Artist Housekeeping

ARTICULATE PROJECT SPACE: IMAGES & TEXT for Press Release, Art Almanac and blog 

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ARTICULATE PROJECT SPACE: INFORMATION FOR PARTICIPATING ARTISTS

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Your Articulate contact director: 

Please talk with your Articulate contact regarding access details and any special needs of your project. 

Security

Please don’t leave the building open and unattended. Before you leave, check front and back doors are locked and windows closed (windows automatically lock).  Artists have 24 hour access during their 3 weeks.

Key access through rear door is available for participating artists. Please RETURN KEY after each use.

During opening hours, please put ARTICULATE OPEN sign out at 11am and bring inside at 5pm.

Other people using the space

Please be aware that artists in ArticulateUpstairs and from the upstairs studios will be walking through the project space and may also be moving things through the space while your project is up. 

Occasionally artists planning future projects want to spend time in the space. This would usually happen while Articulate is closed. This might even sometimes involve small group discussions or artists  bringing materials in to see how they look in the space, as part of the process of installation development (on condition the space was left as found).  Please let us know if this would be a problem for your project.

If you want to visit the space to plan your project, please be sensitive to the current project.  If your visit is for discussion or activities (measuring etc), please arrange to come out of opening hours.

Occasionally other events may be held at Articulate while your project is on (e.g. talks). Please let us know if this would be a problem for your project.

Room sheet

Please make your own room sheet. As soon as it is made, please email it for the Articulate blog.

Roomsheets should include the following basic information:

• Location: Articulate project space, 497 Parramatta Road, Leichhardt NSW 2040 Australia

• Contact: http://articulate497.blogspot.com.au; etalucitra@gmail.com; artist's contact

• Times: Year, dates and hours of opening of your project, and events such as opening and artists' talks.

Installing

Articulate's front doors can be opened to 3 metres wide for delivery access. Parking at the front of Articulate is free except 6-10am and 3-7pm weekdays. Always check road-parking signs as parking fines are high. Delivery access through rear is available at all times subject to close-parking to allow other cars access to the drive-through area; rear access is standard door width and up one flight of stairs. Please only park in the back drive-through area for as long as needed for delivery, then re-park in neighbouring streets.

Please don’t arrive to install before the Tuesday of your install week unless you have made special arrangements.  You have earlier access only if the previous project is de-installed before that.

The side plaster walls are painted plaster over plywood that can be drilled into. Back wall is plaster only.

Please bring your own tools and AV technology (See contract - please be aware that Articulate's insurance doesn’t cover the artwork, equipment or bodies of participating artists. We recommend you apply well in advance for NAVA professional membership which includes insurance). Ladders and basic tools are available.  Data projectors, media players and flat screen are available subject to prior arrangement.

Artists are responsible for returning the space to its found condition after their show. See laminated sheet in front cupboard (‘Articulate project space handy hints #1 – smooth walls’) for how to minimise wall damage and how best to achieve wall repairs.

Beams/wood: please avoid drilling into wooden beams or posts. Consider pre-existing holes/nails or cabling around a beam rather than screwing into it. 

Please check with your Articulate contact regarding the strength of beams for suspending works. 

Be aware that the floor paint lifts easily (if your work has lifted the paint please patch when deinstalling). 

Lights

Articulate project space has track lighting (six spots with beam shapers and eight wall washes) and a large industrial overhead light in the front area. Articulate can help you light your show (on a night before the opening) if you make advance arrangements.

Opening

The standard exhibition opening is the Friday of installation week, 6–8pm. For other opening arrangements please discuss with your contact director well in advance, to ensure PR material includes correct details. 

You are responsible for your opening and its catering. Articulate has glasses, plates, dishwasher etc in downstairs kitchen, plus table. Your catering could be to provide water in jugs with water glasses (available in downstairs kitchen), elaborate food and bubbly you bring yourself, or something in between. Please negotiate catering with upstairs artist(s) and discuss with your contact director in advance if you need help. Please clean-up by next open day.

Minding the space

It is artists' responsibility to mind the space during the advertised opening hours, that is, 11am – 5pm, Friday, Saturday and Sunday for the duration of the show. Bring food and anything else you might need so you don’t have to leave the space while you are committed to minding it.

If your work needs regular support (such as video needing to be turned on and off at ends of each open-day), please come to the space at beginning and end of the day to ensure it is working properly. Alternatively, provide simple clear instruction for sitters and ensure individual sitters understand it.  

If there are days when you cannot mind the space, please contact Articulate well in advance – the project space must open as advertised. Please do not open late or close early.

Articulate now has wifi with password on the back of modem in upstairs kitchenette.

Part of the downstairs kitchen is now rented as a studio. This kitchen can be used for openings and catering  for events only. On these occasions, please respect the privacy of the studio occupant. At all other times the upstairs kitchenette (with kettle, fridge and sink) is available for you to use.

There is a toilet and wash basin at the top of the stairs. 

Documentation

We recommend professional documentation of your work well before the final Sunday evening to allow time for deinstalling and cleaning before the end of Monday. 

We would appreciate it if you could send us your best images of your project (along with captions and photo credits) for use on the blog, in a future publication and for archiving. We’d also like digital versions of your room sheet and any other documentation and links to your work. 

Deinstalling and cleaning

Please do not start deinstalling until after 5pm on the final Sunday of your show.

Wall and floor paint is available to restore walls and floor if needed. If walls need mending, please leave enough time to sand-spak-sand-undercoat-topcoat them. It is advisable to start work on them on Sunday evening. Please let us know if you need Articulate's assistance on the Sunday evening and/or the Monday.

Leave enough time to sweep/vacuum and mop the floor. Vacuum cleaner and mop etc are available.

Return of bond

Please arrange for a suitable time for your contact director to check the space by the end of your last Monday so that they can ask the Articulate treasurer to return your bond.