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I should go to the sea more.

When I start a new project, it is certain that I will encounter new problems that I could never have envisaged. ‘007 v John Ridley’ concentrating on and examination of my father and his dedication to his business career have […]

University of Incidental Knowledge are delighted to annouce the 2011/12 Course Programme. Courses 2011/12 * Diploma in Artwank * BA (Hons) Avant Garde * BA (Hons) Comedy * BA (Hons) Cut ‘n’ Paste * BA (Hons) Film * BA (Hons) […]

Diploma in Artwank 1 year part time Description: Go see some exhibitions, read some art magazines, flick through some glossy art publications. Photocopy and/or photograph and highlight any examples of overblown, pointless, dishonest, artwank prose. The stuff that rubs you […]

BA (Hons) Avant Garde 1 year part time Description: 1 year self-directed, part-time course available via distance-learning. A varied programme of study which develops incidental knowledge at the highest level. Taking the basic interpretation of Avant-Garde to mean: unconventional, innovative, […]

BA (Hons) Comedy 1 year part time Description: 1 year self-directed, part-time course available via distance-learning. A varied programme of study which develops incidental knowledge at the highest level. Unlike other courses, the title doesn’t refer to the subject to […]

BA (Hons) Cut ‘n’ Paste 1 year part time Description: I want you to work. Only through the application of thought and the process of creation can you absorb the essential information on the sly, incidentally and accidentally, that will […]

BA (Hons) Foreign Language 1 year part time Description: 1 year self-directed, part-time course available via distance-learning. A varied programme of study which develops foreign language incidental knowledge at the highest level. Incidental Foreign Language is acquired not necessarily abroad […]

MPhil Mistakes 1 year part time Description: MPhil Mistakes is a course geared towards the incidental knowledge gained through the process of erring, and maximising blunders within creative practice. Entry Requirements: Between zero and three legs. Application Process: Drop us […]

NVQ Pedantics 1 year part time (Let me begin by saying this; diplomas are fine, a framed NVQ certificate looks just as good on the wall as any degree certificate so don’t be put off by what your more intelligent […]

Bsc Social Media 1 year part time Description: 1 year self-directed, part-time course available via distance-learning. A varied programme of study which develops incidental knowledge at the highest level. Unlike other courses, the title doesn’t refer to the subject to […]

University of Incidental Knowledge Staff Profiles (part 1): Alice Bradshaw Alice Bradshaw is an artist and curator based in West Yorkshire, UK. Her practice involves a wide range of media and processes involving the manipulation of everyday objects and materials. […]

University of Incidental Knowledge Staff Profiles (part 2): Debi HolbrookAfter a less than conventional life Debi ran away from home, domesticity and sheep herding to continue her Art education and in the process (quote) ”I lost everything, but gained so […]

Most of the work by the Swedish artists went by car via David and Sarah. However, the remaining few pieces have still to be transported back. Tomorrow, I will pack and weigh and contact the delivery company to arrange a […]

This cake thing. And innocence? I’ve been plodding on thinking about the cake. I know this is all cod this and that – forgive the continued food thing, but I got onto Debord’s notion of spectacle in ‘Society of the […]

I have been offered a solo show next May. A whole gallery space to play with. Nothing grand, but a lovely space that was once part of a large church. It still retains the feel of a small chapel and […]

A little bit of thinking, prompted by Wednesday has managed to seep through… My research will be presented as a quilt, not an essay. An essay would be easier. I could pin down the relationships, skewer them to the page, […]

On making instructions – overlaps between dance and performance art/interventions I visited the John Cage exhibition when it was at Baltic this time last year, and i’ve been experimenting with drawings lately that are led by processes, mathematics, order rather […]