Centrespace Gallery, Bristol
7 – 19 September 2012
GALERIE GERKEN, BERLIN
8 September – 11 October 2012
New Scanner 54 Art Prize Preview until the end of October. Listi 8 has been busy renovating our new space in Pointeso Parkway over the summer months. The new gallery is located at the former non – place Workshops on […]
Currently Reading: Mark Dion – Archaeology (1999) Black Dog Publishing p.18 On Cabinets of Curiosities, Colin Renfrew outlines a distinction between Natural Curiosities and Artificial Curiosities; naturalia and artificiosa which underlies much museum classification. He also outlines divisions between nature […]
In truth I am overwhelmed, yet the approaching wave has not broken across the bow. My work explores layering through the medium of history. This revelation coming to me as a fever grew to lay me low, brought on by […]
The Art Takeaway! Oxford Collection Museum of Contemporary Rubbish participated in The Art Takeaway! at Tsangs Kitchen, Oxford in June 2012. The Art Takeaway! is an interactive production where audience members choose from a menu of original art. A distinctive […]
TRASH Art Exhibition Thursday 13 September 2012 The Basement, Brighton Museum of Contemporary Rubbish participated in the TRASH Art Exhibition as part of the TRASH Postgraduate Conference at the Sussex Centre for Cultural Studies at the University of Sussex. The […]
TRASH Conference Friday 14 September 2012 University of Sussex Tracey Potts was the keynote speaker on Your Own Personal Landfill: Stuff, Matter and the Myth of Eco-decluttering Her presentation focus was on clutter and stuff vs matter, challenging the pseudo-biomedical […]
Walking my chihuahua-pomeranian, Bella, this morning, trying to be mindful and appreciate the moment, the few days we get of curling Autumn breezes here before it just gets cold, thinking about what a practice is. I like Sophie Cullinan’s idea […]
Liverpool Biennial 2012: Hospitality: The Unexpected Guest I’ve only seen a fraction of the Biennial so far, and not much rubbish to note except Laura Keeble’s John Moores Painting Prize short-listed “I’d like to teach the world to sing!” which […]
Museum of Contemporary Rubbish is back at it this week with another exhibtion and collection, this time in Lincoln. Abandoned At The Exit Wednesday 19 September 2012 Revival, Sincil Street, Lincoln, UK Exhibiting artists: Ehud Lavski, Alice Bradshaw, Laura Wilson, […]
Hi both So lovely to open my e-mail inbox and see you both in there. Huge, humungus congratulations Elena; you worked so hard and gave it your absolute all, and we all loved going on the journey with you. I […]
A day of research, thinking and reading in preparation for writing/making the text for my piece “I have Nothing To Say’ for the Inhospitable show. This has variously involved, in no particular order: -looking at Douglas Gordon early text pieces […]
Untitled (Firewall) which was showing at Airspace Gallery in Stoke-on-Trent came down last week, I was super pleased with it! I’ve never been more worried about a show in the weeks running up to it, I was concerned about making […]
Although the residency doesn’t officially begin until Tuesday 18th, when we have a welcoming party for all 10 residents, today I met with 2 of the residents from the programme. Galen Olmsted is an installation artist who studied on the […]
This will be my first visit to Berlin and my first Curatorial Residency. I intend to use this blog to document the research I develop during this 3-month residency at Node Center for Curatorial Studies. The research I develop will […]
We talk to John Moores Painting Prize 2012 winner Sarah Pickstone, the prize’s patron Peter Blake, and judge George Shaw.
The Land Act Tax of 1821 This commission builds on existing links between the Norfolk Record Office and the Parliamentary Archive. The Land Tax Act of 1821 is the longest Act held in the Parliamentary Archives and is 348 meters […]
thinking about the difference between producing ideas as arts, and making works as arts.. producing ideas as a work of art: often focus on the concept, idea and result of the work or product. This can be very exciting and […]
