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Cornelia Parker: Magna Carta (An Embroidery) Humanitas Visiting Professorships in Contemporary Art European Live Art Archive John Gerrard: Exercise (Djibouti) 2012 The Elements of Drawing: John Ruskin’s Teaching Collections at Oxford Gabriela Albergaria: hither and thitherZarina Bhimji, Martha Fleming, Susan Hiller, Sharon Kivland, Brighid Lowe, Cornelia Parker: Inserts
Inserts published commissioned artworks in a variety of specialist magazines and academic journals in the years leading up to the Millennium. This enabled contemporary art to appear in and interact with contexts where it would not normally be found and address audiences that do not necessarily associate visual art and artists with their professional or leisure interests.
The underlying aspiration of Inserts was to propose the value of exchange between disciplines, individuals and communities whose worlds rarely coincide and whose languages are commonly perceived as mutually untranslatable. Through artists’ interventions in the matter and discourses of publications, Inserts celebrated the visual imagination as a fertile culture for the exchange of ideas.
Commissioned by the Ruskin School of Art in partnership with Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities, British Journal for the History of Science, British Journal of Psychotherapy, City, Garden History, Nature, QJM Monthly Journal of the Association of Physicians and Society and Space and supported by funding from the Arts Council of England and Southern Arts.
