One Person’s Play is Another Person’s Work

“The effects of the ‘digital revolution’ have been analysed for the most part in terms of their effects on individual consumers, rather than from the perspective of the pressures exerted on those charged with their production” (Harry Sanderson,...
“Always Working” in Fillip 18

“Always Working” in Fillip 18

Last month marked the publication of Fillip 18, featuring a specially edited section that seeks to extend the conversations about representing the conditions of labour in contemporary art that began last year with an exhibition I curated for Access Gallery,...
Top Ten exhibitions of 2011

Top Ten exhibitions of 2011

It’s taken me longer than usual to compile a list of the ten or so shows that stood out for me in 2011. Maybe it’s because I didn’t have the push of a deadline from Sally McKay and L.M. this year (and, let me say, I’m sorely missing Joe...

Making sense of exhibitions, latently

I have been auditing a course this semester on pedagogy and social difference, led by Aparna Mishra Tarc, that examines how theories about the psychic experiences of learning might help us to understand how people make sense of others’ (often traumatic)...