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The Wasp Room
2008-2010

Based within the Tether studios building, The Wasp Room is an artist-run gallery dedicated to exhibiting contemporary art by national and international practitioners at various stages of their career. Opened in November 2008 and due to close in December 2010, main programme exhibitions, to date, have been:

Smith Partners
Play State
November 2008

Debra Swann
Trouble in Paradise
January/February 2009

Thomas Down
A Far Sunset
March 2009

Anthony Peskine
Who Do You Think You Are?
April/May 2009

Tether
Murder in The Kremlin
May/June 2009

Sam Dargan
More Work for the Undertaker
November 2009

Naomi Terry
In A City Not Too Far Away...
February 2010

Paul Eachus
Trans Chaosmos Facility
March 2010

Stuart Croft
Drive-In
September 2010

For more information on The Wasp Room, please visit the Tether website.

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Tethervision
www.tethervision.co.uk
2009-ongoing

Tethervision is a free online resource for video art and video about art, with programming spanning the factual; documentaries and interviews with artists, curators and academics; to specially commissioned moving image artworks.

In September 2009, the directors of Tether (artists Liam Aitken, Benjamin Hargrave, Samuel Mercer and Hugh Dichmont) undertook a road trip across the UK to visit and interview the many artist-led galleries, arts initiatives and collectives that England, Scotland and Wales have to offer; to learn about the practices and activities that have determined and defined each group’s success.

The aim of the project is to achieve an honest representation of independent art activity in the UK in the lead up to British Art Show 7, which will launch in Nottingham in October 2010, and the independently run ‘fringe festival’, in which Tether and other artist-led groups will be taking part. Tether hope that the survey will act as an educational tool for artists, curators, investors and students throughout the UK, promoting the do-it-yourself practitioners to potential investors and collaborators throughout the world; creating new links and redefining old ones.

These interviews will form documentary material for Tethervision, and represents just one part of Tethervision's output, which have also included a NCAN Bursary funded series of videos working with Nottingham-based artists, which to date have included artists Duncan Allen and Simon Raven.

Tethervision videos are viewable via the Tether website, as well as through its own subscribable Youtube channel.

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For more information about these projects, please contact the artist.