Bram Arnold, Author at a-n The Artists Information Company
a-n
  • News
  • Research
  • Reviews
  • Paying Artists
  • Blogs
  • Network
  • a-n 40
  • About
    • About a-n
    • Contact us
    • Advertise
    • Insurance
    • Legal and tax helpline
    • Membership
    • User support
    • Policies
  • Join
  • Login
Explore

View as

Cookie Information: We use cookies on this site both for essential site functionality, and to better understand our audience. Please read our Privacy Policy for more information.
  • People
    • All
    • 40th Anniversary Features
    • About
    • AIR
    • Blogs
    • Campaigns
    • Collections
    • Conversations
    • DSG Features
    • Events
    • Jobs
    • Media
    • News
    • Research
    • Resources
    • Reviews
  • Bram Arnold

Bram Arnold

  • Blogs (2)
  • Blog Posts (17)
Blog Post

1.

by Bram Arnold

1. They had a party the night I left. Zurich looked like one of its own bejeweled window displays, all splashes of colour and glitz. It wasn’t purely in celebration of my departure though. August 1st is Switzerland’s National Day, […]

25 January 18
0 0
Blog Post

2.

by Bram Arnold

2. The Lowenbraü building is the heart of Zuriwest’s art scene, home to several major institutions and the Migros Museum which is the contemporary art collection of a fund genrerated by 1% of the profits from Migros, Switzerland’s equivalent of […]

25 January 18
0 0
Blog Post

3.

by Bram Arnold

3. I left Zurich. On a train. Bound for the alps. I left some smart clothes and anything heavy in a locker at the station. I bought some risotto meals from a Migros in the station, and some methylated spirits […]

25 January 18
0 0
Blog Post

4.

by Bram Arnold

4. When I was 17 I scratched a Jenny Holzer truism into a wooden desk at the library of Royal Forest of Dean College, YOU ARE A VICTIM OF THE RULES YOU LIVE BY. Art and its work should be […]

25 January 18
0 0
Blog Post

Untitled blog post from "Walking Home"

by Bram Arnold

Across the Rhine, the border, no borders anymore, just McDonalds and Coca Cola. I climb through Vineyards in the heights above Oppfingen and lose myself in its veins. Wine runs everywhere down the hils and Germany is not pushed to […]

18 September 09
0 0
Blog Post

Untitled blog post from "Walking Home"

by Bram Arnold

Everything changed inside Switzerland really. I was joined in Schaffhausen by artists Ben Connors and Laura Wilson from London who were to travel with me for the final few days to St. Gallen. The walk in many ways ended with […]

18 September 09
0 0
Blog Post

Untitled blog post from "Walking Home"

by Bram Arnold

I sort of just walk over the border. I just walk in. Dissatisfied with the casualness of this I go back to the border and see if anyone wants to look at my passport. I point out the date and […]

18 September 09
0 0
Blog Post

Untitled blog post from "Walking Home"

by Bram Arnold

I am tired of living with the insect kingdom. They are too efficient at eating blood, too omnipresent. One very nice shortbread jam cake thing, and a dutchman called Jacob who span a good line in anecdotes and spent several […]

18 September 09
0 0
Blog Post

Untitled blog post from "Walking Home"

by Bram Arnold

For the first time in ten years I swam in a swimming pool. A strange urge I confess. I saw a fork of ligtening and immediately remembered every fork of lightening I have ever seen, for they are very few. […]

18 September 09
0 0
Blog Post

Untitled blog post from "Walking Home"

by Bram Arnold

Flat heat here, dead breeze. A frenchman asks me where Im going “Germany” I say in french. He grunts a bit and smiles, just points east. I follow his finger to Neuf Brisach. A conceptual military fortification built by Louis […]

18 September 09
0 0
Blog Post

Untitled blog post from "Walking Home"

by Bram Arnold

In this heat the Rhine flows the wrong way. I burn precious clothes in a tumble dryer and run out at noon, crossing little streams and out through the suburbs. I watch a Crane sweep the sky from the deep […]

18 September 09
0 0
Blog Post

Untitled blog post from "Walking Home"

by Bram Arnold

German graves, French soil. Above a precipice, staring at germany through the haze, a border collie befirends me wildly while her owner does an impression of a cow, illustrating her question. Descend through Orbey and alpine flowers, kill the heart […]

18 September 09
0 0
  • 1
  • 2
  • Next »
  • About us
    • About a-n
    • The team
    • a-n Board
    • a-n Artists Council
    • Contact us
  • About membership
    • Join a-n
    • About insurance
    • Legal and tax helpline
  • Using the site
    • Terms of use
    • Privacy policy
    • Accessibility statement
    • User support
  • Connect with us
    • Facebook
    • Instagram
    • LinkedIn
    • Twitter
    • Youtube
  • Arts council
© a-n The Artists Information Company