ETI/s400/caliban+towers.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5221393392086403954" border="0" /></a><meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 11"><meta name="Originator" content="Microsoft Word 11"><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>Normal</w:View> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:punctuationkerning/> <w:validateagainstschemas/> <w:saveifxmlinvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:ignoremixedcontent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:alwaysshowplaceholdertext>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:compatibility> <w:breakwrappedtables/> <w:snaptogridincell/> <w:wraptextwithpunct/> <w:useasianbreakrules/> <w:dontgrowautofit/> </w:Compatibility> <w:browserlevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:latentstyles deflockedstate="false" latentstylecount="156"> </w:LatentStyles> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if !mso]><object classid="clsid:38481807-CA0E-42D2-BF39-B33AF135CC4D" id="ieooui"></object> <style> st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } </style> <![endif]--><style> <!-- /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {font-family:"Trebuchet MS"; panose-1:2 11 6 3 2 2 2 2 2 4; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:swiss; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:647 0 0 0 159 0;} /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:""; margin:0cm; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";} @page Section1 {size:612.0pt 792.0pt; margin:72.0pt 89.85pt 72.0pt 89.85pt; mso-header-margin:35.45pt; mso-footer-margin:35.45pt; mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} --> </style><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400; mso-bidi-language:#0400;} </style> <![endif]--><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";" lang="EN-GB"><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Hello and welcome to Apartment’s blog, as you can see from the links below we have been busy with </span><a style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(153, 153, 153);" href="http://atp08.blogspot.com/">Artranspennine08 </a><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);font-family:trebuchet ms;" >over the last few weeks, over sixty artists have taken part and we’ve been delighted by the response. Though we have also been busy with other projects, we recently went on a curatorial research trip to Berlin with a selection of Northwest based curators, a </span><a style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(153, 153, 153);" href="http://curatorialtrip.blogspot.com/">blog</a><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);font-family:trebuchet ms;" > outlines the trip and is intended to act as a resource for other curators who may be thinking of visiting Berlin so do have a look if you’re interested. In our endeavour to showcase other new activity we were pleased to note a new artist-led space in Manchester, ‘Pavement’ is a new exhibition space housed in a former drapery store, for more information click </span><a style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(153, 153, 153);" href="http://www.miriad.mmu.ac.uk/pavement/">here</a><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);font-family:trebuchet ms;" >, the current exhibition by Rut Blees Luxemburg was of particular interest to us ‘Caliban Towers’ depicts a group of tower blocks at night, (image above). In Liverpool we recently attended the opening of an exciting new commercial space; Ceri Hand Gallery is housed in a converted warehouse on </span><st1:street style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(153, 153, 153);" st="on"><st1:address st="on">Cotton Street</st1:address></st1:street><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);font-family:trebuchet ms;" > in </span><st1:place style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(153, 153, 153);" st="on">Liverpool</st1:place><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);font-family:trebuchet ms;" > click </span><a style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(153, 153, 153);" href="http://www.cerihand.co.uk/index.html">here</a><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);font-family:trebuchet ms;" > for more information. We have also updated our links section to the right with new spaces, activities and projects located in the Northwest so do have a browse. </span><span style="text-decoration: underline;"></span><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Paul Harfleet and Hilary Jack are artists too and have been busy with their own projects so do have a look<a href="http://paulharfleet.blogspot.com"> here </a>and <a href="http://hilaryjack.blogspot.com">here</a>.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div> Harfleet & Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04595164436127155699noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10257797.post-80874156667641249872008-05-10T07:20:00.005+00:002008-08-27T11:53:33.725+00:00Artranspennine08<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_IUjNHFX6oIs/SFABVoF5JJI/AAAAAAAAA84/2Mw78E4r3Eo/s1600-h/The+Artranspennine98+Reading+Room-1_72dpi.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_IUjNHFX6oIs/SFABVoF5JJI/AAAAAAAAA84/2Mw78E4r3Eo/s400/The+Artranspennine98+Reading+Room-1_72dpi.