Ars longa, Vita brevis (Life is short, and Art long, opportunity fleeting, experience perilous, and decision difficult.)
‘Unstable’ is a collection of abstract artwork from Battle of the Eyes – Savage Pencil (Chris Long) & Eyeball (Edwin Pouncey), Joel Biroco, Julian House and Cathy Ward. All are visual artists, but they are also polymaths, working as illustrators, musicians and even occultists and many have been published in the Strange Attractor Journal. All [...]
Using a combination of the round-the-clock format (each person contributes for a set period of time – in our case, minutes!) on a series of projects and using prompts from Eno/Schmidt’s Oblique Strategies, we ended up with an unusual collection of pieces. What was useful about this experiment was it forced you to start without [...]
One says ‘I am’ this, that, or the other, and the words scarcely uttered one ceases to be that thing
Art is everything you don’t have to do (‘an attempt to answer the huge unanswered question, the dirty secret of the art world: what is art actually for?’ – Lecture at The AA School of Architecture, Feb 2012)
Beautiful and useful way of cataloguing Camden Arts Centre exhibitions in a consistent way. I don’t mind paying £1 for each one, and really like the idea that as you add them to the binder, you create a self-curated collection of shows. Something similar appealed to me about the presentation of OMA’s ‘what we are [...]
Beautiful, simple & immaculately filmed video works at the Carroll / Fletcher gallery on Eastcastle St, W1W, until the end of March.
I managed to persuade a fellow visitor to pose his silhouette between the projected films and the screen of Laura Buckley‘s ‘Fata Morgana‘. He didn’t believe me that we were allowed to get inside it too, so long as we first removed our shoes. It was amazing; I could have stayed in there for hours [...]
Reactive (to light, touch, movement..) canopies created by students at the AA D_lab workshop, shown at the Kinetica Art Fair 2012
I picked this matchbox blank up at one the Ephemera Society events a while ago, and recently re-discovered it in a tidy-up. For some reason they make me happy to look at and hold, and l was trying to figure out why. It could be I just love roughly one and two colour printed stuff [...]
