Rick Holland

Round it comes again. This idea that somewhere in the greatest achievers in art and sport lies a dictator who feels no imperative to be consistent with protocol. I hovered over the keys at the automatic cultural need to pre-fix dictator with 'benign' there, so heavy is the term with...

Think about what takes us away, whatever art form it is. Before self consciousness forces us to become 'proficient', the time the conditions have been put in place and we haven't had time to grasp a 'whole', we don't yet understand what is happening, there isn't chance for strategy to...

We are, it seems, in the midst of a revolution of culture that paints us all as independent artists. We collect our artefacts from wherever we want to and make with them. Culture beneath that of the corporate megaliths has never seemed so loud and energetic. Feedback loops posit our...

This is necessarily in quick blog form, concise and unedited in the spirit of new emerging methods of pattern formation in all areas of life of the kind that will hopefully lead us to create better systems in the future, from individual thought right up to international policies.

One...

Architect Frank Gehry : on buildings and ideals.

The excerpts that follow are the comments of 82 year old architect Frank Gehry, interviewed for Wallpaper magazine (Dec 2011 issue), which I just read for the first time in a cafe. What he has to say holds parallel for...

Brian Eno was the first 'full time' artist I had ever met when we first began work on what would become the album Drums Between the Bells and its sister EP Panic of Looking.

I always felt like I was on a trip in the early days....

Top 10 Aural and Poetic Delights

The thread running through all of these choices is an unflinching belief that 'poetry' does not only live in established poetic institutions and counter institutions. It exists precisely and exactly wherever you sense it; a true democracy for voice and musicality and emotion, from...