ORGANISATION STRATEGY & DESIGN SEMINAR SERIES : CAREY YOUNG : CONTEMPORARY ARTIST : 02.03.2006

ORGANISATION STRATEGY & DESIGN SEMINAR SERIES
CAREY YOUNG : CONTEMPORARY ARTIST

The presenter this week is the renowned contemporary artist Carey Young

Carey Young (born 1970) is an artist, working at the intersection of culture and contemporary work.

Born in Lusaka in Zambia, Young is a graduate of the Royal College of Art in London.


Much of her work as an artist is related to her previous work for a leftist thinktank and as a management consultant. In Nothing Ventured, she had visitors to a gallery ring a call centre, where the people manning the phones gave the caller a range of generic information (Young's name, a list of previous exhibitions, influences and so on).

In 2003, Young was shortlisted for the Beck's Futures prize. One of the works in her contribution to the show, entitled Non-Disclosure Agreement was represented in the show by a non-disclosure agreement contract signed by a representative of Beck's, which agrees that the piece will not be shown, creating a parallel with privatised corporate art collection, whose works are also often removed from public gaze whilst used to further the brand worth of the corporation.

More recently her work has shiften into an interest in legal language and systems of thought, with 'Disclaimer', an exhibition at Henry Moore Institute and IBID Projects, London, examining the disclaimer as a form of negative space. In 2005 she showed 'Consideration', a series of works exploring the connections between contract law and performance art at Paula Cooper Gallery in New York as part of the PERFORMA05 Biennial.

Her work has been included in the 'British Art Show 6', which is currently touring the UK in 2005/6.