Artist of the Month: January with Nick Mangan

CtC’s Artist of the Month for December is the multi-disciplinary artist Nick Mangan (Geelong, Victoria, Australia 1979). He currently lives Continue reading →

Openings & Exhibitions: January 2016

Thursday || January 7 Big Ideas: Franco ‘Bifo’ Berardi, 7pm, Whitechapel Gallery A discussion with Italian writer, media theorist, and Continue reading →

CtC 2015: a selection of articles

Curating the Contemporary (CtC) is a meeting point for discussion on arts and culture. CtC uses writing as a resource Continue reading →

An Empathetic Affair: The Embodied Practice of Hedwig Houben

Why is it that imagery seems to translate so willingly, from subject to artwork, and from artwork to viewer? Phenomenologists Continue reading →

Intertextuality and thematic development. From Badlands to True Romance

Hans Zimmer’s produced score for True Romance (1993) pays homage to Terrence Malick’s debut feature Badlands (1973). The two films Continue reading →

Where can we find our contemporary heterotopias?

Michel Foucault’s heterotopia has been a fundamental tool for understanding the territory of our past. Heterotopia specifies zones like the Continue reading →

Post-modernism, Neo-liberalism and the Selfie

The phenomenon of the selfie has been the subject of much debate and discussion in recent times. This essay aims Continue reading →

The Curatorial and the Collaborative: from the Independent Group to Assemble

This year’s Turner Prize (2015) nominees include Assemble (formed circa 2010), a collective comprised of fourteen members working across the Continue reading →