I’ve been working in and around transdisciplinary practice for the last twenty years now, and have found it to be a fertile and stimulating ground both for those working consistently within it or just passing through, I’ve just noticed that only recently has it started to become fashionable.
With a background in architectural design, followed by research in architectural history, and then a period teaching public art and writing art criticism, my research has tended to focus on transdisciplinary meeting points – between feminist theory and architectural history, conceptual art practice and architectural design, art criticism and autobiographical writing – through individual and collaborative research projects.1
“Life flows forth out of the door from the limitation of isolated separate existence into the limitlessness of all possible directions”. Georg Simmel, ‘Bridge and Door’
Andrew Dodds contribution to The dream that kicks, a-n Collections.
Contents include: AIR membership scheme launched and Artists’ advisory group introduced. Charlotte Hodes wins Jerwood Drawing Prize. Edinburgh’s Annuale III reviewed plus shows in Isle of Mull, Vale of Glamorgan, Leigh and a radio broadcast. Catherine Wilson on her experiences […]
As you will have by now no doubt ascertained, The dream that kicks: Transdisciplinary practice in action is a curious collection of works, which at once demonstrates and queries its subject.
The Sassoon Gallery, Peckham, London
9 September 2006 to 10 October 2006
The winners of the Jerwood Drawing Prize 2006 have been announced.
The Old Grammar School
8 August 2006 to 10 October 2006
As a former teacher now working for the past five years as a gallery educator and also a freelance artist I have been interested to follow the a-n proposals on artists’ fees.
This month sees the launch of AIR – Artists’ Interaction and Representation.
Frieze Art Fair is upon us once again, and as well as 150 art galleries from around the world showcasing over 1000 artists’ work, visitors can take advantage of an ambitious curatorial programme, under the umbrella term of Frieze Projects.
Workstation
9 September 2006 to 9 September 2006
Sulgrave Manor apple orchard
5 May 2006 to 12 December 2006
Informed by the Code of practice, contains guidance on how artists and exhibition venues can achieve good practice in their working arrangements.
A text only version of this publication can be found at www.a-n.co.uk/fees_and_payments
Now in its fourth year, Inspired Art Fair aims to show the best in contemporary art from emerging independent artists.
Aimed at public sector arts employers, commissioners, consultants and arts trainers, addresses the context for fees and payments for artists’ residencies, workshops and community commissions. Download pdf [Size 497KB]
Financial expert Richard Murphy’s practical framework to demonstrate how visual artists can take responsibility for their working arrangements and establish, and make a case for, their charges and fees. Download pdf [Size 234KB].
The unfairness of age restrictions on art competitions and opportunities for artists has been aired in the pages of a-n Magazine over many years.
I met Boubacar Keita and visual and performance collective, Art & Action on a visit to Dakar, Senegal last year.
V22 plc has been accepted to deal on PLUS Markets (Ofex), enabling the start in September of the first ever publicly traded shares in a contemporary art collection.
Unique sites along Nottingham’s River Trent are a focus of a series of site-specific performances, installations and artworks.
Chinese Arts Centre is hosting Vital 06, an international festival of live art in Manchester to raise awareness of the diverse, exciting and challenging work being made by artists of Chinese descent from across the world.
Playing its part in October’s visual arts buzz in London, Zoo Art Fair is establishing its reputation as a showcase for emerging UK and international galleries, project spaces, artist collectives, curatorial groups and publications.
Thanks to a substantial grant from Arts Council England, the National Federation of Artists’ Studio Providers will launch in October.
