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Thinking 'Former West'

Thinking 'Former West'

Cosmin Costinas, Maria Hlavajova

Thinking 'Former West'

Cosmin Costinas, Maria Hlavajova

In this essay, the the first of a series Afterall will publish over the next...

Published 27.07.10

Artists at Work: Karen Mirza and Brad Butler

Artists at Work: Karen Mirza and Brad Butler

Gemma Sharpe

Gemma Sharpe talks to artists and film-makers Karen Mirza and Brad Butler about their latest...

Published 06.07.10

At the Crossroads

At the Crossroads

Daniel Fuller

At the Crossroads

Daniel Fuller

Daniel Fuller reflects on a series of unofficial historical plaques erected throughout Pittsburgh, which tell...

Published 24.06.10

Home Schooling

Home Schooling

Rebecca Heald

Home Schooling

Rebecca Heald

Rebecca Heald considers the latest edition of Home Works, the ten-day event of lectures and...

Published 11.06.10

Artists at Work: Andrea Büttner

Artists at Work: Andrea Büttner

Gil Leung

Andrea Büttner talks to Gil Leung about value, craft and effort in artistic production; falling;...

Published 25.05.10

Anatomies of Desire

Anatomies of Desire

Fiontán Moran

Anatomies of Desire

Fiontán Moran

Fiontán Moran reviews Tate Modern's film programme 'Invocations and Evocations: Queer and Surreal', which looked...

Published 12.05.10

Oriol Vilanova: Repetition Is a Question of Base

Oriol Vilanova: Repetition Is a Question of Base

Rosa Lleó

In this photo-essay, Rosa Lléo looks at the work of Spanish artist Oriol Vilanova, and...

Published 26.04.10

Meredith Monk: Perception as Content

Meredith Monk: Perception as Content

Isla Leaver-Yap

Isla Leaver-Yap discusses the tumultuous performances, operas and cabarets of Meredith Monk, and their attempt...

Published 14.04.10

We Are the Children of Marx and Google

We Are the Children of Marx and Google

Will Bradley

Will Bradley reviews Proud to Be Flesh , the anthology of writings over the...

Published 08.04.10

The Skein of the Archive: Denise Bellon and Remembrance of Things to Come

The Skein of the Archive: Denise Bellon and Remembrance of Things to Come

Janet Harbord

Janet Harbord considers the photographs of French interwar photographer Denise Bellon, which Chris Marker assembled...

Published 23.03.10

Experimental Support/Structures for Moving Images

Experimental Support/Structures for Moving Images

Nicole Wolf

Nicole Wolf surveys the latest edition of Experimenta in Bangalore, the Indian festival of experimental...

Published 09.03.10

Notes on 3 Triptychs

Notes on 3 Triptychs

Lamia Joreige

Notes on 3 Triptychs

Lamia Joreige

Lamia Joreige considers the frontier between the conscious and the unconscious in the work of...

Published 23.02.10

The Triangulation of Value

The Triangulation of Value

Nav Haq

Responding to two papers given by Diedrich Diederichsen and Dorothea von Hantelmann, Nav Haq considers...

Published 09.02.10

Free Radicals

Free Radicals

Jess Baines

Free Radicals

Jess Baines

Jess Baines looks back at London's printmaking workshops of the 1970s and 80s, DIY sites...

Published 28.01.10

Artists at Work: Duncan Campbell in Conversation with Stuart Comer

Artists at Work: Duncan Campbell in Conversation with Stuart Comer

Film-maker Duncan Campbell speaks to Tate curator Stuart Comer about his new film, Make...

Published 14.01.10

Rebelle: Feminism and the Haunting of History

Rebelle: Feminism and the Haunting of History

Hendrik Folkerts

Looking at 'rebelle', a recent exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Arnhem, Hendrik...

Published 21.12.09