GOOP! A ‘Plausible Worlds’ Project
This channel-hopping film is an insight into a possible future for television. It was produced in response to a 3-day challenge to evoke a ‘Plausible World’. Made in collaboration with Soomi Park,...
View ArticleEASTLOCAL
This text was written to accompany and contextualise Eirik Helgesen’s graduating project, EASTLOCAL (Design Products, RCA 2012). *** Before 1907, the two hamlets of Kinlochmore and Kinlochbeag had...
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Anna Moderato – In Use
Anna Moderato, Untitled (2012) The work of Anna Moderato hangs in balance. Still, her sculptures are brim-full of potential movement; they contain motion just as an unstruck tuning fork holds its note....
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Instacrit is Live at Show RCA 2012
To celebrate the first graduate class of the RCA’s new department in Critical Writing in Art and Design, Instacrit invites you to put any work from Show RCA 2012 into words. LED screens in both...
View ArticleClo’e Floirat: drawing Crit’ writing
“Designer, ex- Illustrator, no - Artist, perhaps - Critic, certainly – ” From the tip of Clo’e’s pen comes not only a line in vision but a line in thought. It is often upheld that the art of...
View ArticleArt on the Road
A pitch for arts television written for John Wyver. By Clo’e Floirat, Christina Manning Lebek and David Morris. ‘In a historic year for Land Art, Miranda Sawyer takes the viewer on a 3000km road trip...
View ArticleThe Other Line
The tram stopped several times along Olsanska, the long straight road that runs away from the Prague’s centre before the line curves north. The door to the building was heavy. Inside, the staircase was...
View ArticleWhat can happen on a rectangular shape?
On postcards, colours are sewn up to dress the world. Threads, seemingly without meaning, are made into elaborate inventive garments. Material forms come into view and frame concrete figures, outlining...
View ArticleHouse Guests
This descriptive text responds to the painting ‘Mother in Bed’ by Austrian painter Marie-Louise von Motesiczky, which was put on display at Kettle’s Yard Museum in Cambridge as part of their House...
View ArticleThe Heart of Darkness
At the end of the twentieth century, just as political faith in the idea of community had crumbled for good, the greater institution of art took a social turn.[1] Practices loosely categorised as...
View ArticleIn place of London’s tollgates
Conducting a survey of the sites of tollgates that once occupied London’s roads, with ideas of journeys and land access in mind and trying to better understand where the traveller had paid for access...
View ArticleUtopia Unrealized: The Fun Palace
*This text appears in the forthcoming book, ARK: Words and Images from the Royal College of Art Magazine 1950-1978, published by Critical Writing in Art & Design at the Royal College of Art. It...
View ArticleA Poor Exchange: Detroit’s Art as Bailout
*This text appears in the forthcoming book, Ends Meet: Essays on Exchange, published by Critical Writing in Art & Design at the Royal College of Art. In September 1931, Detroit’s famed...
View ArticleAn Alternative Glossary of Exchange
*This text appears in the forthcoming book, Ends Meet: Essays on Exchange, published by Critical Writing in Art & Design at the Royal College of Art. Trying to secure the significance of a word...
View Article‘Shoes hair and coffee’ by Toni del Renzio ARK 20, Autumn 1957 Introduced by...
*This text appears in the forthcoming book, ARK: Words and Images from the Royal College of Art Magazine 1950-1978, published by Critical Writing in Art & Design at the Royal College of Art....
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The Hecklers
*This essay appears in Ends Meet: Essays on Exchange published by Critical Writing in Art & Design.* Still from Joseph Strick’s The Hecklers (BBC, 1966) -The device of heckling on both...
View ArticleLicking the pants off magical ads
This text appears in the forthcoming ARK: Words and Images from the Royal College of Art Magazine 1950-1978, published by Critical Writing in Art & Design at the Royal College of Art. It introduces...
View Article‘A most Sophisticated Weapon’ by Derek Hyatt and A. J. Bisley, ARK 21, Spring...
*This text appears in the forthcoming book, ARK: Words and Images from the Royal College of Art Magazine 1950-1978, published by Critical Writing in Art & Design at the Royal College of Art. The...
View ArticleARK magazine from cover to cover
This text appears in ARK: Words and Images from the Royal College of Art Magazine published by the Critical Writing in Art & Design programme. The essay draws attention to the important role of the...
View ArticleThe Leaning Tower of Venice by Ralph Rumney. Introduced by José da Silva
*This introductory essay appears in ARK: Words and Images from the Royal College of Art Magazine 1950-1978, published by Critical Writing in Art & Design.* ‘The Leaning Tower of Venice’ was...
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