PROJECT BERLIN
The experimental drawing class/Berlin Project was to make a film in four days. The only precondition was that a venue was first found to premier the new film, once this was confirmed the project would begin. The group were divided into three sections, a morning sequence and afternoon sequence and a night time sequence. This gave the groups different and difficult conditions to work with. They were also given instructions that gave each group, an action to begin and end their section with, a noise, a book, a door. The films were researched story boarded in one day, filmed on the second day, editied on the third and forth day and shown at the club West Germany. The film was also shown a few weeks later in London at the ICA.
Islington Mill Art Academy is a free self-organised art school. It was set up in 2007 by a group of art foundation students, dissatisfied with the quality and standards in University fine art courses open to them at that time.
The Academy exists to experiment with what an education in art can be, where it can take place and how it can be paid for. It is open to anyone who would like to be an artist and who is interested in taking responsibility for, and direction of the way in which they intend to do this. The artists in the group take all of the decisions related to their personal learning process and put these decisions into practice themselves.
The group invites visiting artists to talk about their work and to give feedback on the work of artists from the Academy on a regular basis. Academy artists organise residencies and research trips to other parts of the UK and abroad for all members of the group. In 2008, we visited Glasgow, Bristol and Sheffield and held residencies in Berlin and the Lake District.
Islington Mill Art Academy
2nd Floor Islington Mill James St.
Salford M3 5HW
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Artists
Amy Pennington, Andrew Beswick, Kate Armitage, Laura Skilbeck, Louie Lister, Lowri Evans, Maria Dada, Maurice Carlin
Michael Cullen, Michael Wilson, Thomas Fitzpatrick. Thomas Keeler
