Before the hindsight bit, a little of the context…I've been working as a freelance artist consultant for corporate Initiatives in a local Authority. This invitation evolved from my role as artist in residence in 2006, in a Healthy Living Centre […]
So back to The City as a Canvas…The concept for this work is a development of a project I'm collaborating with Mike Blackman on for our Distributed South Residency, where we are building a prototype to collect data and mapping […]
The Big Draw- day arrived, and teams registered for routes, gps digital loggers, and back stickers- stating cyclist creating digital drawings. (I think the branding and reinforcing the message to wider audiences is helpful) teams went off and did the […]
So all went well, and I loved the live feel of things, of data downloads, and participation by many people who would not usually be involved in an arts project, and the way people 'got it’. I was expecting having […]
socks-the seemingly pairing opportunity. they live in my top drawer, the socks. they don't do much, i just ask of them to occasionally get to together and go out for a while. some seem more capable than others. quite a […]
Today I spent a morning as mornings should be . The last week has seen me scraping the barrel of my positivity as the work in Bristol chose to come down prematurely, (under it's own steam I might add), and […]
My tomorrow has turned into almost two month. It has been very busy getting the work together for the exhibition in London and this has taken more time then anticipated. Although the process has been a very hard work it […]
Our fourth day Under Ground. There is something strange about it – like being in a hidden world – no sun, no passers by – just us carrying out our strange self-assigned tasks in these half-lit subterranean rooms.
THURSDAY Painted roots all day. Not radical. Walked out in the sun to buy fishing line. Nailed the roots to the wall – very satisfying.
I'm OK, the hospital have sgned me off. The last bits of stair will be fitted tomorrow, just in time for the Southwell Open Studios at the weekend. Then it will be time to focus on HMS open studios next […]
Feeling the preasure of my commitments today. I started drawing the cartoon, trying to get a move on, but realised I needed a system to make the boarder with and what I had sketched in was needing a little modifacation. […]
Or moors: BOSart ’08 refreshes contemporary practise.
Amongst all the hyperbole, buzzwords, philosophical stances, and fission and fusion of arts disciplines, there is a tendency to forget that the primary philosophical question that the visual arts sets out to address is “What is beauty?”
With a-n amongst the first to record its phenomenal impact through publication way back in 1991 of Live art, performance as it was then known, exhibited the characteristics of all that was innovative and edgy. In its introduction, Robert Ayers and David Butler commented: “Live art’s continued value and relevance is mirrored by the extent to which other live artists continue to come up with surprising, disconcerting new possibilities”.
Turbine Hall, Tate Modern, London
14 October 2008 – 13 April 2009
White Cube Hoxton Square, London
5 September – 4 October 2008
