Sluice 2013

The Modern Language Experiment launched What is an Art Book? Volume 2 and What is an Art Book? Volume 3 at Sluice Art Fair.

Volume 2 featured Alex Lawler, Beth Fox, Bruno Borges, Bureau, Carlos Correia, Carmen Billows, Catt Bagg, Cedar Lewisohn, Charlotte Norwood, Chooc Ly Tan, Christina Mitrentse, Copy, David Rickard, Erica Scourti, Francisca Ferreria Larsson, Frenchmottershead, Giorgia Sardotti, Gordon Shrigley, Grayson Perry Studio, Jesse Darling, Joey Holder, Karl England, Leslie Deere, Linda Stupart, Maite Zabala, Marita Fraser, Mike Miles, Paul Knight, Richard Ducker, Rebecca Meanley, Rosalind Davis, Rui Gonçalves Cepeda, Ruth Proctor, Simona Brinkmann, Steven Morgana and Welmoet Wartena.

Volume 3 featured Adam Payne, Aaron Miller, Alexis de Chaunac, Amy Fung, Anthony Miler, Ben Stubbington, Bobby Stackleather, Bruce High Quality Foundation, Catherine Taylor, Charlie Nesi, Colin Kilian, Cynthia Lin, Diana Schmertz, Eli Rosenbloom, Emily Knecht, Emma Wasielke, David Pappeceno, Gwen Hardie, Jacquelyn Ross, Jason Alexander Byers, Jomar Statkun, Michael Gittes, Julien Levy, Kirsten McCrea, Kristina Lee, Kumasi Barnett, Kyle Kouri, Lindsay Keys, Martyn Gallina-Jones, Matthew Stock, Russell Perky, Sarah Faux, Samuel Stabler, Sam Fryer, Serena Qiu, Sharon Butler, Simon Burstall, Tina Hage and Keh Ng, Tiziana La Melia, Tyler Healy, William Buchina, Zefrey Throwell, Omar Zeinc and Zeph Colombatto.

The Urban Encounters radio show, made with artist Leslie Deere and broadcast on Resonance 104.4FM from 8 to 10 October 2013, was re-broadcast at the fair.

Imagining a Re-synchronizing (The Phantom Twin), a talk by Keh Ng and Matthew Stock on the Sunday from 2 to 3pm, uncovered deeper understandings regarding ideas of creation through new forms of collaboration: the (not so) science fiction idea of artificial intelligence as an increasingly active agent within modes of making, and how alternative modes of artistic production and collaboration can be imagined through new forms of social and political change, focusing on radical autonomous networks vs accepted nodes of production.

The Urban Encounters commissioned artists’ playlist ran alongside the launch.