I’ve just left David, Sarah and the Gotland artists mid flow – installing the show opening this Sunday. The Exhibition Space has seen a variety of hangs but this one is v different. 30 artists, members of the Gocart Gallery […]
Last week I was in Folkestone, doing a collaborative micro-residency with artist and writer Sydney Hart at LOW&HIGH interdisciplinary platform. On the last day of the project (called ‘Vacant Value’) we presented some work in progress, showing videos and talking […]
I have been feeling a little under the weather due to a tummy bug or something I had eaten so today was a slower start. I am feeling much better tonight though. I managed to do my first spray inside […]
Wondering about the myriad ways to archive our group processes and our past attempts. So much of our group ‘stuff’ – the conversations and batting back and forth of ideas, tasks, preferences, troubles – disappears in a puff of smoke […]
A JOSEPH CORNELL ALBUM by DORE ASHTON ADDED TO MY LIBRARY BY LEE MAELZER
Sporting League: Game 22 Thirteenth placed Pacifica recorded the shock of the day with a one nil win over leaders Universo. Pacifica boss: ‘Well that’s put a bit of daylight between us and the other relegation candidates. There were a […]
Central Saint Martins, London
20 – 23 June 2011
Ian Robinson, Warburg Offprints, oil on canvas, 125x169cm, 2011.
In this issue we continue to get a glimpse of how the visual and applied arts are developing new approaches in a harsher climate.
BECTU and other members of the Federation of Entertainment Unions (FEU) plus Connect and PCS held an event in June to launch the Lost Arts Campaign and website www.Lost-Arts.org.
UCL, London
16 – 22 June 2011
Just a quick note. My review of DYSTOPIA is published, read it here: http://whitehotmagazine.com/articles/4000-years-sc…
SPIKE ISLAND By Philip Hoare, 2002 paperback ADDED TO MY LIBRARY BY MICHAEL HAMPTON (The site of the hospital on Southampton water was used by Pathe Brothers for their notorious 1917 film War Neuroses, which contains disturbing scenes of shellshocked […]
Clever a-n, very clever… Half-heartedly scanning the blogs yesterday I noticed the term, ‘Top 10 blogs’, and sitting up a little in my chair, clicked on it. I was at number three. Hmm, …I thought,… well, this won’t change things, […]
Claude Levi-Strauss (1983) considered the house as a social unit after reviewing the confusion of kinship in Franz Boas’s study on North American native Kwakiutl. Boas wanted to found the basic social unit according to traditional anthropological terminology, but he […]
Claude Levi-Strauss (1983) considered the house as a social unit after reviewing the confusion of kinship in Franz Boas’s study on North American native Kwakiutl. Boas wanted to found the basic social unit according to traditional anthropological terminology, but he […]
In a recent blog about Eva Hesse I questioned ‘what if the performance for Hesse was the making of the sculpture, (and) the involvement of the body in making the objects?’ This question has brought me to research Karla Black’s […]
This morning I visited the Huguang Guild Hall was originally built during the reign of Emperor Qianlong, and holds many historical temples, spaces and palaces. It was a lovely morning to visit the now museum with Laura (translator) to view […]
I also visited the Chongqing Town Planning Exhibition which showcases a very wide range of positive and optimistic maps and models of the ever developing city. It has given me a lot of ideas for materials and work for after […]
And last but not least, I added the three dimensional pieces and drawing to the installation. I have got some cleaning up of it do, but I think it is nearly there, but I will sleep on it.
Nicola and I met with two of the Aid&Abet originators – Sarah Evans and David Kefford – between shows at their gallery, Cambridge. We had an interesting and inspiring time discussing different models for artist-led groups and events and future […]
