The exhibition guide for our week long series of events and instillations. FocusOut is a way to explore how art can provide a space to inspire - and allow people to question who we are, what we really want and what we are here to do. Find out more: http://focus-out.tumblr.com/about

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Welcome to FocusOut - a
space to experience &
question the world around
us. We invite people on a
journey through the
exhibits that inspire us
to explore what we love
and focus out from now to
the future.
Anna and Louise work for Forum for the
Future a non-profit organisation seeking to
shift systems and help create a
sustainable future. They work with
business and government by challenging
them to innovate and create a positive
future.
Anna is passionate about finding
innovative ways to engage people and
organisations in questions of who we are
and what it means to be alive. She Heads
up the System Innovation lab, which seeks
to learn, experiment and share with others
how we can cultivate system change
towards a sustainable future.
Louise is naturally curious and seeks to
bring unlikely players together. She knows
the power art can have to help people see
things from another perspective (pop art
made her think differently about
consumption). By day she leads multi-
stakeholder projects turning organisations
ambitions to change into tangible actions.
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Through working together and our shared
love of Camberwell we wanted to find new
ways to allow friends,
family, colleagues and neighbours to
question who we are, what we really want
and what we are here to do. We believe
we are currently facing large social and
environmental challenges. The root
cause of which is the misperception that
we are separate - from each other, the
world around us and the earth as a
whole.
We need to find ways to focus on what
makes us connected, from all being
humans on this planet to what we love -
friends, food, conversation. These can
be big issues to address and often need to
be experienced rather than taught. Art
spaces can often offer us different
textures. They can help us see things
differently and challenge the boundaries of
our perception. Focus Out is an
experiment to explore how art can provide
a space to inspire and allow people to
question. As an experiment we welcome
your feedback and comments.
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We hope you explore and enjoy FocusOut
and it's events.
Anna | @annasquestions -
a,birney@forumforthefuture.org
Louise | @louise_a -
louise.j.armstrong@gmail.com
This exhibition took shape whilst Anna
took part in The 30 Day Challenge from
Screw Work Lets Play -
http://the30daychallenge.com/
We would like to give our thank you to
Nick, Matthew, Selina, Rodrigo, Kate and
House Gallery. @70Housegallery.
Watch . Explore . Choose
Exhibition 15 – 23
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July
House Gallery, Camberwell
www.focus-out.tumblr.com