This month’s a-n Collection: Trade-off explores the markets for art in the UK drawing on intelligence gathered at the recent series of NAN Roadshows1.
Charlie Fox’s critical response to the different positions taken up by dealers and curators vs non-object based artists within the art market.
Guyan Porter talks about the socio-economic dynamics of art markets and deconstructs notions of the art market in the UK.
In a monumental attempt to raise awareness about worldwide use of food resources, an international artists’ group are building an edible pavilion in Brighton.
Claremont Art Space
7 July 2006 to 8 August 2006
Foreword by Jane Watt.
Jane Watt outlines the core strengths of NAN and looks to the future.
The Shop at Bluebird, King’s Road, London
24 March – 2 April
Jane Watt on the first of two publications that give an overview of NAN activity to date (2006).
A series of Vox box style reflections by some of the artists who have experienced NAN.
Extracts from the Curated space online think-tank presentations and discussions.
ArtSway, the contemporary visual arts centre in the New Forest, has announced that it has completed on the freehold purchase of its gallery and grounds, securing the future of the organisation and offering increased resources for contemporary visual arts in […]
This month we present some of the outcomes from Close proximity, a NAN event organised by SCAN and Jonathan Swain that took place at Greenham Common in May. Artists camped for a weekend on the infamous ex-US missile base occupied […]
ArtSway at the Venice Biennale, Palazzo Zenobio, 8-12 June
Jane Watt reports on the NAN event that took place in Norwich in March.
Read the Future space interviews in full. These interviews formed the base material for the Future space publication.
The East Midlands Fast forward event took place in Derby on 23/24 April. Devised and developed by artist Mark Gubb and chaired by Emilia Telese, a-n Artists’ Networks Coordinator, speakers included YOlk (Nottingham), Niki Russell (Reactor/Nottingham Studios Consortium), John Plowman […]
Edoardo Malagigi visited Afghanistan to research the working conditions of artists there. Here, he reports on some of the issues affecting artists living there, and on the planned Centre for Contemporary Art in Afghanistan, Kabul.
Sixty–one artists’ residencies in twenty–five countries have taken place since the inception of ACE’s International Fellowship Programme in 2001. These have benefited more than 130 artists. A celebratory event for this initiative was held in July at Über–trendy Sketch Art […]
If the terms ‘Breakfast Club’ and ‘symposium’ conjure up images of Molly Ringwald in a power suit , think again; you might find yourself in a tucked away studio complex in the Cotswolds talking to artists from all over the […]
Emilia Telese links her role as Artists’ Networks Co-ordinator at a-n to her practice, and discusses the value of communication between artists and society. Business philosopher Jim Rohn said “Effective communication is twenty percent what you know and eighty percent […]
Remote relatives I found the recent APD event in Liverpool very thought provoking. It was certainly an eye-opener to hear what it’s like on the other side of the proverbial fence. To have four very different views presented served to […]
We take this opportunity to thank the many artists who we’ve worked with over the past twelve months – as advisers and consultants, on the Networking Artists Networks initiative, and as presenters and trainers on our professional practice and artists’ […]
Carolyn Black profiles the intensive ideas laboratory run by PVA MediaLab.
Edoardo Malagigi questions the meaning of title of this year’s biennale.
