Craft V Concept 2: In conversation with Wayne Burrows and Jez Noond
SDB The Goldsmiths show was too painful to watch all way through – did any of them show a high level of thinking and making? I doubt it….a bad idea …
Craft V Concept 1: SDB in conversation with S Mark Gubb
This discussion was prompted by the Goldsmiths TV debacle and the blog entry previous to this. I had suggested that the incumbent M.A. students couldn’t craft their way out of …
How and Why Goldsmiths destroyed British Art
Up front I will declare my position. In 1986-7 I was interviewed twice by the great and the then good at Goldsmiths. The interviewers in first instance included Nick De …
Relational Delusions – Liam Gillick’s fantasy art
Liam Gillick is famous…..but for what exactly……talking? http://badatsports.com/2009/episode-220-liam-gillick/ Until I listened to Liam Gillick in a Bad at Sports podcast I had not really registered nor shown much interest in …
Backtracking: Auto Graveyard – the best of The High Priests
It only taken 17 years but finally the sessions at toerag are available again. A strange but true story of concept over content. The English Pixies….not quite 🙂 Here everything …
Backtracking: The High Priests Auto-Graveyard E.P.
Now here’s the REAL High priests sound before things went badly wrong..first session at Liam Watson’s original Toerag Studio and I’m channelling recession blues and Nick Cave in equal measure …
Backtracking: The High Priests 1990 – 1993
After a casual conversation which involved Joe Meek and Beat Happening I decided to excavate some of the original High Priests material which had been scattered to the wind. It …
AXIS RANT #2: Alice and the Curious Curatoriat
When did it happen? When did the power structure in the arts shift so fundamentally away from the practicing artist and into the hands of a new breed of art …
Leonard Bullock
More Blues than Jazz? Not Garage Rock? Leonard Bullock, look ‘To/For Whom It May Concern,’ 2001-2008 Oil, encaustic, polyurethane, venetian turpentine, spray paint, collaged fabric, car decals, monster decals, cat …
Time to close down The Arts Council? My AXIS RANT
From the AXIS RANT page Feel free to bark back… http://www.axisweb.org/dlForum.aspx?ESSAYID=18075 Our new Ranter-in-Residence for February, view Shaun Belcher, thumb starts off on a topical, if controversial note, asking ‘has …