2018
Curated by Liam Slevin & Paul Stewart
FOREWORD Art has the power to do many things. It shapes and builds as easily as it disrupts and divides. One of the most powerful things art can do is allow us to connect. Utilizing Middlesbrough as a central point, The Middlesbrough Art Weekender 2018 builds a network of connections. Presenting local and international work, the festival creates a community of over fifty artists. Over the course of one weekend, it offers up a reimagined Middlesbrough, one in which an industrial warehouse becomes a contemporary gallery, an old bazaar, a cinema screen. Drawing on the regions strength, it provides a smorgasbord of events, happenings and exhibitions: a sonic river cruise along the Tees, an artist-in-residence at the newly renovated Middlesbrough Town Hall, an audio-visual experience in the old post office. Connecting the old and new, the known and unknown, MAW18 transforms space, allowing the audience to gain another view of the ordinary. This publication is a record of the second Middlesbrough Art Weekender, its artists and the people who took part. It is a record to show that, through connection, we discover unknown paths, moving beyond the territories we know, into the new.
MIDDLESBROUGH ART WEEKENDER 2018
PERFORMANCE MORAN SANDEROVICH
EXHIBITION ALYSON AYGAR
EXHIBITION EDD CARR
EXHIBITION JANICE DOWNS
EXHIBITION LAURA HARRINGTON
EXHIBITION PENELOPE PAYNE
EXHIBITION SALLY POORE
EXHIBITION BRIDGET KENNEDY
EXHIBITION JEREMY DIGGLE
EXHIBITION TOM SMITH
PROJECT PRESIDENT JACKSON’S BIG BLOCK OF CHEESE
EXHIBITION LAURA LAWSON
EXHIBITION LINDA STANNARD
EXHIBITION OLIVER HOFFMEISTER
EXHIBITION ELLEN RANSON
EXHIBITION SAM BLACKWOOD
EXHIBITION RICARDO LOPES
EXHIBITION PAUL JEX
EXHIBITION DEB COVELL
WORKSHOP START STUDIO
EXHIBITION JESSICA JOHNSTON
EXHIBITION LESLEY HICKS
EXHIBITION RITCHARD ALLAWAY
EXHIBITION SAUD BALOCH
EXHIBITION EVIE CROMWELL
EXHIBITION GOLD TAPPED / MANI KAMBO / JAMES PICKERING / JULIET FLEMING UP (BETHAN TURNER & LOUIS GAULT)
WORKSHOP BLOOMINART
PROJECT TIM SHAW
PROJECT JODI ROSE
PROJECT TESS DENMAN-CLEAVER
PROJECT CHEW THE CUD
PROJECT DORON SADJA
EXHIBITION ANDREA ROBERTS
PERFORMANCE HELEN DAVISON
PERFORMANCE GILES BAILEY / SOPHIE SOOBRAMANIEN JAMIE HAMMILL / NELLIE SAUNBY / CIRCA PROJECTS
EXHIBITION MARTIN BOYLE
EXHIBITION TIM ETCHELLS
EXHIBITION MARTIN HEALY
EXHIBITION BENEDICT DREW
EXHIBITION NEW SCENARIO ARCHIVE
EXHIBITION MAUREEN MCADAMS
EXHIBITION KAT SYDDALL
EXHIBITION HANNAH CAMPION
EXHIBITION & PERFORMANCE MSHR
EXHIBITION GLOAM / MARK RIDDINGTON / SAM READ / THOMAS GRIFFITHS STU BURKE / VICKY SHARPLES / ROSE SQUIRES
EXHIBITION SEDICI
EXHIBITION WAX / ANTONY CHAMBERS / AMY OWENS / JASON HYNES / RACHEL DEAKIN
MIDDLESBROUGH ART WEEKENDER 2018 TEAM
Directors: Anna Byrne Liam Slevin Paul Stewart Production Assistants: Matt Antoniak Thomas Tyler Stephen Irving Festival Co-ordinator: Nina White Social Media Officer: Sarah Jane Rooney
Thanks to all our volunteers for their hard work with especial thanks to Jemma Jelf, Jamie Sample & Ross Humble. And a special thank you to all of the arts & community organizations that have made this festival possible.
FUNDERS AND PARTNERS
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