Perform, Subvert, Transform

Sluice magazine
Spring 2019

Perform, Subvert, Transform

How are art fictions created, in terms of an artist’s identity or persona, and how do fictions lie across/drive/speak to our work. How might one artist’s practice shift or colour another artist’s practice. Where might a consideration of the way artists share and offer up their practices take us in relation to the way artwork is constructed, built, or deconstructed?

In explaining the concept of the edition to artists I spoke to, I kept returning to ‘nomenclature’ as a way of classifying things with names and idents. In the articles and discussions and interviews within this edition, the naming of the thing kept on being a thing of significance – even the use of the word ‘artist’ might be up for debate – what happens when an artist uses an idea donated by a non-artist for example? In the mix we hear from artists who celebrate the words they are called, the concepts they float up against and the bodies they are able to shift perspective on. In addition, many artists find the artistic challenge of rerouting themselves, reimagining and reconstructing their personae an important and necessary journey. Every iteration of an artist’s career may be a reconfiguration of something they have tried before, enacting and re-enacting “This is not how we started first time round. How did we start last time?”

Guest editor:
Sarah Wishart

Contributions by:
Lois Keidan
Elly Clarke
Liv Fontaine
Alistair Gentry
Sandino Scheidegger
Daniel Devlin
Keran James
Plastique Fantastique
Stefan Riebel
Motsonian
Mary Paterson
Deborah Pearson

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: May 2019