Ixia , the public art think tank, have produced some great stuff on public art, and this event has the best name I’ve come across for an event in a long time. On top of all that, it’s free!
The very talented Rachel Holland, eco-stylist and founder of La Luminata, the sustainable design and trends online magazine, has published a book called ‘Future Visions’. This contains “A view of the future from some of today’s top blogger’s, trendwatchers, artists, designers, philosophers, experts and free-thinkers in the eco world”. 20 individuals have contributed their observations… [Read more…]
I will be part of a panel on the South-East section of BBC 1′s ‘the politics show’ on Sunday 23rd November, discussing the role of cultural projects in the regeneration of seaside towns. The show will be broadcast live between 12.30 and 1pm from Margate, ahead of the ground-breaking ceremony for the controversial Turner Contemporary… [Read more…]
This is a slideshare version of the presentation I gave last Thursday at the ATLAS 2008 conference in Brighton, UK.
A couple of pictures from my first visit down to the Folkestone Trienniale… Mark Wallinger’s ‘Folk Stones’ David Batchelor’s ‘Disco Mecanique’
Over on the ixia website there are three new essays on public art, commissioned by Sophie Hope. Of particular interest to me is David Patten’s piece on the commissioning of artists in the development process. “He argues that keeping artists at one remove from the development process, sheltered by agencies and curators, can add to… [Read more…]
I’m currently at the Creative Clusters 2007 conference in London. I’ll post more fully about this when it is over (it finishes tomorrow), but one thing that come up today seemed particularly interesting and I thought I should share it. In a session on ‘developing creative spaces’, a question was asked: “What problems are… [Read more…]
Back in August I posted about one aspect of the lost-o project in Ashford. I wanted to start a debate about the quality of a piece of graffiti that had appeared on the edge of the town centre, not because it was graffiti, but because it was a bad example of the form that had gained… [Read more…]
In my hometown of Ashford, Kent at the moment there is a big public art program running alongside the redevelopment of the town centre. This has attracted the kind of small-town criticism that I assume it was partly designed to provoke and has involved a number of interesting artists, doing all kinds of things that… [Read more…]
May 9, 2011
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