Year began with what seemed like a set of simple and achievable goals. The initial intention was to form an archive of artistic production, between 1st March 2000 and 28th February 2001, by inviting a different artist to contribute to each day of a consecutive three hundred and sixty fiev day period. The simple parameters- inviting artists to effect a piece of work on Royal College of Art headed notepaper, stamped with eachday's date- soon became unrealisable and the project began to drag, slowing almost to a halt. There were many reasons for this, foremost amongst them being a lack of time, sporadic and sometimes ineffectual organisation as well as occasional lapses into complacency or laziness. For these reasons Year is presented here as an incomplete project. Year began on 1st March 2000, and was intended to refer to Seth Sieglaub's March show, which was held at his New York gallery in 1969. Sieglaub invited thirty-one artists to exhibit separately on consecutive days through March. Unlike Year, Sieglaub successfully secured artist's contributions for each day of his projects duration. With March in mind Year may be considered, at least in terms of its numbers of contributors, as a more ambitious project. In hindsight, the volume of contibutors meant the very ambition of Year's administration seems ultimately to have been its undoing. So, what of the future for Year? The first twelve months are well and truly up and we have received roughly a third of the three hundred or so sheets we should have collated. It can either be seen as a failed project in light o fits predetermined goals, or its parameters can become a little more elastic, enabling it to transgress the austerity of its initial, limiting, conditions. Mark Dickenson & Martin Clark | Year