S_PACE BETWEEN_SPACE is a collaboration between artist-curator Dan Goodman and visual artist Gill Shreeve. It is an initial realisation of their correspondence, which unfolded through email during the Covid-19 pandemic lockdown in the UK.

Since 2017 Dan has run and curated System, an artist-run gallery in Newcastle upon Tyne, that offered space for emerging artists to discuss, explore  and share ideas for ten years. In September 2019 however, due to a change in property ownership, System was told that it could no longer use the space with immediate effect. This was devastating, as Gill had spent several weeks creating site-specific work for an upcoming exhibition. In addition, System’s gallery space was, and remains, the focus of Dan’s PhD research, at Newcastle University, as well as being intrinsically tied to his identity as artist-curator.

Since then, System has operated as a nomadic venue. Recently System had managed to find a new, more permanent base. However, during the C-19 lockdown, plans for this new space have had to been postponed. Now Dan and Gill, like many people, are forced to adapt and re-imagine our approaches to our respective practices. 

In recent weeks, they have been discussing their different perspectives of these situations, with one another, through email. It has been thought-provoking, motivating and a source of connection to a wider art community for them both in this difficult time. Their book, S_PACE BETWEEN _SPACE, is a result of those conversations. It explores the overlap of space, the spatial, of belonging and identity, while also acting as a documentation of an exhibition which never happened.

Existing in both digital and physical form, the book format creates an active spatial dynamic between author and reader-viewer, a shared space to enter, inhabit, revisit, re-view – a connective multivocality. 

S_PACE BETWEEN _SPACE may be viewed via the link above. Please note that the book is best viewed in Adobe Acrobat Reader two-page view.

Gill Shreeve's ARTCONNECT profile: https://www.artconnect.com/profile/gill-shreeve

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