Documentation of art / art of documenting

In April and May the 4th Art and Documentation Festival took place in Lodz (Poland). The festival is held once a year. It is dedicated to issues connected with the documenting of the contemporary art, with particular emphasis on ephemeral art forms such as an installation and performance art. the Art and Documentation Festival is organised by the Art and Documentation Association, whose main aim is collecting, researching and disseminating testimonies and archives concerning non-institutional activities and artist run initiatives (from the seventies to the present day).

A shift in time and space. The Articulate Project Space in Lodz

The Articulate Project Space is an initiative of a group of Australian visual artists who have a studio or some other connection in common with 497 Parramatta Road, Leichhardt (Sydney). These artists’ diverse practices share an interest in the relationships that artworks form with their various locations. The Articulate Project Space combines features of a studio and a gallery. The exhibition "Project Space Project", prepared for the 4^th Art and Documentation Festival by Margaret Roberts and Sue Callanan from the Articulate Project Space, was presented in May and in the beginning of June at the Biblioteka Gallery (Lodz, Poland).

Ambulatorio, 9^th July 2012, Belfast, an installation for three weeks.

Three days after the launch of the installation of glass grid with aerial photographs of Belfast, a rioting groups and individuals in the adjacent area undermined the hope, which Oscar Muñoz embodied on a disused road between two massive steel walls, that is a hope for a city without barriers once more. Placed at the intersection of Flux Street and Crumlin Road, with no access to a short no man’s land in between, the huge steel walls compensated for the disabled civilised self-control between neighbours, the residents of two opposing communities, Lower Shankill (Protestant) and Ardoyne (Catholic), for decades.

Again and again. First anniversary of the Raczej Gallery (Poznan, Poland)

A first year is believed to be the hardest one. An anniversary is an opportunity to celebrate, but it also means an uncertainty of what is yet to come. In other ways, it is just a year that has passed.

Dan Shipsides and Neal Beggs. Shipsides and Beggs Projects: Still not out of the woods. Belfast, MAC, Sunken Gallery, 29 June-19 August 2012

Its curator, Hugh Mulholland, stated: The work is open-ended and whilst collaborative, elements of their individual artistic practice can be detected. The idea of open-endedness has existed as long as there was poetry and art. It is not something that can be excluded from any art process, although it came to the special attention during the Modernism and its pressure on the participation of viewers. It was expected to work as shared responsibility for meanings of each work of art and a protection against attacks issued from older traditional positions. That seems to be still its valid role while the international art elite moves the openness of art in another direction by extending inherited art system.