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The Way Things Work (cycle two)

'round-table'
Event
Nov 2008
Jaki Irvine and Will Holder; the second in a series of studio-based seminars with invited speakers exploring methods of investigation and processes of production in and beyond the studio, addressing issues of collaboration, negotiation, dialogue, economic conditions and contexts. More...

The Way Things Work (cycle one)

Emily Wardill and students
Event
Oct 2008
Emily Wardill; the first in a series of studio-based seminars with invited speakers exploring methods of investigation and processes of production in and beyond the studio, addressing issues of collaboration, negotiation, dialogue, economic conditions and contexts. More...

Space to Think

Double agents panel
Exhibition
Jul 2008
The inclusion of documentation of Double agents projects based around the paper ‘Friends of Art’ and the notion of ‘the studio as a verb’, the exhibition ‘Space to Think’ to accompany the conference Space to Think: Our Teaching, Learning and Making Spaces in the 21st Century, at Chelsea College of Art and Design. More...

Johanna Billing

studio 'round-table'
Event
Mar 2008
Johanna Billing, round table ‘in conversation’ with undergraduate students, BA Fine Art, to coincide with the inclusion of Johanna’s video work ‘Project for a revolution’ (2000) and ‘Missing Out’ (2001) in ‘Here We Dance’ at Tate Modern, London. More...

Jaki Irvine and Michael Newman

In a World Like This
Event
Dec 2007
Jaki Irvine and Michael Newman ‘in conversation’. A joint venture with Chisenhale Gallery on the occasion of Jaki Irvine’s solo exhibition ‘In a World Like This’. More...

Look Behind Us, a Blue Sky

front cover
Publication
Aug 2007
A new book ‘Look Behind Us, a Blue Sky’ on the work of Johanna Billing, supported by Double agents, and published to accompany her major exhibition at Kunst Museum Basel and Dundee Contemporary Arts. More...

Vito Acconci, in conversation

studio 'round-table'
Event
Mar 2007
A talk by Vito Acconci, to present an overview of his practice, and a round table studio discussion with under-graduate, Post-graduate, Research students and invited guests in Studio G01, Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, Charing Cross Road. Vito Acconci’s visit was made possible through the support of the AHRC funded Research Project ‘Curating Architecture’ at Goldsmiths College and The Henry Moore Foundation. More...

1+1+1 issue four

cover
Publication
Jun 2006
This issue features a discussion of the work of Knut Henrik Henriksen between Lisa Panting and Malin Ståhl; a work for the page by Anne Tallentire based on commissioned a photographic project ‘Arena Industriale’ made in Reggio Emilia, Italy; an essay ‘Motion Path: a bibliography’, by Graham Ellard and Stephen Johnstone, and an afterword by Sissu Tarka. Designed by bc/mh. Downloads: Text (pdf) – 1+1+1 issue four Links: Hollybush Gardens. ‘Motion Path’ (2006) Graham Ellard and Stephen Johnstone. BCMH. See also: ‘1+1+1’ issue one, February 2005. ‘1+1+1’ issue two, May 2005. ‘1+1+1’ issue three, November 2005.

1+1+1 issue three

cover
Publication
Nov 2005
This issue was produced to accompany the exhibition ‘Sounds Like Drawing’ in collaboration with The Drawing Room, and includes an essay by curator Anthony Huberman (SculptureCentre New York), a transcription of a public ‘in conversation’ at the gallery with the curators, exhibitors Kaffe Matthews, Steve Roden and Conor Kelly, and chaired by Ben Borthwick (Tate Modern), and a new work by Yve Lomax commissioned for the printed page. More...

Sounds Like Drawing

'in conversation'
Exhibition
Oct 2005
An exhibition exploring the trajectory between sound and drawing. 13 October – 20 November 2005 at The Drawing Room, London. Double agents collaborated with The Drawing Room to stage an event with Anthony Huberman, curator, and artists Kaffe Matthews, Conor Kelly, and Steve Roden, chaired by Ben Borthwick, Curator, Tate Modern. More...

Anthony McCall, in conversation

drawing - Anthony McCall
Event
Oct 2005
A round table ‘in conversation’ with Graham Ellard and undergraduate students, BA Fine Art at Central Saint Martins. After an lecture by Graham Ellard introducing McCall’s work, selected students joined Anthony around the table in their studio to discuss their responses to the work. More...

