This book proposes ‘paragogic’ methods to re-imagine the art academy. While art schooling was revolutionised in the early 20th century by the Bauhaus, the author argues that many art schools are unwittingly recycling the same modernist pedagogical fashions. Stagnating in…
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Catalogue Text to accompany – Thomas Kilpper: The Politics of Heritage vs. the Heritage of Politics at Edinburgh Printmakers, Castle Mills, Foundtainbridge, April 2019. Thomas Kilpper The Politics of Heritage vs. the Heritage of Politics in production at Edinburgh Printmakers,…
Comments closedConfraternity of Neoflagellants in Most Dismal Swamp 002: Whale Fall, Gossamer Fog, London review by Mimi Chu in frieze Issue 203 May 2019 The Confraternity of Neoflagellants, Amazon €50 Redeemed Gift Rooster Booster No-Crow, 2019, JPEG. Apr 25, 2019
Comments closedFlourish: Johnny Rodger & Irene McAra McWilliams Memory, Will and Understanding II present: Re-imagining the Art School Professor Neil Mulholland (The University of Edinburgh) www.neilmulholland.co.uk shift-work.org.uk Thursday 24th January 2019 5.30-7pm Bourdon Lecture Theatre Glasgow School of Art https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/reimagining-the-art-school-prof-neil-mulholland-tickets-55017781666 Re-imagining the Art School assesses the organisational…
Comments closedArtists in the City: SPACE in 1968 and Beyond Edited by Anna Harding Designed by Modern Activity Published by SPACE (Art Services Grants Limited) ISBN 978-1-9999278-0-6 Distributed by Cornerhouse Publications, HOME, 2 Tony Wilson Place, Manchester M15 4FN. Price £19.95 SPACE’s 50th Anniversary…
Comments closedThe Scottish Society for Art History’s Study Day for 2018 is on the theme of Art Organisations and Institutions in Scotland. The event is hosted in association with Fine Art Critical Studies, The Glasgow School of Art, and will take…
Comments closedI wrote a short report on Praktika II : which formed part of the 21 Years of Deveron Arts Celebrations in Huntly, December 2017 PDF is available from Deveron Arts (via this link) and from this link —————————————————– 21…
Comments closedconfraternityofneoflagellants.org.uk @neoflagellants WeRLtd!: Bestiary 4Achieving Imitation Doxa Dark Mountain Issue 11, Spring 2017. p146-155. Hardback book, 248 pages long, printed on FSC-certified paper. £15.99 from dark-mountain.net Download 📜 here May 13, 2017
Comments closedhttp://ivla.org/conference2016/about/ More specifically, in attunement with neo-animist configurations of the ‘non-human turn’, this paper evokes a cosmology in which aesthetics is not limited to the sensual relations between human self and world but instead describes a synesthetic hyper-economy through which…
Comments closedDay 3 – 23. September, 2016 18.15-18.45 Confraternity of Neoflagellants: Envisioning Future Premodern Materialisms Performing Situated Knowledges: Space, Time, Vulnerability: 7th Annual Conference on the New Materialisms, Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw. Organized by: New Materialism:…
Comments closedThe Atelier takes place in Trotternish, Waternish and Duirinish, Isle of Skye 9th-13th MAY 2016 with Atlas Arts http://atlasarts.org.uk What is ‘Atelier, Skye’? A charrette is an intensive participatory group that engages a common enquiry. Atelier, Skye is a three-day charrette wherein a group of…
Comments closed‘Creative Art Writing’ from Scottish Graduate School for the Arts & Humanties @SGSAH_ Cohort Development Fund Residential at Hosptialfield House, Arbroath, 22-23rd April 2016 —- Day 1 Object 1 (The Gallery) Nonproducable, registered. Lean over fat. No. No fat. All lean. Linseed.…
Comments closedAtelier Present: Richard Sennett The Craftsman THIS EVENT HAS SOLD OUT Atelier warmly welcome Professor Richard Sennett, who will be discussing his seminal work The Craftsman at The University of Edinburgh. In this book, he shows how history has drawn fault-lines between craftsman and artist,…
Comments closed„DER FACHIDIOT?” : The Paratechnic in the Monotechnic 13:30 Provocation Paper for CHEAD, ‘Agents of Change: Art School & Universities’ http://chead.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/CHEAD-Annual-Conference-2016-programme.pdf Since the early ’60s, increasingly integrated paratechnical curricula have been (begrudgingly) hosted by monotechnical art and design schools. I outline the…
Comments closedhttp://www.evelynyard.com/exhibitions/lucy-stein-france-lise-mcgurn-present-neo-pagan-bitch-witch “I am out of the office with intermittent access to email. I’d love to help you, but… Sooooooh…. where are we at? It’s been a while. Let’s call it like I see it. I didn’t leave mergers and acquisitions,…
Comments closedTranstime, Techne & Enchantment: Torsten Lauschmann Text and Q&A commissioned by the Edinburgh Artists Moving Image Festival Dec 10, 2015
Comments closed“If art can be said to reflect the conditions of the world in which it is made, art that engages with the vanguard technology of an era can perhaps be said to have a particular purchase on contemporaneous visions of…
Comments closedThe 4th International Visual Methods Conference, organized by the University of Brighton will take place from 16th September to the 18th September 2015 at the University of Brighton in Brighton, United Kingdom. The conference will cover areas like International Visual…
Comments closed2/6/15 I gave two short presentations at the ISRF Workshop: Social Science as Communication #Summerhall #Edinburgh http://t.co/yikqyqNS4i on: Atelier: Making Research Material Across the Creative Arts & Social Sciences In recent years, there has been a growing concern with materiality as a field…
Comments closedClosing Keynote for CHEAD Regional Seminar on The Role of Contextual Studies in Art School Education, The Glasgow School of Art 16/4/2015 I specifically address how the Juche mentality operates internally in art schools. Key to this is the connection between…
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