ArtAngel Current Projects

Tickets now on sale for The Concise Dictionary of Dress

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 12:53:25 +0000

Judith Clark and Adam Phillips
THE CONCISE DICTIONARY OF DRESS
28 April - 27 June 2010
Blythe House, W14

Tickets are now on sale for The Concise Dictionary of Dress - click here to book a place.

The Concise Dictionary of Dress is an Artangel collaboration with a psychoanalyst, Adam Phillips, a costume curator, Judith Clark, and Blythe House, the V&A’s working store for its art and design collections. It begins with a journey through a turnstile, into an industrial goods lift and up to the to the first in a sequence of intriguing definitions in a walk-through dictionary of dress... As your path meanders through hidden collections of furniture, ceramics, glass, jewellery, textiles, fashion and fine arts, the anatomy of the building reveals surreal and evocative interventions in unexpected places.

This is the first time the V&A has opened Blythe House to the public, and the first time Artangel has worked in a fully working space...

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New on site: Michael Landy in conversation with Dave Nutt

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 05:56:52 +0000

Michael Landy has installed a 600 cubic metre see-through bin - Art Bin - into the South London Gallery, into which he has asked artists to throw their creative failures. "There's no hierarchy in the bin, all artists are the same," he has said, "and I've left it up to them to interpret what failure means". Dave Nutt is the mechanic who dismantled Landy's cherry red Saab in 2001. The car was one of Landy's 7,227 belongings, all of which were inventorised and then destroyed for his Artangel-commissioned project Break Down. As the bin slowly fills, we asked Nutt to talk to his former client...

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Photograph by Andy Stagg

The Artangel Podcast

Tue, 16 Feb 2010 05:40:05 +0000

The first Artangel Podcast is now live. Our more-or-less quarterly online audio programme will offer exclusive features, sound extracts, recordings and interviews. This edition was released on 21 January 2010; it marks the beginning of a new decade with Jem Finer, reflecting on ten years of his 1000-year long composition Longplayer, and features Karen Mirza and Brad Butler discussing their Karachi- and London-spanning Artangel Interaction project The Museum of Non Participation.

Click here to stream, download or subscribe.

Photograph: Brad Butler

From the archive: Steenbeckett (2002)

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 05:35:20 +0000

Atom Egoyan: Steenbeckett (2002)
An obsolete machine in a forgotten room of the former Museum of Ethnography. An old man eavesdrops on a younger man: we watch through glass. Canisters of celluloid and audiotape combine in a forest of memory. Rewind. Play. Shuffle. Delete. Internationally-acclaimed Canadian filmmaker Atom Egoyan's Steenbeckett was a labyrinth in miniature; a route round an archive of personal history, down empty corridors and up flights of stairs to the abandoned projection booth of a hidden cinema and a screening of Samuel Beckett's one-act play Krapp's Last Tape.

A section for Steenbeckett has now been added to our multimedia online archive. Click here to enter