Tether

16 Days
Residency
1 – 16 April 2011

Are we ham acting? Have we missed the fact that it all stopped in 1983 and we’re all just out there on a repeater because it’s something to do on a Sunday?
For 16 days from April 1st 2011, Tether will be stationed at The Lombard Method in Birmingham. The Nottingham based collective will work towards creating 16 new works that seek to interfere with the Lombard Method and the way people interact and react within it. Through permanent and time-specific alterations, the works will address abstract concepts of space, time and history, placing diverse happenings or ephemera alongside each other in a non- linear format.
In chess, an interference occurs when the line between an attacked piece and its defender is interrupted by sacrificially interposing a piece. Tether’s interferences will attempt to hinder, obstruct and impede; travelling through time, interrupting moments that have, will and could happen between April 1st and 16th. The group’s collaborative practice embraces the ‘muddle’ that comes from pushing, condensing and concentrating things to see how the process can lead a community of people into the production of something.

The Lombard Method will be open daily for visitors, though appointments are recommended. 16 Days will be supplemented with a series of events throughout the period;









Events
April 5
Give Me Liberty or Give me Death!
Members of Tether give tangential talks at The Lombard Method, 8-10pm

April 8
Demise & Legacy

Friday night event with a specially devised cocktail.

CANCELLED

April 12
Yuri’s night.
In celebration of the 50th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin’s trip to space. From 8pm

April 16
End of Days
Closing Event
CANCELLED