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For one weekend only and as a contribution to the launch of the Cultural Olympiad, the ICA and Tate will join organisations across the country in opening up parts of their buildings that are normally out of bounds to the public. Out of Bounds is a specially conceived collaborative season of art events taking place on the last weekend of September that will encourage people to explore hidden, backstage and non-public sites at the participating institutions, through small interventions, artists' tours, screenings, commissions or other events.
Participating organisations are Cornerhouse, Manchester, The Exchange, Penzance, FACT, Liverpool, Wysing Arts, Cambridge and, in London, the ICA and Tate Modern. The ICA will stage an outdoor sound installation by Scottish rising star, the artist Susan Philipsz on the usually private roof terrace overlooking the Mall, while Tate will present the first ever commission in the oil tanks at Tate Modern with UBS Openings: Saturday Live, a performance by artists Bonnie Camplin and Paulina Olowska.
Wysing Arts Centre will turn itself Inside Out by inviting its 24 studio artists to take over unseen and often non-public spaces including its 17th century farmhouse, offices, stairwells, and greenhouses, with large-scale installations, video, sculpture and painting as well as live music and screenings. At the Newlyn Art Gallery in Penzance on Sunday there will be a one night festival in bunker rooms beneath the new galleries in a former telephone exchange. The Victorian basement of the gallery remains unchanged and artists will create site-specific art works in the warren of subterranean rooms.
In Manchester at Cornerhouse artist S Mark Gubb will take visitors on a special one-off performance tour through the hidden parts of the gallery. While in Liverpool, FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology) will grant exclusive behind-the-scenes access to fifteen golden ticket winners to experience and learn the secrets of filmmaking.
Susan Phillipsz at The ICA
Saturday 27 September 2008, every half-hour from noon-7pm at the ICA. Admission free.
The Mall, London, SW1Y 5AH
For information call 020 7930 0493 or visit the ICA website.
Wysing Inside Out at Wysing Arts Centre
19 Sept - 5 October, daily 12-5pm. Admission Free.
Wysing Arts Centre
Fox Road, Bourn
Cambridge, CB23 2TX
Tel: +44 (0) 1954 718881
TO BE REVEALED: S Mark Gubb at Cornerhouse
Saturday 27 September 2008, time TBC, admission free but spaces are limited. To book please email Rosie Farrell or phone Cornerhouse Box Office on 0161 200 1500. For more information visit the Cornerhouse website.
Address :
Cornerhouse,
70 Cornerhouse Manchester, M1 5NH
The Basement at The Exchange
Sunday 28 September, 19.30pm. Admission free but spaces are limited. To book please contact Bryony Gillard at The Exchange on 01736 363715 or by email.
The Exchange
Princes Street
Penzance TR18 2NL
Saturday 27 September 2008, 13.00pm
Liverpool Biennial curatorial tour (open to the general public) followed by exclusive Out of Bounds tour for 15 golden ticket
winners
FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology)
88 Wood Street
Liverpool
L1 4DQ
For further information please email.
