Post election breakfast at Assembly Bristol, June 9th
9am-12, Friday 9th June at The Brunswick Club, Bristol.
Author Archives: Alistair
My latest column for Sluice magazine
New edition of Sluice magazine out now, May 2017.
The Garden of Remember in the App Store
An interactive, locative app intended to provide an insight into living with dementia.
What They Didn’t Teach You in Art School
I contributed my wisdom (?) to this book by Rosalind Davis and Annabel Tilley. As a famous idiot once said (and as referred to on page 9 of the book […]
Christmas Presence: Colonel Robin
17th December 2016, Isle of Portland.
What is Art? A User’s Guide
Southampton City Art Gallery, Thursday December 1 2016.
The Portland Office for Imaginary History at b-side 2016
This way to the Tourist Misinformation Office.
The Portland Office for Imaginary History
b-side Festival, Portland, Dorset, 10-18 September 2016.
Sluice__ talks and Space Time Agency performances
Saturday 21 May, 12-6pm
A day of quickfire talks and performances at The Averard Hotel, 10 Lancaster Gate, London W2 3LH
£ Pro Quo open call
Performance event 12-3pm Saturday 21 May 2016, London
SAVE £40 ON FRIEZE TICKETS
Originally posted on CAREER SUICIDE:
… every single year, guaranteed… BY NOT GOING. I’m severely late on this one, because Frieze Art Fair [sic] was last October and at the…
“ARTIFICIAL, ESPERANTO ART” AND ITS DISCONTENTS
Originally posted on CAREER SUICIDE:
Costumes by Vahad Poladian. Photo by Hiroko Masuike, The New York Times Some gems from Raw Creation: Outsider Art and Beyond by John Maizels. Regular…
Columnist ((((；゜Д゜)))
Saturday 30th April at IMT Gallery, London E2, 6-9pm
PIGGIES
Originally posted on CAREER SUICIDE:
When I and a few enlightened colleagues started talking about the art world and money in about 2009, hardly anybody was interested and we were…
OCCASIONALLY THE VOICES ARE RIGHT
Originally posted on CAREER SUICIDE:
A wee update on this story about a woman who attacked a fellow visitor to Art Basel Miami Beach last December, while onlookers interpreted the…
ZOMBIE PROFESSIONALISM
Originally posted on CAREER SUICIDE:
An interesting article by Daniel S. Palmer about what ArtNews calls the “hyper-professionalization” of some artists. I’d go further and call it something like “jobification”;…
REPULSIVE
Originally posted on CAREER SUICIDE:
“Young collectors cocktails” At PULSE (sic… they always style it like that) Miami Beach 2016 this December, there will be a “private preview brunch”, followed…
AWARD YOURSELF
Originally posted on CAREER SUICIDE:
“Everyone’s a winner, baby, that’s the truth.” (Henrik Ibsen Hot Chocolate). Henrik Ibsen painted by Henrik Olrik, 1879. From the book Creators: From Chaucer and…
CHARLIE HEBDON’T
Originally posted on CAREER SUICIDE:
Occasionally it seems there might be some kind of counter-performance art organisation, one that actively does everything it can to bring performance art into disrepute.…
ABSTRACT PROPAGANDA
Originally posted on CAREER SUICIDE:
I was recently reminded by this post at Open Culture that Abstract Expressionist painting and exponents of it such as Mark Rothko and Jackson Pollock…
