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The BAIT series of debates is
a logical and necessary development of a number of initiatives
instigated by ALIAS – addressed at a local level.
The commercial art scene in
Cornwall is one of the most high profile and profitable
infrastructures of cultural Tourism in the country.
However, a small, but increasingly active number of
artists groups in and around the Penwith peninsular
of Cornwall have identified a lack of independent advice
and dialogue in the fields of non-commercial multi-media,
installation and live art practice.
The producers of BAIT suggest
that the recent trend that asks artists to be ever more
inventive and experimental in the integration of their
practice within their local area would be greatly enhanced
by a local platform that focuses and fosters these art
practices that defy easy categorising or commercial
markets and attend to issues specific to this kind of
cultural production.
BAIT provides a live forum for
specialists to share ideas and information with local
groups and interested individuals that will stimulate
debate and deliberation on current, relevant topics
pertaining to specific areas of interest.
BAIT also goes one step further
to offer a transcribed version of the debates online.
The website enables local artist led groups to have
a voice within an international Contemporary Arts forum.
The talks and online texts generated
from the BAIT series of debates offers local artists
and artist led groups a two-fold arena in which to engage
in dialogue and effect change within their own groupings.
BAIT further provides an opportunity for various groups
to enhance their awareness of each other and expand
their network circles of those interested in similar
aspects of contemporary art practice.
BAIT is funded by ALIAS and serves
the objectives of ALIAS by addressing specific needs
identified by local artist led groups and echoed by
many individual practitioners working in West Cornwall
by delivering a programme that offers; specialised counsel,
opportunities for engagement and networking; recorded
and interactive testimony to thoughtful deliberation
on issues of import.
Info: ALIAS.
Andy Whall
Email: art.surgery@virgin.net
Info: artsurgery
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