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 […]
Some people take the chance and go on to bigger and better things. It is a big risk to leave a regular monthly income and try to make it on your own. But – so many do and it’s good […]
On Sunday, I’m travelling up to Leeds to drop off my work at the Basement Arts Project for the exhibition SPEAKEASY: art in an age of prohibition : http://ageofprohibition.wordpress.com/ I had been working on a series of images about words […]
‘ENCYCLOPEDIA’ -The Man who Became a Book-A Spoken Word Performance decontextualises the BIBLIOGRAPHIC DATA FLOW of ADD TO MY LIBRARY VOL.II performed By Douglas Park written and commissioned by Christina Mitrentse. ART WORK SPACE- THE HEMPEL ,7th September 2011. © […]
Vault Art Fair and the brand of Glasgow (here I am stating – there I am showing). Under one guise and then another – and then another. I journeyed West yesterday over to Glasgow to meet a friend, first of […]
The preview and book launch was well attended although to be honest the whole evening passed in a blur. Post exhibition blues set in soon after, sales have been poor although the book is selling well and will soon be […]
Well, mid-year assessment has been and gone, and I don’t seem to have kept a very good record of the MA on this blog. Partly that’s because the course encourages us to keep a journal in the form of a […]
Sporting League 2010 -2011 Game 2. Bayerns came back from a goal down against Indentine to ease themselves to a three goals to one victory. Bayerns gaffer: ‘I’ve gotta be pleased with that result. Our players responded well in the […]
I’m copying a couple of posts over from my other blog: Grime, graffiti and forensic contamination. I keep having this thought: “we are all forensically contaminated”. Particularly in the city. But forensically contaminated on an emotional level too. I want […]
The art of pricing your work. ” I want that one.” I am unpacking my paintings from my case and setting up my stall and I didn’t see the man pointing at the paintings on the floor at my feet. […]
Hannah James – A presentation and discussion as part of Standpoint Futures Residency Programme 22 September 2011 12-8pm; discussion and drinks at 6.30pm 23 September 2011 12-6pm Hannah James’ site-specific sculptural installations use minimal forms to explore space and the […]
Painting and putting proposals together. 16 paintings so far, and more to do. Also, I’m playing with frames.