Tom Estes in Sewing Performance in Tate Modern

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Tom Estes in Sewing Performance for The Really, Really Free Market (RRFM), a 3-day market organised as Post-Museum's contribution to No Soul for Sale: A Festival of Independents, held in Tate Modern.

This sewing performance was intended as a viral extension of a performance produced as the culmination of a residency at Trinity Buoy Wharf. The work was conceived in relation to the site of Trinity Buoy Wharf- a place of both extreme poverty and extreme wealth; of crumbling and overgrown Docks, which in recent years has been changed beyond recognition by corporate and private housing developments. In this work Tom Estes gently embroiders leaves and vines onto a bespoke or tailor- made suit, causing a dimpling of the material. This sewing has the effect of slowly shrivelling the arms and legs of the suit. So in a way the work is really about being powerless in the face of exploitation and is intended to accentuate a core of wordless confusion and emotional dissatisfaction.


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NO SOUL FOR SALE is a festival of indepentents that brings together the most excitin not-for-profit centers, alternative institutions, enterprises from around the world. No Soul for Sale celebrates the people who contribute to the international art scene by inventing new strategies for the distribution of information and new modes of participation. Neither a fair nor an exhibtion, No Soul For Sale is a convention of indivdiuals and groups who have devoted their energies to keeping art alive. The event is a spontaneous celebration of independent forces that live outside the market and animate that contemporary art.

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"The Really, Really Free Market (RRFM) movement is a non-hierarchical collective of individuals who form a temporary market based on an alternative gift economy. The RRFM movement aims to counteract capitalism in a non-reactionary way. It holds as a major goal to build a community based on sharing resources, caring for one another and improving the collective lives of all." The event at Tate Modern was organised by Ela Ciecierska, Emma Jackson, Lynn Lu in collaboration with the people of London.

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Post-Museum is an independent cultural and social space in Singapore, run as an open platform for examining contemporary life, promoting the arts and connecting people. Opened September 2007, Post-Museum is a ground-up project initiated by Singaporean curatorial team which includes: Bala Matchap, Gene D'Castro, Jolyn Chin, Veron Lau, KK Lee, Phua Xinyan, Eve Tan, Ted Tan, Tay Shi Ying, Woon Tien Wei.



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More information on the residency at Trinity Buoy Wharf is available at:
http://artportal.carbonmade.com/

For more information go to:

http://www.nosoulforsale.com/2010

http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/exhibitions/nosoulforsale/default.shtm

www.post-museum.org