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Corridor8 is a not-for-profit platform for contemporary visual arts and writing in the North and Midlands of England. We publish reviews, features, interviews and exploratory writing.
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A Reflection on The NewBridge ‘Open’ Open (opens the original)
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I often half-joke that I’m “not really into art”, despite working as an artist, curator and educator. I use the phrase to break down barriers around contemporary art and to question assumptions about what curating should be. Rather than treating curating as selecting and displaying objects, I’m interested in creating supportive structures where relationships, collective work and shared learning can emerge. The ‘Open’ Open developed from this understanding of curating, arguing that the curator’s
Wet Hot Regional Summer (opens the original)
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If you’ve read my piece on the paid tier from a while back, you’ll know I’ve been a roaming citizen of the North for the past decade or so, on a series of temporary contracts as a curator-producer-administrator-programmer-arts-dogsbody. This has, at times, been incredibly depressing, and at others, gleefully liberating. The temporary contract I was working under in Berwick-upon-Tweed ended this summer, and for the first time I managed to line up a new job pretty seamlessly. I still made things d
Precarity (opens the original)
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If land justice is being challenged by co-ops and community land trusts, by community benefit societies and community led land banking, why aren’t artists using these same methodologies to tackle studio precarity?<img alt="" class="
Words Worth Watching (opens the original)
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This May, independent Leeds-based imprint Wild Pansy Press celebrated its 30th year with the exhibition Words Worth Watching in the Project Space at the University of Leeds. With working ties to the press through its latest initiative The Writers’ Room, Lu Rose Cunningham explores its history and the role of such independent projects in encouraging connectivity, circular economies and shared learning. Lu spoke to Wild Pansy Press founders Chris Taylor and Simon Lewandowski, poet Tom Branfoot of
July Newsletter (opens the original)
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