Date: From: Mike Ainsworth <fh10mda@leeds.ac.uk> To: Subject: RE: The Sponsorship and funding for “Art turning Left” Tate Liverpool
Parallel, Action, Report, Essay Exploring contemporary art institutions
On November 24th 2013, fine art student Mike Ainsworth visited “Art Turning Left: How values changed making 1789-2013”, an exhibition documenting the development of leftist values in art from the French Revolution to the present day. Ainsworth visited this exhibition with the sole intention of finding out who sponsoring and funding TATE Liverpool for this exhibition. On all promotional material the only sponsoring body that was listed was Liverpool John Moores University, this was followed by “and a range of other supporters.”
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My first attempt to find out the other supporters and sponsors of the exhibition was to ask the gallery staff at the ticket and information desk, the staff however were unsure of the answer and so passed on the email address of Eleanor Clayton, the exhibition’s curator. What follows is my email correspondence with TATE Liverpool to ascertain who was funding “Art Turning Left.”
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After this initial line of enquiry with the international sponsors of the exhibition, i found through my research other recent connections that had been established between the UK, Denmark and Norway (the source information of which can be found overleaf.)
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No further emails were received in this chain of correspondence. However, after a colleagues visit to TATE Liverpool in January 2014 i learned that between my own visit and my colleagues visit TATE Liverpool had made public the full list of sponsors for â&#x20AC;&#x153;Art Turning Leftâ&#x20AC;?. And so my line of correspondence returned once again to Sarah Davies at TATE Liverpool to enquire why the gallery had since changed their advertising and publicity in the gallery.
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At the time of printing no further replies had been received from TATE Liverpool.
appendix *All written material in email form is scanned from original email transcripts written between myself and correspondants from tate liverpool, office of contemporary art norway, the danish arts council and the danish embassy. Fig. 1: (Front cover) Scan of the ticket from my visit to TATE Liverpool on November 24th 2013. Scanned on March 1st 2014
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Fig. 2: Screen shot of TATE Liverpool’s sponsors for the exhibition “Art Turning Left”, taken from < http://www.tate.org. uk/whats-on/tate-liverpool/exhibition/art-turning-left-how-valueschanged-making-1789-2013> (2013) [Accessed March 5th 2014] Fig. 3: Scan of email given to my by front of house staff at TATE Liverpool to contact Eleanor Clayton the exhibition curator to follow my line of enquiry. Scanned on March 1st 2014. Fig. 4: Page 97 from the TATE Annual report 2013, accessed via <http://www.tate.org.uk/download/file/fid/31113> [Accessed March 5th 2014] Fig. 5: Page 98 from the TATE Annual report 2013, accessed via <http://www.tate.org.uk/download/file/fid/31113> [Accessed March 5th 2014] Fig. 6: Screenshot of “Norwegian-Danish deal for Marshall Aerospace and Defence Group”, (2013) < https://www.gov.uk/government/world-location-news/norwegian-danish-deal-for-marshall-aerospace-and-defence-group> [Accessed Febrauary 21st 2014] Fig. 7: Screenshot of “AgustaWestland signs Norwegian government SAR helicopter contract” (2013), < https://www.gov.uk/government/world-location-news/agustawestland-signs-norwegian-government-sar-helicopter-contract> [Accessed Febrauary 21st 2014]
Fig. 8:TATE Liverpool publicity of sponsors, image taken by Ed Hurst on January 28th 2014. Bibliography Web ‘AgustaWestland signs Norwegian government SAR helicopter contract’, gov.uk, (2013), <https://www. gov.uk/government/world-location-news/agustawestland-signs-norwegian-government-sar-helicopter-contract> [Accessed Febrauary 21st 2014]
‘Art Turning Left homepage’, TATE, (2013), <http:// www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-liverpool/exhibition/artturning-left-how-values-changed-making-1789-2013> [Accessed March 5th 2014] ‘Danish arts council’, Danishart.dk, (2013), <http:// www.kunst.dk/english/> [Accessed March 5th 2014] ‘DENMARK IN THE UNITED KINGDOM MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS OF DENMARK’, 2013, <http:// storbritannien.um.dk> [Accessed March 5th 2014] ‘Norwegian-Danish deal for Marshall Aerospace and Defence Group’, gov.uk, (2013), < https://www.gov. uk/government/world-location-news/norwegian-danishdeal-for-marshall-aerospace-and-defence-group> [Accessed Febrauary 21st 2014] ‘Office for contemporary art Norway’, (2003), <http:// www.oca.no> [Accessed March 5th 2014] ‘Tate report 2012/13’, TATE, (2013),<http://www.tate. org.uk/whats-on/tate-liverpool/exhibition/art-turningleft-how-values-changed-making-1789-2013> (2013) [Accessed March 5th 2014]