Visions in the Nunnery is the Nunnery Gallery’s renowned showcase of moving image, digital and performance art. The biennial open call is an opportunity to be part of one of the most varied presentations of moving image in London.
Updated Statement I often refer to performance art as ‘doing’, as I don’t necessarily see the work as a performance in the traditional sense, but rather gestures, movement, a dance with/in material that’s often not choregraphed. The location and settings […]
Artist Marcus Clarke and Puppet Ron discuss their latest Artistic collaboration. Titled: The Daffodils
Theatre of the Self : Performance, writing and mental health project Books are for sale @£19.95 with a website about the project: www.theatreoftheself.co.uk ‘I would recommend The Theatre of the Self to anyone who has or wants to take […]
Dominique Golden is a multidisciplinary artist, originally from Lancashire, in the North of England, and is now working and living in London. The first time I became aware of her work was through the “Familiar Machines” exhibition at Backlit Galleries […]
How the a-n Artist Bursary made a difference for the prospective development of the artist
Function/Error is a performative experiment on the impossibility of completing a task due to the health and safety regulations on ladder usage. The impractical safety rules forced a humorous response that involves the performance of a useless action.
We prepare for our Fruit Routes ‘harvest’ changing of seasons call it Mabon if you like .. a few days later into Autumn perhaps.. we Will encode the path, our Fruit Route, in the minds and hearts of those that […]
Bred Pudding Collective is an ever shifting collective of artists, poets and musicians brought together by founding members Paul Conneally and Russ Ralph.
The American artist was known for her taboo-busting work around sex, gender and the body, and received a Golden Lion lifetime achievement award at the 2017 Venice Biennale.
A farewell to Singularity
Earlier this year, Glasgow-based Gordon Douglas was awarded a-n Artist Bursary to create a new website archiving his performance practice. He speaks to Richard Taylor about resilience, the importance of criticality and how arts organisations are future-focused when faced with austerity.
During Fruit Routes June 2018 at Loughborough University Anne-Marie Culhane and I will be performing a new iteration of SKEP where visitors will be invited to become ‘SKEP’ donning a traditional woven beehive on their head and engaging with thoughts […]
Hello there, I am Korean artist, and I have been the UK for five months. I am interested in Feminism and other social issues such as suicide and poor environment of artists. I would like to meet various artists in […]
“Queerness is not and can never be an identity. It is a current, or imperative. Moving through and between our bodies; it is an intersubjective process of becoming. We are more than our bodies. We are relations in time & space.” – B. Sebastian.
Formed in Hull in the late 1960s, COUM Transmissions – members of which would later become Throbbing Gristle – pushed performance art to the limit, culminating in the 1976 ‘Prostitution’ show at the ICA which saw them vilified in the press. With a Hull City of Culture exhibition exploring the group’s legacy, Bob Dickinson speaks to founding member Cosey Fanni Tutti.
A weekly briefing featuring national and international art news, including: pocket knife gifts as performance art, visa-dodging artworks for YSP, and LGBTQ histories at British Museum.
A Reflection on my MA Fine Art end of year exhibition at Teesside University.
