Ian Thomson reflects on the nature of his sound work ‘Underground Lift’ and the connection between the inner ear and the Holbeck interchange.
‘Lost Portals’ continues at BasementArtsProject until Friday 26th April. There will also be a Lunchtime Conversation event on this day.
Read MoreResidents of South Leeds may remember Silvia Liebig from her time spent here in 2019, just before the outbreak of the pandemic. As part of East Streets Arts long running Artist House 45 residency project (2015-19), that also included Lloyd&Wilson, She was a resident of the house during 2019.
Read MoreI have always considered a mix of experience and enthusiasm in the programme to be a healthy thing, as experience riffs off enthusiasm and vice versa.
Read MoreHaving worked as a Police Forensic Artist, McDonagh’s current practice is not too far removed from a world in which the gaps in reality are filled in by imagination. She has moved her attention from the world of reconstructing human identities for the purpose of identification, to the reconstruction of abandoned human habitation through architecture and found objects.
Read MoreBeneath the surface of the locked down world the oxygen is running low. The tiny life support capsules sustaining our presence in the airless vacuum of millions of hard-drives, can only sustain three dimensional life for so long. It is time to head for the surface, but not too rapidly.
Read MoreSo how do we get past the problem of perception, access and desire. Life is about dialogue, that is how we learn. We educate ourselves through experience, we find the edge of our zone of comfort and understanding and we push past it, through to what lies beyond.
Read MoreWhen we lose a sense of purpose we lose our sense of the future, and that is where hopelessness slips into the void and feeds our deepest fears. That is the point at which the sun sets never to rise again.
Read MoreAt the studio in which I have spent the last four days, I pack up my things for the final time and prepare to head for the Torhaus. Today is the opening of the exhibition ‘Meine Welt Auf Corona’ and as soon as it is done I have to head back to the station so that I can catch my train home.
Read MorePaul Digby’s final entry for the journal on his latest work ‘Shopping’
Read MoreMany of our discussions in previous weeks have been about the intervening 10 years as much as they have involved what this project will entail. Our discussions have also revolved around situationist ideas and strategies, phenomenological understandings of environment and our engagement with people as artists and individuals.
Read Morethis was the first time I conceptually considered presence and absence of the figure and the space around the figure, and this has kept with me ever since.
Read Morethere is something really fascinating about revisiting, reworking and stripping back. Sanding down the floor of the studio, peeling back layers of varnish and paint that had become caked on the floor was both an incredibly satisfying feeling - like cleaning a dirty kitchen and then seeing it sparkle
Read More. . . the fact that there is much art out there that most of us will never be able to experience firsthand does not mean that there is no point in trying to experience or understand it.
Read MoreIn the midst of lockdown I felt like I should have been reading, disappearing in to worlds, escaping, but I needed to be present too. So I found that I could get lost in box sets, subtitled box sets, the best of both worlds present but not, reading and listening consumed as a whole.
Read Morehe source material, a photo of a wrapped garden ornamental pedestal, was sent to me by my American pal and painter Peter Waite.
Read MoreFell:
Northern England and Scottish
a. a mountain, hill, or tract of upland moor
b. (in combination) fell-walking
Word origin
from Old Norse fjall; related to Old High German felis rock
Read MoreMarch 2020, live updates from The sounds of ideas forming, Volume 2 (Instagram - @alandunn67), exploring the fragility and tangibility of vinyl sleeves in domestic settings. Recent instalments:
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