Welcome to discourse, the new area of the Bloc website that draws together essays, articles, reviews and writing around exhibitions and events shown at Bloc. If you have any comments or would like to contribute to this area, then please email us at info@blocprojects.co.uk

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.

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.

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?’.

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.

Waging War, Playing GamesJessica 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.

The space is empty and waitingSteve 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.