West Tokyo Artist Studio Tour Sunday 29 January With the light starting to fade and one more studio to squeeze in, we take off again and wend our way through more industrial factories and warehouses until we pull up at another nondescript allotment. This is the home of REV: United Artists Studio and it’s the … Continue reading
West Tokyo Artist Studio Tour Sunday 29 January, 2017 It becomes apparent pretty quickly, that with 23 studio complexes distributed around this part of western Tokyo, something pretty special and pretty intense is going on. I’ve met a handful of artists only at this one site in about an hour or so, but before … Continue reading
West Tokyo Artist Studio Tour Sunday 29 January, 2017 Exhibitions of art are the thin egg-shell horizon-line of a process far more complex than most people realise. When we talk about art we mostly reference the impact that it has had after the actual engagement with it, a kind of retrospective backstory to a past … Continue reading
One of the more creatively engaging aspects of curating is exhibition design. The physical manifestation of a curatorial project is the primary real-time interface between audience and artwork, and it is the point at which a curator has the best opportunity to generate or facilitate affect upon the central nervous systems of human beings. While … Continue reading
The way a gallery sets out a sequence of exhibitions over the course of a year could be seen to be form of curating, or said to be a curatorial act. This can also apply, in varying degrees, to the sequence of projects created by freelance curators, and even to the manner in which an … Continue reading
To care about time means comprehending the temporality of caring. Continue reading
Melbourne is particularly well served by artist-run-initatives (ARIs). Sydney too. On a per capita basis Australia as a whole holds it own. ARIs are a network that performs a structural role between the universities, the commercial galleries, and public institutions. Most of the time they are like ladders, playgrounds, stages and classrooms. ARIs give a leg-up … Continue reading
