M A N I F E S T O

the PHOENIX project is:

  • anidea
  • apractice
  • aenvironment
  • aspace
  • anexperiment

idea:

  • what is creative work?
  • can it be valued?
  • how?

practice:

  • to make work in multi-media forms

 

environment:

  • a building

space:

  • to work/invent/create

 

experiment:

  • the project will not put a price
    on any work it undertakes

to create is:

  • to begin to start again from nothing

 

W O R K

the particular focus of the project is that all work at the project is offered on a donations basis - from performance work, to large scale installations, no price is put on any work made at the project

sponsorship from a number of individuals has enabled us to meet the running costs of the project and improve the facilities

D O N A T I O N S

a donation is a gift
a donor is one who gives

the PHOENIX project relies entirely on gifts of money

we have no other source of income

please give generously according to your means

the project has been established to enable people to construct and deconstruct work for presentation to the community

this work is not for sale

this work is removed from view at the end of the process and documentation is kept at the project to form an archive anyone using the building is expected to take responsibility for maintenance of the space

if you do not understand ask

the project aims to provide the wider community with work which moves, challenges, disturbs or delights

if you do not understand ask

 

construct:
  • to build up:
  • to put together the parts:
  • to make: to compose
deconstruct:
  • to take down:
  • to take apart the parts:
  • to unmake: to decompose

 

C R I T E R I A

our creative endeavours have their roots in the patterns of nature

the continuous cycle of change

the PHOENIX project is committed to making work which reflects this reality

work which provides the participants with an experience, in which the traces of what remains, the documentation, offers a memento

this memento cannot be like the original experience and half the fun of making these souvenirs is the discovery that the deconstruction of one piece of work leads to the construction of another

any definition of the words 'contemporary' or 'modern' art are open to question

the PHOENIX project has stated that it intends to provide the wider community with work which 'moves, challenges, disturb or delights' but what does that mean?

ultimately it means that the core group at the project will decide what work is appropriate for the space, and are willing to discuss the reasons for acceptance and rejection of work which is offered

the decisions that are made will be based on our perception of what will best serve the evololution of the project