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2014 Writing

The Art School Handbook

…media theory…” (Pujol 2009, p.5). This ‘interdisciplinary approach’ is evident in the ethos of the Art, Philosophy, Contemporary Practices pathway (in which students split study between the Philosophy and Art…
2010 Writing

Trajectories: How to Reconcile the Careerist Mentality with Our Impending Doom

…E Craig ed. Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy. London: Routledge Hájek A 2008; Pascal’s Wager, The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy Harvey D 2007; A Brief History of Neoliberalism, Oxford: Oxford University…
2016 Writing

Practising what we Preach

…4 PCES 2011; About Us, Post-Crash Economics Society Phillips A 2016; Engaging in Research, Presented at Invisible Knowledge, Centre for Contemporary Arts Phillips A 2010; Educational Aesthetics, in: Allen F…
2008 Installations

Know Your Thinkers & Theorists

…Groves J & Appignanesi R 2004; Introducing Philosophy, Royston: Icon Sim S, Van Loon B & Appignanesi R 2004; Introducing Critical Theory, Royston: Icon Stangroom J 2005; The Great Philosophers,…
2016 Media

Artist defends £15,000 grant that sparked abusive attack

…setting this simple restriction to her current lifestyle, she intends to test the limits of a ‘sustainable practice’ and to challenge the demand-to-travel placed upon the ‘successful artist’.” Phil Miller…
2016 Media

Controversy over grant takes further twist as payment method is ruled out

…requires its lecturing staff to be fundraisers and is willing to pay them to be absent from teaching as a result, should be the focus of this debate.” Phil Miller…
2016 Media

Our arts body cannot only back risk-averse ideas

…they believe is over-the-top harsh treatment for Ms Harrison, emboldened the arts body to back artists and their individual visions, and let the chips fall where they may. Phil Miller…
2010 Media

Art erupts out of a fine mess

…commercial success: well, in this day and age – it is quite an old-fashioned one now.” Exhibitions run from June 12-26 at the Glue Factory and the CCA. Phil Miller…
2010 Media

Artists in a bid for success with different type of draw

…shared £4.5m. Five years ago a syndicate of six women at the Morrison Bowmore’s bottling plant in Glasgow each won a £2.5m share of the total £15m jackpot. Phil Miller…
2016 Media

‘Glasgow Effect’ artist Ellie Harrison reveals first work of project

…in roads in this city they are perpetuating inequalities, because only 43 per cent of households in the east end have access to cars – households, not people.” Phil Miller…
2016 Media

Artist whose Glasgow Effect project caused controversy to discuss row in new event

…is calling her work a “action research project/durational performance”. Ms Harrison’s project drew a mixture of responses on social media, from scorn to amusement, as well as hostility. Phil Miller…
2016 Media

‘Glasgow Effect’ artist controversy: arts body defends funding Ellie Harrison

…to digest, it will take the whole year to do so. I hope to follow-up by meeting many of you face-to-face, when all the fuss has died down.” Phil Miller…
2014 Media

Indyref Confetti Cannon to go on Display at Edinburgh Art Festival

…the National Museum of Scotland. Tomorrow, the Edinburgh Festival Fringe starts officially and is launched by a lecture from director and writer duo Rachel Chavkin and Chris Thorpe. Phil Miller…
2009 Writing

How Can We Continue Making Art?

…Years, Berkeley California: University of California Press Lippard L 1997b; The Lure of the Local, New York: New Press Miller J 2006; ‘Double or Nothing: John Miller on the Art…
2020 Lecture

My Philosophy of Art School Education
2009 Writing

Altermodernism: The Age of Stupid

…mid-17th century the French philosopher and scientist Blaise Pascal portrayed an inspiring vision of humanity as progressing throughout time, by likening the development of human innovation over the course of…
2014 Media

Getting Straight to the Point

…Miller’s wall of photographs of discarded objects and societal junk, Bhagwansingh’s (2014). Another of Miller’s works, Refraction (2014), dominates the White Gallery space physically, a sculptural steel framework (a little…
2014 Media

Counterpoint at Edinburgh Art Festival

Counterpoint at Edinburgh Art Festival 2014: hoping to add to contemporary art in Scotland, not just repeat it. Alec Finlay, Ellie Harrison, Michelle Hannah, Andrew Miller & more contribute to…
2014 Media

Scottish independence and artists: “It’s not about nationalism at all”

…Common Weal (which recently gained its own independence when it split from The Reid Foundation). Baker, meanwhile, is both practically and philosophically involved with the debate, through Stove and his…
2009 Media

Know Your Thinkers & Theorists

…of philosopher’s dropped into the ensuing discussion, fitted into the larger chronology of the development of western philosophy over last few millennia. I didn’t know, but now that I had…
2017 Media

The New Conservatism: Complicity & the UK Art World’s Performance of Progression

…has been a growing identification with the 1%, seen through capitulation to the explicit or imagined whims of private finance (philanthropy, corporate sponsorship, etc.), and in turn the adoption of…
2013 Media

The Hunger Artists

…is installed, it has proved especially popular on national budget days. It’s a contemporary, real-life version of the homotropic newspaper-vending robot in Philip K. Dick’s novel The Game-Players of Titan….
2015 Media

Summerhall TV Selection

…construction is more lyrical, a montage of picture and soundscape, affecting the quiet confidence of working in the enclosed slow-paced discipline of Angelika’s Buddhist tradition. Phillipa Aitken: Gerhard Richter Shot…
2009 Media

Summer Reading

…Ellie Harrison, Confessions of a Recovering Data Collector, £10.00 Eduardo Kac & Avital Ronell, Life Extreme, £19.50 Brian Peers, Crossword Puzzle, £5.40 Stuart Macdonald, The History and Philosophy of Art…