Reframed City: Canterbury Seen Through Rare Archival Images from the Canterbury Museums and Galleries Collection was an archival photography research project I carried out from autumn 2016 to spring 2017. The research focused on infrequently used visual material held in the archives in order to bring its richness to light. It was paired up with …
Backward into Infinity
What we know for sure is that Robert Smithson, an established artist and critic by the mid-1960s, took a bus from Manhattan, New York to the suburb of Passaic in New Jersey fifty years ago. He spent that hot, ‘cobalt blue’ day visiting sites (or, equally, sights), photographing them with an Instamatic 400 and noting …
Interview with Nicolas Bourriaud
24th February 2015, École des Beaux-Arts, Paris. Conducted as part of research for my dissertation thesis in Bourriaud's office which he liberally filed with cigar smoke. MK: I first wanted to talk to you about the goals of relational aesthetics, in particular how to understand them in terms of applicability. On some occasions, you speak …
The Image of the Road
This short piece was written for an exhibition catalogue on the occasion of Festival of Projections in Canterbury in March 2016. ‘The Image of the Road’ is the second collaborative video work by Helen Kirwan and Simon Pruciak which traces their 17,000 km journey along the E40, a grand transnational highway between Calais in France …