Reanimation: are Joan Jonas’ re-performances contemporary art’s perfect product?

On a wintry Sunday afternoon last month, I leant against a railing overlooking the Thames—three down from Joan Jonas and Continue reading →

Focus on Ability: The Importance of Outsider Art Institutions in Australia

In the mid-1940s, French painter Jean Dubuffet coined the term Art Brut, or ‘Raw Art’, which he conceptualised as works Continue reading →

Perform this: Artists, curators and “delegated performance”

Swiss artist Nicole Bachmann’s recent performance, Personare, at London’s Tenderpixel, was performed by three different people — none of whom Continue reading →

Please No Laughing At The Art

You don’t often hear laughter in a gallery; to an extent, it is taboo. Possibly we, the art sceners (people Continue reading →

Time Out: Locating the dialogue between contemporary art and competitive sport

I always liked sport – and in many ways I’ve grown to love it. My peers, those who are artistically Continue reading →

Flora Plastica

We belong to the ground It is our power and we must stay Close to it or maybe We will Continue reading →

Stories can set with time, just like rock

‘The result, therefore, of our present enquiry is that we find no vestige of a beginning – no prospect of Continue reading →

Becoming a Line

Examining distributed agency through lines found in drawing, theatrics and novel writing. Like many other artists, I work in lines.[1] Continue reading →