Immaterial Collapse: A Report on the Symposium ‘Untitled (Labour)’

Immaterial Collapse: A Report on the Symposium ‘Untitled (Labour)’

Josefine Wikström

Josefine Wikström reviews Tate Britain’s timely symposium on art and ‘immaterial labour’, calling for a closer consideration of recent critiques of this concept and its foundational theories.

Published 10.05.12

The Many Returns of Socialist Realism

The Many Returns of Socialist Realism

Agata Pyzik

Agata Pyzik traces the history of former Soviet architecture to show how the architects of the Eastern Bloc have turned into the architects of Capitalist Realist skyscrapers and glass towers. 

Published 02.05.12

Artists at Work: Doug Rickard

Artists at Work: Doug Rickard

Siobhán Bohnacker

Doug Rickard’s photography appropriates imagery of American suburbs found in Google Street View. In this interview Siobhán Bohnacker questions the role of the photographer and discusses Rickard’s social critique. 

Published 18.04.12

Slow Art, Fast Life

Slow Art, Fast Life

Kathy Noble

Kathy Noble identifies a yearning for pre-digital days in her survey of AV Festival 2012 and asks whether the outcome of fast-paced technological revolutions might be a new appreciation of human failure.

Published 11.04.12

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Kamal Aljafari: Inhabiting Gestures

Kamal Aljafari: Inhabiting Gestures

Gaia Tedone

On the occasion of Kamal Aljafari's screening in London, Gaia Tedone unpacks the relationship between...

Published 28.03.12

The Changing Times: Cevdet Erek and Hannah Weinberger

The Changing Times: Cevdet Erek and Hannah Weinberger

Monika Szewczyk

Comparing two recent solo exhibitions at the Kunsthalle Basel, Monika Szewczyk detects shifts in attitude...

Published 21.03.12

Lis Rhodes: Grammars of Looking and Grammars of Language

Lis Rhodes: Grammars of Looking and Grammars of Language

Lucy Reynolds

Lucy Reynolds reflects on Lis Rhodes's convergences and overlappings of sound and image, text and...

Published 16.03.12

Artists at Work: Alice Channer

Artists at Work: Alice Channer

Line Ellegaard

British artist Alice Channer’s sculptural practice is deeply concerned with the way things are made;...

Published 01.03.12

‘The Potosi Principle’ – Alice Creischer, Max Jorge Hinderer and Andreas Siekmann – full video

‘The Potosi Principle’ – Alice Creischer, Max Jorge Hinderer and Andreas Siekmann – full video

On 8 February 2012, Alice Creischer, Andreas Siekmann and Max Jorge Hinderer reflected upon their...

Published 20.02.12

Artists at Work: Iratxe Jaio & Klaas van Gorkum

Artists at Work: Iratxe Jaio & Klaas van Gorkum

Paula Barriobero

Artist duo Iratxe Jaio & Klaas van Gorkum produce performances, videos, publications and actions, interrogating not...

Published 08.02.12

Cara Tolmie: Chinese Whispers

Cara Tolmie: Chinese Whispers

John Douglas Millar

Cara Tolmie: Chinese Whispers

John Douglas Millar

John Douglas Millar discusses the performances of emerging artist Cara Tolmie, in the context of...

Published 01.02.12

Nancy Buchanan: Ethical Provocations (photo essay)

Nancy Buchanan: Ethical Provocations (photo essay)

Audrey Chan

Nancy Buchanan's practice posits the audience as participants in a conversation on the gendered body...

Published 10.01.12

Jeff Wall in conversation with David Campany – full audio

Jeff Wall in conversation with David Campany – full audio

On 23 November 2011, following the recent addition to Afterall’s  One Work  book series,  Jeff Wall: P...

Published 13.12.11

Mary Simpson: Leap/Linger

Mary Simpson: Leap/Linger

Isla Leaver-Yap

Mary Simpson: Leap/Linger

Isla Leaver-Yap

Mary Simpson's work discusses the intimacy of the bodily gesture and the oddly distancing close-up...

Published 18.11.11

Laure Prouvost: Excited in Slow Motion

Laure Prouvost: Excited in Slow Motion

Kathy Noble

Kathy Noble takes a disorientating journey with Laure Prouvost's newly commissioned film sequence and installations,...

Published 03.11.11

Artists at Work: BADco.

Artists at Work: BADco.

Josefine Wikström

Artists at Work: BADco.

Josefine Wikström

Josefine Wikström interviews the theatre collective BADCo. about their work at the Venice Biennale and...

Published 19.10.11

Geeta Kapur: On the Curatorial in India (Part 2)

Geeta Kapur: On the Curatorial in India (Part 2)

Natasha Ginwala

For several decades now, Geeta Kapur has both shaped and documented India's contemporary art scene....

Published 03.10.11

Artist at Work: Yao Jui-chung

Artist at Work: Yao Jui-chung

Ron Hanson

In this interview with Ron Hanson, Taiwanese artist Yao Jui-chung explains his country's context of...

Published 06.09.11

Do not go gentle...

Do not go gentle...

Charles Esche

Do not go gentle...

Charles Esche

Co-founder of Afterall and director of the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven, Charles Esche passes impassioned...

Published 31.08.11

Publications on (not only) art: cultural, social and political uses

Publications on (not only) art: cultural, social and political uses

Line Ellegaard

Earlier this summer, Afterall teamed up with partners UNIA arteypensamiento , ...

Published 03.08.11