Fox, S., Murphy, E., Shields, R., 2009.

'Cunt & The Family'. Contents May Vary. 'Antifreeze' Art Car Boot Sale of Sixty Artists.

THE PROJECT:- A range of domestic and family orientated gifts relating to the word 'Cunt'. These are all cheaply bought and turned into unique artistic products in the celebration and the de-mystification of the challenging word 'CUNT'. These objects will include t-towels, hip flasks, underwear, pillow cases, t-shirts, badges, vouchers and so forth. Sue will be selling these as her alter-ego character 'the cunt bride' who works in the cult clown renegade band 'The Dirty Honkies' with Alexis Milne & Co.. and has performed and toured in Ireland and the U.K. The word cunt was first derived from the Indus Valley from the goddess Kali. It wasn't considered a bad word until in the last few centuries; it just meant a woman's genitals. Some linguists see it as a way to control women..........offending her as a body part and therefore negating her. It is after all only a word, but it is about context. It has Germanic roots in kunte and kunton. In Latin, the root iscunnus. There is figa, kut, kus, keus, yoni, gun, gynae, ka-t, kun, qefen-t, counte, kunat, quim, queynthe (from Chaucer's original and 'Miller's Tale'......"Pryvely he caught her in the quenyte'...so it alludes to the word 'quaint'......also chuint, cunnende, cunning, queen, coney, cunny, coynte, lap and country (in Shakespeare's writing). Fox will toy with the notions of the word 'cunt' and place it into an artistic and historically new context and meaning.
100th Monkey
Adam Highman and Tim Sargent
Adam Renshaw
AirSpace
Alexis Milne
Alice Bradshaw
Alison Kershaw
Annie Harrison/Jane Lawson
Anton Harding
BearSpace - Isabel Rock
Ben Connell
Black Dogs
Camp Yellow
Caron Ottewell and Victoria Foster
Cheap Magazine
Chiz Turnross
Diane Shufflebottom
Eagle and Feather
Elena Cassidy Smith, Mitra Memarzia and Bec Garland
Emily Smallwood
Exhibit X
Felicity Langthorne, Alison Stockwell, Hannah Marsden, Claire Rowlands, Steven Walker and Laura Kirby
FRUNT
Gareth Gratrix
Gwen Jones
Helen Kaplinsky
Hilary Jack
Intercity Mainline
Jared Szpakowski
Joe Duffy
Joyce Wan
Jude Macpherson
Julia Peat
L-13
Liz Murphy
Lucy May Schofield
M A Longbottom
Magdalena Natalia Kwiatkowska
Marielle Hehir
Megan Broadmeadow
Michael Farquhar
Mirror Mirror
NEW CURIOSITY SHOP
Nick Rhodes
Pool Arts
Richard Aldred
Richard Birdseed/////////Dan Blacklodge
Richard Shields
Samantha Bell
Sketch City
Sophie Bower
Sophie Rogers
Stephen Ashdown, Frances Blythe, Antony Clarkson, Siân Green, Naomi Lethbridge
Sue Fox
Tom Watson
YES IT IS - Anna Beam, Lora Avedian, Laura Gee, Georgina Sullivan
Yorkshire Sculptors Group - Alan Gummerson, Andrew Pert, Victoria Lucas, Rebecca Strain, Linda Thompson, Terry Hammill, Suzanne North, Barry Midgley, Lucy Hainsworth, John Adamson, Paula Chambers, Hilary Burt

ANTIFREEZE
Contents May Vary are hosting ANTIFREEZE Manchester's very first art car boot fair as part of Trade City.
ANTIFREEZE is an exhibition about the high-end art market delivered within the format of low-end trade. It is the grass-roots answer to hugely commercial art fairs allowing independent and non-commercial practitioners to explore ideas of value, exchange and independence with artists and artist-led organisations responding to the physical, social, economical, geographical and literal situation.

Manchester's first art car boot fair will be a stroll through the embodied thoughts of over 60 artists from across the UK and beyond, who through no fault of their own have been put in a place beneath and above many others in the art industry. We have given them a platform to vent their airs and graces, woes and praises, present their skills and collections, to succeed and fail, to make money and lose faith, to spend hours in traffic getting here and minutes setting up their work without our help, just so people they don't know can spend seconds judging them on it.

"Everyone thinks you are being shamefully copyist" - Karen Aston, Vauxhall Art Car Boot Fair, 2009

"Your advertisement [for submissions for ANTIFREEZE] brings our event into disrepute by associating it with a car boot sale." - Jai Shalimar, Manchester Art Fair, 2009



100th Monkey
AirSpace
Richard Aldred
Stephen Ashdown, Frances Blythe, Antony Clarkson, ...
BearSpace - Isabel Rock
Samantha Bell
Richard Birdseed/////////Dan Blacklodge
Black Dogs
Sophie Bower
Alice Bradshaw
Megan Broadmeadow
Camp Yellow
Elena Cassidy Smith, Mitra Memarzia and Bec Garlan...
CHEAP
Ben Connell
Joe Duffy
Eagle and Feather
Exhibit X
Michael Farquhar
Sue Fox
FRUNT
Garth Gratrix
Anton Harding
Annie Harrison/Jane Lawson
Marielle Hehir
Adam Higman and Tim Sargent
Intercity Mainline
Hilary Jack
Gwen Jones
Helen Kaplinsky
Alison Kershaw
Magdalena Natalia Kwiatkowska
Felicity Langthorne, Alison Stockwell, Claire Rowl...
L-13
Jude Macpherson
Alexis Milne
Mirror Mirror
Liz Murphy
NEW CURIOSITY SHOP
Caron Ottewell and Victoria Foster
Julia Peat
M A Longbottom
POOL ARTS
Adam Renshaw
Switchopen
Sophie Rogers
Lucy May Schofield
Richard Shields
Diane Shufflebottom
Sketch City
Emily Smallwood
Jared Szpakowski
Chiz Turnross
Joyce Wan
The Honourable Delegates of derivation present Tom...
YES IT IS
Yorkshire Sculptors.

Contents May Vary show collectively as well as individually and also organize large-scale exhibitions inviting other artists to participate. They find new and challenging ways to exhibit with particular focus on site-responsivitey to non-conventional and everyday spaces. http://antifreeze2009.blogspot.com/2009/06/sue-fox.html