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March 2001
London reviews, Lothar Götz at Gasworks and Li Yuan-Chia at Camden Arts Centre. Locality, context and collaboration feature in research on New Genre Public Art by Gill Melling and Sarah Bennett. Clerkenwell award recipients are highlighted, Creative Scotland Awards in the news. Artist's story from Pat Naldi.
Artists stories
Pat Naldi
My work centres on physical and cultural colonisation on a personal and political level. Subscribers read on…
Artists story, a-n Magazine March 2001 as ‘Borders and boundaries’
Tom Cox-Bisham
Using sculpture and installation, much of my work deals with the reinterpretation and colonisation of space – both hidden and visible. Subscribers read on…
Artists story, a-n Magazine March 2001 as ‘Corporate cardboard’
Features
Art of locality
Window Sills is neither public art nor community art. It uses collaborative strategies that draw on and sit between a number of artistic practices taking its lead from 'New Genre Public Art' – a term used by American artist Suzanne Lacy – which incorporates activist arts, site-specific art, performance art and happenings. The project is also aligned to ideas about art and context developed in universities in the UK. Subscribers read on…
Feature, a-n Magazine March 2001
Creative collective
Brigid Howarth talks to recipients of the Clerkenwell Award showcased in the 'Creative Collective' exhibition. Run by Clerkenwell Green Association the scheme assists the start up of small creative businesses in a supportive environment. Subscribers read on…
Feature, a-n Magazine March 2001
Phoenix Arts Association
Phoenix Arts Association Ltd (Phoenix) is an artist-led organisation with charitable status which provides public access to the arts and arts education, and supplies affordable artists' studios and programmes to aid development. Subscribers read on…
Feature, a-n Magazine March 2001
The arts and agricultural change
Ian Hunter discusses an arts and agricultural initiative being developed by Lancashire-based arts trust Littoral. Subscribers read on…
Feature, a-n Magazine March 2001
Thinking (about) video ...
Whenever artists discuss London they tend to regurgitate the usual polemic of the 'centre' versus the 'margins'. Former regionalist Nick Stewart has recanted his old ways and become seduced by the capital's financial hub, producing a series of video observations that track a complex series of patterns within this urban environment. Careful editing of the recorded image can reveal the liminal, the unconscious, or indeed, the political, within the world of appearances. Time can be condensed or stretched as appropriate. Subscribers read on…
Feature, a-n Magazine March 2001
News
Art takes a ride
Amongst other more prosaic activities, travelling on a tram provides time to dream and if you're unlucky, to lose things. As part of the Year of the Artist, three northwest artists have created new works which explores the experience, for staff and… Subscribers read on…
News, a-n Magazine March 2001
Barrow boils with art
Art Gene, a new initiative with artists and performers at its core, is set to make a significant intervention into the life of Barrow-in-Furness, a town perhaps presently better-known for its industrial scope than for its arts scene. Thanks to… Subscribers read on…
News, a-n Magazine March 2001
Coalfield stories told
Two and a half years ago, Newcastle upon Tyne's Side Gallery decided to reactivate its programme of documentary photography commissions. Side always flourished on the interaction between its exhibitions and the active documentation of northern lives… Subscribers read on…
News, a-n Magazine March 2001
Creativity rewarded
In January, awards of £25,000 went to fourteen of Scotland's leading artists, whose work represents the visual, literary and performing arts. By far the largest of their kind in the UK and now in their second year, the Creative Scotland Awards… Subscribers read on…
News, a-n Magazine March 2001
Marking time
Artist Nathalie de Briey's commission for the Year of the Artist in Scotland was to produce a book to mark the mid-point of the Year. Instead of describing the work done by residents, she decided to ask each of them to encapsulate the inspiration… Subscribers read on…
News, a-n Magazine March 2001
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