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Barbara Steveni[edit]

Barbara Steveni (born 21 August, 1928 in Mashhad, Iran) is a British contemporary artist. She married fellow artist and collaborator John Latham in Westminster, London in early 1950. She is best known for her project "I Am An Archive" and initiating the Artist Placement Group (APG) [1].

Work[edit]

Since 2002, Steveni has worked on and exhibited "I Am An Archive," a project that includes walks, interviews, exhibitions, conversations and performances, related to the Artist Placement Group (APG) and focused on trying the activity of APG/Organisation and Imagination (O+I) to contemporary art and life [2].

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16. Many of the technology art groups are proWled in Douglas M. Davis, Art and the Future; a History/Prophecy of the Collaboration between Science, Technology, and Art (New York: Praeger, 1973). The best-known art and technology partnerships were brokered by EAT (Experiments in Art and Technology), run by Bell Labs research engineer Billy Klüver. EAT paired individual artists with engineers to realize projects. The Swedish-born Klüver saw EAT as distinct from the European groups working with art and technology (personal conversation, 1999). A related project in England was the Artists Placement Group, which sought to put artists into corporate businesses and government agencies. Founded in 1966, APG included John Latham and Barry Flanagan. It has been continued since 1989 by Barbara Steveni as O+I—for Organization and Imagination. John A. Walker, Left Shift: Radical Art in 1970s Britain (London: I. B. Tauris, 2002), 54–57.

http://www.darkmatterarchives.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/FINAL_Manifesto_APG.pdf


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Perhaps not surprisingly, APG’s roots lie in Fluxus. Steveni herself was active in Fluxus circles, and one night when she was out scouring London factories for some materials that Daniel Spoerri and Robert Filliou needed for an exhibition, it occurred to her that instead of picking up industrial residue, artists ought to be inside the factories working within the systems of production. Latham, who was travelling, returned to find his wife’s radical approach to the ‘applied arts’ a perfect vehicle for many of his theoretical interests. Friends and artists Maurice Agis, Stuart Brisley, Barry Flanagan, David Hall, Ian MacDonald-Munro, Anna Ridley and Jeffrey Shaw soon joined Steveni and Latham and APG was born.

http://www.frieze.com/issue/article/context_is_half_the_work/


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http://www2.tate.org.uk/artistplacementgroup/chronology.htm

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http://www.electra-productions.com/projects/2014/someone_else_2/overview.shtml

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http://www.slashseconds.org/issues/002/004/articles/bsteveni2/index.php

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http://flattimeho.org.uk/apg/

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http://flattimeho.org.uk/events/someone-else-can-clean-mess/

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http://en.contextishalfthework.net/

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NATIONAL LIFE STORIES ARTISTS’ LIVES Barbara Steveni (Interviewed by Melanie Roberts) http://sounds.bl.uk/related-content/TRANSCRIPTS/021T-C0466X0080XX-ZZZZA0.pdf

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" I took them to an industrial site just sort of outside London and collected some scrap for them to make their show, you know, sort of stuff for their show, and a bit later than that, which must have been ’65, ’66, yes it would be about that time, and, I got lost on the Outer Circular Road, this was when I was on my own without the Fluxus Group people coming with me, and I got lost on this industrial estate, and it was at night time, or at least it was dark, it was about sort of 10 o’clock, and there was this huge, enormous industrial complex, humming away, and there was a Mars factory and a clock factory, a Timex factory. And I thought to myself, well, instead of just picking up buckets of plastic and material, why aren’t we actually associated with this world that we don’t seem to be touching?"



References[edit]

  1. ^ "e-flux: Artist Placement Group, APG". 02/14/2012. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  2. ^ "The APG Approach in The Individual and the Organisation: Artist Placement Group 1966-79". 09/27/2012. Retrieved 02/01/2014. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= and |date= (help)