Vernacular
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Sluice magazine
Spring 2024
Vernacular
What does art look like when in dialogue with environmental, geographical, political and ethical considerations? An art of dissent, an art against the status quo. Is the artist, curator-led, non-profit, independent-minded sector simply a strategy of self-empowerment or does the artist-led sensibility utilise and inhabit a singular idiosyncratic language, a territorial specificity? A visual and organisational vernacular orientated towards the interests of self-organising artists and curators as opposed perhaps to the market or the institution? And if so, what does it – or what could it – look like?
These are the questions the Sluice 2024 expo seeks to uncover. Having been spurred by the location and cultural history of Essex and East Anglia in the east of England, the setting of the 2024 Sluice expo.
The Spring/Summer 2024 edition of Sluice magazine looks at artist-led production from various angles to map what art looks like when untethered from the market and orientated towards other concerns.
Feat:
Gravel Clay and Saltmarsh by Ben Coode-Adams
Becoming Part of the Architecture: Embedded Artistic Research by Jonathan Orlek, Stu Burke, Julia McKinlay, Victoria Sharples and James Thompson
Soft Radicle by Niki Colclough Perla Ramos
Possible Worlds by Josh Hall
The Craft by Alistair Gentry
All is Touch, All is Thought by Giuseppe Marasco
artist interviews artist: Annabel Dover Karen Densham
Essex Neck by Matthew Stock
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 2024