Current issue
July 2008 to January 2009
Welcome to the Dialogue journal, where we are exploring a broad range of current artistic practice, investigating the commerical art world, socially engaged practice, performance and deception, and working outside of the typical art centres. We have a new layout and new features - look out for the option to post a reply to some of our articles and take part in discussions relating to the issues the author's raise.
INFORM
Current issues and professional practice
This issue launches an ongoing investigation into the commercial art market, seeking to unpick some of the mystery around being represented by a gallery and look at the state of play for UK artists outside London. These articles run alongside Axis's exciting new project,
Future50: a selling exhibition that features the most innovative and significant Axis artists of 2008.
Workplace: A model for commercial gallery development in the English regionsContributed by:
Matt PriceWorkplace in Gateshead is amongst a handful of artist-run spaces in the English regions that are pioneering a model for establishing commercial galleries outside of London. Matt Price talks to the co-directors of Workplace and reflects on the progress they've made since 2003, revealing why it is so important that the development of the English regions is kept on everybody's agenda.
What's it like to be represented? - Editor's interviewsAxis launched
Future50, it's annual selling show in Leeds on 21 November 2008 so Dialogue decided to investigate what it is like to be involved in the commercial art market from an artists' point of view. Rebecca Stevenson, Petros Chrisostomou and James Evans all take some time out to share their experiences, and to balance it out we have also spoken to Rokeby Gallery to get an idea of how they work and what they do for artists.
PROFILE
Profiling artists and events
Profile of ManifestaContributed by:
Axel LappManifesta 7, the European Biennial of Contemporary Art is hosted by the Trentino - South Tyrol Region from 19 July - 02 November 2008. In Italy for the first time it stretches across an entire regional territory - one hundred and fifty kilometres of crossroads of different cultures and intersecting traditions, rich in historical monuments and in sites of industrial archeology. It involves four cities which together create a single connecting route along the Brenner axis between the north and south of Europe: Fortezza (Bressanone), ex-Alumix factory in Bolzano, the Palazzo delle Poste in Trento, Manifattura Tabacchi and ex-Peterlini factory in Rovereto.
CRITIQUE
In-depth articles looking at pressing issues in contemporary art practice
Making StuffContributed by:
Françoise DupréAxis artist Françoise Dupré discusses her ongoing concerns about the nature of the creative process and the condition and location of art production within the context of her collaborative-participatory and community-based art practice. Using her current work Project B: sebilj as a starting point she reflects on the use of digital technology as a making tool and argues that there can be a place for both relational and material art practice within the same art work.
Forum: Complex relationsContributed by:
Françoise Dupré and
Lucy GibsonIn her article 'Making Stuff' Françoise Dupré uses the term 'collaborative-participatory' to describe her approach to making art. This forum gives you the opportunity to have your say on what you think these terms mean, how they affect artist's practice, and the wider implications of this kind of practice
REVIEW
Read about current exhibitions and events and have your say on them
Double Agent or double crossed?Contributed by:
Matthew CowanDialogue sent Newcastle based Axis artist Matthew Cowan to review the Institute for Contemporary Art (ICA) touring exhibition,
Double Agent, at BALTIC. We wanted to see what Matthew made of the exhibition where artists use other people as a medium or as part of their work. This is a
COMMENT ENABLED review, so that you can respond, add your own thoughts about the work and discuss the issues raised.
ARCHIVE
The Dialogue journal has a rich archive of articles from our previous issue and we will be bringing them back to the fore in this section.
Joining the dots, contemplating cool: art, music, eventContributed by:
Rebekka Kill
In the July to November 2007 Art/Music/Event issue, Dialogue collaborated with artist and editorial panellist Rebekka Kill to develop an issue that explored a range of hybrid and synaesthetic artistic practices. This editorial responds to Rebekka's interest in 'spaces of conviviality' and documents a range of projects located in club spaces, bars, event spaces, festivals, cabaret clubs and galleries.