Artangel, London, UK, 2020
- Project Information
- Reflections: #Delete the Beans (2020)
- Online Talk: Thinking Time Talks on Collaboration & Connection
- Project Press
Project Information
Visual artists are struggling to produce work and concentrate on projects along with the rest of the population…This gives hope. It’s not just about money, it is someone putting faith in you in these incredibly uncertain times – Dame Rachel Whiteread, quoted in the Guardian
Thinking Time is a special initiative to support early-career artists to research, reflect, and develop their ideas.
The timely initiative comes in reflection and response to the current state of suspension where production has stalled, and arts institutions around the world have been forced to close; which has brought into focus something that never shuts down: the power and importance of the imagination.
Over the next six months, twenty selected artists will each receive an award of £5,000, as well as mentoring and support.
These artists – who all live and work in the UK – work across the mediums of performance, poetry, choreography, music, video and installation.
Reflections: #Delete the Beans (2020)
Thinking Time is a special initiative to support artists to research, reflect, and to develop their ideas.
The initiative took place May–November 2020 in response to the state of suspension where production had stalled and arts institutions around the world were forced to close their doors. This brought into focus something that never shuts down: the power and importance of the imagination.
Some of the artists have shared works or responses to this time spent focused on process and development.
Abbas Zahedi’s reflection:
Online Talk: Thinking Time Talks on Collaboration & Connection
Artists Jos Bitelli, Abbas Zahedi, Rosalie Schweiker and Fabienne Hess join curatorial duo Hana Noorali and Lynton Talbot in conversation on the topic of: Collaboration & Care in a new live streamed talk + audience Q&A.
Note: the recording for this video is currently unavablible
The artists will be joined in conversation on the topic of Collaboration & Care, presented live on YouTube, as part of a three-part Thinking Time Talks series.
There will be a live audience Q&A towards the end of the conversation when your questions shared on the YouTube event or on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram via the hashtag #ThinkingTime will be posed to the artists.
Thinking Time was a special Artangel initiative, supported by the Freelands Foundation, that took place MayOctober 2020 to support selected artists in the research, reflection and development of their ideas during a time of suspension in the arts, and a global lockdown. Its prioritisation of process over production served to both refute the prerequisite of constant artistic productivity and centred a lesser known chapter of all Artangel commissions: the process of supporting artists in the cultivation of their ideas.
As part of Thinking Time, some of the artists and Artangel staff met monthly to catch up and check in on each other. These private meetings became locations for artistic solidarity and open discourse on issues affecting artistic practice today.
This series of talks are designed to bring some of the artists together over three conversations concerning the prevailing themes that arose during those private sessions. To approximate that sense of intimacy and transience, each talk will be live streamed at its scheduled time and then made available to watch the following morning for those who were unable to attend. The YouTube links are the same for both the original livestream and the window to watch the following morning.
Project Press
- Artists struggling to work amid coronavirus, says Rachel Whiteread, Mark Brown for the Guardian source
- Monocle Minute, Monday 18 May 2020, Monocle Magazine source
Further information about Thinking Time can be found on Artangel’s website source
Abbas Zahedi // عباس زاهدی // abbzah.com 