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Grief Must Be Love with Nowhere to Go
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Bloc Projects -
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March 22, 2024 -
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May 04, 2024 -
Location:
North East England
Socially Engaged - a-n The Artists Information Company
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Exhibition
Misfits
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Venue:
Lauderdale House -
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August 25, 2021 -
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September 20, 2021 -
Location:
London
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Exhibition
Graphic Novel For Luton
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Venue:
The Mall -
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March 07, 2020 at 01:00 PM -
Location:
South East England
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Performance
Burned Bright
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Thought Foundation. Clarity House, Durham Road, Birtley, DH3 2TB -
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March 14, 2020 at 12:00 AM -
Location:
North East England
Blog
Artist
twelve in twenty
keeping an annual blog has become a thing for me now. this year i’m interested in what the twelve in twenty might be.
Blog Post
rock and roll star
all around me is tranquilty and piece, the dog snoozing, the lights on the chrsitmas tree gracefully pulse and in my ears liam gallagher sings his hear out being a rock and roll star. watching the documentary Liam Gallagher: As It […]
Blog
Artist
Conversations with Aldershot
Can my socially engaged method of working usefully engage with my local community, artists and organisations?
Reflections on the RESEARCH part of my R&D project, funded by Arts Council England over 2019.
Resource
Profile
Assembly 2019: Karen Mackinnon, curator at Glynn Vivian Art Gallery
Karen Mackinnon, curator at Swansea’s Glynn Vivian Gallery, introduces her work and talks about the importance of art having a social purpose. Includes a video interview recorded at a-n’s Assembly Swansea event in May 2019.
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An Introduction
What has led to your taking on the identity of a socially-engaged interdisciplinary visual artist? It’s quite a loaded identity to have, isn’t it? I’ll do my best to break that down a bit! I’m your typical idealist; a dreamy […]
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Exhibition – Artists in Residence at C2C Social Action
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Venue:
NN Contemporary Art, Project Space -
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April 06, 2019 -
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April 13, 2019 -
Location:
East Midlands
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Performance
The Lost Library Wrexham – performance
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Venue:
UnDegUn, -
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December 15, 2018 at 12:00 AM -
Location:
Wales
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Performance
The Lost Library Wrexham – word & seed collecting workshop
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Tŷ Pawb -
Date:
November 24, 2018 at 12:00 AM -
Location:
Wales
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Lost Library Essence.
During my upcoming performance at UnDegUn (following a Lost Library workshop at Ty Pawb on 24th November) the using of my body as first absorption of questions feels right and connected to my slow and physical essence. Video: The Lost […]
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Are the movements/gestures important in reflecting on libraries?
Q: Are the movements/gestures important in reflecting on libraries? I find I have come a full circle in thinking about movement in response to words since first dreaming up the lost library project (in 2015, which coincides with the […]
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Preparating for The Lost Library at The Wrexham Open.
Preparations for The Lost Library at The Wrexham Open. Questions I’m considering: Dwindling libraries – what is being done around the UK and to what effect? How do and how can libraries can best support communities? What is now […]
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Networking
SEA FAIR (Socially Engaged Art Fair)
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Venue:
WI Hall -
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October 16, 2018 at 12:00 AM -
Location:
South West England
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SOUP at Social Making
The Social Making (optional) symposium dinner will take the format of a SOUP event, also held at Devonport Guildhall. SOUP is a powerful tool to start conversations, practice democracy and fund new projects, people, and ideas. Social Making SOUP, supported […]
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Digesting Politics at MIMA
Keep It Complex added a sprinkle of politics to MIMA’s weekly community lunches on 14/12/2017. We brought cupcakes with the faces of local politicians, MPs, MEPs, councillors, the police and crime commissioner and the Mayor. We also gave people pre-digested […]
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Digesting Politics at Grand Union, Birmingham
Keep it complex headed up to Birmingham to have some tea and Teressa May cake at Grand Union. Our local supermarket had refused to print Teressa May on a Cake, we’re not sure why, something about not being able to […]
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Exhibition
Art and Disaster: A Korea/UK arts project
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Venue:
SVA -
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August 02, 2017 -
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August 08, 2017 -
Location:
South West England
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Venice Biennale and Social engagement
In recent months, against the background of rapid change in our global political landscape, I have observed that my own echo-chamber of artists, curators and educators in the arts have been reacting. It has been clear to see that many […]
Collection
Residencies
Collected blogs and resources on the a-n site on artists’ residencies. See also my commissioned essay Residencies: practices and paradoxes
Resource
Profile
Oslo Pilot: the giver, the guest and the ghost
Oliver Bennett reflects on the challenges of introducing art into the public realm, following his attendance at Oslo Pilot’s symposium, as the city seeks to challenge the existing biennial format and enable new dialogues with its public space.
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End of the summer
In the last couple of weeks I’ve been back in West London working on the textiles project, and the group have produced some wonderful work. On the last day everyone brought cakes and sweets to share from all over the world (well […]
News
News story
Art is… at Tate Modern: stimulating, provocative and often moving
At the recent Art Is… event at Tate Modern, the Freelands Foundation gathered together a cast of artists, educators, gallery directors and more to present a series of talks and discussions about the idea of socially useful art, the importance of art education, and the role of creative freedom for artists. Fisun Guner reports.