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Black, White and Grey Matters

Black, White and Grey Matters

Monika Szewczyk

Black, White and Grey Matters

Monika Szewczyk

Monika Szewczyk considers vague and absent images in relation to Lidwien van de Ven's current...

Published 25.03.11

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Cerith Wyn Evans: Reference and Ventriloquism

Cerith Wyn Evans: Reference and Ventriloquism

Louise O'Hare

Cerith Wyn Evans: Reference and Ventriloquism

Louise O'Hare

Cerith Wyn Evans's installation at Bergen Kunsthall casts a mysterious spell, with pulsating columns of...

Published 09.03.11

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Artists at Work: Yan Jun

Artists at Work: Yan Jun

Rudolph Hudsucker

Artists at Work: Yan Jun

Rudolph Hudsucker

The Chinese experimental music pioneer Yan Jun talks with Rudolph Hudsucker about the Chinese music...

Published 25.02.11

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Artists at Work: AA Bronson

Artists at Work: AA Bronson

Sissu Tarka

Artists at Work: AA Bronson

Sissu Tarka

AA Bronson co-founded the seminal art collective General Idea in 1969. This interview, conducted in...

Published 14.02.11

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Jack Goldstein: Two Boxers, Time and Again

Jack Goldstein: Two Boxers, Time and Again

Belinda Bowring

Jack Goldstein: Two Boxers, Time and Again

Belinda Bowring

Belinda Bowring finds in the recent re-performance of Jack Goldstein's Two Boxers (1979)...

Published 11.02.11

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Artists at Work: Susan Hiller

Artists at Work: Susan Hiller

Sarah Lowndes

Artists at Work: Susan Hiller

Sarah Lowndes

In the following interview Sarah Lowndes talks to artist Susan Hiller about feminism in the...

Published 02.02.11

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11 11: Prestige at the Parking Lot

11 11: Prestige at the Parking Lot

Katie Kitamura

11 11: Prestige at the Parking Lot

Katie Kitamura

When multistorey carparks are hailed as artistic masterpieces, do we put it down to grandiose...

Published 26.01.11

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The Anti-Warholian Image: John Stezaker’s Lost Images

The Anti-Warholian Image: John Stezaker’s Lost Images

Mark Prince

The Anti-Warholian Image: John Stezaker’s Lost Images

Mark Prince

In this suggestive reading of John Stezaker's Lost Images series, Mark Prince pits...

Published 04.01.11

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The Occupation of Space

The Occupation of Space

Owen Hatherley

The Occupation of Space

Owen Hatherley

Owen Hatherley considers the student occupations in the UK, reading them as a protest both...

Published 21.12.10

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Artists at Work: Mark Manders

Artists at Work: Mark Manders

Audrey Chan

Artists at Work: Mark Manders

Audrey Chan

Audrey Chan speaks to Mark Manders about sculpture as self-portraiture, language and artistic meaning, and...

Published 07.12.10

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Manifesta 8 and the Problems of Sincerity

Manifesta 8 and the Problems of Sincerity

Louise O'Hare

Manifesta 8 and the Problems of Sincerity

Louise O'Hare

Louise O'Hare reviews the latest edition of Manifesta 8 and its unwitting entanglement within the...

Published 24.11.10

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Rosa Barba: Changing Cinema

Rosa Barba: Changing Cinema

Ben Borthwick, Melissa Gronlund

Rosa Barba: Changing Cinema

Ben Borthwick, Melissa Gronlund

In this photo-essay, Ben Borthwick and Melissa Gronlund reflect on Rosa Barba's adaptation of cinema...

Published 12.11.10

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Artists at Work: Willem de Rooij

Artists at Work: Willem de Rooij

Dieter Roelstraete

Artists at Work: Willem de Rooij

Dieter Roelstraete

Dieter Roelstraete talks with Willem de Rooij about the aviary overlaps between Dutch animal portraits...

Published 02.11.10

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The Reach for Presence

The Reach for Presence

Lizzy Le Quesne

The Reach for Presence

Lizzy Le Quesne

Lizzy Le Quesne looks at new practices in dance that foreground perception and experience to...

Published 12.10.10

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Artists at Work: Takahiko Iimura

Artists at Work: Takahiko Iimura

Duncan White

Artists at Work: Takahiko Iimura

Duncan White

Duncan White interviews Takahiko Iimura about the visual poetics of his experimental films, which combine...

Published 10.09.10

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The Matter at Middlesex?

The Matter at Middlesex?

Andrew McGettigan

The Matter at Middlesex?

Andrew McGettigan

Andrew McGettigan unravels the controversial closure of Middlesex's Philosophy department and its implications for phil...

Published 08.09.10

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The Division of the Earth

The Division of the Earth

Veronica Tello

The Division of the Earth

Veronica Tello

Veronica Tello reviews Dierk Schmidt's five-year project The Division of the Earth , now...

Published 26.08.10

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Looking into the Deep

Looking into the Deep

Melissa Gronlund

Looking into the Deep

Melissa Gronlund

Is the past 'far away'? Melissa Gronlund reflects on the 56 th ...

Published 09.08.10

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Experimental TV's Long Revolution

Experimental TV's Long Revolution

Colin Perry

Experimental TV's Long Revolution

Colin Perry

Colin Perry looks back at Channel 4's groundbreaking programming of the 1980s, and in particular...

Published 06.08.10

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Submerged Narratives

Submerged Narratives

Ed Halter

Submerged Narratives

Ed Halter

On the occasion of a screening of Stephanie Barber's films at Anthology Film Archives, Ed...

Published 29.07.10

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Thinking 'Former West'

Thinking 'Former West'

Cosmin Costinas, Maria Hlavajova

Thinking 'Former West'

Cosmin Costinas, Maria Hlavajova

In this essay, the the first of a series Afterall will publish over the next...

Published 27.07.10

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Artists at Work: Karen Mirza and Brad Butler

Artists at Work: Karen Mirza and Brad Butler

Gemma Sharpe

Artists at Work: Karen Mirza and Brad Butler

Gemma Sharpe

Gemma Sharpe talks to artists and film-makers Karen Mirza and Brad Butler about their latest...

Published 06.07.10

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At the Crossroads

At the Crossroads

Daniel Fuller

At the Crossroads

Daniel Fuller

Daniel Fuller reflects on a series of unofficial historical plaques erected throughout Pittsburgh, which tell...

Published 24.06.10

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Home Schooling

Home Schooling

Rebecca Heald

Home Schooling

Rebecca Heald

Rebecca Heald considers the latest edition of Home Works, the ten-day event of lectures and...

Published 11.06.10

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