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30 October 2006
How to talk to public art

Freee are currently working on a new commission, How to talk to public art, for the BBC’s Power of Art project. Deciding that they should talk back to the public art of Manchester, Freee are selecting a number of works to ‘chat’ to or interfere with. The work will take the form of a series of short films uploaded to YouTube along with a request to viewers to join in, make their own short films of themselves talking to public art and upload them for other people to see.

27 October 2006
Have you heard the one about the public sphere?

Freee have just finished a new work, Have you heard the one about the public sphere? for Hull Time based Arts. The work was comissioned as part of a project entitled If your names not on the list you’re not coming in, curated by Esther Windsor. It also includes new works by Cedric Christie, Jessica Voorsanger, Gavin Turk and Bob & Roberta Smith.

For this new work Freee worked with Hull comedian Norman Collier to make a video which features the stand-up comic using his famous broken microphone routine while attempting to make a public announcement about the debasement of the public sphere.

27 October 2006
The Internationaler

The Internationaler is a new magazine published in the North of England. Led by an editorial board living and working primarily in Manchester, Liverpool and Sheffield, but also with members in London, Glasgow and Berlin, its coverage of contemporary art practices and debates takes the work of artists and curators in the North of England in the context of work throughout the UK, Europe and the international art world.

Redressing the usual journalistic emphasis on gallery exhibitions in the form of reviews, the Internationaler focuses on debates around contemporary practices. This is why the reviews are longer than those found in most art magazines and the articles and interviews are extensive and in-depth.

The Internationaler aims to instigate, develop, nurture and extend critical debate across the full range of contemporary art and culture.

To contribute contact: editorial@internationaler.co.uk
To subscribe contact: subscriptions@internationaler.co.uk

2 October 2006
On Liberty and Art Symposium

Dave Beech will be giving a paper at the On Liberty and Art symposium at the Tate Britain on Wednesday 18 October 2006, 11.00–17.00. Other speakers will be Amanda Beech (no relation), Jake Chapman, Pia and Galia Kollectiv, Roman Vasseur, John Russell. More info here.

16 August 2006
Freee news update

Dave Beech has a new job as Senior Lecturer in Fine Art, at Chelsea College of Art. He has written a new article entitled Shock versus Awe for the October special issue of Art Monthly.

Mel Jordan has a new job as Senior Lecturer in Fine Art, at Goldsmiths College of Art.

Andy Hewitt and Mel Jordan are working on a new book entitled Futurology which is due out in November 2006. The book maps the Futurology project at New Art Gallery, Walsall and brings together a number of important texts on utopias, anti-art and the avant-garde, and cultural–led regeneration, exploring the notion of functionality and autonomy in contemporary art practice. Contributors include: Malcolm Miles, Esther Leslie, Mark Hutchinson, Ruth Robinson, Rasheed Araeen, John Roberts, Charles Landry and Claire Fox. With projects by artists Barby Asante, Dave Beech, Nick Crowe and Ian Rawlinson, Simon Poulter and Becky Shaw.

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