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    • Proposed Information Posters # 8 November 27, 2009
    • Tamarin is talking very FAST November 26, 2009
      Rachel Lois Clapham and Alex Eisenberg documented today’s 10 Performances event with a live feed they updated throughout the day. By the time my performance What To Do begins they’re halfway down their third page. I love their occasional attempts to type out variations on everything I was saying. You can read what they’ve written [...]
    • 10 Performances November 25, 2009
      Tomorrow I’m performing a revised version of my illustrated talk What To Do as part of the Beyond Text 10 Performances event. The event lasts all day, and as we contribute our performances details of each one will be posted online here, so you can watch the event unfold even if you can’t be there [...]
    • Domes Without Looking November 23, 2009
      I’m practising for the 26th.
    • Sneak Preview of DO SOMETHING November 19, 2009
      I hear my artist book DO SOMETHING is back from the printers. The good people at (un)limited store have put a couple pictures on their website, along with glimpses of the other five books in the series. The book launch is at ARTISTBOOKINTERNATIONAL at the Centre Pompidou in Paris from 4-6 December. [...]
    • Word Play at the Whitechapel Gallery November 18, 2009
      Tomorrow evening from 7pm antepress are hosting an art writing event at the Whitechapel. Here’s a bit about us from their website. Continuing the series of playful and participatory events exploring language and its parameters, writers collaborate with artists to produce games and scenarios that challenge the audiences’ relationship to language. This W […]
    • MAKING IT SOUND LIKE I AM MAKING ART FOR 15 MINUTES November 16, 2009
      Resonance fm is broadcasting a new audio work of mine this afternoon as part of Digestives, the ongoing art writing radio series from antepress. It’s going to be be aired on today at 4:30pm and repeated Friday 20 November at 7:30pm. You can listen live by clicking the ‘Listen Now’ mp3 stream at www.resonancefm.com, or tune [...]
    • Describing Genuine Smiles November 14, 2009
      This evening I’m going to describe to some friends the following work, which is the same work that appears in the diagram I drew last week. We won’t be able to put the work into practice because we’ll be at someone’s home and we won’t be able to draw lines all over its walls, and [...]
    • Genuine Smiling November 8, 2009
    • The Real Experiment November 4, 2009
      Allan Kaprow again. One characteristic of the lifelike art that was emerging in the sixties: “Various performative modes became the effective way to deal with this shift to the actual environment. Performing was doing something, not acting in theater – moving furniture, for example, just to do it, or because you were changing apartments.” T […]

Matthew Monahan at MOCA, Los Angeles

Posted on September 27, 2007 by Tamarin

Nicholas Brown is an artist based between London and California. He makes clunking wooden contraptions that hang somewhere between functionality and aesthetics, so you’re never quite sure if what you’re looking at is the result of a tangled-up performance you’ve just missed, the remnants of some eccentric personal experiment, or an ongoing room-sized project of [...]

Filed under: Los Angeles, MOCA, Matthew Monahan, Nicholas Brown, art, central st martins, context, drawing, frame, inside/outside, installation, review, sculpture | Leave a Comment »

Review: Insider Art (2)

Posted on August 13, 2007 by Tamarin

Here’s my take on the show – scroll down to Review (1) for an alternative viewpoint by Craig Kao.
Exhibition: Insider Art
ICA, The Mall, London SW1Y 5AH
12 July – 9 September (daily 12pm-7.30pm)
I’ve been struggling with the Insider Art exhibition at the ICA because it’s hard to know how to frame it. The two [...]

Filed under: Greyson Perry, ICA, Inner Worlds Outside, Koestler, Mark Sladen, Whitechapel, art, criminal psychology, drawing, exhibition, inside/outside, insider art, outsider art, prison, review, sculpture | 1 Comment »

Review: Insider Art (1)

Posted on August 13, 2007 by Tamarin

Here’s the first of two reviews of the provocative current show at the ICA. This one’s by artist Craig Kao who most recently exhibited in the to take a-way (one) exhibition at the Nolias Gallery. I think his review raises some interesting questions about the role of the ICA in the curation of the work, [...]

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Review: Robert McNally

Posted on July 26, 2007 by Tamarin

Exhibition: Robert McNally
One in the Other, 45 Vyner St, London E2 9DQ, 28 June – 29 July
It’s hard to resist doing the obvious and situating Robert McNally’s minutely detailed and painstakingly executed pencil drawings somewhere between the otherworldly geometries of M.C.Escher and the irreverent fantasies of Paul Noble. The exceptional execution of the work draws [...]

Filed under: art, drawing, escher, exhibition, one in the other, paul noble, pencil, review, robert mcnally, vyner st | Leave a Comment »