This is the first of a series of Online Residencies for Recent Work By Artists (with Tim Ivison & Julia Tcharfas, and George Moustakas in collaboration with Auto Italia). Over the course of one month from October to November, this platform incubates a digital environment of interconnected Interior Ecosystems featuring Guest Contributors edited by myself, Rachel Pimm. These contributors are artists who I have identified as a parallel group to the the named co-working artists in Recent Work By Artists. Contributing artists will join me here to grow, and build on and take tangents from some of the ideas which have informed the various and continued outcomes of RWBA.

This is a process of acknowledging cross breeding and accreditation of the hybrid outcomes of artistic and critical proximity occurring when a group of artists continue to talk and influence one another. Some of the artists featured have co-authored ideas with me that that have set root in my mind, blossoming into new breeds in my work, and others will use this space to show work and ideas that help me understand and articulate the ideas that are surfacing and intertwining themselves as the ideas follow their own new logic and land into the temporary crystallisation of new works in the future.

By nature, ’co-working’ as an art making strategy or as a group practice sometimes leads these tangled ideas to become inseparable and impossible to credit and follow, and at other times the process of sharing allows moments of mutation for a new idea to break out alone. Alongside and around these guest contributions, a healthy river of my own images and hashtag spam flows freely creating a utopian habitat for the action- acting as the advertisements bolstering and feeding the species of Interior Ecosystems’ central magazine style editorial features over the month.

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#bleisure, #business, #co-working, #groups, #labour, #office design, #privacy, #productivity, #climate, #landscape, #environment, #naturalness, #plants, #classification, #taxonomy #connections, #scale, #image, #appearances, #representation, #art work, #Trend forecasting, #the screen, #the digital, #wildness, #disease, #substances, #health, #gentrification, #lifestyle, #food, #drink, #water, #paradise, #retail, #leisure

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I will publish, in a series, Bleisure Island: A Copy-Paste Screenplay. This narrative will be interjected by the wider group of contributors. #bleisure, #business … Mark Robinson adheres to network protocol on how to conduct himself in interview workshops, amidst cisco systems and ergonomic furniture, mounting to a congestion of 3-way handshakes  and bottlenecks where language is a corporate game … #co-working, #groups … Alice May Williams follows the trajectory of the gesture of the rolled up sleeve to think about who ‘we’ are, the people that wear these working clothes (the uniform of activity) and ask what does it mean that ‘we can do it’? … #labour, #office design, #privacy … in the event of their departure from a shared studio to a state of precarious limbo, MoreUtopia! take their co-produced performance, I Can Minimise Noise But I Can’t Make It Private For You– a series of scripts performed either side of an office divider, based on hotdesking practice and multi-function spaces- and re-house it in a digital only space …  #productivity, #climate, #landscape … Andrew Hardwidge contributes from the road, on tour in China for business and leisure, and considers life lived in the sublime spaces of mistranslation, the CCTV tower, and new world dreams, producing advice for those that might follow … #environment … Kristin Luke makes a study of the connections between a Congolese palm oil plantation and Port Sunlight. Unexpected similarities arise between Arts and Crafts and Congolese architecture and town planning methodologies and continue to appear through a study of artefacts, art collections, craft work, commercial products, raw materials, and models… #naturalness, #plants … properties of the plants in RWBA are catalogued … #classification, #taxonomy #connections, #scale …  an archive of famous and forgotten historical exhibition photographs held at Earls Court and Kensington Olympia is excavated prior to its imminent dispersion as the building is cleared for demolition, and the images are mined for simulated natural environment for the Green House project…  #image, #appearances, #representation … Miroslava Vecerova creates and engineers an atmospheric disturbance, rupturing the surface of the image of nature … #art work, #Trend forecasting … Gareth Owen Lloyd‘s foresight card game predicts a plethora of parallel and potential corporate and wildly fantastical futures. Using the STEEP method he interprets and plans strategically for any number of scenarios … #the screen, #the digital, #wildness, #disease … Tom Duggan sees the breakdown of screen culture into a seedy lifestyle in his visual essay where bodily needs and the physical space are left off the priority list. We watch the landscape of the computer desk become a wild junk space re-colonised by the overgrowth of lowest common denominator functions and goods forming an ecosystem of post-consumer waste… #substances, #health, #gentrification, #lifestyle … Jasmine Johnson offers us product-ready scenarios of poached pears played out on the studio style stock backdrop of a space of a certain comfort. Her anthropomorphic specimens form compositions but threaten to refuse to co-operate, drooping and anxiously limp, sitting there dumbly, semi animated in their groups asking you to compare yourself … #food, #drink … Oliver Lee Terry’s 4 season symphony of epic, barren, lush, icy, tropical and just awakening landscapes covering the earth STAY MOIST thanks to a choir of domestic designer humidifiers… #water … Miroslava Vecerova and Pavel Prikasky cast away representations of an iceberg habitat in a benign body of moonlit pool water with a crystal clear surface. The land masses move around one another buffered by gentle off-screen forces that create just enough momentum to suggest a seismic shift … #paradise, #retail … Maurits Koster conceptually redesigns the interior of a friend’s pub, repositioning the social architecture and activities of drinking and talking in groups as a total artwork. This brings Interior Ecosystems to a close making way for a new artist’s vision of the co-working habitat … #leisure.