Browsing Category: relational aesthetics

  • Alex Bowen, This is How I Roll 24/7 (2012)

    To give this work it’s full title: This is how I roll 24/7…Not Just On A Satrday Night in a Shit Basemnt (sic). And the shit basement in question was Brighton’s Grey Area. It was indeed Saturday night when this work both previewed and closed. The artist was nowhere to be seen. We still cannot …

    August 18, 2012

  • Yoko Ono, HELMETS (2001/2012)

    Visitors to the Yoko Ono show in London may well come away with a piece of debt to the redoubtable artist. To be precise that would be a jigsaw piece of debt. Early in her show at Serpentine hang some half a dozen WWII helmets filled with segments of a giant puzzle. You can guess …

    July 13, 2012

  • Louis Brown, MAKERZINE (2012)

    The Pure Good of Theory is one of the most oft quoted poem titles around. Wallace Stevens seems to have nailed it, but are there more spheres of pure good? Visitors to Brighton University last week might think so. At a degree show, you could argue for the pure good of art education, which after …

    June 17, 2012