Culture Crawl
2013’s Culture Crawl Many came on this guided tour of the best arts venues in Colchester, thank you all :) The Culture Crawl visited: Lakeside Theatre > Art Exchange > firstsite > The Minories Gallery > Mercury Theatre > Colchester Arts Centre > SlackSpace > The Waiting Room ! Certainly Colchester has one of the […]
Emma Hart’s ‘Dirty Looks’ at Camden Arts Centre
Emma Hart: Dirty Looks With just a few days of Emma Hart’s exhibition Dirty Looks at Camden Arts Centre to go – grab the chance to see her work if you can. British artist Emma Hart presents Dirty Looks, a series of new sculptural works combining ceramics, photography and video. Reflecting on her experience […]
Florence – a crucifix on every corner
Good to see a crucifx on a corner, mostly the cult of the Madonna – this one was a rare treat.
Florence – medieval history
Another one, harking back Florence’s more medieval times.
Florence – everyone’s an artist
One of our favs.
Florence – hanging heavy
Once you started to look out for them – everywhere.
Florence – saw it up
Another example on most street corners
Chris Dobrowolski explains the ideas behind ‘Vanishing Point’
The following is Chris Dobrowolski explaining the ideas behind the project: “The project ‘Vanishing Point’ is a collaboration between myself and Leslie Hill, an artist based in San Francisco. Leslie suggested the drive in cinema as a starting point and was very interested in the current trend for guerrilla drive ins that use abandoned spaces […]
Mail from Jail: Imprisoned for graffiti
This is a letter from a young man in Wellingborough Prison to the exhibition Intimate Bureaucracies, earlier this year: ‘I’m currently serving a 26 month sentence for painting graffiti on walls adjacent to train tracks. You can only appreciate the specious nature of the British justive system once you’ve been at the sharp end…How many […]
Martin Herraiz Composition/Performance – Can you help?
Brazilian composer Martin Herraiz has written a piece of music especially for Send Me a Flower, etc. –Invertible/Subvertible/Pervertible. Herraiz has left both the realisation of the piece and the ‘three melodic instruments’ used to play it to chance, saying ‘depending on the obvious bureaucratics involved in getting any piece of new music performed, the work […]
Bureaucracy: Artist’s Book by Franklin Valverde
I came across this on an artist’s book blog today. ‘Bureaucracy’ by Franklin Valverde. It is a really good example of how artists using rubber stamping are able to completely subvert the in-built rationality of their medium, turning a bureaucratic means into a beautiful end. http://seminariolivrodeartista.wordpress.com/2010/11/21/franklin-valverde/
David Horvitz: Some Cut Flowers
David Horvitz has been commissioned by firstsite to create a new work for the exhibition. Some Cut Flowers is a mailing project in which David is sending individual flowers in plastic water bottles from the United States to the exhibition on a daily basis. Due to customs regulations controlling the import and export of fresh cut flowers, it is […]