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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
“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…
