Page 2814 – a-n The Artists Information Company

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Untitled blog post from "Papertrails Residency"

On Thursday I went to the AIR Open Dialogue event at Fabrica which was interesting for all sorts of reasons not least being able to match names and faces of people whose projects have become familiar through the a-n blogs. […]

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Untitled blog post from "Clothes for Death"

This blog is a bit non-chronological as I try to catch up on the last week’s journey and events… The train journey and the impossibility of taking photographs:The train glided slowly through Bosnia – Doboj, Kakanj, Zenica, reaching Sarajevo and […]

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Untitled blog post from "Clothes for Death"

After eight hour train journey from Banja Luka to Mostar via Sarajevo, pulled by a train engine on which it said ‘Republika Srpska Rails’ and upon arriving to Mostar the engine has become ‘Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina Rails’ I […]

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Untitled blog post from "Berlin Residency Journal"

At last a day at the magnificent Pergamon Museum with its priceless treasures brought back wholesale. Enormous structures in their entirety have been transported and reassembled here. The vastness gives an unmistakeable high. Here is the Pergamon Altar, the Ischtar […]

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Untitled blog post from "205A Morning Lane"

my apologies for typos and lowsy spelling. i think that "rocky road productions" describe the curent state of affair in the best possible way… well, it's not all so bad but there were some changes in number of projectors i'm […]

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Research International contexts

Radical positions

Manick Govinda explores a moment in time when it appeared that politics had taken centre stage in contemporary art, focusing on Sharjah Biennial 8.

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Desert storm
Resource Profile

Grace Ndiritu

Sara Raza on Grace Ndiritu, a young London based artist who is enjoying an upwards ascent with an impressive portfolio of national and international exhibitions, that present a fresh style of politics and performativity.

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White house
Resource Profile

Lida Abdul

Born in Kabul in 1973, Lida Abdul has returned to live there. Kim Dhillon looks at her practice, working accross various media, that fuses Western formalist traditions with numerous aesthetic influences.

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Parasite
Resource Profile

Tea Mäkipää

Finnish artist Tea Mäkipää’s work confronts her viewpoint of impending ecological catastrophe through interventions and installations positing an alternative vision of existence. By Manick Govinda.

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Les Fleurs du Mal
Resource Archive Document

a-n Magazine April 2007

Contents include: Should artists’ put life on hold to take up residencies abroad? Low stipends and paying the rent discussed. Advice on preparing grant applications and using The artists’ contracts toolkit online. Reviews from Jerwood Space and Elastic in London, […]

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Resource Archive Document

Radical positions

Manick Govinda discusses the themes around Sharjah Biennial 8: Art Ecology and the Politics of Change. Includes artists’ profiles of Lida Abdul, Grace Ndiritu and Tea Makipaa plus a selection of articles drawn from across a-n’s archive and key texts […]

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White house
Resource Archive Feature

On the cover

Lida Abdul, White house, Kabul, 16mm transfer to DVD, 4’58”, 2005. Courtesy: the artist and Giorgio Persano Gallery

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Resource Archive Feature

Foreword

On the occasion of Sharjah Biennial 8, ‘Still Life: Art, Ecology and the Politics of Change’, this a-n Collection focuses on creative processes at the intersections between art, radical politics and the environment.

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