Document and Location’s 2019 events programme launches with Aaron Schuman lecture at Arnolfini, Bristol

Document and Location member Aaron Schuman will launch the group’s 2019 programme of discursive events with a lecture on his latest project SLANT in the context of his wider practice on 22nd May 2019 as part of the Arnolfini and UWE Art in the City lecture series.

In SLANT, which has recently been published by Mack Books, Schuman interweaves a selection of bizarre newspaper clippings detailing succinct and extraordinarily anticlimactic accounts of crimes, suspicious activities, events and non-events reported in Amherst, Massachusetts published between 2014-2018, with quietly wry photographs he made within a thirty-mile radius of Amherst from 2016-18, in response to their unintentionally deadpan descriptions. What began as a genuinely affectionate, tongue-in-cheek take on the small towns where Schuman spent his childhood steadily came to reflect the disquieting rise of “fake news”, “alternative facts”, “post-truth” politics and paranoia in America following the 2016 election.

This event is open to the public and free to UWE staff and students. More information on this event and Arnolfini can be found here.

Copies of SLANT signed by the artist are available to order directly from MACK Books here.