Winter Sparks – Reviewed
FACT’s first post-Biennial show, would Winter Sparks prove illuminating? Billed in the promo material as ‘a personal sound and light show’ which ‘turns away from … the museum as … white cube space’,...
A New Sound: Delia Darlings
C James Fagan on Daphne Oram, The Radiophonic Workshop and Delia Derbyshire, electronic innovator… There’s something evocative about the name The Radiophonic Workshop that conjures up an image of people literally picking out radio-waves from...
Artists of 2012
What better way to celebrate a year of The Double Negative than to honour our Artists of the Month? When we were planning The Double Negative back in late 2011, it was our...
Nikola Tesla: the man who invented the 20th Century
Winter Sparks, the new exhibition at FACT, leads us to ponder the man and the myth that is Nikola Tesla… The thing you can’t ignore walking through the three large-scale installations making for...
Changing The World From Here?
It’s all well and good declaring you want to change the world from here, translating it into something tangible is the trick… Sat writing this midway through December 2012 and with breathing space...
A Universal Archive: William Kentridge as Printmaker
A new William Kentridge exhibition, with print at its core, is a resounding delight at the Bluecoat… How to follow John Akomfrah’s Unfinished Conversation? Quite justifiably one of the most widely praised and...
Artist of the Month: Jason Wood
We celebrate all things animated with our latest Artist of the Month … What we love about artist Jason Wood is his dedication to getting the details just right. When we asked him...
Noisy Table – Previewed
Ping-pong. Not just a sport played at 100MPH by super-nippy Olympians with preternatural hand/eye coordination… Ever since George Maciunas of Fluxus set up his Ping-pong table & racquets at Contemporanea in 1973, there...
Drawing Sessions #2
Julian Shepherd dreams of a time when Drawing Sessions happened each week… Pulling back the green curtain into the Camp and Furnace bar, meandering past lambs wool jumpered musos and delicious wafts of...