The continual shaving of UK arts budgets, cuts in mainstream grants programmes linked with escalating overheads and news of an ever-deepening economic downturn aren’t good news for visual artists who depend largely on winning freelance contracts and getting good responses to their project proposals.
Emma Cocker discusses the practice of wandering, and considers the critical resonances of such an artform.
2007 update What a difference a year makes. Around this time in 2006 my degree show was taking shape: a difficult time, full of tension, apprehension and misgivings – emotions common to all final year students. In short, life was […]
There are now over 200 contemporary art biennials across the globe, compared with four or five or twenty years ago.
Tuesday 31st Spent most of today working on a new website, http://alternativeplatform.googlepages.com/home Total trial and error, but keep getting requests to see my work on line, so had to go for it. no spell checker though so feel very vulnerable….. […]
Friday 6th Spend the morning writing, seem to have done nothing but writing for months.Unfortunately we live in a ‘world of word' and I seem to have so much to write for this project and for the applications I am […]
Saturday 14th Arrive in the morning and am made very welcome. The school is such an ‘enlightened' contrast to my own experiences at junior school its almost emotionally overwhelming. Leave the word ‘dream' hidden in one of the rooms. I […]
Alternative Platform is the Art Plus 07 project by Jon Adams, Dyslexic disability Artist. A bit of the history first: Encouraged by DaDa South and while on an AA2A residency at Portsmouth University, I decided in 2006 to apply for […]
Sonya Dyer’s publication questions assumptions about non-white artists, curators and administrators that shape the current diversity landscape, and suggests alternative ways forward.
What is the role of curators in the future? I ask this question in view of the changing way we consume new media and the arts today. At present curators act as gatekeepers, they decide who shall be artists, who […]
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.
It would seem that politics has taken centre stage in contemporary art.
One of the main tendencies in public space has been to minimise risk – providing mini-cities in which risk has been all but removed.
Martin Prothero, whose approach to his practice was featured in a-n’s Artist’s stories in 2003, was one of eight artists commissioned to carry out research projects for RANE (Research in Art Nature & Environment).
Views on cultural policy and the environment for contemporary practice.
Artist’s motivations when working in the public realm.
Biographies of Import/Export speakers.
What if every school had a studio where children, parents, carers and teachers had the opportunity to experience art and discuss ideas with artists on a daily basis? What if every regeneration programme included a team of artists from the […]
Curated space looks at strategies and interventions within artist-curator space. Devised and conducted by Manick Govinda, contributors include Gavin Wade, Erika Tan, Jeremy Deller and David A. Bailey.
Curated space artists’ interviews in full.
Read the Social space interviews in full along with Becky Shaw’s Introduction and Matters arising.
Profiles of international models researched for Future space.
Future space addresses the future roles and functions of artists’ workspace. It introduces current strategies and concerns and places them in the context of artists’ developing practice and critical frameworks using as a prompt recent interviews with artists and other professionals. What will artists’ practice and resources be like in 2015?
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Read the Future space interviews in full. These interviews formed the base material for the Future space publication.
Laura Hewitt on Hotel Mariakapel, an artists’ initiative where the ideas of intimacy, dialogue and collaboration are fundamental concerns.
Kathryn Smith on Johannesburg and Virginia Mackenny on Cape Town. The second part in a series commissioned by Deborah Smith.
