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Tramway, Glasgow
7 February 2008
This review was written as part of the Writing From Live Art publication project ’We Need to Talk About Live Art’ at the National Review of Live Art, Tramway, Glasgow Feb 6-11, 2008. Excerpts from We Need to Talk About Live Art are Read on…
Reviewed by: Rachel Lois Clapham
Bianca Winter considers the nature of digital art and new media artforms utilised in the UK contemporary artscene.
Most people engage with technology on a daily basis and artists are no different. Whether as a means of production or promotion, artists enter the digital domain and make use of technologies that have shaped the way we live today. In The Read on…
Reviewed by: Bianca Winter
Fred, London
14 March – 4 May
The cumulation of her artist residency at the Wordsworth Trust in Cumbria, Kate Davis’s recent work performs, both implicitly and explicitly, Romantic notions of the reconciliation of the human and nature through art. Like Wordsworth, Davis Read on…
Reviewed by: Heather Phillipson
Deveron Arts, Huntly
March
It will take some time until the title of this text becomes reality. Despite the fact that, for over a decade, Scottish contemporary art (and artists) have been positioned amongst the very best internationally, there is still no established critical Read on…
Reviewed by: Nuno Sacramento
PAD gallery, Preston
27 February – 29 March
My first experience of Martin Hamblen, the curator of ‘Safer with strangers’, was of a suited, big-haired and slightly sinister figure standing in the corner of a Coca-Cola red fence. This was a performance in May 2006, during his solo Read on…
Reviewed by: Elaine Speight
Southbank Centre, London
25 January - 9 March 2008
Hollywood Remix is a juxtaposition of two artists, who both manipulate Hollywood films, in order to change their meaning and throw a new viewing angle on previously familiar footage. Ed Young’s work is compilation of clips from the Superman Read on…
Reviewed by: Hannah Wise
Exit Here, Nottingham
11 - 20 March 2008
Jackinabox, the first exhibition curated and staged by Nottingham-based artist group Exit Here, presents pieces by five artists whose practices - though described in the exhibition text as being “unrelated” - adopt a shared Read on…
Reviewed by: Hugh Dichmont
The Wellcome Collection, London
1 April - 31 May 2008
Kate Forde and Mike Findley the curator and press officer met me in the entrance hall of the Wellcome Trust. I was listening to the history of Henry Wellcome on one of the many multi media displays. “Henry Wellcome was born in the days of Read on…
Reviewed by: Nathaniel Pitt
Kettles Yard, Cambridge
27 February - 30 March 2008
‘Momentary Momentum 2’ contends and demonstrates the power of the drawn line and its assimilation into the medium of non-pixelated animation. The exhibition explodes the multifaceted universe of animation serving to elucidate and Read on…
Reviewed by: Will McCrory
PHOENIX & BRIDGE GALLERIES, Exeter
7 March - 12 April 2008
Looking through the glass door of the main gallery of the Phoenix, Exeter I was interested to see that the gallery was in the process of mounting a new exhibition. I was wrong. The exhibition was up and awaiting an audience. I Read on…
Reviewed by: Nannette Brown
Surface Gallery, Nottingham
3 - 4 March 2008
Apeiron: The unlimited, the boundless; the raw stuff out of which all things arise and into which they dissolve again.The purpose of science in explaining how and bringing to light new phenomena has lead not only to the stripping down and condensing Read on…
Reviewed by: Dan Green
BALTIC Centre for contemporary art, Gateshead, Tyne & Wear
29 February 2008
John Cage’s Variations VII, first performed in New York in 1966, relocated to Gateshead’s BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art as a centrepiece to the region-wide AV Festival. The festival itself promises a wide variety of Read on…
Reviewed by: Daniel Carey
Millenium Galleries, Sheffield
16 February - 30 March 2008
Nasrin Tabatabai's Passage and Katie Davies' 38th ParallelHaving decided to write a review for my home town contemporary art event, I found it difficult to narrow down into one piece, such was the strength of the work on show. A packed Read on…
Reviewed by: Terry Slater
One in the Other Gallery, East London
7 December 2007 - 13 January 2008
Curated by photographer and video artist Ben Judd, Persona Non Grata presents a range of film and video works from 1970 to 2007. The term Persona Non Grata translates as an unwelcome person. In addition to its use in legal matters, Read on…
Reviewed by: Alia Pathan
Toynbee Studios, London
8 - 9 March 2008
Bobby Baker's work achieves an amazing resonance among women because the forms she uses and the situations she references are commonly shared yet largely undiscussed amongst us. But unlike other intentionally feminist works like Judy Read on…
Reviewed by: Felicity Ford
Bloomsberg Space, London
