Black Dogs
An expansive regional project open to anyone who wants to celebrate the minor and the absurd in everyday life.
Set up in Leeds in 2004 as a reaction against art-school inertia, Black Dogs is now an expansive regional project open to anyone who wants to celebrate the minor and the absurd in everyday life. Self-funded and wholly independent, the group seeks to promote dialogue between artists and audiences, and to establish constructive relationships with local communities. Most recently, the Dogs held Gallery Giveaway, an audience-led participatory event at The Dazed Gallery, London; and an exhibition of ongoing solo projects at 42 New Briggate Gallery, Leeds. Consequences (produced in association with Axisweb) was the group's first foray into the murky work of internet-based art; The Black Dogs Almanacs provide a printed record of group work; while I can do it – recently published for the launch event of the Leeds Independent Music Exposition – is a DIY manual extolling the virtues of ostensibly minor skills and personal pastimes.
Essays
Not about institutions, but why we are so unsure of them, by J.J. Charlesworth.
Why an institution of contemporary art(s) like this, and not any other?
Gazetteer
Artist-run spaces and organisations (England, not London)
Artist-led organisations that support networks of emerging art in England outside London.
Coverage
Nought to Sixty in pictures
Photos of the projects, artists and audiences taking part in Nought to Sixty.
Coverage
Salon Discussions
Nought to Sixty includes a series of monthly discussions that address the networks that form and contribute to an emerging scene.