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Catchin’ Up With…. Ange Taggart

“I’m currently at "http://www.versionfest.org/">version03 Fest in Chicago. This is kicking.
Check the programme - there’s lots of good stuff going on. Going to be doing
presentations at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago today at midday and
then we are on a panel on Friday at 4pm. Got some interventions going on in the
city too…”

What’s Ange up to in the States this week? Here’s the
“official” line:

“Following her desperate ‘shopping trip’ to New
York in December 02 to try to make things better, UK artist Ange Taggart of My
Dads Strip Club is making "http://www.mydadsstripclub.com/duanereade.htm">a return visit to the USA to
coincide with America going to war.

This is part of a year long
series of works she is producing which brings together groups of artists who
work in the commercial zone and comment on the excesses of consumer culture in
relation to the world order and global economy.

Over the next three
months, she will be visiting major cities in the US and UK connecting and
communicating with artists to create, discuss and promote work that feeds a
culture of resistance. In March and April 03 the activity will be focused in the
USA where she is joined by UK artist James Leadbitter - The Vacuum Cleaner and U
artist/filmmaker Andrew Lynn from Breathing Planet. They will be working with
participants to perform in shops and on the streets of Chicago as part of href= "http://www.versionfest.org">Version03 festival.

They’ll
also be meeting up with the UK artist Denis Buckley in New York and presenting
work together at the heart of the financial district of New York.

The
performances in Chicago and New York are backed up by a series of guest lectures
in galleries, arts schools, universities and artist projects to and discuss
works by a group of UK/USA artists that create and promote a culture of
resistance.

10-17 March   New School University New York
27
March 03   Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
28 March 03   Museum of
Contemporary Art, Chicago
2 March 03   School of the Art Institute of
Chicago
5 April 03   1/Quarterly Gallery Chicago
7 April 03  
16Beavergroup New York
9 April 03   Hunter College New York
10 April
03   Parsons School of Design New York
10 April 03   Drama Department New
York University
10 April 03   Wooster Collective New York

In
May the attention shifts to the UK when six USA artists fly over to team up with
UK artists to create the UK Stop Shopping Tour.

From the 8-20 May 03
the group will be presenting and performing in UK city centres in Derby,
Nottingham, Newcastle and London.

Highlights will include street
preaching, Sunday services followed by congregation-shopping, advice on how to
produce hazardous biological chemical and radiological weapons from popular
branded goods, consumption awareness rituals and disfunctional shopping trips. 
All this is backed up by forums to engage and meet the artists as well as a
series of lectures in universities and arts establishments.

Artists
include:
Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping, Retroactive Logo
Distribution , How and Why , Conglomco , Whirl-Mart , My Dads Strip Club ,
Richard Dedomanici , Jon Burgerman , Nato , Space Hijackers , The Vacuum
Cleaner

This is not an exclusive event. The tour is a chance to reach
out and meet others and join together to develop possibilities for the future.
Those interested in supporting or joining us please get in
contact:me@mydadsstripclub.com

More information can be found at href="http://www.mydadsstripclub.com">mydadsstripclub and href="http://www.breathingplanet.net/tour">breathing planet