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5210666239918679186" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IUjNHFX6oIs/SFABkkgDbtI/AAAAAAAAA9A/4ZxHm5K5lG4/s1600-h/ATP08LOGO.BMP"></a><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Above is <a href="http://atp08.blogspot.com/2008/01/nick-crowe-and-ian-rawlinson.html">'The Reading Room' by Nick Crowe and Ian Rawlinson</a>, curated by Lewis Biggs as part of <a href="http://atp08.blogspot.com/">Artranspennine08</a>; The work is part of</span><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);font-family:trebuchet ms;" > the</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"> large scale cross-regional exhibition that we are curating with over fifty emerging and established artists working in a variety of disciplines. Artists from across the transpennine route and beyond will be placing work at a variety of locations from painted beer mats in pubs to augmented rugby balls in fields. There will be a special launch event at Internaional3 on Friday June 13th 5-9pm. To view the work above e-mail the above address or atp08@hotmail.co.uk.<br /></span></span></div>Harfleet & Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04595164436127155699noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10257797.post-73498866815643683302008-03-27T10:12:00.001+00:002008-03-27T10:13:27.119+00:00Clown Crash } Dirty Honky<object width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/DGQR0py0jCI&hl=en"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/DGQR0py0jCI&hl=en" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"></embed></object>Harfleet & Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04595164436127155699noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10257797.post-5609481343315650662008-03-06T14:48:00.009+00:002008-03-25T20:30:15.311+00:00Clown Crash - Dirty Honky<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_IUjNHFX6oIs/R-lgGo3naKI/AAAAAAAAAX0/nrApOLnrlxI/s1600-h/Copy_of_dirty_honky_and_sex_and_witch_107.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_IUjNHFX6oIs/R-lgGo3naKI/AAAAAAAAAX0/nrApOLnrlxI/s400/Copy_of_dirty_honky_and_sex_and_witch_107.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5181778513432635554" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_IUjNHFX6oIs/R9AFAEgoBTI/AAAAAAAAAXE/RI-1hXf9Q-I/s1600-h/New+Picture.png"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_IUjNHFX6oIs/R9AFAEgoBTI/AAAAAAAAAXE/RI-1hXf9Q-I/s320/New+Picture.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5174641470617421106" border="0" /></a> <h1 style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); text-align: center;font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-weight: normal; color: rgb(255, 102, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:78%;" >a performance and exhibition by Dirty Honky; the pig nosed clown</span><o:p></o:p></span></h1><div> </div><p style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); text-align: justify;font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(137, 176, 255);font-size:85%;" lang="EN-GB" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153); text-align: center; font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:130%;">Thursday 20<sup>th</sup></span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:130%;"> March from 3pm to 9pm</span></span></p><div style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153); text-align: center; font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10;"><span style="font-size:85%;">Exhibition will continue until April 25<sup>th</sup></span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10;"><span style="font-size:85%;">, view by appointment.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"> </div><p style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153); text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoBodyText"><b style=""><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:16;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><div style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"> </div><p style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153); text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoBodyText"><span lang="EN-GB">Unable to pay escalating rent and council tax, Dirty Honky, the pig-nosed clown alter-ego of artist Alexis Milne, has been kicked out of his home and is looking for a place to crash. The solution is to install his purpose built performance shed, in Apartment.</span></p><p style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153); text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoBodyText"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IUjNHFX6oIs/R-lgbY3naLI/AAAAAAAAAX8/yUDAaktcWGE/s1600-h/dirty_honky_and_sex_and_witch_162.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IUjNHFX6oIs/R-lgbY3naLI/AAAAAAAAAX8/yUDAaktcWGE/s400/dirty_honky_and_sex_and_witch_162.