art-theory-productions

Continuing ACCA’s ongoing series of Big Picture exhibitions focussing on contemporary art’s relation to wider social, cultural and political contexts, Unfinished Business is a major exhibition conceived to animate critical, albeit under-represented, practices and debates within...

...on the other…[3] Medieval artistic production models fascinated Lowe and many others during the 1980’s. In line with postmodern theories, for instance those explored by semiotician Umberto Eco,, they offered an alternative, more artisanal example...

...the curator Annika Kristensen and collaborative artist projects Field Theory, Clark Beaumont and Bik Van der Pol. Greater Together begins with the question of work and of how to work better. It takes place in a period of uncertainty...

...for the ACCA bookshop as a physical and metaphorical extension of the exhibition. WORK/SHOP will draw out themes from the exhibition, exploring alternative modes of authorship, production and labour, the concept of art practice as commodified work, and the retail space as a site of exchange...

This writing workshop and discussion, led by Lucinda Strahan, will explore modes of nonfiction writing that respond to contemporary art by interrogating the dominant masculinist hegemon of theory and the conventions of both assessment and explanation that often constrict art...

Centre for Contemporary Art...

...of a wealthy suburb you know that the pleasant order of consumerism is predicated on a chaotic abyss of paper trash, rotting food, sewage. There is no cleanliness without mess, there is no bounded, sterile product without sweat stains, shit, and plastic that will never biodegrade. Any effort...

...interactive text, writings and sound. Aasma was a fellow at the Home Workspace Program 2019-20, Ashkal Alwan, her work has appeared in Restricted Fixations, Abr_circle, Khoj Art+Science program, HH Art Space. She is a member of the collective -out-of-line-, and collaboratively maintains a home server...

...ideas from pop-culture, feminism, psychoanalytic theory and art history were brought together to produce visual vignettes that had the instant appeal of a classic; probably because they emerged from already confirmed classics and fine art archetypes...

...to be incompatible with the demands of femininity, just as the attributes of femininity were incompatible with the production of good art.”7 “From 1907, after the foundation of the Artists’ Suffrage League (followed in 1909 by the Suffrage Atelier...

...videos that used new ways for ACCA to communicate with art lovers.  ACCA’s publishing program also continued in 2011 with the production of five new exhibition catalogues that included commissioned texts by Luca Cerizza, Donald Brook and Dominic Eichler. Wednesday Nights at ACCA...

...the founder of the Arts and Crafts movement, William Morris’s promotion of handcraft as an anti-capitalist means of producing an object from beginning to end, and thus countering the alienation of labouring on specialised parts on a factory production line. Despite their slow and handmade methods...