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What is best for the group?
This was the open question that I put in an email following our first meeting with the Artist Working Group. It’s a question that has come in and out of my awareness since. I continue in the email to say that […]
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Whitstable as host to AWG
Images courtesy of the artist and Samuel Mercer. The Artist Working Group went to Whitstable Biennial as an expanded meeting of sorts. This idea of leaving London, going on tour and seeing other artists’ work, to me suggested gaining a perspective on what the group was, […]
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Where we meet and what we bring
Image courtesy of the artist. July 2018 meeting place: The Serpentine Lido, Hyde park. We knew the Lido would be closed by the time we met, but perhaps meeting in a place that has another purpose feels more comfortable? It also plants […]
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Writing as one (interlude)
Is there something flawed about me writing on my own? When do I use the words I and we? When do I say they as if it’s their experience I am able to talk about? But it seems that even in groups, it is flawed to think […]
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The London Mastaba’s imaginary insides
Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s ‘The London Mastaba’, 2016-18 Image courtesy of the artist. In July 2018 the Artist Working Group met on the grass in Hyde Park, next to the serpentine Lido. For quite a lot of the meeting we talked about […]
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In Circles, Around Tables
Image credit: Olga Koreleva On June 30th, I facilitated ‘In Circles, Around Tables’, an event at the Royal Academy of Arts, Burlington Gardens, London. The event took the form of a series of three fishbowl conversations. The format was used as a […]
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Locations and demarcations
When I first started thinking about starting the AWG, I secretly hoped that the locations in which we met would have an impact, such that the meetings become just as much about ‘how do we use this space?’ and ‘how […]