Review
The Revival
Stephan Weiss Studio, New York
1 November 2007
Page 2736 – a-n The Artists Information Company
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Untitled blog post from "Notes From New York"
An Impromptu Performance As I was getting the subway back from the screening of Daria Martin’s film at the Tribecca Grand Hotel tonight, I saw an impromptu performance on the train. Two men got on at East Braodway, one stop […]
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Untitled blog post from "Project Me"
I've applied for funding to document recent work. The digital images I have aren't very good and as my practice has become more studio based the artworks seem to be harder for me to photograph well. The funding would be […]
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Untitled blog post from "Blue Monkey Professional Development"
Another meeting today to review progress on the planning of our next Event on 21 November. We went to visit the Court Room and check out the facilities. Water and coffee machines are available. We can mark on an outline […]
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Untitled blog post from "Wall Paintings in a public building, Hackney"
I'm pleased to say the method we had devised to mark out the second image worked well. Whilst working on the image I took pleasure in the thought that “pouncing” through a cartoon is a technique that has been used […]
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Stapelung (Stack) 2007
PS1 Moma, New York
28 October – 19 November 2007
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Archive
Discussion
Art is not about escape
Though the imprecision of ideas expressed in Dave Grimbleby’s letter (a-n Magazine October issue) hampers meaningful dialogue, I do think he is attempting to raise a set of common-place misconceptions and ill-conceived objections to contemporary art. Firstly, Dave is hostile […]
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Research paper
Biennials and city-wide events: Airport Art: New Internationalism or Global Franchise?
Airport art, as I now like to call it, is the major problem facing biennales, biennials and art festivals today.
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Biennials and city-wide events: Something, like nothing, happens anywhere1
There are now over 200 contemporary art biennials across the globe, compared with four or five or twenty years ago.
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Forget the National: Perform the International in the key of the Local (and vice versa)!
Rather than asking what a biennial represents, it may be worthwhile to shift the emphasis of the question and examine how it represents. That is: How is it experienced?
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Not Only Implausible, But Also Discretionary: Scepticism in the Age of Format Wars
Despite common parlance, globalisation is not a synonym for contemporary neoliberal capitalism; it is rather an historical process of cultural drift and metamorphosis.
Review
Desperately Seeking Dave
On a Bench, in New York
1 November 2007
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Untitled blog post from "Forecasts (Collaboration November)"
Things have crept up on me so quickly. The showis on Monday. The space; Tether Studios…but I haven’t seen it yet. I am borrowing a projector. The letters have been written. The last letter from matt, I received yesterday, and […]
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Untitled blog post from "Caught in the Act"
It’s strange how, as an exhibition gets closer, time speeds up. Somehow I never quite manage to tick off as many things on my daily ‘to do’ list as I hope to. However, a gas company has just started to […]
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Untitled blog post from "Diary of a Foundling Artist"
First Ice I think I'm getting a little low
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Untitled blog post from "Drawing with Wood"
Revision As I progress I find I look back at things I've written and want to change them. I feel a bit like a naughty school girl making changes to previous entries so I think it is better to reflect […]
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Untitled blog post from "The Inishlacken Project and others"
The drawings from the Saffron Walden show are now safely packed away in my studio and I have some reasonable photos of the work in my archive. There seems to be a brief interlude in my usually hectic life so […]
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Creative Industries
Mapping the creative industries in the west of England
Burns Owens Partnership was commissioned to map the creative industries across the City of Bristol, Bath and North East Somerset, South Gloucestershire, and North Somerset. Published 2007.
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Cultural value
Public value and the arts in England: discussion and conclusions of the arts debate
Summary of process, discussion and conclusions of Arts Council England’s Arts Debate programme from 2006.
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Cultural value
Capitalising creativity: developing earned income streams in cultural industries organisations.
Written by the author of ‘Size Matters’, this essay indicates some useful routes for a progression from creative to commercial value, using examples to illustrate some practical methods and outcomes.
Review
Wolfgang Tillmans – Atair
Andrea Rosen, New York City
20 October – 24 November 2007
Review
Window Enactment
Greene Naftali Gallery, New York
30 October 2007
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Untitled blog post from "Notes From New York"
When is it ok to leave a durational performance? When is it ok to leave a durational performance? When your legs go numb? When your drink is finished? Or perhaps when you see the curator of the event of which […]
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Untitled blog post from "Festial"
This week I’m getting my head down trying to attend to some of the ‘audience development’ issues that Jo and Katie were keen that I should address. Of course, it’s taking much longer than I imagined and the new Kalender, […]
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Untitled blog post from "Grande Residence at L’H du Siege, Valenciennes"
Very quite day, it is a holiday today in France and nobody is working, everything is closed in Valenciennes and hardly a person to be seen on the streets, very strange. I spend most of my day in the studio […]