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Andy Holden
Collected Free Labour: Blog Interviews 2010-2021

This publication contains selected extracts from interviews with artist Andy Holden undertaken between 2010-2021. Previously existing online, central fragments of these Q&A blog’s have been rearranged thematically and intercut with a new conversation between the artist and the book’s editor Tyler Woolcott.

With virtual or electronic information famously offering in 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. Another 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.

Speaking 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’.

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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Published by Slimvolume

Edited by Tyler Woolcott.

Essay by Andrew Hunt.

Designed by Calamity James.

Hardback, 128 pages, 77 colour illustrations, 7 b+w illustrations, 244mm x 172mm

ISBN: 978-1-910516-17-1