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Institution and Intervention: Artists’ Projects in Object-Based Museums by Danny Birchall
Institution and Intervention: Artists’ Projects in Object-Based Museumsby Danny Birchall Download complete dissertation [PDF] This dissertation (full abstract below) is an attempt to grapple with what is going on both institutionally and artistically when non-art museums invite artists to ‘intervene’ in their exhibition and collection space. It first sketches a brief history of the idea of the intervention, then uses two museums as case studies to examine the implications of
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'Stuart Brisley: Crossings' Art Monthly Review by Colin Perry
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There can be no hope of a solution to the ecological crisis ( Ecology:: the study of plants, or of animals, or of peoples and institutions, in relation to environment.) without challenging the global economic system which is irrational at the core. But like the Ouroboros National States and those who serve them, are unable to stand outside themselves and witness the destructive follies they generate serving the system which eats itself. All the Heads. Once Dead and then twice A portrait of
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As far as my work is concerned I was trained as a painter in England, Germany and the USA. I'll send you a short cv later. So the early part of my work involved the flat surface and paint. Later passing through reliefs to full blown sculpture, to action, performance film sound work photography installations extended performance, writing and work on the web etc. I have been making two dimensional images again in the last twenty five years and have been painting for the last 17 years. My output
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Record of edited text Bern 2007 19 10 2009It was a warm summer's afternoon in August. As we approached Speakers Corner voices could be could be heard against the rumble of traffic. We passed from speaker to speaker when we were faced with a small dishevelled man standing on a blue plastic milk crate, He was wearing an unbuttoned black coat, a dirty white shirt open to the chest, black stained trousers and plimsoles. He was in his fifties perhaps, but might have aged prematurely; he had long
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Night vision/Helle Naechte R Y Sirb Full moon plus one It was cool that first night under a clear bright light from the moon. Ambient sounds were accompanied by audible frictions of cloth on cloth, and the swish of silk stockings caressing each other on plump thighs, as she sasheyed along the catwalk slightly knock kneed, blond hair almost white, drawn tightly back from a plump round face with upwardly squinting small blue eyes. A few of us, not me, wore tattoos and one or two
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Talking Hygiene, Performance, Dresden
Dresden, December 2000R.Y. SirbThe desk was commanded by a large woman in uniform with pale blue eyes and thick wavy blond hair who immediately thrust her attention towards the only client in sight- me. I knew this scenario by heart. I bought a ticket for the exhibition and she told me as she had been trained to do, that the cloakroom was down the stairs to her left, and indicated the entrance to the exhibition by waving her hand vaguely to the right. The interior of the building was a little