Ars Longa Vita Brevis | Bruce Davies w/ Ruby Jean Waterhouse

Beware of Artists, they mix with all classes of society’

A popular meme from the internet of today allegedly has its origins in a warning from King Leopold of Belgium to Queen Victoria, when in 1845 he wrote

‘dealings with artists, for instance, require great prudence; they are acquainted with all classes of society, and for that reason are dangerous; they are hardly ever satisfied, and when you have too much to do with them, you are sure to have des ennuis’

Living In Eternity: Tomorrow Never Comes

The clock stopped at the time of birth; marking a transition between worlds as the first breath is drawn.

The anguished screams of birth, become the rhythmic sigh matching the cadence of a weary world

Decompressed Time Frames and the Interconnectedness of Things

‘Decompressed Time Frames’ (the exhibition formerly known as ‘Compressed Time Frames’) opens with the extension of a work begun as part of the 2017 Leeds Light Night, in which Bradley mobilised his audience, attached by an unsafe rock climbers rope, and traversed the city from art venue to art venue.

A New Weird Albion

It is hardly surprising, that since reopening BasementArtsProject in August, the nature of the exhibitions have been somewhat political. Pushing through a time of great turmoil and upheaval as we are doing right now, things that have been bubbling under for a long time have quite predictably and reasonably come to the surface.

Lockdown Journal: Dortmund Edition [Yol]

During the Lockdown I received an update from the studio of Yol, and just before I left another video update arrived in which he appeared to be trapped inside the Coronaverse. I shall leave you with his emergency transmission.

Lockdown Journal: Dortmund Edition [Travelogue 05]

At 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.

Lockdown Journal: Dortmund Edition [Travelogue 04]

Today is essentially a free day. With the exhibition now fully installed and all of the tech stuff working properly, I can spend the day taking in some art elsewhere. I have arranged to meet Sylvia and Christiane at the Dusseldorf U building.

Lockdown Journal: Dortmund Edition [Lou Hazelwood]

Moving out of lockdown, the world is opening up, a chasm to be filled by STEM courses at Universities where the arts are systematically destroyed in an attempt to keep the economy going.

Lockdown Journal: Dortmund Edition [Travelogue 03]

Thursday 22nd October

Today I am meeting Viennese artists Christiana Spatt and Maria Hanl at the Torhaus. Maria’s work is a film piece and has already been installed, Christiane is a painter and photographer and her work is the final piece in the Corona jigsaw.

Lockdown Journal: Dortmund Edition [Travelogue 02]

The city streets do not seem to be very busy with cars. There is a hire system for electric scooters, they are everywhere and people just leave them parked at the edge of the pavement. Bikes are also popular. Dortmund feels like a city with an environmental conscience.

Lockdown Journal: Dortmund Edition [ArtCouple]

Man is not rational; only what encompasses him is intelligent

Once More Unto The Breach (Repeat Ad Infinitum)

The work of Lou Hazelwood and Chris Graham, when working as a duo, seeks to make sense of the slippage from one political and philosophical state to another.

The Entropic Effect In A Zero Sum Universe

The ‘Emergence’ exhibition looks at the energy that transforms material and gives new form to that which already exists. It is about the hand of the artist in the transformation process, the mind of the artist in the conception of the work and it is about the nature of the material being transformed.

A New World In The Morning

As we emerge into a post-pandemic world, rubbing our eyes and blinking in the sunlight, the importance of the root system becomes apparent. The things that we thought may not survive did in fact just die back for an exceptionally long winter.

Art From The Ground Up: A Post-Pandemic Future

The question is how to achieve those elusive steps to improvement, how to train your vision on a new horizon and attempt to take people with you on that journey.

LOCKDOWN JOURNAL 2.3: Paul Digby #3

Paul Digby’s final entry for the journal on his latest work ‘Shopping’

Chloe Harris: AMAZON PRINT SERIES: A Lockdown Perspective 2021 #5

In the scene pictured, here, the ”Feeders” take parcels from the metal or cardboard containers (pictured on both side of the print) onto the belt at a constant pace, starting the operations.

BasementArtsProject | INVITATION TO PARTICIPATE IN OUR 10th ANNIVERSARY PROJECT

Many 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.

LOCKDOWN JOURNAL COVID-19.53 (Lou Hazelwood)

In 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.

LOCKDOWN JOURNAL: COVID-19.52 (BasementArtsProject)

There is something rather disheartening about opening up my computer each day to a raft of reminders and notifications telling me that I should be installing, opening, taking down yet another exhibition that has not happened.

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