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Nancy Buchanan: Ethical Provocations (photo essay)

Nancy Buchanan: Ethical Provocations (photo essay)

Audrey Chan

Nancy Buchanan: Ethical Provocations (photo essay)

Audrey Chan

Nancy Buchanan's practice posits the audience as participants in a conversation on the gendered body...

Published 10.01.12

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Jeff Wall in conversation with David Campany – full audio

Jeff Wall in conversation with David Campany – full...

Jeff Wall in conversation with David Campany – full audio

On 23 November 2011, following the recent addition to Afterall’s  One Work  book series,  Jeff Wall:...

Published 13.12.11

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Mary Simpson: Leap/Linger

Mary Simpson: Leap/Linger

Isla Leaver-Yap

Mary Simpson: Leap/Linger

Isla Leaver-Yap

Mary Simpson's work discusses the intimacy of the bodily gesture and the oddly distancing close-up...

Published 18.11.11

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Laure Prouvost: Excited in Slow Motion

Laure Prouvost: Excited in Slow Motion

Kathy Noble

Laure Prouvost: Excited in Slow Motion

Kathy Noble

Kathy Noble takes a disorientating journey with Laure Prouvost's newly commissioned film sequence and installations,...

Published 03.11.11

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Artists at Work: BADco.

Artists at Work: BADco.

Josefine Wikström

Artists at Work: BADco.

Josefine Wikström

Josefine Wikström interviews the theatre collective BADCo. about their work at the Venice Biennale and...

Published 19.10.11

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'Whatever’s happened is already not interesting at all': Ai Weiwei's Blog

'Whatever’s happened is already not interesting at all': Ai...

Shumi Bose

'Whatever’s happened is already not interesting at all': Ai Weiwei's Blog

Shumi Bose

In early April of this year, the art world was chilled by the unexplained arrested...

Published 05.10.11

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Geeta Kapur: On the Curatorial in India (Part 2)

Geeta Kapur: On the Curatorial in India (Part 2)...

Natasha Ginwala

Geeta Kapur: On the Curatorial in India (Part 2)

Natasha Ginwala

For several decades now, Geeta Kapur has both shaped and documented India's contemporary art scene....

Published 03.10.11

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Artist at Work: Yao Jui-chung

Artist at Work: Yao Jui-chung

Ron Hanson

Artist at Work: Yao Jui-chung

Ron Hanson

In this interview with Ron Hanson, Taiwanese artist Yao Jui-chung explains his country's context of...

Published 06.09.11

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Do not go gentle...

Do not go gentle...

Charles Esche

Do not go gentle...

Charles Esche

Co-founder of Afterall and director of the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven, Charles Esche passes impassioned...

Published 31.08.11

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Publications on (not only) art: cultural, social and political uses

Publications on (not only) art: cultural, social and political...

Line Ellegaard

Publications on (not only) art: cultural, social and political uses

Line Ellegaard

Earlier this summer, Afterall teamed up with partners UNIA arteypensamiento , ...

Published 03.08.11

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Ten things everyone working in or studying art should know...

Ten things everyone working in or studying art should...

Andrew McGettigan

Ten things everyone working in or studying art should know...

Andrew McGettigan

Andrew McGettigan unpicks the new White Paper on higher education 'Students at the Heart of...

Published 22.07.11

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Geeta Kapur: On the Curatorial in India (Part 1)

Geeta Kapur: On the Curatorial in India (Part 1)...

Natasha Ginwala

Geeta Kapur: On the Curatorial in India (Part 1)

Natasha Ginwala

For several decades now, Geeta Kapur has both shaped and documented India's contemporary art scene....

Published 12.07.11

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Picasso in Palestine: Slideshow

Picasso in Palestine: Slideshow

Picasso in Palestine: Slideshow

Last Friday, Pablo Picasso’s Buste de Femme was put on display at the...

Published 29.06.11

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Material Resistance: Allan Sekula's Forgotten Space

Material Resistance: Allan Sekula's Forgotten Space

Jennifer Burris

Material Resistance: Allan Sekula's Forgotten Space

Jennifer Burris

Jennifer Burris discusses Allan Sekula's  The Forgotten Space , a film essay that describes the...

Published 24.06.11

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Cinenova: Reproductive Labour

Cinenova: Reproductive Labour

George Clark

Cinenova: Reproductive Labour

George Clark

An exclusive video-essay featuring eight clips of rarely seen film and video works made by...

Published 08.06.11

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Atlas: How to Carry the World on One's Back?

Atlas: How to Carry the World on One's Back?...

Pedro de Llano

Atlas: How to Carry the World on One's Back?

Pedro de Llano

Via the curation of Georges Didi-Huberman, Pedro de Llano examines the impulse towards the association...

Published 25.05.11

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Artists at Work: Anne Tallentire

Artists at Work: Anne Tallentire

Lisa Panting

Artists at Work: Anne Tallentire

Lisa Panting

Anne Tallentire and Lisa Panting share thoughts on alternative cartographies, territories, and itinerant means of...

Published 10.05.11

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Art Practice and the Doctoral Degree

Art Practice and the Doctoral Degree

Andrew McGettigan

Art Practice and the Doctoral Degree

Andrew McGettigan

Andrew McGettigan analyses the problems in practice-led art PhDs, suggesting some alternative approaches.

Published 06.05.11

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Two Slight Returns: Chauncey Hare and Marianne Wex

Two Slight Returns: Chauncey Hare and Marianne Wex

Mike Sperlinger

Two Slight Returns: Chauncey Hare and Marianne Wex

Mike Sperlinger

Mike Sperlinger looks at the trajectories of photographers Chauncey Hare and Marianne Wex to question...

Published 19.04.11

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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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