There are “certain painters,” Frank Auerbach mused to me a few years ago, “who painted in a not very distinguished way, then at the point of turning toward abstraction, painted some distingu
A participant's response. Copyright JPKinsella.
Dogs, squirrels, birds, never sleep, Vienna 2012.
'Three Up Three Down' from the exhibition 'The Way That We Live' at The Bookcubegallery', Dublin 2010.
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Socialmaterialbank Project (Ongoing since 2010.)
The aim of this project is to encourage and make it possible for the public to participate in this post neo-liberal capitalist world by sharing their thoughts, ideas and possibilities thus sharing in the design of the future.
www.socialmaterialbank.org
Socialmaterialbank.org is an art archive that stores and disseminates social information/material that is collected from the public through art events in art spaces and pop up galleries. I believe that through art we can make the world a better and more tolerable place by giving people access too and allowing them participate in our future.
The initial question asked is – What is your concept, idea and or dream of house/home? The second question is on democracy and we will continue to explore relevant questions.
The events are held in art spaces, pop up galleries and venues that allow access to arts new publics and during the event we make art, in the case of the house/home event we create representations of local living spaces.
Sculpture from ´The Way We Live` Socialmaterialbank project – Bookcubegallery, Dublin.
Acclaimed New Delhi artist-filmmaker Amar Kanwar is presenting the anticipated exhibition “The Sovereign Forest” at the NTU Centre for Contemporary Art (CCA) in Singapore through O
“We don’t want to be decorative artists and we don’t want to only be designers. We consider ourselves conceptual artists.”