The Back Boot Project Curated by Anna Muirhead

Victoria Bell, Michele Beevors, Bekah Carran, Scott Eady, Michael Morley, Emily Pauling and Benjamin Smith, curated by Anna Muirhead

The Back Boot Project happened around Dunedin, New Zealand, during 2007 and was first conceived of as 'Little Politic', an exhibition which would refer to material-specific, small objects with an emphasis on the intimacy of the small object, the double take, the second glance and the unexpected.

The Back Boot Project utilised a moving exhibition space in the back of a 1986 Toyota Corolla. This space operated as a vehicle for artists to locate their work outside the usual gallery sphere and to take it into public spaces. The Back Boot Project was primarily about space - like the gallery it had its own set of limitations and challenges. Each artist contributed their own individual projects to the BBP and could - because their work was shown in the back boot of the car - implicitly refer to other ideas concerning mobility, non-space or transitional spaces.

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Presented alongside Monuments Dreaming of Me