The popularity of ballet on the internet is one that often (but not always) relies on the idea of ballet as a static aesthetic rather than as a performance. And to be more specific, as a distinctly ‘feminine’ aesthetic. As both a writer about ballet and a researcher working within the fields of Adaptation and …
This conversation took place in the studio of artist Rebecca Partridge in advance of her exhibition Notations at Kunstverein Springhornhof and has been published as part of the exhibition catalogue earlier this year. Partridge suggested that it might resonate with themes that are regularly discussed and may be of interest to readers of, and researchers …
The role that the designer plays in society has, for many years, been relatively fixed – a client passes information to a ‘professional creative’ who then formats the given content for a specific audience using their specific toolkit; be it a chair, a website or a book. However, around the turn of the millennium something …
The tension between politics and aesthetics can be ascribed to the relation between authority and authorship. What is the political role of art? Could a particular theory of authorship in art present and demonstrate an alternative notion of political authority? New technological possibilities and a fresh political sensibility points towards a nascent theory of authorship …
Maximum Irony! Maximum Sincerity (MI!MS) was a proposal for an art movement, complete with manifesto – “M.I.!M.S., A Manifesto of Maximum Irony! Maximum Sincerity” – written by Andy Holden and four of his friends (John Blamey, Roger Illingworth, James MacDowell and Johnny Parry) in the early 2000s in their home town of Bedford. A pre-art …
On the 25th September, Notes on Metamodernism joins hands with the Stedelijk Museum to organise an international symposium on metamodernism. The goal: to draw a cognitive map of our present in order to grasp the changing contours…
