performance art Archives

Paul Kindersley: One Gigantic Sketchbook

22 September 2013 • Yvette

‘I do find it very frustrating when people are too afraid to be anything than what is prescribed. I enjoy characters and looks that are on the edges’.

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Interview: Barry Sykes: Hermits, Repetition, Contradiction

5 September 2013 • Yvette

‘I’m wary of art that is totally certain of itself’.

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Larry Achiampong: Sankofa and Samples of me

18 August 2013 • Yvette

‘You have to understand where it is you’re coming from before you can create something for the future’.

INTERVIEWS

Something For The Weekend: Performance: Cara Tolmie: Otiumfold Saturday 27th July, 5-8pm Victoria Park The Hub Buildin

26 July 2013 • Mark Westall

Something For The Weekend: Performance: Cara Tolmie: Otiumfold

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Interview: Bedwyr Williams

23 July 2013 • Yvette

‘I think I’ve always had my ears open for snatches of stories about people (hearsay, and little half-truth stories)’.

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Tilda Swinton sleeps in glass box for art installation at MoMA

25 March 2013 • Mark Westall

Scottish actor spends more than six hours ‘napping’ in reprisal of performance art piece at New York’s Museum of Modern Art

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Mikhail Karikis: Voicing the Invisible

22 February 2013 • Yvette

I have always been very interested in making sound, in the experience of sound, the impact of sound.

INTERVIEWS

Famous New Media Artist Jeremy Bailey Answers FADs Questions

9 February 2013 • Mark Westall

Ultimately I think they’re mostly failing because they are trying to transpose the old models on the internet and it just doesn’t make much sense.

INTERVIEWS

SURYA, Deepa Chudasama Gallery 1 Mouth Open In An Open O, Ruth Barker Gallery 2 Private view Friday 1st February 2013

1 February 2013 • Mark Westall

For her first presentation at the Agency she will present the performance piece ‘Mouth Open In An Open O’. Ruth Barker’s states…

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Sarah Maple: ‘an artist and a female artist’

1 February 2013 • Yvette

I like playing with the idea of what it means to be a woman today, what is expected of me and how I want to challenge that. I want to bring things to the surface that we subconsciously accept as the ‘norm’.

INTERVIEWS

A Bigger Splash: Painting after performance – review

18 November 2012 • Mark Westall

Tate Modern, London

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FAD + Beach London at The Other Art Fair Performance Art, Performance Art , Original Artwork Books, Editions plus Magazines PHEW !

15 November 2012 • Mark Westall

FAD + Beach London at The Other Art Fair Performance Art, Performance Art , Original Artwork Books, Editions plus Magazines PHEW !

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A Bigger Splash: did performance art change painting?

13 November 2012 • Mark Westall

From bullets bursting paint-filled balloons to Jackson Pollock’s spatter technique, a new exhibition at London’s Tate looks at the relationship between painting and performance art – with more misses than hits

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Charlotte Broomfield-Payne Get Your Art On FAD #29

17 September 2012 • Mark Westall

Through installation and performance ‘Fountain’ is the result of having used questionable subject matter as an exploration into the extent of how ethical codes and moral beliefs impact the way we might instinctively perceive controversial content in art.

Get Your Art On FAD

Review: Jon Fawcett: Whum and EIR The Tanks, Tate Modern

17 August 2012 • Mark Westall

What looks like an enormous steel bicycle wheel rotates in front of me. Around its circumference cylindrical pods are attached.

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COOL : Performance Evening at Hoxton Art Gallery Tonight Wednesday 15th August

15 August 2012 • Mark Westall

Produced in dialogue with curator Tim Dixon, this evening will feature performances by Steven Dickie and Luke McCreadie, with a talk by Peter Dennis.

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Review: Tanks: Art in Action @Tate

18 July 2012 • Mark Westall

Two dancers in an empty marked out space. We sit or stand and watch at the edges. The music is urgent, fast-paced, repetitive. The dancers move apparently in unison: