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06 Jun

Invisible changes in East Japan: an interview with Yumi Song

Artist and curator Yumi Song discusses her current exhibition Place as an Extension of Body, and reflects on the role of art in a changing world   Yumi Song arrived…

08 Jan

Everything Must Go – an industrial poem

The following text is published in the Everything Must Go exhibition catalogue. Freya Gabie’s Everything Must Go rejoices in the temporal blaze of history. It celebrates the absurd, the forgotten…

24 May

Art as an antidote: artist duo Kyun-Chome discuss the fragility of the human condition and why we all need art

Kyun-Chome – Eri Homma and Nabuchi – are a collaborative artist duo who live and work in Tokyo. Their work unravels social preconceptions and exposes ecological and political damage inflicted…

06 Jun

Post 3.11: What Can Art Do? Four Years On: Art and the Disaster

It has been over four years since the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear meltdown in East Japan in 2011, but contemporary artists continue to respond to the disaster.  Bold and often critical,…

02 Apr

Art and Politics in East Japan: Awakening ‘Forgetful Spaces’

On Saturday, March 14th 2015, artist Kirk Palmer and sociologist Yoshitaka Mouri met with Art Action UK to discuss the impact of nuclear power in Japan, and to consider the…

30 Mar

Political Art in Pakistan

Salima Hashmi is an artist, writer and activist. As part of an artistic vanguard in Pakistan, she believes art is an effective form of social critique. On March 25th she returned to Bath…

22 Oct

What is the micro-political significance of Frieze Art Fair’s ‘Nuclear Soup’?

  This year at Frieze, two artists called the ‘United Brothers’ invited gallery goers to eat soup made with daikon radishes grown in the Fukushima area of Japan. The piece…

03 Oct

After the tsunami; linking the past, present and future in post-Fukushima Japan

The following text, for the Art Action UK blog, responds to Komori Haruka and Seo Natsumi’s recent exhibition at St Paul’s Church in Deptford; ‘Moving the Mountain’. Art Action UK…

02 Oct

Swan Song

A text to accompany Freya Gabie’s day-long performance ‘Dawn Till Dusk: A Swan Song‘ at D.I.G. Collective- part of  Art Licks Weekend 3-5 October ‘this song only sings, or this step only…

06 Feb

Peter Clarke’s Wind Blowing on the Cape Flats at Iniva offers insights into South African politics and fresh perspectives on art

“Art came to me,” states artist Peter Clarke, in conversation with Hans Ulrich Obrist, an event marking the opening of his exhibition at Iniva (Institute of International Visual Arts). “It…

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