TNWK - MILLENNIUM COLLECTION 1999 - 2001

Just before Christmas 1999, 1000 people received an invitation to nominate a thing of their own as being 'not worth keeping' and to suggest why this might be the case.

100 things were selected and gathered for exhibition in early 2000. Following a nationwide ‘Not for Sale’ tour of car boot sales, an event of dispersal at Platform Gallery (London May 2001) and a trip to the dump, the Millennium Collection exists now only in the form of a  full colour catalogue containing an image of each thing and the reason or story behind its nomination. ISBN 0 95 29 311 2 5 Available at British Library

The Millennium Collection was commissioned by Small Acts At The Millennium, a series of time based projects funded by the Millennium Commission and the Arts Council of England. The Millennium Collection catalogue and 'Not For Sale' tour of The Millennium Collection received funding support from the Arts Council Of England National Touring Programme.

TNWK 1999 - 2007 was a collaborative authorship of poetic and visual practices. Kirsten Lavers and cris cheek brought specialist histories in poetry, site-specific installation and situated cultural practice; their common grounds included performance, bookworks, photography, video and curatorial intervention. TNWK’s work focussed on conversation and participation, to produce ‘portraits of value’ (exploring tensions between the societal, the communal and the political), using a diversity rather than a singularity of modes and media.

small acts

‘Small Acts Performance, the  Millennium and the Marking of Time’ edited by Adrian Heathfield  Black Dog Publishing ISBN 1 901033 57 0

bizarre May 2001

byline : iain_aitch.txt pp54,55 &108
Garbage Pail Kids

Modern artists hit back at critics by displaying what is actually rubbish

HERE TODAY, gone tomorrow

Transient Materiality in Contemporary Cultural Artefacts by Linda Sandino. 2004

pp 288/289