Contemporary Art as Dialogue
Having been possibly the most infrequent blogger on wordpress, I think I will justify myself to you by providing a link to the blog of a group I’m involved in. The group is called ‘Contemporary Art as Dialogue’ and we are based in Sheffield. The group was formed in January 2008 so we are a fairly young group but we’ve had an extraordinary 18 months, culminating in an art festival in March 09. We formed during our time at art college, as a few of the members were involved in a poorly run critique group and wanted to be with people who shared the desire to succeed through the support of a network and who were also interested in collaborative practice. The group initially placed an emphasis on critical debate, which often came close to a poetic action (especially when the group deviated in discussions- e.g. one time we felt the urge to chant “the university is in ruins”, which is the first line of Baudrillards ‘The Spiralling Cadaver’, outside the new and controversial university art gallery on the eve of its opening by a member of the royal family. The gallery was controversial as there was then no plan to allow the BA fine artists use the gallery).
Today, we are a group consisting of recent graduates and MA students, working closely as a support group, and through collaboration.
You can see some documentation of our art festival at:
http://contemporaryartasdialogue.wordpress.com/
and we’ll update it with other projects soon
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