Welcome to Outside the White Cube

Outside the White Cube is a project by artists at York St John University who are investigating a range of locations in, and possibly around, the city of York between February-May 2009. We aim to create new work through interaction with off-campus settings and mount a group exhibition of material and works emerging from this enquiry in May. Our initial starting points relate to observation; passages through the environment; identification of settings; mapping; placement / displacement; other creative and critical strategies for generating, moulding and composing material. We are also concerned with image, event and meaning creation in relation to those particular tensions present in the reciprocal interaction of 'art' and 'site'. We hope to use this blog to share images, texts, observations, links as we proceed. The project represents art as research and exchange in the urban context.