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Plus Tate NetworkPlus Tate 1 Plus Tate is a network of visual NetworkPlus Tate arts organisations that share ideas, experiences, practices and programmes to increase public value and to broaden and deepen engagement in art. The partners share a common vision and ambition to inspire people about art. 2 Plus Tate network NetworkPlus Tate This network is designed to enable some of the liveliest visual arts organisations in the UK with a focus on modern and contemporary art to share ideas and expertise, as well as programmes and collections, with the intention of broadening and deepening public engagement in the visual arts. From Nottingham Contemporary to the Pier Arts Centre in Stromness, Orkney; from The Hepworth Wakefield and Cornerhouse, Manchester to the recently reopened Mostyn in Llandudno; from Wysing to Grizedale; from the University of Cambridge (Kettle’s Yard) to the University of Manchester (The Whitworth); from Margate and Eastbourne to Gateshead and Swansea, the visual arts are making a huge difference to the cultural and socio-economic regeneration of regions. The UK is known internationally for the ambition and quality of its artists, cultural leaders and its visual arts ecology. The partners share a common vision and ambition to inspire people about art. Each organisation, including Tate, is undergoing organisational development and change, often involving a capital project. All are committed to expanding participation in the visual arts 4 and to collaboration and exchange with the network as a whole. This will be more vital than ever at a time of constrained public funding. The Plus Tate initiative allows Tate to contribute to public knowledge and enjoyment of art beyond our own galleries by collaborating closely with imaginative organisations that have national and international profiles and strong links with their local communities. We will use our scale, profile, resources and Collection to respond to and support other organisations and individuals, not to become Tate or Tate satellites nor to be beholden to Tate – but to be themselves. Increasingly, we hope that the network will grow, adapt and take on a life of its own. This is a reciprocal process and Tate may be leader, follower, participant, recipient, catalyst or background presence, depending on the situation of individuals and the network, as an entity. Caroline Collier Director, Tate National Nicholas Serota Director, Tate Plus Tate NetworkPlus Tate 5 Plus Tate NetworkPlus Tate OUR VISION: A SPACE FOR IDEAS NetworkPlus Tate • A space for dialogue; enabling artists and audiences to engage in critical debate around issues of contemporary culture. • A space for contemplation, allowing room for personal reflection, as well as reflection upon our own individual relationship to wider social conventions. • A space for subjective experience; for pleasure and for strong emotions. Our strategic priorities are: Experimentation, • A space for making meaning, a social Interdisciplinarity, Interaction, Social Context space, and, thus, a force for change. and Internationalism. Seeds of Change: a Ballast Seed Garden for Bristol is an example of how Arnolfini approaches these priorities. As part of the 2007 Arnolfini exhibition Port City, artist Maria Thereza Alves uncovered possible ballast sites and seeds around Bristol’s Harbourside. Working with different communities, these 7 Arnolfini’s move to Narrow ballast seeds were germinated and grown. The Quay in 1975 proved a 8 project re-establishes the histories of ballast catalyst in attracting other flora, the potential of individual histories that businesses to the then these plants were witness to, and the connection to the economic and social history of Bristol. An neglected docks, and the actual Ballast Seed Garden is planned, working revitalised Harbourside is in partnership with organisations such as the University of Bristol and Bristol City Council. now a focal point for Bristol’s www.arnolfini.org.uk/ballastseedgarden social and cultural life. Arnolfini provides Bristol and the We want to be part of Plus Tate in order to West of England with a centre for the build longer-term partnerships, and to develop Left: Arnolfini building, Bristol Harbourside, photo Jamie Woodley collaborative practice through networks. Our contemporary arts of international Right: The Big Draw, Arnolfini galleries, photo Adam Faraday significance. It aims to create the Below: Family day event, Arnolfini, photo Adam Faraday involvement would facilitate closer relationships conditions for experimentation and with peer organisations, enable training and engagement across the contemporary arts professional development opportunities for staff for the widest possible range of people. and encourage knowledge sharing. Arnolfini’s move