Emma Edmondson
“A mountain can be both a peak of accomplishment or a point to fall from. Fluxing mountainous landscapes also haunt the stock market; charting financial losses and gains or visually marking the start of a recession. A recession as a patriarchal system, an absent father and the absence of that patriarchy as hierarchy, as a control. Mountains symbolise eternal return, survival and demise - the climb, the exertion of labour, leading to a fall. Is creativity a survival instinct? Practice Mountain is a creative critical text exploring how recessions can shape art practice for better or worse and exploring the neoliberalism of everything, including family life" Emma Edmondson
Teaching for people who prefer not to teach - Edited by M Bayerdorfer and R Schweiker.
Contributions from friends, personal teaching experiences and rumours. Self-employed artists wear many different hats, and this publication looks and the methodologies used in order to make this happen.
Emma Edmondson
This may seem at odds with everything else on this page as it isn’t education based, in the sense that there are no pupils. However, I’ve followed the story of Cookhouse from pay what you think supper clubs, to a shipping container that opened at weekends and one-off evenings to a bricks and mortar restaurant. This has been, I believe, a passion project for the owner Anna Hedworth, originally an architect to self-taught chef. What interests me is not only the aspect of being self-taught and the implications of that, but also how she brought skills from her previous job into this one to really make it a success.
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/podcast/can-artists-live-off-art-alone-plus-los-angeles
“Two-thirds of artists in the UK earn less than £5,000 per year from their art, according to a new survey. We speak to the art advisor James Doeser who worked on the study and the artist Tai Shani about the bleak reality of working as an artist in Britain today. Then, as the inaugural Frieze Los Angeles gets underway, our correspondent Jori Finkel discusses whether Frieze will succeed where other fairs have failed. This year's Desert X exhibition in Palm Springs is also reviewed.”
Perry sets out the Validation Cast, which ties in I believe with Maslows Hierarchy of Needs.
‘The crit’ which took place at CalArts, and spanned nearly the whole day.
“Baldessari believes that the most important function of art education is to demystify artists: ‘Students need to see that art is made by human beings just like them’. ”