FITNESS FOR ARTISTS
PIPPA KOSZEREK & ANNA PHAROAH
Out of Office Performance / Installation
Taking blue-sky thinking to a new level, Fitness for Artists invite artists who work in offices to join them for an Away Day of fun and absurd team building activities. Transforming the formal patterns of Mostyn Gardens into a hot-desking environment, this networking programme generates an installation within the park that playfully subverts office etiquette and protocol. Artists who feel that their day job intrudes or extends into their artwork and daily life are invited to book a place on this day that promises a range of zany solutions for creating art out of the everyday.

Pippa Koszerek creates organisations as artworks/curatorial projects such as the Independent Art School (1999-) and The Unasked-for Public Art Agency (2006-). She is interested in blurring the boundaries between art and non-art environments and borrows materials or ways of working from other vocations. She is currently undertaking a commission with the Exhibitions Department at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design that explores artist's non-art trades in which she is developing a series of public interventions based on collaborations with secretaries and office workers.

Anna Pharoah’s practice centres on creating performances and interventions that draw upon an audience, or members of the public. She is interested in engaging people in a process of exchange, and through chance encounters. She experiments with scenario and interaction, working within the boundaries of the phenomena that exist within a location or situation already, and extending these to the verge of what is believable.