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The HIVE Project
The HIVE project was launched in November 2009 as an extended arm of the T1+2 gallery gallery in London with Lisa K Samoto as Director. The HIVE project works with urban regeneration and heritage sites, working primarily with architecture in transition. Sites that were otherwise not being used have been turned into art spaces by the project, becoming sites for exhibitions, conferences and lectures. The HIVE project works with established and emerging artists whom also work directly with the redevelopment of these spaces.

The HIVE project also aims to re-imagine the gallery space as an open arts forum. It aims to provide a sustainable new model via increasing engagement with a wider community and to spearhead a visionary and diverse cultural programme in collaboration with artists, creative practitioners and institutions.

The Beehive as Metaphor
The HIVE project aims to create an autonomous artistic collective. In this spirit it works with creative practioners and institutions comprising of guest lecturers, artists, curators, student bodies, charity organisations, editors, writers, architects, urban planners, sociologists, environmentalists, performers and others.

Implementing the beehive as a social model is used to encourage the notion of autonomy and peer-based learning. Groups of artists and creative practitioners work to a brief to envisage new infrastructures to integrate audiences with the arts, architecture - the natural and built environment. The goal is to provide and deliver this improvised educational model and to continually develop it further via cross-pollination of ideas and knowledge. Universally applied this means more equality, resourcefulness, innovation and human power.

Sites
8-10 Greatorex Street, Whitechapel, E1 5NF

276 Vauxhall Road, Victoria, SW1V 1BB

Victoria Embankment, St Pauls Walk, EC4V 3QH

Artists
Ilona Sagar

Makiko Nagaya

Eva Bensasson

David Boulogne

Godfried Donkor

Paul Fryer

James P Graham

Alex Hamilton

Piers Jackson

Liane Lang

Peter Lewis

Emma McNally

Seboo Migone

Polly Morgan

Otto Muehl

Valerie Stahl