Pippa Koszerek project - Out of Office

Out of Office: A free networking day for artists who work in offices  

Artists who feel that their day job intrudes or extends into their artwork and daily life are invited to book a place on this networking event that promises a range of zany solutions for creating art out of the everyday.  Taking blue-sky thinking to a new level, art duo Fitness for Artists (Pippa Koszerek and Anna Pharoah) bring the office outdoors, transforming the formal structure of Mostyn Gardens into a hot-desking environment.  

Drawing inspiration from the processes and rituals of the workplace, the event involves a range of activities to connect with other artists and to find starting points for making new work.  

To reserve a place or make an enquiry please contact info@postartists.com www.postartists.com  

Out of Office promises:
√ Fun
√ Over-loaded information
√ New colleagues for the lone worker
√ Adminovator policies: turning your office work into art work  
√√√√ Participants will gain the opportunity to think about conceptual fitness.    

Part of the exhibition Away Day, supported by Arts Council England and Merton Arts Development. www.postartists.com  Led by artists Pippa Koszerek & Anna Pharoah, who work together as Fitness for Artists.

Pippa Koszerek creates organisations as artworks/curatorial projects such as the Independent Art School (1999-) and The Unasked-for Public Art Agency (2006-). She is interested in blurring the boundaries between art and non-art environments and borrows materials or ways of working from other vocations. She is currently undertaking a commission with the Exhibitions Department at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design that explores artist's non-art trades in which she is developing a series of public interventions based on collaborations with secretaries and office workers.

Anna Pharoah’s practice centres on creating performances and interventions that draw upon an audience, or members of the public. She is interested in engaging people in a process of exchange, and through chance encounters. She experiments with scenario and interaction, working within the boundaries of the phenomena that exist within a location or situation already, and extending these to the verge of what is believable.