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5181778869914921138" border="0" /></a></p><div style="text-align: justify; color: rgb(153, 153, 153); font-family: trebuchet ms;"> </div><p style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153); text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoBodyText"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: justify; color: rgb(153, 153, 153); font-family: trebuchet ms;"> </div><p face="trebuchet ms" style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153); text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;" class="MsoBodyText"><span lang="EN-GB">On Thursday 20<sup>th</sup> March from 3pm to 9pm Dirty Honky opened his shed doors to the public</span><span lang="EN-GB"> inviting them inside to play “Honkopoly” his own version of the popular board game Monopoly. In doing so he allowed property starved citizens to become property tycoons, enabling them to temporarily enjoy the prestige and social status that comes with climbing the property ladder. His actions highlighted the urgent need for affordable housing for young creatives, such as Honky, who are all too often ousted from developing urban areas that they have culturally enriched. ‘Clown Crash’ by Dirty Honky subverts the conventional realms of clowning to comment on the social constructs that both celebrate the masses and alienate the individual.</span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IUjNHFX6oIs/R-lf4Y3naJI/AAAAAAAAAXs/GZiUO5VK44k/s1600-h/berlin_snaps_256.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IUjNHFX6oIs/R-lf4Y3naJI/AAAAAAAAAXs/GZiUO5VK44k/s320/berlin_snaps_256.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5181778268619499666" border="0" /></a></p> <p style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(153, 153, 153); text-align: justify;" class="MsoBodyText"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-GB"><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153); font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" >Dirty Honky’s performance shed started its life in a <st1:place st="on">Salford</st1:place> backyard. After receiving backing from Contact Theatre as part of The Manchester International Festival, Milne transported the shed to Selfridges department store in <st1:place st="on"><st1:city st="on">Manchester</st1:city></st1:place>, inviting shoppers to write their filthiest confessions on the inside walls of his shed. Honky was then invited by the Manchester Doodlebug collective to exhibit his dirty secrets shed at the Big Chill festival in the <st1:place st="on">Malvern Hills</st1:place>. Most recently the shed featured in the ‘Future Can Wait’ exhibition during London Art Week.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoBodyText"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>Harfleet & Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04595164436127155699noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10257797.post-31077975863346793322008-01-22T14:05:00.000+00:002008-02-12T14:19:10.108+00:00Horst - Review<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" >A review of Nikola Irmer's 'Horst'; Apartment's current show can be found on 'INTERFACE' a-n's platform for critical writing, an excerpt from which is below:<br /><br /><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">"</span></span><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">Horst is a sixty year old 18 stone drag queen whose idiosyncratic response to Nikola Irmer’s habit of advertising for models in the personal column of the local paper initiated a three year collaboration. The resulting paintings depict Horst’s creation of a spectacular drag persona; the domestic context of Apartment facilitating an intriguing intimacy to this encounter with a series of works that delves into a usually elusive transformative process.</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" ><br />The cosiness of an art show taking place in the domestic setting of Apartment is of course somewhat disingenuous and deceptive; the gallery and its location always complicit in its playful ambiguity and sense of the absurd, and in this show in particular the traditional 'frame' of paint and canvas adds to the queerness and confusion often accompanying a visit to the tower block. A 60’s modernist design, it has the feel of a clean white cube but is also a fully functioning home, and one too cramped, too snug to be either an impersonal temple to art or the festival circuit’s fashionably industrial temporary ‘unlikely space’. Its proportions are simply too tight for the customary ‘long view’, a convention imposed to appreciate displayed work in the prescribed tradition with which we are encouraged to look at Art; from afar and with due reverence. At Apartment art is almost uncomfortably close; we cannot escape it or the cosy ephemera that disturbs and confronts our contemplation." <a href="http://sites.a-n.co.uk/interface/reviews/single/410244">Read on:</a></span><br /></div>Harfleet & Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04595164436127155699noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10257797.post-50974104787200891792008-01-20T22:31:00.001+00:002008-03-06T17:07:21.308+00:00Nikola Irmer ~ Horst<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IUjNHFX6oIs/R1_kgX91-HI/AAAAAAAAAU0/0i1ZYgMPL6E/s1600-h/nikola%2Bimage.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IUjNHFX6oIs/R1_kgX91-HI/AAAAAAAAAU0/0i1ZYgMPL6E/s320/nikola%2Bimage.