Pinned Down
Hiwa K interviewed by Chris Clarke
For me, it is important in every work to be a betrayer, to not be loyal to my ideas. Otherwise you become a designer. And sometimes you have to surprise yourself. I cannot make a setting and stick to it, because I get stuck in it.
Remote Working
Saim Demircan finds that working remotely has given rise to new ways to think about accessibility, labour and authorship
Perhaps the absence of the artist commits a final act of anti-objectification, eschewing the prerequisite in the art world to be ‘everywhere’ at all times.
Crisis Communications
Chris Hayes argues that, despite its faults, social media can still be used a tool against powerful vested interests
Part of what fascinates me about the art world’s use of Instagram is this tension: how fluidly a vernacular of call-outs and accountability, calls to defund and abolish, are adopted and performed on platforms that are easily dismissed and rarely carry any stakes.
PROFILE
Adam Farrah
Larne Abse Gogarty tugs at the cultural references of the London-born artist also known as free.yard
Farah offers a way of negotiating nostalgia, sentiment and universality while asking viewers to negotiate their own particularities of class, race and history.
EDITORIAL
Eh?
Why do cultural agencies persist with stifling bureaucratic language that acts as a barrier to non-corporate voices?
When applying for a grant, for example, the first test of eligibility appears to be whether the applicant can understand and negotiate – digest – the sheer quantity of verbiage required in the process.
ARTNOTES
University Action
University lecturers go on strike at the Royal College of Art and Goldsmiths; Cuban artist Tania Bruguera agrees to political exile in return for the release of activists; Manchester’s Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art restructures in response to accusations of institutional racism; Unesco finally recommends that the Parthenon Sculptures be returned to Greece; plus the latest on galleries, people, prizes and more.
EXHIBITIONS
Thea Djordjadze: all building as making
Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin
Mark Prince
Gregg Bordowitz: I Wanna Be Well
MoMA PS1, New York
Benoit Loiseau
Peggy Ahwesh: Vision Machines
Spike Island, Bristol
Adam Hines-Green
Margate Now: Sunken Ecologies
Royal Esplanade, Westbrook
Ellen Mara De Wachter
Tip of the Iceberg
Focal Point Gallery, Southend-on-Sea
Matthew Bowman
Illiberal Arts
HKW, Berlin
Luisa Lorenza Corna
Angelica Mesiti: In the Round
Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh
Tom Denman
Untitled: Art on the conditions of our time
Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge
Greg Thomas
Gustav Metzger at the Merz Barn
Merz Barn, Elterwater