12 January 2006 - 23 February 2008
Places of Laughter and Crying is an exhibition comprising of several video and film works. The different pieces of work correspond to each the other in terms of theme. A sense of the psychological impact of place and how we experience it is strong Read on…
Reviewed by: Rachel Murray
Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art , Oslo
12 January - 23 March 2008
Housed in a maze of rooms at the Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Lights On is a bewildering group show of Norwegian contemporary artists. This confusion seems to have infused the art on show. Thora Dolven Balke’s OH GOD NO leads Read on…
Reviewed by: Kristina Johansen
PS1, MoMA Affiliate, Long Island City, New York
17 February - 12 May 2008
WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution, housed at the cavernous PS1, is a vast international survey of over 120 artists, collectives and collaborations with over 400 works exhibited and all produced from the period 1965-1980. The scope of the work Read on…
Reviewed by: Alex Hetherington
Winter Garden, Sheffield
16 - 24 February 2008
The Winter Garden is a large temperate glass house adjacent to the Millennium Gallery in Sheffield. Containing more than 2,500 plants from around the world creating a display of exotic evergreen plants, the glass house provides an environment in Read on…
Reviewed by: Teresa Marshall
DVD, CD and 2 Booklets, Across the UK
1 January 2001 - 31 December 2006
In a short film called Surviving in Shawbridge, a teenage boy from Glasgow tells the camera that he is often called a “black bastard”. Another boy remarks, casually, that the only asylum seekers who don’t get attacked on the Read on…
Reviewed by: Mary Paterson
OVADA, OXFORD
9 February - 1 March 2008
How is it possible to ‘locate’ the point or points at which meaning can be made in an artwork? Chinnery’s exhibition deals with ‘locations’ in its broadest context, spanning issues within discourses of post-colonial Read on…
Reviewed by: Paula Redfern
Casino Luxembourg, Luxembourg
26 January – 6 April
After the much debated exhibition ‘Cloaca’ by Flemish artist Wim Delvoye, the Casino Luxembourg – Forum d’art contemporain presents three new projects, amongst which is the exhibition ‘P2P’ conceived by a Paris-based Read on…
Reviewed by: Natacha Wagner
Tramway, Glasgow
16-17 February (continuing in part until 16 June)
Tramway is a decaying, ascetic exterior, shedding paintwork, shedding particles of old architecture, mended, repaired and remodelled with fillings on fillings, painted-out windows, bricked-up deleted functionless voids, cobwebbed gaps collecting Read on…
Reviewed by: Alex Hetherington
Rotterdam, The Netherlands
6-10 February
Project(or) Art Fair in Rotterdam is, as its title implies, something of a hybrid between a curatorial project and a commercial art fair. Situated in the central location of the grand former post office building, Project(or) opened alongside the Read on…
Reviewed by: Karin Kihlberg
Millennium Galleries, Sheffield
16 February - 30 March 2008
Tim Etchell’s belongs to a small artists group called Forced Entertainment whose website describes what they undertake as ranging from “…projects that are very brash and theatrical to other works that are very minimal and Read on…
Reviewed by: Tom Duggan
Regents Park, London
11-14 October 2007
I had heard things about Frieze, was it really just a car boot sale for all the big galleries to bring their best stock along and flog it to rich people? Well yes actually, it was. I think I had seen about three or four Blackberry phones before Read on…
Reviewed by: Tom Duggan
Surface Gallery, Nottingham
31 January - 21 February 2008
Completion deems its host ready for exterior consumption, yet what happens when an exploration is forced into the spotlight unresolved? Nicola Pomery and Mark Selby showcase a series of provocations that have not reached finality. Instead, Read on…
Reviewed by: Rhiannon Worgan
Muzeul National De Arta Contemporana, Bucharest
22 January - 16 August 2008
With yesterdays snow still on the ground, in the freezing air I took a long walk around the back of the Bucharest’s ‘Peoples’ Palace’. The ‘Peoples’ Palace’ (which is almost as big as the Pentagon) was built Read on…
Reviewed by: Lucinda Holmes
Surface Gallery, Nottingham
25-28 February 2008
Nottingham Trent University's Fine Art department presents it's emerging students in five back-to-back shows at the Surface Gallery. Each exhibition is themed by the phrase It couldn't be made up and commences with the debut show At Read on…
Reviewed by: Amanda Young
Metro Pictures, New York City
7 February - 15 March 2008
Narrative is a fraudulent extinct melodramatic speciesE-mail spam scams from African dignitaries, bank managers and accountants fill our in-boxes with deals to share in vast wealth and assets from deceased individuals (who have died under tragic and Read on…
Reviewed by: Alex Hetherington
