Category: Review

Artists for Democracy, an exhibition based upon the archive of Cecilia Vicuña, held in Santiago, Chile, at the Museo de la Memoria y Los Derechos Humanos (the Museum of Memory and Human Rights) and at the Museo Nacional Bellas Artes (the National Museum of Fine Arts). The video Chile Lucha was part of the original exhibition, Artists for Democracy, held at the Royal College of Art, London in 1974, in which over 100 artists, mainly from Britain, contributed work in support of the people of Chile, who one year after the military coup were suffering persecution and deprivation.

The links on this page are to various reviews of the Santiago exhibition, most of which are in Spanish.There is also a blog with links to further reviews: http://artistsfordemocracy2014.com/

The Kultur Speziell team from Austrian Television (ORF) visited the 1973 Avant-Garde Film Festival at the National Film Theatre and other venues in London. Unlike the British media who took no interest at all in the event, the Austrian team spent several days at the Festival, filming some of the events and performances, and interviewing various of the attendees. They approached me for an interview and I suggested that I could instead, using their crew and equipment, make the film that would respond to the question:”Why did you want to make this film?”. The program that was later broadcast in Austria included the piece uncut and concluded as half-hour report that was unpatronising and positive. In the late 1990s Peter Mudie recovered the program from ORF from which these stills were taken. (See more under Performance).

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This was the scene between performances outside the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), one of the venues during the Festival. David Crosswaite at the top of the steps, Mike Leggett and Valie Export foreground right.

A preview by Richard Kwietniowski from the South West Review newspaper in 1984.

‘Burning the Interface: International Artists’ CD-ROM’ exhibition review by Emma Miller in The Big Issue, 1st December 1996.

‘Burning the Interface: International Artists’ CD-ROM’ exhibition review by John Conomos in Art+Text, Vol 54, 1996.

‘Burning the Interface: International Artists’ CD-ROM’ exhibition review by Linda Wallace in Photofile No 48, August 1996.

‘Burning the Interface: International Artists’ CD-ROM’ exhibition review by Darren Tofts in Photofile No. 48, August 1996.

‘Burning the Interface: International Artists’ CD-ROM’ exhibition review by Michael Fitzgerald in Time magazine, 3rd June 1996.

‘Burning the Interface: International Artists’ CD-ROM’ exhibition review by Joanna Mendelssohn in The Australian, 12th April 1996.