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a-n Magazine February 2012
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a-n Magazine February 2012

Contents include: This month in arts funding news Dany Louise reports on how ACE funding cuts are impacting on small-scale production and artist-centred organisations; and we re-publish Variant’s intelligent commentary on Creative Scotland’s vision; in Reviews Maria Fusco selects texts […]

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EMVAN on tour

As part of its Strategies for Survival programme, East Midlands Visual Arts Network is holding a series of roadshow events across the region, presenting an opportunity for new and prospective members to engage in critical discussion, to exchange ideas and information, to meet friends and make contacts, and to find out more about EMVAN and its future programme of activity.

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Reviews: February 2012

Critical commentary and contextualisation of contemporary art exhibitions across the UK and beyond. Guest selected each month from the wealth of user-generated reviews uploaded to Interface. This month’s guest selector is Maria Fusco. You can read all the reviews in full at www.a-n.co.uk/interface.

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Untitled (inflatable)
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Prizes and awards

Exhibition, residency and bursary opportunities for artists across the UK and beyond.

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Motion Disabled
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Motion Disabled

Motion Disabled is a digital exploration of the bodies of people who are physically different.

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Contested silence

As an important part of platforming the debate around arts funding across the UK, with kind permission we re-publish the editorial introduction to “Language is never neutral” from Variant‘s issue 42.

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Starchitect
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Realising the value

An abridged version of Dany Louise’s follow-up report on small visual arts organisations cut by Arts Council England, six months after her ‘Ladders for development’ enquiry. She asks: how have these organisations fared and what do their futures hold? Read the full version of this report with updates on all surveyed organisations: www.a-n.co.uk/realising_the_value

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AIR members march for the alternative
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Artists move to effect change

OpenAIR, the first annual members’forum of AIR: Artists Interaction and Representation, offers a unique platform for artists’ dialogue and debate, empowered and enabled through speakers drawn from very different disciplines and fields of work, all committed to campaigning for effective change.

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Salon Art Prize 2011
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Challenges and obstacles

“These are dangerous times for people and for our world of arts values … Uncertainty can cause us to be safe, edit complexity, be secretive, conservative” says Susan Jones in her provocation ‘Where is the place for art?’

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Feeling the shape of the arts economy

Invited by W.A.G.E to kick-start their partnership with Artists Space – exploring potentialities for artists’ self organisation in New York – artist, economist and sociologist Hans Abbing presented a curious and ultimately frustrating case for … I’m not sure what.

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Field of Dreams
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Liverpool Art Prize 2012 shortlist announced

Alan Dunn, James Thompson (Tomo), Robyn Woolston and The Drawing Paper’s Jon Barraclough and Mike Carney have been revealed as the shortlist for the 2012 Liverpool Art Prize when it returns for its fifth successive year.

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After the Rain
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Opening up to the arts

Construction Gallery in Tooting opened its doors on 18 January with an ambitious site-responsive work by Alistair McClymont, and works by the project’s first residency artists Sam Robinson and Rebecca Lucraft.

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Skills for the future

With funding initially awarded in May 2010, the Skills for the Future training scheme from the Heritage Lottery Fund is offering paid training opportunities in museum and heritage settings across the UK.

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Public art developments

Whilst public art is distinctly ‘out of favour’ with Arts Council England cutting agencies as part of making savings, it’s interesting to see Creative Scotland taking a rather different tack.

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Detail of glass panels in Healthy Living Centre fitness suite
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Heart of Bewbush artist commissions

Glass, textiles and paving blocks by artists Susan Kinley and Steven Follen, commissioned by Crawley Borough Council and funded through a Section 106 agreement, were recently installed in the Bewbush area of Crawley, West Sussex as part of the Heart of Bewbush Neighbourhood Improvement Masterplan.

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Erratum

I wish to correct the impression given in Jon Wakeman’s piece about All Points North (‘Debate’, a-n Magazine, December 2011/January 2012) that Axis was responsible for ‘driving’ the project.

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New era for Aspex

I wanted to let you know that this year marks the beginning of a new era for Aspex. We will continue to provide activities and services to artists, but without using the ‘ARC’ brand.

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Editorial – 2012 February

When faced with challenging times and a scarcity of resources, it is understandable that our instinct might be to retract and take fewer risks.

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Women in the arts

Cara Courage examines the evidence about the gender imbalance in the arts workforce and asks whether it’s really down to women wanting to ‘have it all’.

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