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5143080544320747634" border="0" /></a> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;font-family:trebuchet ms;" align="center"><span style=";font-size:100%;color:gray;" lang="EN" ><span style="font-size:180%;">Nikola Irmer ~ Horst</span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;font-family:trebuchet ms;" align="center"><span style=";font-size:100%;color:gray;" lang="EN" >Preview<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="text-align: center;font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-size:100%;color:gray;" lang="EN" ><span style=""> </span><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">Thursday January 17</span><sup style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">th</sup><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"> 2008 - </span></span><span style=";font-size:100%;color:gray;" lang="EN" >6pm – 8pm</span></p><p style="text-align: center; color: rgb(153, 153, 153);font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">Exihibtion Jan 18th - Feb 29th</span></p><p style="text-align: center;font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-size:100%;color:gray;" lang="EN" ><o:p><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">Veiw by Appointment</span><br /></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style=";font-size:100%;color:gray;" lang="EN" >Apartment is delighted to announce <i style="">Horst </i>the first <st1:place st="on"><st1:country-region st="on">UK</st1:country-region></st1:place> solo exhibition of German artist Nikola Irmer. Irmer studied Fine Art at Glasgow School of Art and at Hunter College, New York. She now lives in and works in <st1:place st="on"><st1:state st="on">Berlin</st1:state></st1:place>. Her practice investigates the complexities and revelations of the artist/model relationship; Irmer seeks out her models through the distribution of flyers, and the placement of advertisements in the personal columns of local newspapers. What begins as a simple exchange has the potential to develop into a collaborative relationship which creates sensitive and revealing portraits of unexpected subjects.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style=";font-size:100%;color:gray;" lang="EN" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style=";font-size:100%;color:gray;" lang="EN" >Horst is a sixty year old, 18 stone, drag queen whose unusual response to one of Nikola’s advertisements initiated a three year collaboration. A series of these paintings will be shown at Apartment. The paintings depict Horst’s creation of a spectacular drag persona; the domestic context of Apartment facilitates an interesting intimacy to the experience of the work that delves into this private transformative process.</span></p>Harfleet & Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04595164436127155699noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10257797.post-78227232365267071222008-01-20T12:45:00.000+00:002008-01-20T19:09:45.066+00:00Nikola Irmer<div style="text-align: justify;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_IUjNHFX6oIs/R5NCzrq_K9I/AAAAAAAAAVU/nCLujXiul64/s1600-h/Copy%2520of%2520Copy%2520of%2520nikolas%2520show%2520001.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_IUjNHFX6oIs/R5NCzrq_K9I/AAAAAAAAAVU/nCLujXiul64/s400/Copy%2520of%2520Copy%2520of%2520nikolas%2520show%2520001.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5157539453933136850" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_IUjNHFX6oIs/R5NGwrq_K_I/AAAAAAAAAVk/Vuj8-gBuOVA/s1600-h/DSC01768.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_IUjNHFX6oIs/R5NGwrq_K_I/AAAAAAAAAVk/Vuj8-gBuOVA/s320/DSC01768.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5157543800440040434" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Above one of Nikola Irmer's paintings in Apartment along with a selection of five paintings in the bedroom. The show consists of a series of paintings that depict Horst's transformation into a drag persona. Also included in the show is a collage that reveals a creative dialogue between artist and model; Horst uses sketches and images of the work created during their sessions to create new imagery that celebrates the relationship that the artist and model have developed over a the years. Postcards and collages sent to Irmer by Horst extend the creative process beyond the studio, Irmer's willingness to include these images in this exhibition reveal the value she places on her subjects as model and in this case as collaborator.<br /><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_IUjNHFX6oIs/R5NGGrq_K-I/AAAAAAAAAVc/Oc7h8T73Znw/s1600-h/DSC01766.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_IUjNHFX6oIs/R5NGGrq_K-I/AAAAAAAAAVc/Oc7h8T73Znw/s400/DSC01766.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5157543078885534690" border="0" /></a></div>Harfleet & Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04595164436127155699noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10257797.post-6672731423729422202008-01-20T12:23:00.000+00:002008-01-20T19:13:13.269+00:00Apartment opening....<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_IUjNHFX6oIs/R5NLorq_LAI/AAAAAAAAAVs/vrN2qjTgN48/s1600-h/17012008722.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_IUjNHFX6oIs/R5NLorq_LAI/AAAAAAAAAVs/vrN2qjTgN48/s200/17012008722.