| Features |
| Not a day goes by |
| By Pete Harrison 2009 |
| Extract: 'He walks through the landscape in light blue swim shorts, looking like a god. Ned Merril. He is there in every scene, made double by Will Foster’s mirror-reverse of the film, projecting one version, running forwards, next to another, running backwards. Will’s piece never becomes about the how of his technical skill; it is always about the why of that mirroring, of that setting. The story was conceived as a mirror; it was promoted as a work that says something about us, or if not us, then certainly 1960s America fighting to understand its bi-polar pulls. The tagline of the movie is “When you talk about The Swimmer, will you talk about yourself?” and the explicit short story shows the often-melodramatic film to be subtle and nuanced in comparison.' |
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| ANALYTICALANDSYNTHETICCABINISM |
| By John Calcutt 2005 |
| Extract: |
| 'The building site is the spiritual home of the steel cabin, and a considerable number of urban building programmes these days (apart from routine maintenance of a decaying infrastructure of roads and services) concern conversion of existing structures, rather than construction of new ones. And a pronounced trend within such conversions is a change of the building's original function as a site more or less connected to production and distribution (factory, warehouse, bank, shop) into a site more or less connected to leisure and consumption (luxury accommodation, bar, club, coffee house, restaurant). Like the spots erupting on the skin of a chicken pox sufferer, the appearance of the steel cabin in the city is a symptom - a symptom of speculative capital at work. There can be no objection, it seems, when the steel container appears on the streets as a symptomatic representative of one form of private interest (that of entrepreneurs, investors, shareholders, etc.), but what might happen if it were to shelter another form of supposedly private interest, that of the artist?' |
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| Publications and books |
| PRAKTIKA- Creating a Critical Context for Socially Engaged Art Practice |
| By Deveron Arts. 2008, ISBN- 978-0-9555253-7-7 |
| Features Skills Bank project |
| Buy here: http://www.deveron-arts.com/wb/pages/shop.php#publications |
| Temporary Urban Spaces, concepts for the Use of City Spaces. Birkhauser Verlag AG |
| Edited by Florian Haydn, Robert Temel. 2006 ISBN - 10:3-7643-7460-8 |
| Features Cabin Exchange |
| Buy here: http://www.rudi.net/pages/19628 |
| Placed Upon the Horizon: A Permanent Public Artwork |
| by Niall Macdonald and Ruth Barker Publisher South Lanarkshire Council. 2006, ISBN-10: 0955312701 |
| Features interview with Artist |
| Buy here: http://www.amazon.ca/Placed-Upon-Horizon-Permanent-Artwork/dp/0955312701 |