HIVE Projects was launched in November 2009 as an extended arm of the T1+2 gallery in London with Lisa K Samoto as Director. HIVE Projects works with urban regeneration and heritage sites, working primarily with architecture in transition. Sites that were otherwise not being used have been turned into art spaces by the project, becoming sites for exhibitions, conferences and lectures. HIVE Projects works with established and emerging artists who also work directly with the redevelopment of these spaces.
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HIVE Projects also aims to re-imagine the gallery space as an open arts forum. It aims to provide a sustainable new model via increasing engagement with a wider community and to spearhead a visionary and diverse cultural programme in collaboration with artists, creative practitioners and institutions.
The Beehive as Metaphor
HIVE Projects aims to create an autonomous artistic collective. In this spirit it works with creative practitioners and institutions consisting of guest lecturers, artists, curators, student bodies, charity organisations, editors, writers, architects, urban planners, sociologists, environmentalists, performers and others.
Implementing the beehive as a social model is used to encourage the notion of autonomy and peer-based learning. Groups of artists and creative practitioners work to a brief to envisage new infrastructures to integrate audiences with the arts, architecture - the natural and built environment. The goal is to provide and deliver this improvised educational model and to continually develop it further via cross-pollination of ideas and knowledge. Universally applied this means more equality, resourcefulness, innovation and human power.
Sites
8-10 Greatorex Street, Whitechapel, E1 5NF
276 Vauxhall Bridge Road, Victoria, SW1V 1BB
Euston Exchange, 194 Euston Road / 1 Melton Street, NW1 2DA
Artists
Ilona Sagar
Makiko Nagaya
Eva Bensasson
David Boulogne
Godfried Donkor
Paul Fryer
James P Graham
Alex Hamilton
Piers Jackson
Liane Lang
Peter Lewis
Seboo Migone
Polly Morgan
Otto Muehl
Valerie Stahl