Some links to other rubbish related artists, projects and practices: A History of the World in 100 Objects Alice Bradshaw Angela de la Cruz Blank Newspaper Bow Gamelan Ensemble Brown Paper Bag Cathy Wilkes Ceal Floyer Ceal Floyer Chris Jordan […]
HOARD is moving. This year long project I’m participating in moving from Norquest Industrial Estate in Birstall up the road to Leeds City West Business Park. For HOARD I have been collecting all the rubbish produced through my art practice […]
Pecha Kucha Night Wakefield Vol 6: Prized Posessions Thursday 12th July 2012 The Hepworth, Wakefield I’ve been invited to curate a year of quarterly PKN events at The Hepworth Gallery in Wakefield in collaboration with The Arthouse. PKN is an […]
Trash Conference 2012 University of Sussex Friday 14 September 2012 I saw the call for papers and art/video works for this upcoming Trash Conference in Brighton and had to put in a proposal. I’m delighted they have accepted my proposal […]
Currently Reading: Mongo: Adventures in Trash by Ted Botha (2004) Bloomsbury “Journalist Ted Botha became obsessed with mongo (defined as any discarded object that is retrieved) when he moved to New York. Decorating his apartment with the furniture and objects […]
A date for Liverpool Dominique and I are off to The Royal Standard in Liverpool to give a talk about the Touring Territories project. We will be talking about the UFO research we undertook for Dave Evans. Evans will be […]
I started my residency at The Comma Space yesterday Saturday 21st July 2012. All my friends and family have been collecting cardboard boxes over the last 6 months for this project, I think they are relieved that I have finally […]
Rubbish, garbage, debris, junk, leftovers, litter, refuse, scrap, crap, shit, trash, waste, ruins, remains, rejects, discards, shreds, dirt, detritus… Practice based research into contemporary rubbish in art practice and news from the Museum of Contemporary Rubbish.
The project looks at the development of green spaces in the urban environment, linking projects like New Ferry Butterfly Park with similar initiatives. The infamous Favelas in Brazil are synonymous with poor living conditions. In the last 10 years there […]
Parasol Unit, London
31 May – 10 August 2012
Today was filled with performance: Tate modern has given itself over from underneath upwards with The Tanks opening and Tino Sehgal’s work in the Turbine Hall. When I arrived a group of people in ordinary clothes were moving around together […]
Howard Hardiman responds to That Day, by Donna Williams. I’ll admit I struggled with this for a number of reasons. First there was the wall of performance anxiety that I get with commissions. In particular, being asked to respond to […]
The newly launched CreativeStirling.org kicked off with a magnificent mural in the yard of Stirling jail. This is a group of artists working under the start-up company CreativeStirling.org which aims to bring together and facilitate the work of artists, designers,musicians […]
Just before I returned to Wales a friend showed me this just outside Berlin, we climbed to the top and looked at the view..
I moved into Studio 4 last Monday and I have tried to spend all day every day there since. On Monday morning at 9.30am, after only fiding a hammer to taker down the boards around the sink I was confronted […]
Critical friends at Peckham Space www.peckhamspace.com I’m so happy to be a member of this group. An eclectic mix of local people who are interested in Peckham Space and it’s development. The chair is Sarah Rowles of Q-art fame, a […]
Space Station Sixty-Five www.spacestationsixtyfive.com Aims to ‘democratise art, without instrumentalising, infantilising or shaping it to fit.’ Opened in 2002 in a shop-front building in SE22. Projects with artists (and others) near and far. Directors: Rachael House and Jo David. I […]
Engage South East Area Group meeting at Royal Academy. Show: ‘Child Hood – the real event’. A powerful and moving show with Kids Co – a charity working with vulnerable children. All work made by the children was included in […]
Tate tanks at Tate Modern Bold tendencies www.boldtendencies.com Very excited spatially by these shows – experiential understanding of the power of space and juxtaposition. Tanks. A refreshingly intimate space within the sometimes-overwhelming Mothership. Beautiful raw materiality; unashamedly industrial, black-black with […]
In a frenzied Olympic summer one collaborative project is slowing things down.
