I. Beatrice Gibson's film I Hope I'm Loud When I'm Dead (2018) opens with jerky, smudged shots from the underground. A voice-over makes confessions about feeling a sense of panic; suddenly the barely recognisable underground is replaced with footage of street riots and the narrator - one that tells emotions rather than the plot - proclaims …
1. Visions in the Nunnery, Bow Arts E3 2SJ Visions in the Nunnery, a three-part presentation of artist moving image and performance at Bow Arts, started its last programme on 27 November 2018. After Tina Keane and Melanie Manchot, the tone and themes of the final exhibition will be drawn from the work of …
Lawrence Abu Hamdan is a familiar name on the art and biennale circuit, enlarged by solo shows at the daadgallerie (until December 2018) and Hammer Museum (Jan-May 2018), recent participation at Sharjah Biennale (2017) and Ballroom Marfa (2017) & nomination for the Jarman Award in the same year. He also often works for/with Forensic Architecture, …
Jade Monserrat was selected as one of four artists to respond to the theme of Future SPACE for which she collaborated with curator Chris Rawcliffe. At SPACE Gallery in Hackney, she staged the next step in the evolution of her long-term preoccupation with dancer Josephine Baker, considered the first black celebrity with an unparalleled career …
Shonisaurus Popularis, the latest exhibition by the Slade School of Art graduate Hazel Brill presented at Croydon-based Turf Projects, will end in five days. Earlier this year, the young artist exhibited her piece Woke Up in Spring at Zabludowicz Collection and from what I read, she utilised a similar theatrical staging, combining installation, video and …
Sophie Jung's Come Fresh Hell or Fresh High Water (29th November 2017 - 13th January 2018) is a small basement exhibition at Blain|Southern in London curated by Tom Morton. Without much beating about the bush, this is the most exhilarating assembly of sculptural pieces I have seen in a very long time. Sophie's characteristically …
27 Guildhall Street in Folkestone is a temporary home to an exhibition laced with self-doubt ('Can I Not Do Anything Right?' asks a light piece on the entrance door), uncertainty and restraint or even pain, but also moments of personal discovery and spatial creation as determined by the body - the body seen through activist …
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Dora Budor (b.1984, Croatia) is a young artist living and working in New York whose work has also appeared in a few exhibitions staged in London. Her sculptures and larger installations are built from real film props, that is objects that were originally made for the camera eye and cinematic mediation instead of the naked human …
(X) A Fantasy was the last DRAF exhibition at its Symes Mews location. The show reinforced for one final time what has stood behind the curatorial vision of the organisation for 10 years - experimentation in exhibition making and programming, searching for yet unforged relationships in (art) theory and practice and presenting both, old …
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 …
Only 3 weeks left to see 'The Place is Here', a strikingly timely and (disturbingly) relevant exhibition of works by 25 artists interrogating race, gender and politics. The works installed at the start of the show provide the context within which and in response to which many of the pieces were generated - Margaret Thatcher's …
Afterall (Issue 43) looks into deep-seated capitalist and/= Â (neo-)colonial systems not from political or economic perspectives but by dissecting the issues of indigeneity. Obviously, these are all interrelated in very sad and disturbing ways until today when grass-roots initiatives to overcome this state of affairs both proliferate and face elimination. In her article 'Chronicle of …
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After today's workshop at OSE in Margate, it is abundantly clear that preparation for the future, especially from our contemporary standpoint, follows multiple paths - constructing weapons for protection, fashioning primitive musical instruments out of rubber bands and plastic containers so that a (post-apocalyptic) landscape is not devoid of culture/personal expression and turning a computer …
For two days at the end of January, Flat38 Gallery in Margate will present works by eight artists selected by its owner and curator, Claire Orme. It is the first exhibition organised in the space that simultaneously serves as Claire’s residence and thus ties with production techniques tried and tested by curators in the past …
Hans Ulrich Obrist’s 2014 book, breezing through his career, curatorial influences and cultural mentors, is dedicated to David Weiss, one half of the famous Swiss duo Fischli and Weiss. The two artists crop up in Obrist’s account frequently, as does Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster or Christian Boltanski, architect Rem Koolhaas, philosopher Edouard Glissant and his personal art-historical …
The just finished exhibition at DRAF, London hinged on a contradiction for me – its works, centred on the theme of flesh, treated it as shifting, porous, if not ephemeral but at the same time, the display was stubbornly tangible, rejecting the ghostliness of a post-digital human. No video or film installations were to be …
I have been to The Infinite Mix twice in the past two months and each time I spent weeks raving about it to colleagues and friends. One of them, upon hearing that it consisted of video installations, instantly shook his head in disapproval- he explained that video art alienated him, that the works were usually …
THAT WAS THEN THIS IS NOW reads Ed Ruscha’s 2014 lithograph print. Decades of other statements and terse phrases preceded it: HOLLYWOOD IS A VERB. I DONT WANT NO RETRO SPECTIVE. COLD BEER BEAUTIFUL GIRLS. HURRY UP SCHEDULE. VERY IMPORTANT PEOPLE. Authoring such pieces must be fun- the process usually entails snatching overheard conversations or …
The  photogram film and garden plants make for an uncommon but richly allusive pairing in Cathy Rogers' Light Touch exhibition at Pie Factory in Margate (open until 1st November). The delicate contact in the show's title can be found in works scattered around four rooms of the former pork butcher's, making the place resonate with …
Clarissa Beveridge and Camilla Bliss are two out of six artists selected by Threads for their DYI exhibition at The Brewery Tap in Folkestone. Focusing on the notions of process, fluid arrangement and short-lived, particular moments, the exhibition reflected pertinent themes in the contemporary art discourse. The curatorial team has also organised a panel discussion …
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