Most Dismal Swamp presents Dismal Sessions Dismal Sessions is an ongoing series of audio-visual mulch: DJ sets, cursed ASMR, documented performances, baroque polemics, party-line interference, poetry, spells; a miasma of damned data. Dismal Session 001: Did I disappoint you? by Body Drift Dismal Session 002: Live set by Never Worse Dismal Session 003: WHAT LUXURY […]
MA CAT will incorporate our new course Art + Anthropology (20 Credits) programmed by Atelier: Making Research Material. This experimental course explores and develops the convergence of the anthropological turn in contemporary art practices with the visual, material and practice turns in social anthropology with the aim of fostering a new art+anthropology interdiscipline. The course […]
John Baldessari – Class Assignments (optional), 1970 fourteen disparate assignments, Cal Arts Post Studio Art class 1970. The MA CAT is a post-studio programme. Art education is still predicated on the assumption that the ‘studio’ is the normative site of learning. Post Studio art (Baldessari 1970-) challenged this assumption. The studio is a relatively new invention […]
Naomi Garriock – Mechanisms (2020) Click on this link for images of the workshop Download PDF of Mechanisms Instructions (link) This workshop will last 4 hours with a 1 hour break in the middle. Please wear comfortable warm clothing and bring a smartphone to record and listen and something to write on (phone, […]
Posted on June 2, 2013 by Neil Mulholland “A Preparation For Things To Come” A publication produced for FAIR at Tablot Rice 23-25 May 2013
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The Black Merkin (Download eBOOK) Bad Romance was a crowd-sourced project managed by MA CAT alumni Laura Edbrook and Norman James Hogg under the transitory moniker New Society of Dilettanti. Edbrook and Hogg initiated the project during their writing commission for the 2010 New Work Scotland Programme at the Collective gallery in Edinburgh. The idea […]
Microstoria, at Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh, May-June 2011. Vernisage images https://www.flickr.com/gp/neilmulholland/V91b1s Microstoria was curated by the MA Contemporary Art Theory at Edinburgh College of Art. Microstoria investigated histories of falsehoods and half-truths; uncovering ways in which myths become embedded in cultural activities and established as accepted norms. A Microstory of Curating has been conceived as […]
BYOB, Sculpture Court, ECA February 2011 Bring Your Own Beamer MA Contemporary Art Theory, MA (RCA) Sculpture