“These are dangerous times for people and for our world of arts values … Uncertainty can cause us to be safe, edit complexity, be secretive, conservative” says Susan Jones in her provocation ‘Where is the place for art?’
OpenAIR, the first annual members’forum of AIR: Artists Interaction and Representation, offers a unique platform for artists’ dialogue and debate, empowered and enabled through speakers drawn from very different disciplines and fields of work, all committed to campaigning for effective change.
An abridged version of Dany Louise’s follow-up report on small visual arts organisations cut by Arts Council England, six months after her ‘Ladders for development’ enquiry. She asks: how have these organisations fared and what do their futures hold? Read the full version of this report with updates on all surveyed organisations: www.a-n.co.uk/realising_the_value
As an important part of platforming the debate around arts funding across the UK, with kind permission we re-publish the editorial introduction to “Language is never neutral” from Variant‘s issue 42.
Motion Disabled is a digital exploration of the bodies of people who are physically different.
Lilah Fowler, tube, dimensions variable, aluminium, 2011. Courtesy of the artist and Bold Tendencies.
Exhibition, residency and bursary opportunities for artists across the UK and beyond.
Critical commentary and contextualisation of contemporary art exhibitions across the UK and beyond. Guest selected each month from the wealth of user-generated reviews uploaded to Interface. This month’s guest selector is Maria Fusco. You can read all the reviews in full at www.a-n.co.uk/interface.
Multiple sites, Plymouth
2 September – 2 December 2011
‘Ladders for development’ argues that the visual arts sector should pull together and support small visual arts organisations cut by Arts Council England because they “punch above their weight” and provide vital development of future artists. Six months on, Dany Louise interviews these arts organisations again, to find out how they’ve fared and what their futures hold.
Funny thing. Yesterday I found this image in my pearltrees and remembered how much I hated collaboration in grade and high school. Funny thing, that I should now choose to explore collaboration in my MFA. http://www.pearltrees.com/#/N-reveal=2&N-u=1_30627…
Self-Evaluation ‘I don’t know much about art, but I know what I like’ is the backup of someone that doesn’t know much about art. As students, educated in the mysterious craft of objectivity, we do (or should) know much about […]
In post no 74… or thereabouts… I was talking about sketchbooks and how mine had been left open at random pages after an assessment, and how I had never considered looking at them in this way, just opened and placed […]
Just wanted to add one more photo…
Stephen Fry Care Bear Head Reenaction Aha! So I finally persuaded my other half to be my model… The photo had to imitate the original celeb pap but more pertinently be a bit hashed and most definitely not sleek. There […]
Dear Mr or Mrs ACE, you know on the form where it’s got the bit about match funding and I said we would get xxxx amount ourselves? Well…. not only have we matched it – but we’ve done it with […]
The show is up at the Old School Room, Phase Two has been handed in and things are underway with the urban sculpture garden in Branksome. It’s pre- Phase Three, the final stage of my masters studies. Last phase I […]
Introduction to Week 3 I feel a little sheepish for the delay on Week 3. All I can say is that I was busy, and I went out quite a lot, and then I needed to sleep. Sunday 15th January […]
I can hardly believe Forth Valley Open Studios have come around again. How things have changed! We are now a registered C.I.C. (Community Interest Company). en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_interest_company Already it has resulted in a streamlining of our operations. We have a core […]
http://fireant.itaiwan.net/20120123/show_colour_p2… http://fireant.itaiwan.net/20120123/show_colour_p1… These works are the homage to Paul Sharits- Ray Gun Virus and light show performers