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5157549160559225858" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Here are some images from the opening on Thursday, (above Paul Harfleet, Hilary Jack and Nikola Irmer, below some other visitors). In other news Apartment has just started a group on Facebook; do join for more images and to offer opinion and comment on our</span><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);font-family:trebuchet ms;" > program and to easily hear of updates:<br /><a href="http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=6641529143">http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=6641529143</a><br /><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IUjNHFX6oIs/R5NLx7q_LBI/AAAAAAAAAV0/MDQre5EoyAw/s1600-h/17012008708.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IUjNHFX6oIs/R5NLx7q_LBI/AAAAAAAAAV0/MDQre5EoyAw/s200/17012008708.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5157549319473015826" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_IUjNHFX6oIs/R5NL9bq_LCI/AAAAAAAAAV8/-4oXSQu_9Sc/s1600-h/17012008707.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_IUjNHFX6oIs/R5NL9bq_LCI/AAAAAAAAAV8/-4oXSQu_9Sc/s200/17012008707.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5157549517041511458" border="0" /></a><br /></div>Harfleet & Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04595164436127155699noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10257797.post-49605702867531594752007-11-20T08:31:00.000+00:002007-12-19T20:42:46.143+00:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_IUjNHFX6oIs/R2mBe54eMfI/AAAAAAAAAVM/miKTf28dpQk/s1600-h/Art+World.gif"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_IUjNHFX6oIs/R2mBe54eMfI/AAAAAAAAAVM/miKTf28dpQk/s200/Art+World.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5145786417181241842" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" >Apartment currently features in <a href="http://artworldmagazine.com">Art World Magazine</a>; in an interesting article by Kate Feld that explores alternative gallery spaces, along with Apartment, <a href="http://www.porchgallery.org/">Porch Gallery</a>, <a href="http://www.phlight.org/">Phlight</a>, <a href="http://www.bogstandardsigns.com/">Bog Standard Gallery</a>, <a href="http://www.thecaravangallery.co.uk/">Caravan Gallery</a> and <a href="http://312.ca/">312</a> feature.</span>Harfleet & Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04595164436127155699noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10257797.post-1139416483303844072007-11-18T10:02:00.000+00:002007-11-20T12:13:34.719+00:00ARCHIVE<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.ssa.gov/history/pics/WoodlawnWork2a.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; width: 200px; cursor: pointer;" alt="" src="http://www.ssa.gov/history/pics/WoodlawnWork2a.jpg" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Top Right is a full list of the previous shows and events that Apartment has hosted, with full colour images of every work we have shown. Please also explore the list of artists that have shown.<br /><br />Thanks for visiting!<br /></span>Harfleet & Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04595164436127155699noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10257797.post-69358777177560650792007-10-15T11:31:00.000+00:002007-10-15T13:45:39.671+00:00Apartment ~ News<div align="justify"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#999999;"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/8O49Hsn6K-Y" width="425" height="350" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent"></embed></span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#999999;">Apartment is awaiting news on funding to inform visitors to our blog of forthcoming exhibitions. Berlin based artist Nikola Irmer is the next confirmed show, details will follow soon. Lamport Court where Apartment is based continues to be a centre of various cultural activity. </span><a href="http://www.myspace.com/hiholonelady"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#999999;">LoneLady</span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#999999;"> (above) continues to create electrifying music on the seventh floor, and has just released a vinyl; ‘Early the haste comes’ is available in all good outlets, for more information on LoneLady visit Lamport Court based independent record label </span><a href="http://www.anexium.com/filthyhome/home.htm"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#999999;">Filthy Home Recordings</span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#999999;">. </span><a href="http://lamportcourt.blogspot.com/"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#999999;">Lamport Court</span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#999999;"> poetry magazine continues to support new writing. Paul Harfleet is about to feature his </span><a href="http://www.thepansyproject.com/"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#999999;">Pansy Project</span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#999999;"> at the </span><a href="http://www.homotopia.net/"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#999999;">Homotopia Festival</span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#999999;"> in Liverpool. </span><a href="http://hilaryjack.blogspot.com/"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#999999;">Hilary Jack</span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#999999;"> is currently exhibiting at CUBE in Manchester and is preparing a show for </span><a href="http://www.transitiongallery.co.uk/"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#999999;">Transition Gallery</span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#999999;"> in London. This is not to mention the other bands, artists, DJ’s and musicians based in this unlikely artistic hub.