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. […]
Interest in the group is going from strength to strength. An exhibition tour for 2008 is being planned and expressions of interest in the group are coming in daily.
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 […]
At the moment the first show of o-collective is one of my main concerns, because it will be the first resulting project of something I’ve been organizing for the last months, and a reward of the hard work. I see this as one […]
Projects unedited blog by Jane George
Here is some more information about the developments of our new group for the Midlands. It is now confirmed that Birmingham will host the launch of the group on Saturday 27th October 2007 at the University of Central England. The […]
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 […]
Hello to everyone we met at Fabrica on Thursday at the AIR Open Dialogue event. It was a great opportunity to meet a lot of new people and to put faces to names of people who we felt we already […]
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 […]
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 […]
This place has a industrial past. Steel, coal, timber flowed in and out of what was one of the busiest ports in the country. Local people proudly identified themselves as being dockers, steel workers, carpenters and alike, not a namby […]
Art has many functions and acting as a social catalyst is one of them. Tonight at a function met a fellow country ( Welsh) woman and discovered that we had a mutual acquaintance who went to Antartica knowing that he […]
Rilke came to Berlin on 1 August 1898 and wrote in his diary: " The first thing I discovered was: Bismarck has died … The mood is Bismarck is dead-long live-Berlin." He writes sensitively about art, that the artist should […]
"Grockles at Sea" will present works which explores issues of redundancy, recycling, regeneration, failure, and desire. For this reason, Folkestone would be a perfect space in which to explore these issues. Folkestone can be perceived as a redundant town. The […]
finished kate wahoo…. helen is nearly done, a few problems need to be ironed out though. john (my tutor) thinks that her nose is slightly out of joint, and her left hand side nostril needs to move to the left […]
Manick Govinda explores a moment in time when it appeared that politics had taken centre stage in contemporary art, focusing on Sharjah Biennial 8.
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.
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.
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.
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, […]
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 […]
International Gallery
3 March 2007 to 3 March 2007
Lida Abdul, White house, Kabul, 16mm transfer to DVD, 458, 2005. Courtesy: the artist and Giorgio Persano Gallery
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.