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The Sporting League: game 19 Bayerns remained at the top of the tree with a hard fought 4-3 win over Delta. Delta boss: I can start to see the green shoots showing through. I think the supporters will need to […]

I want to use my beady little eyes of a laboratory mouse to stare back at my fellow mammals… what kind of livable world are we trying to build?Donna Haraway Last weekend I went to a Northern Arts and Science […]

Elsewhere There Have Been Protests Monika has contacted me again for an exciting sounding show somewhere in the heart of the east end. Such “exciting” contacts tend to send me scurrying into my basement studio to look for things I […]

Writing parts of my dissertation recently on a crossing back from Dublin, I began to ponder the writers’ of the past. Escapism and long haul voyages to far off distant lands, the healing quality, gliding along cool calm waters…. in […]

I seem to still be coming down following an intense couple of weeks, during much of which I was locked in a race against time. Specifically, against the time at which ‘In Place and Time’ – the mini-exhibition of work […]

The following link re-directs to my Flickr account, documenting the official photography done for Dance4 as part of the Nottingham Contemporary performance entitled ‘Giving The Eye’: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jamesfickling/5562539… I also created an 8min video as part of the performance, in collaboration […]

Been reading HOW TO BE AN ARTIST just in case I wasn’t doing it properly. Says you shouldn’t plan to win the Turner Prize…..damn……..

more on the aesthetic of the film still ‘Hitchcock clearly preferred the staging of stills completely independent from the film. Striking publicity photographs accompanying films such as the Wrong Man (1957),Vertigo (1958), or Physco (1960) do not attempt to convert […]

I went to the photographic shop Litu, apparently one of the best in Xiamen, in order to get a print done for the exhibition. They do indeed do a good job, making test prints and perhaps over eagerly offering photoshop […]

It’s been a strange week in work. ( Tate, that is ) It’s been a week of not being able to get hold of anyone in the management team…. of seeing an extraordinary email from a union rep… and finally […]

“Vivien Duffield, the philanthropist whose father once owned the Selfridge’s department store, said she is giving 8.2 million pounds ($13.3 million) to 11 U.K. arts institutions including Tate Britain and the National Theatre.” Well woop de do. I don’t wish […]

An Introduction… Critical Writing Collective aims to promote critical discussion around regional contemporary art and performance activity, create a platform for experimental art writing and support artists and writers through events, publications, projects, opportunities and an open network of contacts. […]

“Some of our proudest moments have been on marches: against climate change, against child detention, against the illegal war in Iraq. We’ve put down the placards and taken up the reigns of power. It’s a big change, but it’s worth […]

The exhibition moves on Monday to storage and then later to Brecon. I’m not moving it this time, I have someone to help, which is a relief. It’s been quite tricky to organise transport and the timing of things especially […]

Follows Rob Jones, a York based artist in the run up to his degree show to be held at Bar Lane Studios, York. Preview night May 27th 6pm. All art will be given away to suitably gushing visitors to the […]

Part of our activity includes developing COPY, which aims to explore the boundaries of critical and experimental art writing through publishing submissions of writing as or around art practice, and page based works with a critical / textual element. COPY […]

I did a talk at a primary school assembly this week for the whole school, that was a bit daunting but actually went very well. Lovely kids and a really good reaction to the project. I presented them with a […]

Alex and I met yesterday for another rehearsal. It’s back to wire again: the wire remembers my movements so it allows a more articulate ‘vocabulary’ than the string I was working with last week. This week we worked most on […]

I’m spending my time at the moment on the dissertation part of my degree course as the deadline of 4 May suddenly feels not far away given that the University’s resources are closed for a month during the Easter holidays […]

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The show is coming closer and there is a very productive buzz going through the studio. We have each been allocated a space in the studio building where we will be showing work in the degree show. I think nearly […]