</span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#999999;"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5121558519081876178" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IUjNHFX6oIs/RxNuVoJAOtI/AAAAAAAAAR8/pERwwWaIUck/s400/Lamport%2BCourt.bmp.jpg" border="0" /></span></div>Harfleet & Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04595164436127155699noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10257797.post-60377477520534140542007-09-12T13:20:00.000+00:002007-10-15T12:55:39.978+00:00Radio Appearance!...<span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Paul Harfleet (Co-Director) and E.P.Niblock (writer in residence) will be appearing on BBC Radio Manchester Thursday 13th September just after 10pm. Tune in to listen to the latest news form Apartment and hear some of Euphemia's explorations at Apartment so far.</span><div align="justify"> </div>Harfleet & Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04595164436127155699noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10257797.post-43444581690881797922007-08-18T11:29:00.000+00:002007-07-25T18:31:03.872+00:00Source Article<div align="justify"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_IUjNHFX6oIs/RqeWjaqgZZI/AAAAAAAAANc/EO_VY6hdb78/s1600-h/is51cove.gif"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5091203438962828690" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_IUjNHFX6oIs/RqeWjaqgZZI/AAAAAAAAANc/EO_VY6hdb78/s200/is51cove.gif" border="0" /></a> <span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#999999;">Below a review of Maeve Rendle's Mount Purgatory exhibition at Apartment features in issue 51 of <a href="http://www.source.ie/">'SOURCE'</a> magazine, the review written by Pavel Buchler explores Maeve Rendle's use of photography in her practice: click to enlarge and read.</span><br /><br /></div><div align="justify"></div><br /><br /><div align="justify"></div><br /><br /><div align="justify"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_IUjNHFX6oIs/RqcxwaqgZYI/AAAAAAAAANU/AMKfZ8uwh7E/s1600-h/source+article+sm.jpg"><span style="color:#0000ff;"></span><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5091092611626722690" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_IUjNHFX6oIs/RqcxwaqgZYI/AAAAAAAAANU/AMKfZ8uwh7E/s320/source+article+sm.jpg" border="0" /></a> </div>Harfleet & Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04595164436127155699noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10257797.post-12121879148693443162007-07-26T12:55:00.000+00:002007-08-07T12:41:34.262+00:00Apartment News!<div style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_IUjNHFX6oIs/RoEQgbbYztI/AAAAAAAAAM8/zsaWb7-QhFw/s1600-h/paulandhilaryberlin.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5080360003955117778" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; CURSOR: pointer" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_IUjNHFX6oIs/RoEQgbbYztI/AAAAAAAAAM8/zsaWb7-QhFw/s200/paulandhilaryberlin.jpg" border="0" /></a><span style="COLOR: rgb(153,153,153);font-size:100%;" ><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Apartment is back in <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 /><st1:city st="on"><st1:place st="on">Manchester</st1:place></st1:city>; a huge thanks to all those that c</span></span><span style="COLOR: rgb(153,153,153);font-size:100%;" ><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">a</span></span><span style="COLOR: rgb(153,153,153);font-size:100%;" ><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">me</span></span><span style="COLOR: rgb(153,153,153);font-size:100%;" ><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> to see the show in</span></span><span style="COLOR: rgb(153,153,153);font-size:100%;" ><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> Berlin and were so positive about it, we also had hundreds of hits to the blog so thank you</span></span><span style="COLOR: rgb(153,153,153);font-size:100%;" ><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> for visiting. We are now hoping to develop a project at Apartment with an amazing artist we met in <st1:state st="on"><st1:place st="on">Berlin</st1:place></st1:state>; w</span></span><span style="COLOR: rgb(153,153,153);font-size:100%;" ><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">atch this space for information. We have also selected and </span></span><span style="COLOR: rgb(153,153,153);font-size:100%;" ><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">are in the process of curating a show at <a href="http://www.cube.org.uk/">CUBE</a> for their first OPEN exhibition, the openi</span></span><span style="COLOR: rgb(153,153,153);font-size:100%;" ><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">ng is on Thursday July 12<sup>th</sup>. In other news Hilary currently has a show at <a href="http://www.hilaryjack.blogspot.com/">Transition Gallery</a> in <st1:city st="on">London</st1:city> and Pau</span></span><span style="COLOR: