A.a.s (art group)
a.a.s is a British art group that uses performance, installation, video, participatory art and Ritual in its practice. Biography Founded in 2001, a.a.s (also known as AAS) has been described as an 'imaginary' art group that makes use of real, practicing artists to meet its ends. The current central team are Ana Benlloch, Ralph Dorey, Graham Dunning, Lyndsay Officer, Vanessa Page, Samuel Mercer, Tom Milsom and Dr. Stuart Tait but, to date, over a hundred artists have been part of a.a.s. The group has exhibited or taken part in projects in the United Kingdom, Europe, New York City and at Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts in Taiwan. The group's first extended residency was between October 2010 and January 2011, when they took part in the New Art Gallery Walsall's artist in residence programme. The residency signalled the end of a five-year series of projects collectively called The Other Place, and the end of a.a.s 'phase III.' In recent years, a.a.s has developed alternative ways of involving the audience in the work, and making space for audience-participants to co-author events has become increasingly central to their collaborations. Since entering phase four of the group, in 2011, the group have referred to