Frankfurt Goodwood
Hold & freight, 7 Apple Tree Yard, E1, London
10th October 2008
Curated by Robert Dingle, Tom Trevatt and Amal Khalaf
Anne Lina Billinger, Jorma Foth, Lena Henke, Hanna Hildebrand, Simone Junker, Andrei Koschmieder, Paul Wierbinski, Naneci Yurdagul
Frankfurt Stadelschule ‘Dancing Class’ present new work as a response to an invitation from students of Goldsmiths and hosted by Hold & Freight.
Students of Goldsmiths and the Stadelschule Dancing Class were among the many students and institutions that participated in AGORA 2007, an international transdisciplinary workshop about performance and sculpture. AGORA is a project offering young artists, an opportunity to engage in a concentrated trans-disciplinary exchange away from the day-to-day pressures of academic life. What came out of this meeting was an active intellectual exchange between the students of Goldsmiths and the Frankfurt Stadelschule Dancing Class.
In April 2008 Goldsmiths students were invited to Frankfurt in order to develop a common exhibition project in two parts. The first was an exhibition of the Goldsmiths students in Atelier Frankfurt, “April is the Creulest Month” (April – June 2008) an exhibition of work by David Brazier, Sam Curtis, Sara Fernandes, Kristen Lovelock, Eriko Nakamura, Ilona Sagar, Charlie Tweed, Rodrigo Valero Puertas.
The second part is presented in Hold & Freight, London in October 2008 where the Frankfurt Stadeschule Dancing Class, invited by the Goldsmiths students, present their work in London. This second part of the self-run, self-curated show, aims to extend networks and is the continuation of an ongoing dialogue between the two schools, providing a dynamic exploration of the complexities of exchange.
About Hold & Freight
HOLD & FREIGHT was an independent not-for-profit space committed to a series of parallel programmes in Art, Architecture, Film, Live Events and Discourse. Each strand of programming encompassed a diverse and critical approach to its specificity that engenders an interrogation of the limits of each practice. HOLD & FREIGHT was Robert Dingle, Amal Khalaf and Tom Trevatt.
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