FAD's pick of the art events this week is Dogs Vs Wolves - "Gallery Giveaway" at the Dazed Gallery on Thursday: 

Opening event - December 6th – 7pm –9pm

Exhibition continues December 7th - December 21st 2007 10am - 6pm Monday to Friday
112-116 Old Street, London, EC1C 9BG

Outline
Audience literally becomes artist in the latest in a series of convoluted processes from two gangs of Art Quadrupeds.

As we are approaching the season of good will art collectives Black Dogs and The Werewolves of London have decided to collaborate with the exhibition ‘Dogs vs Wolves’ and provide two lucky punters with a yuletide gift: The opportunity to display their work in Dazed and Confused gallery.

For the opening event on 6th December you are urged to bring along small change and proposals for what you’d do with the gallery space. Black Dogs and Werewolves will act as competing arts councils vying for your attention with the submission fees starting at one pound creating the budget to fund two winning projects, one chosen by each group.

Additionally, in return for your submission fee you will be provided with a proposal form and a service from the art collective of your choice, ranging from fantastical live-soundtracked movies to sound artistic advice and nibbles. The more money you spend, the more you increase your chances of having the Dazed gallery for Xmas and the bigger the final budget for your work!

Your bright ideas and informed discretion will be necessary to bag yourself the prize of a show at the centre of the art universe. Will your proposal be more likely accepted by a group of art-hungry lupines or by booze-hound art-upstarts?

The selected artists will have one week to produce and install the work and the shows will then have a joint opening on 13th December, 7-9pm at Dazed Gallery. On this occasion the public attending will be allowed to vote for the show they think has been most successful thereby declaring that artist and their group sponsor the winner of Dogs Vs Wolves.

The event
Here’s how it all works:

1. Browse the Black Dogs and Werewolves work. Choose which art collective you will hand your proposal to.
2. Pay your submission fee and receive your proposal form and partake in service.
3. Use the forms provided to write down your proposal (refer to the guidelines provided).
4. Your proposal will be checked over by the relevant artist council and once passed will be placed in either the Black Dogs or Werewolves hat.
5. You may return to the show and enjoy other services. The more proposals you make, the more services you experience and the bigger the budget for the works.
6. At the end of the evening one proposal from each hat will be selected and the money made from the services will be awarded to the successful artist. You must be present for the draw to be declared a winner.
7. The audience members who have had their proposal chosen then have until the13th December to realise the work they have proposed with the guidance and resources from their sponsoring art collective Black Dogs or Werewolves.

www.dazeddigital.com/incoming

www.black-dogs.org

www.thewerewolvesoflondon.org

IN FOCUS is a London-wide contemporary art project, curated by Predrag Pajdic, relating to the Middle East. It will include:multimedia art exhibitions, series of film and video screenings, live art performances
& interventions as well as more than 100 educational activities, that will take place across London, during the spring/summer of 2007

Tate Modern, Opening May 4th 5 – 7pm with a live art performance
Make Me Stop Smoking by Rabih Mroué, in addition to THIS DAY, a series of 8 film and video programs, until May 13th 2007

Contemporary Art Platform, THE BREATH, multimedia exhibition, Opening on June 22nd
7 – 9.30pm, until September 7th 2007

Dazed Gallery, UNDO, exhibition, Opening on June 07th
7 – 10pm, until July 11h 2007

The ongoing events in the Middle East produce a flow of images that are often of war, destruction and conflict. Channelled by the media, these images remain in the subconscious, coming to mind whenever the term ‘Middle East’ is mentioned. IN FOCUS hopes to challenge these representations by showing 65 international contemporary artists whose work relates to the region but defies stereotypes. The project incorporates film, video, digital technology, conceptual work, installation photography and a number of live art performances and interventions.

Represented artists and IN FOCUS this summer 07 in London are: Mohamed Abdulla, Abdellatif Abdul-Hamid, Anthony Abou Khalife, Mania Akbari, Akram Al Ashqar, Yasmeen Al Awadi, Mounira Al Solh, Rowan Alfaqih, Doa Aly, Omar Amiralay, Ayreen Anastas, Ziad Antar & Rasha Salti, Oreet Ashery, Mireille Astore, Maja Bajevic, Tim Blake, Ali Cherri, Hassan Choubassi, Tareq El Ghosein & Chris Kienke, Roza El-Hassan, Hala Elkoussy, Shady El Noshokaty, Shadi Habib Allah, Khaled Hafez, Mohammed Hammed, Susan Hefuna, Hilda Hiary, Mahmoud Hojeij, The Infinity Project, Hisham Jaber, Lamia Joreige, Annemarie Jacir & Nassin Amaouche, Emily Jacir, Ahmed Khaled, Nesrine Khodr, Khorso Khosravi, Nedim Kufi, Rabih Mroué, Vesna Milicevic, Enas Muthafar, Diane Nerwen, Khalil Rabah, Ayman Ramadan, Khaled Ramadan, Mario Rizzi, Paul Ryan, Jackie Salloum, Lina Saneh, Larissa Sansour, Wael Shawky, Emilia Telese & Guyan Porter, Sadegh Tirafkan, Milica Tomic & Branimir Stojanovic, Vladimir Tomic, Jalal Toufic, Sharif Waked, Rachel Wilberforce, Akram Zaatari and Sameh Zoabi.A full colour catalogue will accompany the exhibition, with essays by Predrag Pajdic & Paul Ryan, Olivia Snaije, Mahmoud Hojeij, Jalal Toufic, a forward by Sacha Craddock, an introduction by Charles Asprey and interviews with selected artists.

For further information please visit: www.infocusdialogue.com