Education for Socially Engaged Art by Pablo Helguera is the first “Materials and Techniques” book for the emerging field of social practice. Written with a pragmatic, hands-on approach for university-level readers and those interested in real-life application of the theories and ideas around socially engaged art.… Read More
I found this interview with Christine Hill on Lee Walton’s website and thought I’d share it. Hill is head of the Department Media, Trend and Public Appearance at Bauhaus University in Weimar, Germany. The interview discusses her work and the link between the making of art… Read More
This morning Adam forwarded me these images of Esther, who is the wonderful Grandmother that we were invited to write to as part of Adam Mosers project “We wouldn’t trade those years” at RAYGUN in January. These images show Esther replying to the letters that… Read More
On Wednesday the 8th of February at 6pm ADAM MOSER who exhibited at RAYGUN with ‘We Wouldn’t Trade Those Years’ hung out at Phat Burgers and discussed his work. Adam explained the project and discussed social practice and also told us about some… Read More
TIFFANY SHARFAN RELICS OF ALL THINGS PRECIOUS Tiffany is a wonderful friend and artist and her work is both fascinating visually and interesting conceptually, Tiffany is also wonderfully articulate regarding the ideas behind the work, so come and have a look and a… Read More
Sam Peck sent me the following link this week, check it out. The pdf is the book ‘The Future is Now’ by James Voorhies and has a sentence or two on each page with the essentials making it so easy, I’ve just read it twice.… Read More
On Sunday my brother Richard took me to Brisbane where we stayed with friends on The River, visited the boutique hotel LIMES in the Valley for cocktails with friends, went to the Old Museum to listen to and see Beth Orton sing some serious tunes, woke to an indulgent breakfast of smoked salmon on… Read More
Adam Mosers project ” We Wouldn’t Trade Those Years” opened last night at RAYGUN. The show was developed follwing an exchange Adam had with his Grandma where in which she told stories surrounding photographs that were taken during her Son ( Adam’s Uncle) Eddies visit… Read More
Group Material Democracy: Education. 1988 Dia Art Foundation, NYC Today I have been engrossed in an article by Doug Ashford called ‘Group Material: Abstraction as the onset of the real’. The article is an adaption of a paper given in Barcelona, and discusses Ashford’s own… Read More
Thanks to everyone who came down to MITCH ON CHINA, it was a great night, Mitch spoke about his photographs and Bart Thrupp played, which was awesome. If you somehow missed it (shock horror) check out the video for Mitch’s explanation of the work.
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