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A celebration of spare-time and non-work at Marshall's Mills
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Ever feel like you never stop working, even outside work hours and have very little spare time? Saltaire resident, artist, writer, musician and educator, Andy Abbott launches his debut solo exhibition in the form of videos, photographs, prints and audio pieces of hobbies, spare time activities or just simply slacking off.
As a member of the artist collective Black Dogs since 2003 and having exhibited nationally and internationally in commissioned works at Tate Modern and events in Italy as well as touring and promoting DIY music with That Fucking Tank and undertaking practise-led research for a PhD in Fine Art at University of Leeds as well as being a part-time lecturer at Leeds College of Art, Andy manages to find time to indulge in spare time activities such as cycling along the Leeds-Liverpool Canal, swimming in Shipley Pool or walking up to Baildon Moor, all of which form the foundation of his exhibition that are reframed, translated, expanded and performed in an effort to unpick notions of the authentic ‘post-capitalist’ self.
Whilst autobiographical in the main, the exhibition aims to go beyond a solipsistic self-analysis by proposing that resistance to a capitalist mode of being can be unearthed in the most everyday and innocuous of activities.
A Serious Waste of Time draws these activities into a former flax spinning mill in the Leeds industrial district in partnership with the Community Interest Company using vacant spaces in Leeds for artistic purposes, Art In Unusual Spaces and Leeds Creative Timebank with support from the University of Leeds and Igloo.
17-26 March, Marshall’s Mills, Marshall Street, LS11 9YJ, open daily from 11am-6pm
Posted on Wednesday 2nd March 2011
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