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Beyond the UK – Introduction
Beyond the UK considers the international aspect of artists’ practices. The writers have been selected because of their common strategy and approach to working overseas, not as silent witnesses or impartial bystanders but with willingness to engage with new experiences. They give various accounts of how their presence has an impact on their new surroundings and how it alters and informs the situation they arrive into. The benefits of, and motives for, international working ought to be obvious but in researching the subject and referring back to my own experiences a number of stubborn questions kept returning, most fundamentally: Why do we do it? What are our motives for travelling abroad to undertake a period of work on our practice, except to see a bit more sun or a change of scenery? Should an artist be expected to do anything more in these situations than simply observe, experience and reflect? What effect does this kind of activity have on an artist’s practice and outlook? Furthermore, how can we justify it? And what measure is there that any of this ‘exchange’ is effective? Noble aims held by agencies and organisations to promote an inter-cultural...
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