So much to read, so little time

by Ruth Barker, 1 Feb 2010

Hello,
Nicola Wright, who contributed to the Reflection article you can read here is also Scottish Regional Editor for artartart magazine. As I inserted this factoid into the tiny biog above her review of the Steven Holl lecture, I thought I’d have a browse through artartart to see what they’d been up to lately.

I discovered a real treat. This is such a great resource, with some genuinely interesting articles and opinions. Go take a look, and if any writers really catch your eye do let me know and I’ll try to get them for PAR+RS! Particularly interesting for me were Jen Martin’s piece – Your Place Or Mine? An Exploration of Generous Art Within Communities and Vanessa Bartlett’s Leading Or Following, Social engagement and mass participation in the Cultural Olympiad, which raised some very pertinent questions.

Great stuff. My other discovery this week was the fantastic Read Out! Read In! Feminist Lines of Flight in Art and Politics. This is a wonderfully generous archive of starting points and cataylsts for discussion, initiated by artists Kate Davis and Faith Wilding as part of their project The Long Loch: How Do We Go On From Here? at the CCA, Glasgow. Not simply a resource, but also the transcription of a community’s train of thought, I’d encourage you all to dip in and explore.

Happy browsing,
R