Did you go to Hackney WickED arts festival @Hackney_WickED
The trains from Stratford were full as London’s creatives headed for Hackney Wick this weekend. Or at least the ones that don’t live there anyway. There was an atmosphere of both the whacky and the downright normal for the sixth Hackney WickED festival centred on Queen’s Yard – a peculiar name for a seething, melée of...
STREET ARTIST INTERVIEW: JESTER JACQUES ASKS 5 QUICK QUESTIONS TO…Birds Are Nice
How do you feel about street art in your current city/environment? (do you like it? How does your work stand out from the rest?) Street Art in my current city is non-existent; [actually in the entire county really]. It can be done, but you have to get permits, get approved by a committee, it is...
Mnemonic City: Moving Streets
Part of the series Mnemonic City, Moving Streets is the latest exhibition of Magma Collective. Ridley Road Market has been the starting point for a three-month derive that ended up in a two-day exhibition and live performances at Doomed Gallery. The market has been the magnifier to explore relationships, trade, city spaces and the point...
Freshly Packed: call for artists
Is your performative practice exploring notions of the biological, corporeal, food, flesh, sustenance and mortality? If that is the case, you are ready to submit your work to Something Human! The international curator-collective, in collaboration with Brockspace, is seeking artists for the live performance FRESHLY PACKED / ALWAYS CHECK THE LABEL that will take...
Dead Hedge Trio – Cutting it Up
Dead Hedge Trio, Mello Mello Jazz Cafe, Tuesday 26th 2013 Spring, unfortunately has not yet reached north-west England yet a sweaty, hot-under-the-collar temperature was achieved earlier this week at Mello Mello by Dead Hedge Trio and their guest artist Mimi Amore. Although only on their third residency at this fantastic, grassroots venue the group...
REVIEW: Pissed Ink by Peter Spiers, Platform Arts, Belfast
As a protest in Duchamp’s urinal, a suspension for Serrano’s Christ, or a patina for Rodin’s bronze, piss holds a special place in the heart of art history. Body fluid has long established itself as a vehicle to grab attention, evoke disgust and make associative statements on consumption and value. Yet having become associated...
Jester Jacques Gallery Interviews Oskar Lindvall
Oskar Lindvall is a Swedish illustrator and graphic/digital artist. He recently won Jester Jacques Gallery’s first competition, which was to design a background to be digitally downloaded for smart phones or computers from their online shop. Co Owner Karen Shidlo caught up with the artist to ask him about his work. How did you get...
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Amidst Art and Wilderness in Arizona
I stood at the top of Cathedral Rock, overlooking the clutter of red rocks in the distance. Below, cars trailed across the landscape on pieces of gray ribbon, looping intricately around dull desert vegetation and more rocks. A strong wind blew, whipping locks of my hair against my lips and shoving me against a rogue...
It’s time for Something Human. Interview with Annie Jael Kwan
Annie. You have a theatre arts and law background and you work as freelance producer and project manager for arts projects as well as creative producer and filmmaker. On top of that, you are the director of Brockspace, a new pop-up arts venue in Southeast London. This is truly impressive! Tell me more about your...
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Say hello to Frieze Masters
Mexican dolls, early 20th century Dutch and Flemish paintings Installation of Don Judd’s works This year Frieze has launched Frieze Masters, a new fair for ‘historical art’, alongside Frieze proper in Regent’s Park. In contrast to Frieze which is pretty much the thermometer of ‘what’s hot and what’s not’ in the realm of contemporary...
CYBERFEST: Russia’s largest annual New Media Festival
For the 6th Annual Edition, CYBERFEST 2012 explores the impacts of art and technology on society’s future through a 6 day multidisciplinary event titled ‘AT HEAVEN’S DOOR’. Exhibits, events and performances across St Petersburg’s top cultural venues present varied perspectives on the physical state of international New Media and the metaphysical directions it leads society....
