Via Metro The Hammersmith Morris Men celebrated the 50th anniversary of the dance ‘Hammersmith Flyover’ by performing on the half-mile stretch of elevated road that inspired it. The dance was written for the group by John Kirkpatrick in 1962 – the same year the flyover was completed. It was closed just before Christmas so rusty [...]
Lanfranchi’s Memorial Discotheque was Sydney’s favourite artist-run space, situated on the second level of an inner city warehouse. Lanfranchi’s doubled as a residence and unauthorised performance venue for five years, growing from unlikely beginnings to become what director Neil Armfield (Candy, Belvoir St Theatre) described as a ‘major strand of our city’s cultural DNA’. The [...]
The verb to ‘curate’ is a recent addition to the lexicon of the art world. How has the role of the curator developed and, as the boundaries are increasingly blurred between the artist and the curator, is there a fundamental difference of position between artist and curator? Curator and writer Andrew Renton chairs the discussion [...]
Video Art Manual, 2011 by Keren Cytter. “the stuff masochistic art critics live for”.
Hans Ulrich Obrist, Swiss curator & art critic asks questions about the concept of exhibitions and audience: Could we realise a group show in which artists would not be given space, but some kind of temporality? Would it be possible for an exhibition to be delivered to audiences, rather than require them to walk through a [...]
A fun satirical film from 1961 with Tony Hancock playing a London office clerk who decides to give up his job to pursue a career as an avant garde artist. Artdesigncafe have quite an indepth review of the film here. Purchase the DVD from Amazon.
(or two old men trying to be relevant)
