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AtWork is a project which starts from a collection of ‘artist notebooks’, unique pieces of work created by different artists on Moleskine notebooks and donated to lettera27 to help support its activities. The collection reflects the variety, wealth and complexity of contemporary art and, starting from an online exhibition, it transforms into a working tool. 

Using its collection of notebooks, AtWork allows the artworks to circulate with a new free and shared user licence (CC BY-SA), while experimenting with new touring exhibition formats, promoting critical debate in various art contexts and organising workshops with local communities. 

AtWork thus becomes an experimental playing field in which learning and knowledge are an integral and constitutive part of the process in which the work is created. Aside from the online exhibition, AtWork was conceived in order to be adaptable to the various venues which will host it and to operate in a variety of different contexts in Africa. 

AtWork is to develop over a series of chapters which will be written in the African continent following a direct experience which can evolve on the basis of the identity of the narrator, and will, at each stage, benefit from what took place before. It is a process which will modify and develop following the experience of the people who write it, thus becoming an instrument which provides dynamic systems of interaction with the general public, rather than one which merely presents a finished story.

AtWork_Dakar is the first leg and takes place in May 2012, in collaboration with the  Kër Thiossane association: a workshop which involves youngsters and students (8-9 May), and an exhibition of 56 notebooks, hosted at the Institut Français de Dakar – Galerie Le Manège in Dakar (11-21 May). AtWork_Dakar is part of the festival Afropixel 3, one of the Off events of the Biennale des Arts de Dakar. 

Artists
James Beckett, Beatrice Catanzaro, Baaba Jakeh Chande, Hsia-Fei Chang, Kenneth “Zenzele” Chulu, Daniel, Chust Peters, Marco Colombaioni, Michelangelo Consani, Daniele Costa, Gabriele di Matteo, Nicola Grobler, Lauren von Gogh, Roberto Paci Dalò, Maurizia Dova, Malachi Farrell, Seamus Farrell, René Francisco, Mohssin Harraki, Iman Issa, Ethel Kabwato, Fréderic Keiff, Daniela Kostova, Ola-Dele Kuku, Jose Lasheras, Goddy Leye, Audry Liseron-Monfils, Polonca Lovšin, Juan Pablo Maçias, Jonatah Manno, Map Office, Adriana Mariutti, Sanna Marander, Jabulani Maseko, Alzek Misheff, Ivan Moudov, Alioum Moussa, Elena Nemkova, Gionata Gesi Ozmo, Cameron Platter, Luca Poncellini, Luigi Presicce, Andrew Putter, Slimane Raïs, Tere Recarens, Colin Richards, Ruth Sacks, Charles Seck, Pascale-Marthine Tayou, Tomaž Tomažin, Enzo Umbaca, Luca Vitone, James Webb, Sue Williamson, Hervé Yamguen, Virginia Zaharieva