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ABOUT

Sluice - founded and run by artists and curators - assumes different forms in response to structural and environmental requirements in order to showcase artist and curator-led discourse, projects, collectives and galleries. Since 2011 Sluice has existed as a peripatetic expo, gallery, biennial, screening platform, publisher, symposium and residency.

Headquartered in London, Sluice seeks the local, trans-nationally, maintaining a critical stance in relation to both the institution and the market.

How should artist/curator-run galleries and projects manifest? What position can and should we occupy in relation to the broader arts ecology, to the commercial art world, to institutionalism? How can we advance emergent discourse on a local, national and international level?

Does participation equal collaboration? Does authorship become fluid in the artist/curator run context? Is an exhibition an artwork? Is an organisation an artist? Sluice is a research project – which values questions over answers.

OPPORTUNITIES

Sluice works with artist and curator-led projects and galleries, collectives, collaborations and alternative platforms. Broadly defined, Sluice is concerned with artist-led culture. Roughly once a year Sluice will organise a large scale event either in the UK or elsewhere. On occasion we will work directly with artists but mostly our opportunities are only open to the above. All opportunities to participate in Sluice events are announced via our newsletters.

MAGAZINE

Sluice magazine exists to contextualise the artist-led as the primary site of art as praxis. Sluice broadly explores the impact of the societal and economic environment on the arts and vice versa. Within this framework each edition of the biannual magazine has a different thematic focus.
Sluice magazine is, on the whole, not written by professional writers but by artists, curators and on occasion, academics. If you're interested in writing for Sluice magazine subscribe to our newsletter or keep an eye out on our social media channels.

WHO

Sluice

Co-founder / Director / Karl England
Co-founder / Education / Ben Street

Sluice Film

Director / Sarah Wishart
Director / Karl England

Sluice Magazine

Publishing Director / Karl England
Editor / Tash Kahn
Publisher / Sluice
Magazine Design / Christian Küsters
Type Foundry / Colophon, London
Distribution / Central Books

© 2024
ISSN 2398-8398
EAN 9772398839005

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ADVISORS

Lindsay Friend
Keran James
Daniel Devlin
Andrew Seto

COLLABORATORS