FLUX-FEST
Following on from a surge in Fluxus-inspired activity, most recently with The Long Weekend at Tate Modern, Birmingham is hosting FLUX-FEST
Following on from a surge in Fluxus-inspired activity, most recently with The Long Weekend at Tate Modern, Birmingham is hosting FLUX-FEST
Work that confounds traditional notions of craft is the focus for a new touring exhibition from the Crafts Council, the national development agency for applied arts.
An innovative art project designed to create a new identity for one of Londons most misunderstood areas launched in June on Peckham Square.
The Jerwood Foundation, one of the UKs best supporters of artists practice through their awards and prizes programmes, has a focus this month on photography.
A panel of education experts have selected Englands thirty most creative schools to be the leading edge of a £110m national creative learning programme.
Imagine attending a concert but instead of sitting or standing, you walk.
Animate Projects is looking for ambitious, original and thought-provoking proposals that develop the possibilities of animation: films that explore ideas of what animation is, with new forms and processes, compelling narratives, and challenging content.
Recent correspondents have made some very valid points regarding unpaid public art commissions.
For this double issue Reviews has a special focus on art in the public realm.
Mark Webster gives an account of the pan-European Animator project and its final event in Warsaw on 26 April.
Various locations, Frome, Somerset
10 May 21 June
Various locations, Loughborough
12 May 18 June
Festival of Contemporary Visual Art and Ecology
2-11 May
Pines Garden, St Margarets Bay and Charlton Shopping Centre, Dover
15 May 13 July
St Marys in Castro, Walmer Castle, Deal Castle
13 April 1 June
Emma Cocker discusses the practice of wandering, and considers the critical resonances of such an artform.
I have been reading with great interest and thinking a lot about the issue of unpaid public art proposals (a-n Magazine, Letters, April, May, June).
This month: Sarah Morpeth
This month: Alex Hetherington and Janie Nicoll
Contents include: Swansea round-up in Reviews, plus Charles Danby on artist Chloë Steele and the curatorial role of Day and Gluckman. Artists Sarah Craske and Stacy Keeler and Margate Rock’s curator Jessica Baum discuss their working relationship. Summary of artists […]
Reading the thoughts of four graduate artists from 1998 in, That was Then, but This is Now (2008 Degrees, May 2008), I couldnt help reflecting on my own experiences, graduating as a mature student from the Masters programme at the Kent Institute of Art and Design, where I had spent two challenging and happy years pursuing ideas about the creative process itself, using Franz Kafka and Henri Bergson as foil and focus for my final work.
Artists organisation CARFAC played a pivotal role in last years Ottawa Visual Arts Summit where formal and informal gatherings brought artists, administrators, academics and volunteers together to set direction for the visual arts community in the coming years.
I am writing in support of the letter by a large group of artists in a-n Magazine, April, addressing the problem of unpaid design work public art commissions.
Kent, and the Kent Coast in particular, has become host to a series of contemporary art festivals and international events.
Artists Sarah Craske and Stacy Keeler and curator Jessica Baum talk about the challenges of working together in the latest in our collaborative relationships series.