Axisweb Curated Prize As part of my research for the Axisweb Curated Prize, I interview the artists in my selection on their use of rubbish/waste/discards. Interview with Livia Garcia AB: Why do you work with rubbish/trash/discards? LG: I work with […]
Axisweb Curated Prize As part of my research for the Axisweb Curated Prize, I interview the artists in my selection on their use of rubbish/waste/discards. Interview with Jennie Driver (Part 1) AB: Why do you work with rubbish/trash/discards? JD: I […]
Axisweb Curated Prize As part of my research for the Axisweb Curated Prize, I interview the artists in my selection on their use of rubbish/waste/discards. Interview with Jeannie Driver (Part 2) AB: What processes do you apply to/with these materials? […]
Black Dogs Quarterly: Losing It / The Enemy I’ve been working with Huddersfield duo Bristow & Lloyd on the first edition of a quarterly publication by art collective Black Dogs. The publication features contributions from Black Dogs and friends on […]
White Cuboid, Black Cylinder, 2012. Sikander Pervez. This is an early experiment consisting of a chair painted white and a caster wheel drilled into it. This experiment was realised soon after the work I had been working on for the […]
der ! was my reaction to thinking that sometimes there just aren’t the words to talk about something and when there are the words, those words are so burdened by their previous usage. der ! at my realistion that visual […]
now I’m thinking about difference of such metaphorical existences… GHOST and ZOMBIE, DOPPELGANGER. And this living thing gave me many suggestion. Emerald cockroach wasp http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emerald_cockroach_was… – Kiguchi
A week after announcing the closure of Cardiff-based contemporary art agency Mermaid & Monster, its Director takes a close look at the art ecology of Wales and finds plenty to be concerned about.
As Birmingham’s pioneering media arts project VIVID relaunches next month, we talk to Director Yasmeen Baig-Clifford about keeping things moving.
Video of artists Robbie Lockwood and Stefan Szczelkun discussing sustaining their practices, the benefits and challenges of working in collectives and radical approaches to education groups.
I’m in foggy forest at this time. I think necessity of finding something like a compass. I’d like to attach fictional dimension to this work. so I have to notice things that could not be. – Kiguchi
One Year On The golf course was for sale for two years, as a golf club, but no one bought it, and it closed down. It is now a year that the golf course has been empty and my blog […]
Prof. Shannon Jackson, the author of Social Works at Tate Modern, London: The politics of the social in contemporary art Tate Modern, Starr Auditorium Friday 15 February 2013, 10.30 – 19.00 £20, concessions available http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/confer…
Tate Britain presents a conference for arts professionals; offering a rare insight into the strategic, social and intellectual bases for the work of key European institutions. The conference will explore how historic, political and social contexts influence and inform their […]
Changing the Conversation: Artists’ Practice in Participatory Settings A Paul Hamlyn Foundation ArtWorks Conference in partnership with the Higher Education Academy (HEA) and Creative & Cultural Skills (CCS) 15 Apr 2013 – 16 April 2013 at Lancaster University Creating dialogue, […]
It has been quite some time since I have last written. This is simply due to the pain in my arm. Thankfully things seem to be slowly on the mend now so I am gently but surely resuming what was […]
I have a rare opportunity tomorrow to try out some of my ideas in an establishment where I’m not known; where the pupils are new to me – as is the idea of working with iPads. My brother is Deputy […]
Continuation of images for latest post.
This is just the type of problem the a-n blog is perfectly suited to answering… (Either through readers joining in the debate, or just through the act of writing it down and reading it myself.) I am faced with a […]
Some things about not being in the studio: • Today I heard somebody use their car horn for the first time (we have been in Japan for over a week).• At some underground stations bird song is played on the […]
I’m not in touch much but getting closer. Still have got e-mails to answer from the time I was away – catching up is hard to do, esp. as I’m easily side-tracked by the urge to make work, or at […]
Bubble success. Today I did a test run of the bubble pump, to great effect. I’m pleased with the colour of of the liquid, in the liquid vessel, it has a real sense of glowing green toxic waste. It is […]
