a bus bounces its way past the window, a branch of the hazel jigs and there’s further analysis of tyre wear at aragon. my saturday morning is rich with visual and audio pastries. i’m pretty much alone as the rest […]
Had my first day in Loudwater studio, great to sort out a space to work and start to get things ready for this new project. Loudwater is a community art space set up 17 years ago by Vision Homes, its […]
A weekly briefing featuring national and international news, including: artist collaboration in contention for 29th William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award; Documenta 14 curators and artists respond to media reports of financial mismanagement.
Highlights for the week ahead selected from a-n’s Events section posted by members, with exhibitions and events in Bristol, Darlington, London and Beijing.
Explores the history of performance art at Tate from the 1960s to 2016.
Value: appreciate, rate (highly), esteem, hold in high esteem, hold in high regard, hold dear, have a high opinion of, think highly of, think much of, set (great) store by, attach importance to, respect, admire, prize, cherish, treasure. Values: principles, moral principles, […]
The Autonomous Artist is a dedicated blog detailing activities, thoughts and reflections about my time as 2017/18 Visual Artist Fellow on the Clore Leadership Programme. I will be exploring the role of the artist in arts leaderships and reflecting on independent, […]
Review of Documenta 14 Kassel, funded by a-n artist’s bursary.
At a recent symposium in London, academics, technologists, artists and film makers gathered to discuss the politics and ethics of art technology. Artist and writer Alistair Gentry attended and was struck by the need for a much closer relationship between the tech and ethical tendencies in this ongoing and vitally important debate.
Limited edition newspaper launches a five-year programme of 50 artworks that will trace the 25km route of the new ‘super sewer’ that will help tackle sewage overflows into the River Thames.
Dutch artist Thijs Biersteker has won the $3,000 digital art prize for his work Plastic Reflectic, an interactive mirror installation that turns spectators’ reflections into silhouettes made from hundreds of pieces of plastic floating within a ‘plastic soup’.
We have spent the last five days in Stoke-on-Trent installing our work for British Ceramics Biennial. Joseph Young and I drove up from Brighton after a frenzied final week (me not Joseph, together with my studio helpers putting the hours […]
A review of Münster Skulptur Projekte and documenta 14, Kassel, with a focus on five artists, through the lens of the parasitical use of other artist’s work within the contemporary artist’s work.
I am working on a project looking at how technology and big data is taking over human jobs. I am looking to interview Uber drivers, Deliver Riders and scan their phones and body as a primary source of research. Does […]
Two months ago we got together in sunny Manchester, in a hot room at Old Granada Studios. The fans were blowing the heat away but there was no remedy for the internal heat each one of had to deal with […]
Working with fifth generation tightrope walker Rasul Abakarov within the vast landscape of Dagestan, artist Taus Makhacheva’s film Tightrope has been lauded by critics following its exhibition at the Venice Biennale. Pippa Koszerek talks to the artist about the processes and risks involved in her work.
