This publication contains selected extracts from interviews with artist Andy Holden undertaken between 2010-2021.0Previously existing online, central fragments of these Q&A blogs have been rearranged thematically and intercut with a new conversation between the artist and the book?s editor, Tyler Woolcott.0With virtual or electronic information famously offering an insecure and impermanent context for knowledge ? web pages disappear and are often deleted on a whim ? one motivation for this publication is to produce a lasting and stable location for Holden?s ideas, as well as his written and verbal exchanges in printed form.0Another impetus is to create a conversation or extended dialogue that operates as a critical artwork in its own right, one that has developed over an eleven-year period with multiple participants, and contains an essence of Holden?s work as it has grown and advanced.0Speaking in 2021 on his ongoing self-reflective practice, Holden states that: ?It?s urgent and perhaps more acceptable to be sincere as a regular mode of being?. This is especially evident within ?the climate of intense sincerity dominated by identity politics, moral certainty and climate uncertainty?. 0?Collected Free Labour: Blog Interviews 2010-2021? has been published to coincide with British Art Show 9, an exhibition that includes Holden?s work and travels from Aberdeen to Wolverhampton, Manchester and Plymouth during 2021 and 2022
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