Iliyana Nedkova responds to the networking themes that arose at Amorphous combustion, part of a body of specially commissioned writing published now on www.a-n.co.uk
John Beagles considers the cult-like behaviour of the art world.
Michelle Cotton reviews Sue Tompkins’ performance and considers its relation to the themes of the day.
Luke Fowler responds to Dennis Tourish’s paper on Cults in Politics: The Psychological dynamics of Influence.
Kaavous Clayton reports from the InFest: International Artist-Run Culture conference in Vancouver, Canada.
Winners of the decibel visual arts awards, aimed at black and Asian artists, and curators, were announced in March.
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Eight emerging artists gathered at Allenheads Contemporary Arts (ACA) in Tynedale in October, for a weeklong residency, brainstorming and researching with peers and other contemporary art practitioners. The intensive and varied schedule of the Microresidencies allowed artists to engage with […]
Lee Corner introduces the Code of Practice for the Visual Arts.
Helen Parrott considers the possibilities offered and some of the questions raised by the recent changes to arts funding systems in England and impending changes in Scotland.
Janet Summerton reviews some recent research about the environment for artists and points to the need for more ‘hard facts’ and less rhetoric in today’s labour market.
Carey Young provides a guide to engaging with businesses and in business contexts.
Amanda Fielding looks at the activities of Johanne Mills and provides insights into the versatility of the contemporary artist.
Located in a ‘cultural industries’ area ourselves for the past three years, we can confirm that the advantages – creative networking and exchange, vibrant working environment, immediate access to like-minded cultural specialists, mutual support in development, etc – are there […]
Claudia Zeiske brings to our attention a new artist-in-residence programme in north east Scotland, supported by the Glenfiddich Distillery.
Peckham’s Whitten Timber Yard is the current home for Area 10, a non-hierarchical artist-led group with experimentation, communication and collaboration at its core.
After placing an advert in the January issue of [a-n] MAGAZINE for a print worker, Luci Melegari’s vision for a Regional Print Centre at Yale College in Wrexham has become a reality with the appointment of Steffan Jones-Hughes. Since leaving […]
G39’s Chris Brown reports on a stimulating seminar for artist-led initiatives in southwest England.
The much-vaunted merger between the Arts Council of England and the ten English regional arts boards finally took place on 1 April. The new body has nine regional offices matching the government’s regional boundaries and a national office in London. […]
Lucy Kimbell explores some of the ways that artists are immersing themselves in business culture.
Axis – the national digital register of artists – has appointed Kay Pallister to the new post of content curator and Reuben Knutson as the Schools’ Resource project leader. Pallister, who relocates from New York’s Gagosian Gallery, brings with her […]
I approached the Imperial War Museum at Duxford, Cambridgeshire to see if they would host me as their artist-in-residence as part of Year of the Artist. I knew that their collection of aircraft would give new stimulus for my work […]
I am working as artist team-leader on Artlink’s FUSION project that has been taking place in hospitals throughout Edinburgh and the Lothians. In my time on this programme, I have explored new ways of working through creative collaborations with patients, […]
Ian Hunter discusses an arts and agricultural initiative being developed by Lancashire-based arts trust Littoral.
After a year of on-line communication and collaboration, in September six Manchester artists arrived in Bulgaria to work with four Bulgarian artists on ‘Urban Cycles’. Initiated by Interspace Media Centre in Sofia, the project will also be presented at IDEA in Manchester next April. Here, project curator Galia Dimitrova and participating artist Jen Southern discuss this cultural exchange.
