What is the Colosseum Project?
The Colosseum Project was founded in summer 1997 by a collective of artists (Chris Singer, Gillian McIver, Sandrine Albert, Valentina Floris) in order to organise exhibitions and performances for themselves and other artists and performers. They began working together in a derelict East End theatre, the Old Colosseum in Dalston, London.

The Old Colosseum

The Colosseum Project was concerned with exploring exhibition alternatives for artists; by using non-traditional environments, and techniques such as merging gallery and performance art, as well as for accessing and distributing art in the region and abroad.

The Colosseum artists worked in a variety of mixed media, and invited innovative, original artists working in a variety of media, to participate in the exhibitions.

The Colosseum Project worked with a wide variety of guest artists from Britain and abroad.

In Janaury 2000, The Colosseum Project relaunched as Luna Nera, and continue their committment to pursuing site-responsive, innovative work.
"We are seeking to consummate the union between gallery art and performance, making art a more lively and accessible experience. We need to reclaim our independence from an often too commercial and censored gallery environment; this is an important step which also enables us to reach new audiences."

What does the Colosseum Project do?

For example...In July 1999, as part of the Clerkenwell Festival, The Colosseum project transformed the 17th Century subterranean prison, The House of Detention, into a gallery of art, film and performance, featuring Adrian Palka's Steel Cello, Marissa Carnesky and more...
From 15 - 24 October 1998 The Colosseum Project created an event in a disused bank in Shoreditch, London. A derelict, empty area, it is nevertheless only moments away from the vast shining temples of Mammon in the City of London, a City that is steadily encroaching on the artists strongholds of Spitalfields, Shoreditch and Hackney. The art hanging on the walls of offices and banks in the City of London is corporate art: smooth, passionless, un-challenging. In a fitting reversal of uses we transformed this bank space into a dark, underground, exciting gallery of the most passionate and avant-garde art that is being produced today.

 
       
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