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Over a bed of smooth jazz funk Jamie Crewe’s podcast Sibyllic Blemishes brings to light some of the ideas surrounding the ‘guilty pleasure’. Addressed in 2011’s Assembly#11: Last Requests. |
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The Thing and I by Becky Shaw written to accompany the group show Function an exhibition bringing together the work of four artists who explore the lives of objects and their materials. |
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On Subjectivity and Naming by London based writer and curator Kirsten Cooke. Written to accompany Dale Holmes’ exhibition The MONUMENTAL Pictures
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‘Imagine playing golf and not keeping score, just playing for the beauty of it, the phenomenon of hitting a ball towards a hole’ read Sean Williams’ discourse to accompany the exhibition by Frances Hegarty I’m enjoying myself but that’s no guarantee of quality. |
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In April 2010, a reading group began in the office of Bloc Projects in Sheffield. It discussed Georges Perec’s book Life, a User’s Manual and it’s relationship to Art Sheffield 2010- Life: a User’s Manual Art Sheffield 2010. Looking for Resonance |
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The Bloc Members Show 2010 in dialogue with Jon Krakauer novel Into the Wild, the story of Christopher McCandles |
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On the 14th of December 2009 Lesley Guy led a writing workshop at Bloc space as part of the education programme, in conjunction with the video installation, Mirror, by Tony Caunce. Discourse: Mirror is the combined work of nine 6th Form students from King Edward’s school in Sheffield. |
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This podcast by Sarah Hughes and Patrick Farmer features the two collaborating artists discussing some of there ideas surrounding the work in their exhibition Mr Palomar shown at Bloc in July 2008. |
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An Exhibition blog documenting the accumulation of texts during Lying Freely, curated by Jan Verwoert at Bloc in June 2008, was developed alongside the show which culminated in a reading performance in the gallery. |
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In Charver with Art; or The Body is Gone , Lukasz M. Maciejewski explores issues relating to Stuart Sandford’s work ‘Untitled (Venice)’ for the billboard at Bloc. Contains strong language. |
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Bloc interviewed Matthew Smith Interview about his work in Cultivated Landscapes, shown at Bloc in April 2008. |
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The teleportation of Neil Webb “The thing of the future is a thing of the past” – Steve Dutton’s commissioned text responses to Neil Webb’s installation The Stars in Us All shown at Bloc in November 2007. |
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Are We There Yet? The second commissioned text for the Discourse section. Emma Cocker explores the potential of boredom and anti-climax in relation to artistic practice and the programme at Bloc. |
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Too much discourse and too much stuff? Bloc will commission four new pieces of writing over the next few months, beginning with artist Robin Close’s ‘Too much discourse and too much stuff?’. |
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Some instructions for infecting naturalism A paper written by artist and writer Dave Beech, as part of The Quatermass Code exhibition by a.a.s. in April 2006. For the show, the artists created a collaborative work in the form of a television set of a Science Fiction control room, using this text and the character of Quatermass as their main starting point. |
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Waging War, Playing Games Jessica Wyman is a writer, curator, and art historian who lives in Toronto, Canada, and teaches in the Faculty of Liberal Studies, Ontario College of Art and Design. Waging War, Playing Games was commissioned by Heidi Schaefer, the artist to accompany Might and Mane, her exhibition at Bloc and publication in May 2006. |
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The space is empty and waiting Steve Dutton shares his response to Meriel Herbert’s The Space is Empty and Waiting, offering a very personal insight into the artist’s work.Steve Dutton is an Artist and Writer based in Sheffield. |
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