The Centre of Attention - Recent exhibitions:

Production Meeting
CCA Glasgow

For Production Meeting, the Centre of Attention will be onsite (on location) for the duration, aiming to pursue the production of a number of works. The gallery becomes a set as well as a production meeting venue, in what we call an active or 'hot installation'.

Filming tests, script editing and performance will be done against a back drop of a contemporary art show which includes paintings, photography etc. The Centre of Attention will be available the whole time to meet artists, discuss and review proposals and portfolios while pursuing the production of a number of video works including 'Remake', 'Boo', and the as-yet-untitled staging of a mass fight in the gallery at the opening.

Uncertainty, provisionality and the lack of a defined product sees the moment of the exhibition, not as the culmination/fruition of a process, but as a production site for preliminary research and work to be completed at a later date (maybe).

One avowed aim of Production Meeting is to turn the audience into fodder for our work: in this model, the viewer becomes the labour rather than participant, and the artist becomes the consumer, utilising, feeding, bleeding the resources of the infrastructure, the space and the public, for the realisation of their own ends.

Our version of a production meeting may not bear any resemblance to what passes for a production meeting in the corporate world.

Participating artists include: Hayley Caradoc Hodgkins, House of O'Dwyer, Colin Tennant.


Gemeinschaft und Gesellschaft
NÜANS, Dusseldorf, Germany

"All that art tries to make invisible we transform into art. With this premise, this new exhibition from the Centre of Attention foregrounds aspects of our practice little commented on and brings together a number of wabi-sabi strands of our work to create an original piece for NÜANS, Düsseldorf.

The initial installation opens to the public and allows visitors to make changes to the work, (first at the private view, and for the duration of the show) by adding, moving and recombining elements, etc. The space and the changes will be documented daily, then monthly (with the help of Düsseldorf's community of artists).

Gemeinschaft: family (kinship group) tribe - unity of will
Gesellschaft: self interest, civil society, contract - sacrifice of will

This open source work allows visitors to make artistic judgements and statements and suggest challenges to our curatorial and artistic tropes. Further it allows us to attempt a dematerialisation of the audience and an ever evolving exhibition. One of the questions raised by this piece is, does the group thwart the intention of the artist? Or does a collective response add to the artist's intention?

The individual is an unstable subject but the subject as object cannot avoid an increased entropic fate."

Back to Centre of Attention