On Thursday 23 Aprll Test Dept’s book Total State Machine was – finally! – launched. The film DS30, which was commissioned for…
Critical Writing programme
Contemporary Visual Arts Network North West (CVAN NW) is organising a programme of six critical writing workshops. The workshop and bursary…
New Contemporaries Moving Image 1968 – 2010
Produced to coincide with New Contemporaries’ 65th anniversary, this compilation selected by artists Ed Atkins, Harold Offeh and Catherine Yass,…
Curating Now
I’ll be joining colleagues in the School of Art at Birkbeck to talk about ‘The Fringes of the Curatorial’ on…
Dawn Ades. Writings on Surrealism, Modernism and Photography
Art historian and curator Dawn Ades is a leading voice on Dada, Surrealist, Abstract and Latin American art. This volume…
Subplots to a City – launched
After a series of unfortunate hiccups in the production process, Subplots to a City. Ten Years of In Certain Places…
Dublett #3: Pedro Gómez-Egaña
Dublett is a series of ‘double publications’ focusing on an artist’s practice, an artistic collaboration or an artistic project. Each…
Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2014
Marking its 65th anniversary, selectors Marvin Gaye Chetwynd, Enrico David and Goshka Macuga have chosen works by 55 of the…
Conversation Knowing from the Inside, Aberdeen
In early September I was invited to come and talk to PhD candidates and post-doc researchers affiliated with the ‘Knowing…
Launch Andrea Büttner’s Hidden Marriages: Gwen John and Moss
Am off to a conversation between artist Andrea Büttner and Chus Martinez at Tate Britain. Martinez was one of the…
Olivia Plender book
I have been invited to work with Olivia Plender on a book that brings together newly commissioned texts, edited conversations, existing texts…
Subplots to a City
Subplots to a City. Ten Years of Certain Places has been signed off for print, and should be delivered later…
Black Sun conversation during London Art Book Fair
On Sunday 28 September I will be in conversation with artist Shezad Dawood, and graphic designers Oliver Knight and Rory…
Otto Berchem – It’s Not My Fault
On his twitter profile Otto Berchem calls himself a ‘convivial artist’, an apt description for someone whose practice tends to mimic situations…
Peter Zegveld – Exploded View
At the age of ten Peter Zegveld visited the legendary exhibition ‘Bewogen Beweging’ (Moving Movement) at the Stedelijk Museum in…