The Empty Gallery Interview with artist Matt Blackler forms the official press release for his solo exhibition at SHIFT.

‘The machine moves close-to-imperceptibly slowly. It pushes paint through a chamber to then fall onto the floor and it winches itself up at the same time. It’s actually…quite chunky and quite over-engineered. It’s only so big (gestures), a metre or so large but it’s also hung on an engine hoist so that gives it quite a presence…’

Visit SHIFT. to read the full Empty Gallery Interview.

The Empty Gallery Interviews will be broadcast on Resonance 104.4FM as part of the new “art writing” radio series Digestives, published by antepress.

The next Interview to be broadcast is with curator Anna-Catharina Gebbers at 176 / Zabludowicz Collection on Monday April 12 at 4.30PM. To keep up to date with the radio series and the schedule visit the antepress website here.

In an International Symposium dedicated to new forms of art writing, Claire Nichols presents work and research around the EGIs at The Art Text, under the header – Anticipating the Archive: The Fate of The Empty Gallery Interviews.

The presentation will explore the figure of the archive present in the project. The immanence of the archive will be addressed through a consideration both of the form of the exhibitions that are anticipated in the Interviews, and a reflection on the destiny of the edited collection of interviews as aural and physical artefacts. The affiliated complex of representation will haunt the presentation as it chases and defers questions of the ‘whole’; the ‘whole exhibition’, the ‘whole interview’, that pertain to The Empty Gallery Interviews.