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Radical positions
Manick Govinda discusses the themes around Sharjah Biennial 8: Art Ecology and the Politics of Change.
Includes newly commissioned artists’ profiles of Lida Abdul, Grace Ndiritu and Tea Makipaa plus a selection of articles drawn from across a-n’s archive and key texts from other sources.
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Art, Education, Activism
“The process of social change is in desperate need of creativity and imagination, and the aesthetic process in urgent need of social engagement” Read on…
Publication in html, Presented at Artist as Educator, Ikon Gallery and University of Central England, May 2003 Republished: a-n Collections April 2007
Down to a fine art
The planet’s ‘environmental emergency’ is providing inspiration for a growing movement of artists whose work focusing on habitats, social issues and survival aims to raise awareness. Anna Minton reports. Read on…
Publication in html, The Guardian, Wednesday 10 January 2007 Republished: a-n Collections April 2007
On the cover
Lida Abdul, White house, Kabul, 16mm transfer to DVD, 4’58”, 2005. Courtesy: the artist and Giorgio Persano Gallery Read on…
Publication in html, a-n Collections April 2007
Radical positions
It would seem that politics has taken centre stage in contemporary art. Read on…
Publication in html, a-n Collections April 2007
Artists stories
Yara El Sherbini
What do I do? Read on…
Artists story, a-n Magazine November 2003 as ‘It makes cents’
Features
Artists save the world?
"Imagine an ecological city, where communities are based on voluntary cooperation not competition, mutual aid not private profit, cultural diversity not globalised monoculture, permaculture not consumer culture".1 Read on…
Feature, a-n Magazine April 2001
Sharjah Biennial
Richard Priestley reports from the 6th Sharjah Biennial. Read on…
Feature, a-n Magazine October 2003
Profiles: artists
Grace Ndiritu
Sara Raza on Grace Ndiritu, a young London based artist who is enjoying an upwards ascent with an impressive portfolio of national and international exhibitions, that present a fresh style of politics and performativity. Read on…
Profile: artist, a-n.co.uk April 2007
Lida Abdul
Born in Kabul in 1973, Lida Abdul has returned to live there. Kim Dhillon looks at her practice, working accross various media, that fuses Western formalist traditions with numerous aesthetic influences. Read on…
Profile: artist, a-n.co.uk April 2007
Tea Mäkipää
Finnish artist Tea Mäkipää's work confronts her viewpoint of impending ecological catastrophe through interventions and installations positing an alternative vision of existence. By Manick Govinda. Read on…
Profile: artist, a-n.co.uk April 2007
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