ARTBEEF / BEEFHAUS: 9728837557

9728837557

9728837557 is an exercise in audience engagement that explores the boundaries delineating public and private space. Artbeef's piece consists of a telephone that is formally installed into the UT D gallery which will exist for the purpose of it's function, to enable two or more people to communicate despite the distance that separates them. The conversations that are gathered are dispatched, in real time, to a remote location in the gallery. In being allowed access to this information, the audience is granted authorization to monitor any dialogue that is produced.

ART BEEF is a collective of artists based in Dallas, Texas interested in challenging notions of authorship and market structure, while questioning the forms of programming most often associated with other artist-run spaces, galleries, organizations, and institutions.
While individual artists ourselves, Art Beef is not intended to serve a platform for our own respective practices. This collaborative project is, therefore, a problematizing exploration of artists as curator without the constraints of either a commercial or not-for-profit art space, examining the status and function of art, particularly within the city of Dallas.

BEEFHAUS is Art Beef's first long-term project space located at 833 Exposition Ave in Dallas, Texas. The space hosts a wide-range of exhibitions, performances, screenings, site-specific installation, panel discussions, artist talks, and more. The space is intended as a vehicle for collaboration with other artists, art groups, and performers across a variety of disciplines. Proposals are welcome. All profits from the sale of works go entirely to the respective artist(s); Beefhaus encourages a donation to help offset the costs of maintaining the space.