Very excited, as the first delivery of artwork for ALL2016 has arrived in the post this morning – with thanks to Kenji Lim for a wonderful new work. This is always a red-letter day for us and marks the start of the build up to our Art Language Location festival in Cambridge this October. So as the summer slowly draws to a close and the days crispen and shorten, stand by for a refreshing blast of creativity and allow us to once again bring you the very best in contemporary and performance art. Our full line-up and website will be revealed next week, so keep…

  Its that time of year again as we practice our best smiles for the camera (more work needed?) and hold our Annual General Meeting. Many thanks to everyone on our lovely committee for so much hard work behind the scenes – ALL2016 is shaping up to be a very exciting mix of sounds, performances and installations, and yes, even some painting. With so much relentlessly downbeat news in the air at the moment it can seem difficult to stay positive, but I do believe that making more art is as good a remedy as any: creativity is good for the soul…

Tomorrow ALL committee members Robert Good and Rebecca Ilett begin a week-long fact-finding trip to Europe – to visit ALL friends and artists Elisa Vladilo and Sara Lerota. The trip, which has been kindly sponsored by an a-n travel grant, will be to explore possibilities for future exchange exhibitions between ALL and art communities abroad. As part of ALL we have always been interested in the ‘Location’ element of art, which is why we originally planned the visit, but of course in the current circumstances our trip is tinged with a wholly unexpected new political dimension. As we try and come to terms…