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SWIM 04 - Found

 

Issue 04 investigates notions of ‘found’. From our initial musings on Found Art – a term originally coined by Marcel Duchamp and epitomised by his famous Fountain sculpture – we then became interested in how the act of finding can be incorporated into various works of art and artistic mediums. Moving past the original definition, which refers primarily to found household objects (think Tracey Emin’s My Bed and Salvador Dalí’s Lobster Telephone), we began looking at work where the human subject is the found object; work that requires the viewer to do the finding as opposed to the artist; and work in which the very process of searching and finding is the art itself.

 

Contributors: Alicia Gladston, Andrew Hunt, Arthur Davies-Evitt, CentreCentre Books, Claire Douglass, Ellen Woollard, Jeff Mermelstein, Joy Gregory, Karl Ohiri, Kerstin Brätsch, Khadija Saye, Kensuke Koike, King Owusu, Kirico Ueda, Leslie Hewitt, Lucia Hierro, Marguerite Bornhauser, Max Siedentopf, Paul Elliman, Penelope Umbrico, Peter Evans, Sally Gabori, Sam Hutchinson, Sophia Wöhleke, Sarah Elwen, Thom Corbishley, Thomas Sauvin

 

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SWIM is a London based annual art publication. Each issue is the result of a close collaboration with artists working towards a specific theme.

Through the design, format and structure, SWIM aims to challenge magazine conventions.