Directed by Sarah Slifer and Hannah Burr

Looking to give festival artists more time to integrate themselves into the sites and feel of Gloucester, GNAF07 became a short residency for five artists, culminating in performance and exhibition of the works made. The public was being considered in a different way. Instead of relying on selling tickets and building a public in the traditional way, we sought to romance the public by including them more directly in the works - and making all events free. Site-specificity and clear conceptual design characterized the works for this festival.

2007's projects brought us in contact with the Gloucester shellfish constable and the management team and employees of Shaw's market. Local residents were consulted on rope and knots and invited to perform in parking lots.

Slifer and Burr also contributed works for the community and the participating artists.

ARTISTS
QFWFQ Duo, Matthew Hincman, Jennifer Monson, Lara Lepionka, Line Bruntse

Hannah Burr develops installation and all-media projects out of her studio in Boston. She finds ways to make fleeting events or abstract information visible, and uses her projects to highlight individual takes on a shared experience. Recent projects of Hannah's include a collaboration with the Urbano Project (JP), 'manifold' at BU's 808 Gallery, the Bumpkin Island Art Encampment 2009, and 'Visual Traces of Groups at Work' at the Drawing Center in NY 2008. She's worked with the Berwick Research Institute, is a former MacDowell Colony Fellow, MCC Grant and Berkshire Taconic grant recipient. To see her projects, visit hannahburr.com.