Guardian UK – Observer article on craft as art Grayson Perry – A Tradition of Bitterness, 2002 “What folk culture goes on in these Barratt homes: deceit, divorce and suicide in Merrie England …” These days craft is cool. After all it was a potter, Grayson Perry, who won the Turner Prize in December. It…
contemporary art
Colin Renfrew and archaeological art
In the wake of Colin Renfrew’s visit to Stanford last month I picked up his book Figuring it Out: The Parallel Visions of Artists and Archaeologists. I only glanced at it when it came out last year. I really like it. There is a wonderful range of questioning and reference. His topic is the human…
Media aura
Bill Viola – The Passions – an Exhibition on at the National Gallery London. Lots of high definition videos of people’s faces in slow motion, displaying emotion, disposition, reaction. The technology and medium makes us look differently at the everyday. That was about it though. I couldn’t bring myself to stand in front of a…
situationist manifesto
Just managed to get a look at a video Abram found – Call it sleep. A siutationist manifesto/documentary. Excellent. Here it is.
Manchester UK – Archaeology and performance
Visiting Nick Kaye in the drama department to talk about his superb book on site specific art (and which features a piece by Cliff McLucas on Brith Gof’s work Tri Bywyd). Tri Bywyd – scenographic design by Cliff McLucas It again confirms, for me, that the contemporary fine arts are where the most interesting intellectual…
Located Bodies
Antony Gormley at the Baltic Arts Center Wonderful stuff. Anthropometrics, collaborative work, community based, questioning representational forms. Allotment. Concrete boxes made to measure for residents of Malmo. All arranged in the gallery in social groups, and as a kind of miniature city scape. Domain Field. Whole body casts made of some 250 volunteers from the…
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