Articles
Our on-line knowledge resource comprises critical articles on the arts which foster diverse views and stimulate learning. The essays below inform, critique, contextualise and draw attention to current art practices across the world.
Reading the Surface
By Jessie Bond. I’ve saved a photograph by Jochen Lempert as my desktop background so that I’ll look at it every day. The black and white image is very simple, almost abstract. Lempert has captured small, light coloured pieces of matter floating in front of...
Inifinite Unica: A Collection of Posters
By Giulia Damiani. This publication relates to three weeks of poster-making and reflections in Jordan by writer Giulia Damiani in collaboration with The Studio based in Amman and the artist Theodore Ereira-Guyer. Besides the rich history of printing techniques and...
Observations from Glasgow International 2016
By Jessie Bond. Glasgow is a city whose contemporary art scene continues to flourish. Running since 2005, Glasgow International is a two week long Biennale: a celebration of the spaces, atmospheres and histories the city has to offer to contemporary artists and their...
Contemporary Art and Cuba
By Giulia Damiani. 1963. Energy, change and engrossing rhythm in Havana. This together with the bouncy cheerfulness of music were the raw materials for Agnès Varda’s documentary Salut Les Cubains recording her journey through Cuba that year. For this photomontage the...
Copy+Paste: The Collagistic Qualities of ‘Post Internet’ Video Work
Copy+Paste: The Collagistic Qualities of ‘Post Internet’ Video Work By Keren Goldberg. In recent years, it seems that collage has gained some renewed attention. In 2014, Whitechapel Gallery dedicated a retrospective to Hannah Höch’s politically critical collages. At...
Pinching the Earth
By Giulia Damiani. This exhibition and book feature new works by writer Giulia Damiani and artist Theodore Ereira-Guyer. The title talks of the reflection on the notion of weight carried out in one-month residency by the two collaborators in Bucharest. The residency...
Generation P. Dubossarsky & Vinogradov
By Ekaterina Askarina. In the middle of 1990-s, amid the ruins of the Soviet system, pepped up by the breeze of unlimited freedom, two men set out to build up a New Russian Paradise. Two decades later they ascended to the Olympus of the most expensive living...
Le Nemesiache from Naples: Amplifying Women’s Art History
By Giulia Damiani. What is in our existence that is still mythical? The philosopher Mircea Eliade posed this question in his 1967 book Myth, Dreams and Mysteries, unaware of anticipating an artistic phenomenon that would materialize the potential of cyclical and...
Can I touch it? Interactive Art in the Information Age
By William Fairbrother. Time elapses and the proliferation of interactive art accelerates. Unlike other types of artwork, this species depends on human interaction to come alive. Its emergence has gone in tandem with the Information Age, a period characterised by...