You can read my feature ‘The Dark Knight Returns’ online now in the March issue of Art Review at http://www.artreviewdigital.com/ More neo-medieval stuff to follow with Norman Hogg and The Confraternity of Neoflaggelants…. Image by Adam Semeiko. Mar 16, 2010
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Mash-ups have been common in turntable culture since the early days of hip-hop in the 1970s. Peer-to-peer filesharing combined with open source audio and video mixing software accelerated rise of mash-up culture from the late ‘ 90s, spawning a whole…
Comments closedDISCO DANCER SLAMS BLOBBY BOSS RANDAN Discoteque star Craig Coulthard has revealed that not being in a band could become boring. The opinionated Scottish songsmith refused to address claims that Bonkers…
Comments closedIn a parallel universe, Darren Banks makes drawings of enigmas, blobs, microbes, and beasts from beyond. In this, his elusive process of slow erasure produces phantasms of a homespun calibre. A collage of film clips feature (or rather don’t feature)…
Comments closed“The world is full of objects, more or less interesting; I do not wish to add any more. I prefer, simply, to state the existence of things in terms of time and place.’’ Douglas Huebler (1970) The dematerialisation of art…
Comments closedKeith Farquhar – Living Logo (Jannica and John) (2008) Free-standing life-sized photograph mounted on card. Actual-size cardboard cut outs, Keith Farquhar’s most recent photographic works share the manufactured haptic qualities of his sculptures. The latest in the series re-animate the…
Comments closedAlso at http://kimcolemanjennyhogarth.co.uk/texts/awfully_good.htm As a title for this exhibition, an oxymoron perfectly encapsulates the understated dynamics of its subject matter: light. The scene it sets is expressive rather than representative; it shape-shifts. The scene it sets is definitely possible.…
Comments closedBack Garden Biennale 2008 Edinburgh, Scotland Art today tends to lodge in spaces. ‘Nice space’ all intone in unison when encountering yet another opening in the great white indoors. Such spaces are significantly devoid of detail – they take little…
Comments closedDespite common parlance, globalisation is not a synonym for contemporary neoliberal capitalism; it is rather an historical process of cultural drift and metamorphosis. It concerns the ways in which lots of small local networks connect to form an international matrix.…
Comments closedRandom Son of a Bitch Uh, I feel in writing mood. What else can I say? I know. I usually get up at 6.15am in the morning because I always do. I try to make it to the 7:15am bus,…
Comments closedNeil Mulholland on the Summer of Love Isaac Abrams All Things are One Thing 1966 © Isaac Abrams. Photo: Photograph: Alvan Meyerowitz Summer of Love: Art of the Psychedelic Era at Tate Liverpool explores the psychedelic in the 1960s. Neil…
Comments closedGenerator in Dundee are profiling the work of dynamic duo Jason Nelson and Kevin Reid in ah-ken-ah-kin! (31st March – 29th April 2007). Recent recipient of the Scottish Arts Council’s Amsterdam Residency, Reid particularly stands out in Scotland for producing…
Comments closedThe Edinburgh Arts Festival (EAF) www.edinburghartfestival.org (27th July- 3rd Sept) entered its third year with a packed programme of exhibitions, events, talks and walks. Although distinctly devoid of extraordinary shows, a few EAF highlights included David Batchelor at The Palm…
Comments closedEstablished in 2003, The Embassy (www.embassygallery.co.uk) incorporated the key protagonists behind two Edinburgh-based artist-initiatives of the early 00s: Win Together Lose Together Play Together Stay Together – a carnivalesque cooperative that occupied temporary spaces – and Magnifitat (www.magnifitat.net) – an…
Comments closedWhere the Wild Things Are Dundee Contemporary Arts 10th June -13th August 2006 While crossing the border between human and animal kingdoms, DCA superficially mimics the wares of the watercolour-challenged currently emerging from hibernation to display their plumage at a…
Comments closedCommenticius Combibo (Lady Amherst’s Lesser Big-eared Ring-necked Semi-collared Bar-headed Pink-footed Red-Eyed Short-arsed Buff-bellied Fanny-tailed Ruddy-cheeked Needle-nobbed Trustafarian Bean Warbling Uphill Oystercatching Snipe) This seabird has flourished in the Isle of Man, Switzerland and North Korea where it has been saved…
Comments closedCentre Culturel Suisse, Paris, 4th December 2004 – 30th January 2005. Thomas Hirschhorn’s latest project sees him collaborating with Marcus Steinweg, Gwenaël Morin and his theatre company within the confines of the Swiss Cultural Centre in Paris – an event…
Comments closedTransmission, Glasgow Errantly over determined high definition digitally manipulated images bearing their Photoshop scars as fangs parade the Transmission like Tretchikoff dinosaurs. Tales of the expected, they look like paintings but aren’t. In the main gallery, these huge LaserJet prints…
Comments closed12th November 2005 – 28th January 2006, CCA, Glasgow. An exhibition featuring a substantial film programme, In The Poem About Love You Don’t Write The Word Love forthrightly presents itself as intellectually challenging and time-demanding. It sprawls geographically and chronologically…
Comments closedKinross and Perthshire, Scotland March to November 2005 ‘Pit bulls are bought by those spectacular tattooed fuckwits, you know. It’s a shark on a leash, isn’t it, this pointy…
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