The term synchronicity was first used by the Swiss psychologist Carl Jung to describe “temporally coincident occurrences of casual events”1.
Artists comment on the Arts Council’s Turning Point Strategy.
Jane Watt outlines the core strengths of NAN and looks to the future.
A Code of Practice takes commonly-agreed principles of good practice and demonstrates why and how they should be applied.
Paul Stone on east London based organisation Cell Project Space that across three sites encompasses gallery, studios and internship programme.
Artist David Macintosh takes a personal look at collaborative working.
Mike Stubbs examines some issues facing artists.
Aviva Leeman reports from Artquest’s recent conference.
A series of Vox box style reflections by some of the artists who have experienced NAN.
Leigh French, co-editor of Variant, reports on the context and outcomes of The Cultural Commission. “Everything can be measured, and what can be measured can be managed.” McKinseys consultants “The very act of observing alters the reality being observed.” Heisenberg […]
The rapid ongoing abrogation of boundaries and fusions in art, technology and society are the focal point for the 2005 Ars Electronica Festival. Held in Linz, Austria, 1-6 September, it comprises a fascinating mixture of events, conferences, symposia, exhibitions and […]
Rohini Malik Okon introduces her selection of articles for the first a-n Collections.
Profiles of international models researched for Future space.
Future space addresses the future roles and functions of artists’ workspace. It introduces current strategies and concerns and places them in the context of artists’ developing practice and critical frameworks using as a prompt recent interviews with artists and other professionals. What will artists’ practice and resources be like in 2015?
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Read the Future space interviews in full. These interviews formed the base material for the Future space publication.
Bruce Haines profiles Johannes Phokela’s ongoing partnership with Gasworks in London.
Aimed at public sector arts employers, commissioners, consultants and arts trainers, Good practice in paying artists addresses the context for fees and payments for artists’ residencies, workshops and community commissions.
Rodney Court is a proposed conversion of a Manchester tower block into live/work space for artists.
Finding the Common Threads is a two-year study being conducted by the Centre for Creative Communities with support from Arts Council England, London and Deutsche Bank. With London as its focus, the project is investigating some of the issues funders […]
Philip Babot on the cross-border and international achievements of artists’ organisations in South Wales.
Luiz Camillo Osorio on Rio de Janeiro and Ana Paula Cohen on S
East Street Arts (ESA) is a model example of what the purchase and refit of studios involves.
Funded by Arts Council England, this research study in 2004 prefaced new resources from a-n to extend the Code of Practice and demonstrate good practice within artists’ fees and payments, for use by artists and public-sector employers and commissioners. For current sample rates go to Guidance on fees and day rates and for latest Paying artists research go to www.a-n.co.uk/tag/paying-artists
The training-led development programmes that were the norm in artists’ professional development delivery some years ago are giving way to new projects that focus around contemporary practice and are driven by ‘real world’ situations. They recognise that being a visual […]
Giles Sutherland looks at the relationship between glass artist Keiko Mukaide and Edinburgh College of Art.
Lesley Millar, Project Director of ‘Through the Surface’, profiles the process and outcomes of this major collaboration between artists from the UK and Japan.
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