{"id":9371,"date":"2018-05-01T08:54:47","date_gmt":"2018-05-01T06:54:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.switchonpaper.com\/?p=9371"},"modified":"2020-10-20T16:58:19","modified_gmt":"2020-10-20T14:58:19","slug":"property-prices-artists-get-organized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.switchonpaper.com\/en\/economy\/gentrification\/property-prices-artists-get-organized\/","title":{"rendered":"Property prices, artists get organized"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Established in 1968, SPACE intends to make workspaces available for artists at moderated prices. SPACE manages today 19 sites throughout the city and provides studios to more than 700 artists, for a total surface of more than 25 000 m<sup>2<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>The initiative took shape more than 50 years ago when its founders, Bridget Riley and Peter Sedgley, both renown artists, opened a first space in a former ivory warehouse in St Katharine Docks, along the Thames. They fitted the place and rented then the first artists&#8217; studios for the equivalent of \u20ac500 per year. In the following years, more buildings were converted.<\/p>\n<p>If the concept of refitting industrial wastelands into artists&#8217; studios was not entirely new then &#8211; the founders declared having been inspired by New York -, SPACE was the first artists&#8217; studios complex legally established to delve into the profusion of disused industrial warehouses. It is out of this model that <a href=\"http:\/\/momaps1.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">P.S.1<\/a> was born, a New-York production and exhibition structure established in 1976 in the former premises of a <em>public school<\/em> (from which it earned its acronym) or even the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bethanien.de\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">K\u00fcnstlerhaus Bethanien<\/a> in Berlin.<\/p>\n<p>The organization now leans on a vast program of partnerships with the real estate sector, as well as a plan to support artists under the form of grants and residencies. However, Anna Harding, the current director of SPACE, issues a warning: &#8220;the vital resources, such as studio space and alternative art venues, should never be taken for granted. And without them, London&#8217;s preeminence as a creative city is at risk.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spacestudios.org.uk\/artists-in-the-city\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">spacestudios.org.uk\/artists-in-the-city<\/a><\/p>\n<h5>Video: Half way between experimental and documentary video, this archive film presents the genesis of the SPACE project, told by the artists behind it.<\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Established in 1968, SPACE intends to make workspaces available for artists at moderated prices. SPACE manages today 19 sites throughout the city and provides studios to more than 700 artists, for a total surface of more than 25 000 m2. 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