to Narrow Quay in 1975 16 Narrow Quay, Bristol BS1 4QA proved a catalyst in attracting other businesses to the then neglected docks, and +44 (0)117 9172300 / 01 the revitalised Harbourside is now a focal www.arnolfini.org.uk point for Bristol’s social and cultural life. Funders: Arts Council England, Bristol City Council Plus Tate NetworkPlus Tate BALTIC is a major international centre for Located in a converted flour mill, BALTIC NetworkPlus Tate contemporary art situated on the south has played a significant role within the bank of the River Tyne in Gateshead, regeneration of Gateshead Quayside England. It presents a constantly alongside its architecturally acclaimed changing, distinctive and ambitious neighbours the Gateshead Millennium Bridge programme of exhibitions and events, and The Sage Gateshead. Since opening and is a world leader in the presentation, in 2002, it has welcomed more than 3.5 commissioning and communication of million visitors from across the world to contemporary visual art. see exhibitions from artists such as Antony Gormley, Jenny Holzer, Ed and Nancy Kienholz, Yoko Ono, Spencer Tunick A PLACE TO LEARN, CREATE AND PLAY and Sam Taylor-Wood. Learning and engagement are central to the visitor experience at BALTIC. Located in the THE TURNER PRIZE GOES TO BALTIC heart of the gallery is Quay; a place to learn, create and play for children, young people In 2009, BALTIC collaborated with Tate for and families. Each year BALTIC provides the first time to bring Damien Hirst’s formal education for over 15,000 school Pharmacy to the North East. Since then the children, during nearly 400 sessions ranging relationship has continued to grow enabling 9 from art clubs, photography courses, artist BALTIC to be the first non-Tate venue to host talks and artist-led workshops. However, the prestigious Turner Prize in 2011. The 10 BALTIC’s education offer transcends its Plus Tate partnership has also been beneficial landmark building through a vast array of by assisting BALTIC to benchmark its plans community-led activities encouraging more and practices; fundamentally, the wider people, young and old, to interact and collaboration has created a forum in which experience contemporary art. individual and group issues can be shared, and constructive ideas can be embedded across the sector more quickly. Since opening in 2002, the BALTIC has welcomed more Gateshead Quays, South Shore Road, than 3.5 million visitors Gateshead, NE8 3BA from across the world. +44 (0)191 478 1810 www.balticmill.com Left: BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, photo Colin Davison Funders: Arts Council England, Gateshead Council Plus Tate NetworkPlus Tate COLLABORATION KEY TO In 2009, over 9,800 people of all ages NetworkPlus Tate PROGRAMME DEVELOPMENT and backgrounds took part in our engagement programme, which includes our Projector Our unique approach to working with artists, programme for schools, and LiveWire for curators and audiences embraces principles young people aged 14-19. We also offer a wide of open source and collective intelligence. range of unique courses and an extensive Alongside our international curatorial advisers programme of artists’ talks, Q&As and gallery Michael Connor and Henriette Huldisch, tours, as well as operating an international we collaborate with young people, artists, distribution service for contemporary visual freelance curators and universities to create arts books and catalogues. our adventurous visual arts programme. It has proved hugely successful; almost 500,000 people visited us in 2009 and our visual arts audience has doubled. We provide a launch pad for emerging international and national artists, and present new commissions and major projects from mid-career and more established artists. Our programme is international in focus and prioritises participation and film and 11 video; we investigate specific social and Cornerhouse is proud to political concerns through regular thematic 12 group exhibitions. Recent critically acclaimed be a partner in the Plus Tate exhibitions and projects include Procession by network. We look forward Jeremy Deller (with Manchester International Festival), Contemporary Art Iraq, Unrealised to learning from our new Potential, and Artur Zmijewski, the last two partners, sharing knowledge currently touring the UK. of emerging artists and trends and working together to Left: Cornerhouse Exterior, photo Brian Slater 2010 create exciting programme Below Unrealised Potential preview, photo Paul Greenwood Cornerhouse is Manchester’s opportunities and new ways international centre for contemporary visual art and independent film and is of engaging audiences. one of the leading multi-disciplinary arts organisations in the UK. Now entering our 70 Oxford Street,
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