1+1+1 issue two

cover
Publication
May 2005
This issue was produced to accompany the exhibition ‘The Trouble with Talkies’ and included essays on each of the works by their selectors – Anne Tallentire, Graham Ellard, Adam Chodzko, Lisa Panting, Uriel Orlow, Jaki Irvine. More...

The Trouble with Talkies

installation view
Exhibition
May 2005
An exhibition of work by Locky Morris, Anthony McCall, Cecily Brennan, Tibor Hajas, Michel Khleifi and Eyal Sivan and Jitka Hanzlova selected by Double agents, Anne Tallentire, Graham Ellard and Stephen Johnstone, Lisa Panting, Adam Chodzko, Uriel Orlow, and Jaki Irvine, considering the notion of the conversation as an activity both between artists (acting as curators) and the works selected. More...

1+1+1 issue one

cover
Publication
Feb 2005
The first of a series of broad sheet journals featuring one essay, one interview and one artwork, each of which draws on significant current international practice. Issue one featured two projects by Roman Ondák, Lisa Panting on Diemantas Narkevičius, and a ‘Family Tree’ of Czech art by Vít Havránek & Ján Mancuska. Designed by bc/mh. Broadsheet, 8pp, 4pp colour illustrations, ISSN: 1746-6989. Downloads: Texts (pdf) – 1+1+1 issue one Links: BCMN See also: ‘1+1+1’ issue two, May 2005. ‘1+1+1’ issue three, November 2005. ‘1+1+1’ issue four, July 2006.

‘Friends of Art’ seminar

seminar
Event
Nov 2004
‘Friends of Art’ a seminar at ELIA 8 Biennial Conference in Luzern – ‘Challenging the Frame’ convened by Anne Tallentire and Graham Ellard. The seminar considered the questions raised by collaborative approaches to practice in Fine Art and its implications for teaching, curriculum design and the studio in Fine Art education. After an introductory paper by Anne Tallentire and Graham Ellard presentations were made by artists’ Uriel Orlow and Ruth Maclennan, Adam Chodzko, and Emily Wardill. More...

Re: the archive, the image and the very dead sheep

front covers
Publication
Nov 2004
A ‘ready-made archive’, a holiday correspondence and a philosophico-anecdotal meditation on history, ‘Re: the archive, the image, and the very dead sheep’ is the first collaborative work by Uriel Orlow and Ruth Maclennan. Ruth Maclennan and Uriel Orlow write to each other while on holiday in the Highlands of Scotland and in Zurich and the Swiss Alps. The correspondents draw on documented, anecdotal and imagined histories of their surroundings to produce associative genealogies: mapping thought, More...

Density ±0

front cover
Publication
Jan 2004
Catalogue, supported by Double agents, to accompany ‘Density ±0’, an exhibition focusing on the art of the ineffable or intangible, curated by Caroline Ferreira d’Oliveira and Marianne Lanavère. The show opened at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris in February. The show was supported by Double agents and features the work of Francis Alÿs, Graham Gussin, Roman Signer, Ceal Floyer, Carsten Nicolai, and work-seth/tallentire. More...

Works #3, #4, #5

front cover
Publication
Oct 2003
‘Works #3, #4, #5’, a book, supported by Double agents, on the work of Johanna Billing, published by Milch to accompany the exhibition at Gainsborough Studios, London. More...

Peg Rawes, Graham Ellard and Stephen Johnstone

Peg Rawes, with Graham Ellard and Stephen Johnstone
Event
Jul 2003
Peg Rawes, in conversation with artists Graham Ellard and Stephen Johnstone to reconsider how aesthetics and critical structures mediate between architectural and visual practice, hosted by The Serpentine Gallery, in the Oscar Niemeyer Pavilion, organised by Lisa Panting, Milch, London. More...

Michael Asher, in conversation with Charles Esche

Michael Asher
Event
Jun 2003
Michael Asher, in conversation with Charles Esche – an event staged in collaboration with Afterall, at The Serpentine Gallery’s Oscar Niemeyer Pavilion. Michael Asher (b.1943, Los Angeles) is a seminal figure within the contemporary practice referred to as ‘institutional critique’. Since 1966 he has made site-specific interventions that focus on the ideological nature of the physical environments of galleries, museums and art institutions. His works have been included in Documenta (1972) and the Venice Biennale More...