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Matthew MacKisack
Reviews
The Event Part 2 [17 November 2009]
Elsewhere, as part of collective Crowd6, an artist called Steve Varndell presented works made out of a pre-occupation with esoteric numerical systems: digitally reworked paintings of monarchs, benches to look at them on, and also a page in a Read on…
Various, Birmingham
4 - 8 November 2009
The Event Part 1 [17 November 2009]
The Event was an arts festival organized by a committee of local artist groups that took place in early November around the Eastside area of Birmingham. Rather than run through what the festival comprised of or give an impression of the city’s Read on…
Various, Birmingham
4 - 8 November 2009
Turner Prize 2008 [27 November 2008]
Seeing the artworks in this year’s Turner Prize is less a visual experience than a verbal one, in that it reminds you how words and sentences are not only printed but can also imprint themselves on your poor visual field like after-images Read on…
Tate Britain, London
30 September 2008 - 18 January 2009
Favela Descending [27 October 2008]
The gap-year trustafarian wanders through the slum, stoned. An i-pod playing Sigur Ros replaces the clatter, car sounds and foreign shouts; a nosegay of sinus trouble holds at bay the sweltering stench. Threatening glances slip off the periphery Read on…
Village Underground, London
2 - 11 October 2008
The Fabric of Myth [10 July 2008]
Compton Verney is a grand place. As the minibus winds up to it through lush sculpted gardens I’m impressed as well as afflicted by childhood memories of being resentfully taken to this kind of manor house what felt like every bloody weekend. Read on…
Compton Verney, Warwickshire
21 June - 7 July 2008
Flash Job Campaign [15 June 2008]
1. On the 1st of June a public workshop was held to introduce Flash Job Campaign, a participatory project to be delivered as part of the New Life Berlin festival. The workshop was given by the project developer Per Traasdahl, a painter Read on…
New Life Berlin, Berlin
1 - 15 June 2008
Eminent Domain [15 June 2008]
Nathan Peter’s installation in the New Life Shop has already been and gone, so the following is in the past tense. This may not fit the interactional immediacy of Open Dialogues, but might work as memorial, in a similar fashion to the Read on…
New Life Berlin, Berlin
31 May - 10 June 2008
Glasgow International [30 April 2008]
Glasgow International Think about the things that really make life worth living - love, sex, creation, attraction, destruction, wild places - then think of golf. It's disgusting. There was a TV above the windscreen that showed the view Read on…
Various, Glasgow
11 - 27 April 2008
Trephine Me [23 April 2008]
Andrew Walter, a recent graduate of the illustration programme at Kingston University, is exhibiting some drawings in the upstairs rooms of the arty Hoxton pub, The Macbeth. They first look old fashioned: pen-and-ink, monochromatic and Read on…
The Macbeth, London
14 - 28 April 2008
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