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Melanie Manchot: “We defined the aesthetic framework together but the content is theirs”
For her new, multi-channel video installation, Melanie Manchot has connected remembered moments from the lives of 12 people in recent recovery from drug and alcohol misuse. Michaela Nettell talks to the artist about the making and showing of the work.
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Residency for not making art: “People had trouble understanding it at first”
Now in its second year, the Residency for Artists on Hiatus seeks to free its participants from the pressures of the ‘capital A art world’ by providing space for artists to not make art. Michaela Nettell finds out more.
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Harun Farocki: 1944-2014
The German filmmaker, video artist, writer and teacher Harun Farocki has died aged 70.
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Field Broadcast: “How to communicate the incommunicable nature of a landscape”
Over the next seven days a series of newly commissioned digital artworks will be transmitted from the heart of Constable Country live and direct to people’s computers or mobile devices. We talk to Field Broadcast directors Rebecca Birch and Rob Smith about their latest project, Scene on a Navigable River; and to one of the commissioned artists, Adam Chodzko.
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A response to Hogarth: “I’m thinking about progress as a concept”
As part of an exhibition marking the 250th anniversary of William Hogarth’s death and featuring work by David Hockney, Yinka Shonibare MBE and Grayson Perry, Jessie Brennan is exhibiting a series of newly commissioned drawings of the soon to be demolished Robin Hood Gardens in Poplar. She talks about the project.
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Tweet the dawn: online artwork, please RT
To celebrate International Dawn Chorus Day on Sunday, the collaborative online artwork #dawnchorus365 will be creating its own virtual dawn chorus on Twitter. We find out more from one of the artists involved.
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Derek Jarman: “He was shy and proper, radical and subversive”
The artist and filmmaker Derek Jarman died on 19 February 1994. To mark 20 years since his death from an AIDS-related illness, a series of events and screenings are happening throughout the year, including two recently opened exhibitions in London. We talk to the shows’ curators and explore the riches on display.
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Anna Dumitriu: “The practice of microbiology feels very like making art”
Anna Dumitriu’s exhibition, The Romantic Disease: An Artistic Investigation of Tuberculosis, developed from a residency at the University of Oxford and culminates in a symposium on World TB Day. She talks about the ‘curious journey’ that led to her scientific and artistic exploration of this highly infectious, but curable, killer.
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Delfina Foundation: new artists’ house feels like a home
Following a £1.4million expansion project, Delfina Foundation re-opens its doors with The Politics of Food, a four-year residency project exploring ways creative process and practice can address issues around food, agriculture and the environment.
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Bermondsey Artists’ Group: “It’s about being open to possibility”
As an exhibition of works on paper opens in Southwark Park to celebrate three decades of the Bermondsey Artists’ Group, we talk to two members about the organisation’s thirty year commitment to art, community and learning.
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Alex Hetherington: “What is modern Edinburgh? What is Edinburgh film?”
Modern Edinburgh Film School brings together practitioners in visual art, poetry, performance and film to explore alternative approaches to the screen. Project founder Alex Hetherington talks about community, social sculpture and his search for a sense of ‘elsewhere-ness’ in a very traditional city.
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Vantage Art Prize: a new Departure for artist-led activity
As a new art competition launches in Leeds, we speak to the project’s curator, its sponsor and one of the shortlisted artists about the city’s changing; and self-sustaining; art scene.