rgb(153,153,153);font-size:100%;" ><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">l is also</span></span><span style="COLOR: rgb(153,153,153);font-size:100%;" ><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> showing Pansy Project photos at <a href="http://www.thepansyproject.com/">Tooks Chambers</a> until July 13th and <st1:city st="on"><st1:place st="on"></st1:place></st1:city>is contributing to a symposia on June 28th at <a href="http://www.miriad.mmu.ac.uk/testingtime/containingculture/">MIRIAD</a> where he will be talking about Apartment. For further information on the recent show in <st1:state st="on"><st1:place st="on">Berlin</st1:place></st1:state> see below, and for</span></span><span style="COLOR: rgb(153,153,153);font-size:100%;" ><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> more on Axel Lapp Projects click <a href="http://axellapp.de/">here</a>; the next artist showing at Axel Lapp Projects is Josephine Flynn. <st1:state st="on"><st1:place st="on">Berlin</st1:place></st1:state> is amazing, there is such a thriving art scene there; some of the highlights include <a href="http://www.travelhome.org/">‘Homie’</a> a space run from a flat by Daniel Seiple. There are loads of smaller galleries around Mitte which are well worth checking out (see links below for more) a highlight of the bigger musuems is Matthew Buckingham at <a href="http://www.hamburgerbahnhof.de/cont/conte/">Hamburger Bahnhof</a> the show is on ‘til August.<br /></span></span></div>Harfleet & Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04595164436127155699noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10257797.post-66738505695968691572007-06-02T11:37:00.000+00:002007-08-07T12:43:34.160+00:00Meeting Point - Axel Lapp Projects, Berlin<div align="justify"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#999999;"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5071095582636954482" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_IUjNHFX6oIs/RmAmkIkg03I/AAAAAAAAAL4/iqDE4Ebkong/s400/installation+shot.jpg" border="0" />Apartment are currently in Berlin at </span><a href="http://www.axellapp.de/"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#999999;">Axel Lapp Projects</span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#999999;">. We are showing a selection of Apartment’s previous exhibitors at the space (Invalidenstraße 161, D-10115 Berlin); so if you happen to be in Berlin; do come to see us we will be there hosting the gallery until the show ends on June 23rd. Entitled ‘Meeting Point’ the exhibition features; Dave Gledhill, Paul Harfleet, Hilary Jack, Naomi Kashiwagi, Lisa Penny, Maeve Rendle, Cherry Tenneson, Martine Myrup, David Wilkinson and Beáta Veszely; more details below:</span><br /><br /></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#999999;">Twice a year Axel Lapp Projects invites and showcases the work of artist-run spaces based outside Berlin in a programme entitled INTERLUDE. For the first of this programme Axel Lapp has selected Apartment, a project and exhibition space, run from a sixth floor one bedroom council flat in central Manchester, UK, co-directed by Hilary Jack and Paul Harfleet. For INTERLUDE 1, Hilary Jack and Paul Harfleet have brought together the work of ten artists from Manchester, Budapest, London and Glasgow in a show entitled ‘Meeting Point’. The work offers an insight into the breadth of activity that Apartment has facilitated over the last three years and reflects Lapp’s own interest and commitment to this Manchester based exhibition space. </span></div><div align="justify"></div><div align="justify"></div><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5071441280259642322" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_IUjNHFX6oIs/RmFg-Ykg09I/AAAAAAAAAMs/hm4PKFYgqCo/s320/small+pix.jpg" border="0" /> <p align="center"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:78%;color:#999999;">Above; visitors to the preview,</span></p><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#999999;">Apartment is based in a flat, and unlike many artist led spaces that operate in this way, the curators choose to present the work alongside the possessions that Paul Harfleet lives amongst. This curatorial decision enables the artwork to position itself in contrast to the objects or to hide within them, camouflaged by the everyday detritus. Each artist presented here, at Axel Lapp Projects, has exhibited at Apartment and has dealt with this reality in a variety of interesting ways.<br /><br />When artwork is shown at Apartment the interior of the flat frames the work. At Axel Lapp Projects, Apartment itself is an absent participant, no longer available as a supporting framework for the presentation of the art work. Therefore the works are able to be re-seen without the context of Apartment, revealing to the curators, the complex relationships that have been formed between the artists and their practices over the three years that Apartment has existed. For the audience the various works are seen within the gallery context and with the knowledge that these relationships were forged in a domestic location; here the artists come together creating a meeting point where the work can be seen in a group show and in a totally new context. </span></div>Harfleet & Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04595164436127155699noreply@blogger.com2