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Janet Cardiff, The Forty Part Motet (2001)
When a gallery is a deconsecrated church and the artwork is a piece of religious music, walking in is a hair’s breadth from turning up for Sunday worship. It’s humbling, even humiliating. The early...
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Liliane Lijn, Moonmeme (1992-2011)
Installation view at FACT as part of Republic of the Moon Photographer: Brian Slater Investigations have taken place as to the feasibility of projecting a single word onto the surface of the moon. But...
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Fedora Romita, For Informational Purposes Only (2010/11)
In all the guidebooks available to Berlin, you are unlikely to find one which recommends making audio recordings of your journeys on the U-Bahn and the S-Bahn. But that is the method used by Fedora...
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Kaffe Matthews, ‘You might come out of the water every time singing’ (2012)
(c) Kaffe Matthews. Courtesy the Bluecoat, Liverpool “Okay, weâ€re 30m underwater on a ley line and weâ€re heading for some squid,†or words to that effect. Such is my greeting from artist Kaffe...
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Trainofthoughts @ The Horse Hospital
You might think it’s a first world problem or a high class issue, but just how does a human being get through a seven hour traffic jam? Such was the predicament of Micheál Oâ€Connell, aka Mocksim,...
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Martin Creed, Work No. 1197 (2012)
It is not clear what Work No. 1197 set out to achieve. But few could misunderstand just what it was they had to do, or what happened. At inestimable numbers of people came together to ring all manner...
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Kaffe Matthews and Mandy McIntosh, Yird Muin Starn, 2013
Given the vast technological resources made available to those who wish to explore outer space, an analogue vinyl album seems like a less than adequate way to respond to the cosmos. But in fact Yird...
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Chris Watson and Iain Pate, HRAFN; Conversations with Odin (2013)
Two myths converge in an evocative piece by a sound recordist and a producer. The first myth concerns the most powerful Norse god and the second myth could concern you. HRAFN will be staged in Kielder...
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Photodiary: Whitstable Biennale 2014
Last Saturday I spent eight or so intense hours hot footing it around a coastal town in South East England in search of the many artworks which make up Whitstable Biennale. The coach dropped us at...
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Laurie Anderson, Lou Reed Drones (2016)
Saint Markâ€s chapel in Kemptown has been throbbing for five days straight. That is what you get from this piece, a relentless pulse of skuzzy, kilowatt-heavy hum which envelops you. Whereâ€s the...
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