Four participants; (Melvyn Turner, Jez Wootton, Tracy Geary and Tony Smith) together with their tutor (Paul) from St Anne's Resource Centre & Open Learning, delivered their contributions on the opening day of the Showing: Expectations exhibition process. Unfortunately, however, no other community group members were available to curate these and so they were layed out on a table in the empty project space until the following week when other community group members woould be available to curate. The elements of risk, trust, adaptability and acceptance (that structure this project) were needed the following day, when around sixty students and staff from The University of Central Lancashire (who were visiting East Street Arts) came into the the Project Space to view the exhibition. A question hung in the air... Where's the art? The Project Space certainly appeared to be somewhat empty, but as Irit Rogoff asks,‘Where is the work located? Perhaps that is the wrong question, perhaps a where intimates a fixed and known location where we might conceivably and go and look for the work and actually find it. Perhaps better is the notion of how does the work function and what does it produce, of what effects it has in the world rather than of what existing meanings it uncovers’.

Please click on people's names (underlined in green) to link to each participant's web page.