http://www.vanessabartlett.com/journal Just another WordPress weblog Wed, 25 Aug 2010 20:30:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Kim Coleman and Jenny Hogarth, Press Shot for Staged at the City Observatory The title of Kim Coleman & Jenny Hogarth’s new Edinburgh Festival commission might suggest a work that is rather spectacular. ‘Staged’ is a term often used to allude to all that is amplified, visually seductive and riddled with ... http://www.vanessabartlett.com/journal/?p=164 Postcard received from Emma Benson after Me You Now We live in an age of increasing social isolation. Communication technologies and globalisation are causing us to live and work in a way that is more mobile, yet more solitary. The gradual decline of organised religion has yielded an absence of ritual ... http://www.vanessabartlett.com/journal/?p=158 This essay is an extract from a text that has recently featured in Liverpool Art Journal. It comments on the performances of Mexican born artist Coco Fusco and her critical opposition to notions of ‘disembodiment’ that were frequently touted in late 1990s digital theatre theory. Highlighting the subjugated female workers ... http://www.vanessabartlett.com/journal/?p=112 [caption id="attachment_103" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="Andre Guedes Backyard of a building, 2005"][/caption] I have had the pleasure over the past six weeks of helping to host Andre Guedes on his co-commissioned residency through the Bluecoat and Visiting Arts. Choosing to produce a project that evidences the present state of the institution by ... http://www.vanessabartlett.com/journal/?p=101 [caption id="attachment_97" align="alignnone" width="200" caption="Sarah Harbridge One minute on each of the four days before her death"][/caption] When Josh sent me an excited email a couple of weeks ago,  to ask if he could borrow four of my flat screen monitors for Red Wire's next exhibition, I was happy to oblige, ... http://www.vanessabartlett.com/journal/?p=74 [caption id="attachment_65" align="alignnone" width="400" caption="Marina Abramovic Presents "][/caption] Performance Art has always appealed to my sense of austerity. While gallery goers pursue white cube spaces at their own pace and are permitted to feel disinterested and walk away when work is not to their taste, performance traditionally demands that viewers are ... http://www.vanessabartlett.com/journal/?p=64 [caption id="attachment_45" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="Crome Hoof and Marcus Coates"][/caption] I made a special trip to London for this because projects that put visual artists on stage always fascinate me. (See also II Tempo del Postino as part of Manchester International Festival for an even more esoteric helping of artists in the ... http://www.vanessabartlett.com/journal/?p=41 [caption id="attachment_36" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="Superflex Flooded McDonalds "][/caption] My first encounter with Superflex was during a period of research for an undergraduate essay titled Can Art Change the World? This was my first experience of socially engaged art practice and as such, it planted the seeds of ... http://www.vanessabartlett.com/journal/?p=27 I have been keen to start my blog for a while now and have been writing a load of stuff speculatively with a view to adding it later. This means that my next few posts will be retrospective and probably at odds with the whole 'live' ethos of blogging! Ooops. This ... http://www.vanessabartlett.com/journal/?p=25