The Network Project
The Network Project is a title that aims to give collection to the foreseen, career-long series of collaborations that take place between artist-curator John Dougan Nealon and various other individuals, organisations and entities. The collaborations, first initiated in 2022, are and will continue to be global and varied in their outlook and reach.
Founding Aims
To prioritise collaborations with producers in non-art centres or those who hail from non-creative majority backgrounds.
To facilitate and publish a long term and evolving conversation through collaborative art practice.
To give collection to a series of collaborations that form a career’s work.
To discover ways of making collaborative practice function and become attractive within the marketplace framework, while having a through intention of being socially engaged.
To create a point of public access to the processes involved in knowledge and art production.
Collaboration Timeline
1.
Tamagotchi Kids, January 2023
Location:
The Alchemy Experiment, Glasgow UK
Participants:
John Dougan Nealon, Josh Rowell & Jamie Steedman
This project seen John invite artists Jamie and Josh, to travel to Glasgow to collaborate in an intensive 2 week open-studio at The Alchemy Experiment gallery in Glasgow. They researched and pulled apart the there ‘Tamagotchi Kids’, which aimed to speak to the generational connection between the artists, and those who came of age at the turn of the digital revolution in the 90s and 00s.
2.
Eurasia, 2025
Location:
Cross-Continental (United Kingdom - China)
Participants:
John Dougan Nealon, others
This undertaking will involve overland travel from the UK to China. Along the way, John will source artists and producers to collaborate with and to contribute to The Network Project. The fruits of this expedition are yet to be published. However, to sustain this ambitious development, John will be using social media to publish content, catalogue his journey and raise funds for charity.
This adjacent project is called Jaunt, and is detailed on this website here.
