Values: Sluice Biennial
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Sluice magazine
Autumn 2017
Values: Sluice Biennial
This October the Sluice Biennial finds itself located in the middle of a designer-discount retail hub in Hackney Central. Until recently Hackney was known for having the highest concentration of artists in Europe, as with any gentrifying area this was a transitory state. In many ways, a high-end discount retail development is the legacy that artists have gifted Hackney. Whether you read this as an indictment or not is likely tied to your views on how instrumentalisation plays out. Pallas Projects (p. 64) offer their view, informed by twenty- one years of navigating the ebb and flow of socio-economic change in Dublin, Ireland. Often artists are viewed (and view themselves) as estranged from the working-class struggles of the communities they’re embedded in. By addressing sustainability head on, dkuk (p. 6) is actively confronting this dislocation from the existential realities of the community.
Art, like designer fashion, relies on exclusivity to achieve and maintain financial value. But Sluice is predicated on locating and quantifying value in places other than the price tag.
Contributions by:
Daniel Kelly
Ian Hunter
Ben Street
Ladies of the Press
Christopher Stout
Julia Gat
Alistair Gentry
Rosanna van Mierlo
Charlie Levine
Stefan Riebel
Mark Cullen
Gavin Murphy
Dimensions: (h x w) 280 x 210 mm
Extent 80 pp
Paper Type 120gsm
Cover:
Paper Type 250gsm
Perfect Bound
ISSN 9772398839005
Print-run: 500
Published: October 2017