21 September – 26 October 2005
City Gallery , Leicester, LE1 1DJ
8 April – 4 June 2006
Cotton Gallery, mac , Cannon Hill Park, Birmingham.
Curated group show around the themes of narrative and storytelling, strangers and journeys.
Participating artists:
AAS, Arlene Burnett, FuncArt, S. Mark Gubb, Maria Malone, David Miller, Paul Newman, Paul Ross, Jason Thompson, Justin Wiggan & Oona Lurås; and Neil Wiseman.
8 – 23 April 2006
BLOCprojects , Sheffield
An aas curated collaborative installation & video based on an old Science Fiction series. Participating artists contributed either a panel or other element for the constructed film set; or a clip of video which was edited into a fictional news broadcast from an alternative Sheffield, where a strange phenomenon was affecting behaviour.
The project was ‘infected’ by Dave Beech, who contributed a text: Some instructions for infecting naturalism.
18 – 26 March 2006
Haddon Tower, Birmingham
Curated by Behind Closed Doors
"A.S.B.O.": In this project in a tower block due for demolition, a.a.s. created the fictional group Association for the Scientific Betterment of Others, who took over a flat and conducted experiments into such things as velocity of objects dropped from a window; effectiveness of aluminium foil at blocking transmissions; and acceptable levels of noise in residential settings.
