As a-n/AIR’s Paying Artists campaign prepares for the launch of its Exhibition Payment guide on Wednesday 12 October 2016, we take a look at some of the key moments in the campaign’s history, highlighting the rich and varied dialogue with artists and the wider visual arts sector that has informed its recommendations.
So today I wanted to finally discover a ‘tunnel’. I put the word Tunnel in the inverted commas due to the nature of the word. For me a tunnel can be many things but it is a passageway which takes […]
I am now recovering from a relatively mild bout of shingles – thankfully! I think I got to the doctor’s just in time to get the anti-virals. The advice I got was to rest, which I have done my best to […]
has anyone been? or going to the biennale? I would like some info, insider guide etc
This week’s selection includes breakdancing in Glasgow, vast audio-visual work in London, and participatory exhibitions in Bristol and Manchester.
“These are dual compunctions: distance ourselves from the messy bits of life on the one hand, transcend the finality of death on the other” Sven Birkerts, The Gutenburg Elegies
No visuals to show this week – but I have finally finished annotating all the sound files. From my daily Drawing Journal on Facebook: headphones and the ongoing mug of tea…
A chance encounter with the man himself…
The life and times of Gullible Girl…
Shoddy exhibition
Disability art project: textiles, recycling, heritage, now
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I suppose I must look at the research proposal again as parts do not make sense in the aspect to what I am trying to say. So what am I looking at? Urban Legends – Are the tunnels a urban […]
I was recommended this FANTASTIC film by my lecturer at university. it is a film about 5 civil war soldiers that go searching for a treasure in a Field in England. 3 deserters 2 who capture them and trick them […]
Well this was a failiure if I had ever seen one. The performance was meant to be a walk of the high street five times to make a 5mile walk in reference to the ‘5 mile tunnel legend’ in Worcester […]
From last year I discovered that there is something very exciting in the production of props and costumes for performance. The props can be seen as art work in them selves as they can be sculptural The hand made aspect […]
And yet my mask is powerful (2016) Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme The gallery describes their work as: Drawing on a visual and aural lexicon refined by Abbas and Abou-Rahme in their critically acclaimed project The Incidental Insurgents (2012-2015), And yet […]
Now what does Schrodinger’s Cat have to do with Urban Legends. The answer is not much. I am more interested in the concept of the box and the not knowing what is in the box. For me the tunnels or […]
Someone who has a massive knowledge of the city of Worcester is the infirmary museums curator Mark. I happened to bump into him at the Museum and Art gallery’s opening of the Jermey Deller exhibition opening. I posed the question […]
