Chance, Process & Outcome
To me, the relationship between chance and intention in Jessica Warboy's work Sea Painting, Birling Gap, 2017 is bridged by a faith in...
The Question of Taste
Link: Grayson Perry’s Reith Lecture ‘Democracy Has Bad Taste’. Listen here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03969vt#play Are 'good'...
Social Purpose & Socially Engaged Art (SEA)
We often view the artist in a solitary nature. It is them, their easel and the universe before them. Yet no individual can wholly capture...
Why Make Art?
Life is absurd. We are wibbly double-fist sized grey matter conductors encased within and driving around a skeleton which is itself held...
The Institutional Theory of Art
Reading: Dickie, G. (1974) What Is Art? An Institutional Analysis, Cornell University Press, NY (pp19-52) In this theoretical model an...
Considering Duchamp’s Art Coefficient
From Marcel Duchamp, The Creative Act. 1957. https://www.brainpickings.org/2012/08/23/the-creative-act-marcel-duchamp-1957/ In his...
The Classification of Art
From Michel Foucault, Preface to The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences. 1970. New York: Vintage, 1994. xv-xvi,...
