Archive 2009-10
Neil Mulholland
- Venue: Fine Art Lecture Theatre
- Start: Wed, 02 Dec 2009 11:00:00 GMT
- End: Wed, 02 Dec 2009 13:00:00 GMT
Nuke the Fridge 'Ambient culture, like our present-day consumer culture, promises to be experience-centred; the question remains will as to whether or not the kind of experiences valued and nurtured will be genuinely holistic and embodied. It’s up to us to determine the outcome of this battle for our homes, our bodies and our minds. We might want to start by having a few words with our fridges....'
Neil Mulholland is currently Director of the Centre for Visual & Cultural Studies at Edinburgh College of Art. His work focuses on grass-roots parochialism, narratology, magical realism and metafiction in recent art and criticism.
The outcome is manifest in art, criticism, fiction, exhibitions, zines and documentaries. He writes regularly for Flash Art, Frieze, Untitled, Modern Painters and Art Review and has curated numerous exhibitions such as, Ye Ye, French Institute, Edinburgh (07); Young Athenians, Destroy Athens: Athens Biennial (07); Strategic Art Getts, The Embassy, Edinburgh (05); The Garden, Castlefield, Manchester (05); Campbell's Soup (05); We Go Round and Round in the Night and Are Consumed by Fire, Liverpool Biennial/New York (03-04).
Links
Books available in the Robinson Library
Neil, Mulholland. The cultural devoltuion: art in Britain in the late twentieth century. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2003