Throughout December 2023 – January 2024 I organised a public programme of talks to accompany the exhibition “EASTinternational: Unpacking the Archive” at EAST Gallery, Norwich University of the Arts (2 December 2023 – 3 February 2024). These were hybrid events that occurred in the conference room above the gallery and streamed online. The first ofread more
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centering practice
This photograph, taken in midsummer 1997 by the then assistant curator Kirsty Ogg, shows the Norwich Gallery’s streetside location in the purpose-built historic Norwich School of Design Gunton Building. Visitors to the opening view of the sixth EASTinternational spill out onto the pavement, drinking beer, reclining on cars and chatting with exhibiting artists. Lynda Morris wasread more
“Deposessing the Archive” conference paper at “A Spanner in the Works: Artists’ interventions in museums and archives”, Norwich University of the Arts, Thursday 22 February 2024
On Thursday 22 February 2024 I presented a paper titled “Deposessing the Archive” as part of the conference “A Spanner in the Works: Artists’ interventions in museums and archives” convened by Dr. Mark Wilsher at Norwich University of the Arts. To learn more about the conference click here. At the core of my presentation areread more
“A Case Study in the International Provincial: EASTinternational, 1991–2009”, conference paper at The British Art Network Annual Conference 2023, Kelvin Hall, Glasgow
On Saturday 25 November 2023 I presented a paper at The British Art Network annual conference titled “British Art After Britain”. My paper, “A Case Study in the International Provincial: EASTinternational, 1991–2009”, was part of the panel “Instituting Amongst: curating at the peripheries” which included presentations Dawn Bothwell (Independent Curator), Gayle Miekle (Newcastle University) andread more
Exhibition, Design, Participation: ‘an Exhibit’ 1957 and Related Projects (2016) Afterall Exhibition Histories
Two months after ‘an Exhibit’ closed at the Hatton Gallery, Newcastle, in June 1957 it travelled to London’s Institute of Contemporary Arts, then situated in Mayfair, where it was reconfigured in response to the space. Contrasting with the ICA’s ornamented Georgian interior, the vertical and horizontal, parallel and perpendicular, groupings of Perspex sheets (Richard Hamilton,read more
Mindfuckers – 0. Introduction by David Felton
Recently I found a copy of David Felton’s hard-to-find book Mindfuckers: A Source Book on the Rise of Acid Fascism in America in Donlon Books (the full title is Mindfuckers: A Source Book on the Rise of Acid Fascism in America Including material on Charles Manson, Mel Lyman, Victor Baranco and their followers by Davidread more
‘Ideas of Disorder’ published by Occasional Papers
Ideas of Disorder is a detailed portrait of 3 Church Walk, the home of British modernist architects H.T. and E.R. Cadbury-Brown, which they jointly designed and built in 1962. Published to coincide with the artist Emily Richardson’s film about the house, the book expands on the film’s script by Jonathan P. Watts by bringing togetherread more