Proving Ground
This volume of eight essays was conceived as a means of providing writers affiliated to the Hannah Barry Gallery with an opportunity to refine, document and explore personal convictions relevant to the practice of contemporary art at the start of a new decade. This publication collects together the varied opinions of a new generation of critics, artists and curators.
Subjects considered include the influence of Guston on contemporary practice, art's responsibility towards Nature, the possibility (or impossibility) of unbroken linear progress in art-making, and the relationship between the X-Files' Mulder and Scully as a defining paradigm of the conflict between the rational and irrational in our own age's understanding of the world.
Contributors: Inigo Philbrick; Jason Marquis; Will Seymour; Donatien Grau; Benjamin Eastham; Aaron Rosen; Sam Solnick; Sophie Cundale.
48pp, paperback. Edited by Benjamin Eastham, designed by Joseph Harries. £5.99
